Don’t miss the next POC meeting in Vevey, Switzerland. This anniversary workshop is being held in parallel with the Images Festival.
All events will take place at Local d’Art Contemporain, 8 Ruelle des Anciens-Fossés, Vevey, Switzerland. POC.
Here is the public program of our Vevey meeting. Hope to see you all there…
Sept 8, 11:30, Welcome BBQ!
Sept 9. 11:30, Come and Share the Brunch with us!
Sept 9, 16:00 -18:00: Sofa discussions: Two photographers share their work and thoughts with each other and with the public. Today: Brian Ulrich with Charles Fréger, Seba Kurtis with Petros Efstathiadis
Sept 10, 10:00 -12:00: Public working sessions: POC members are sharing their personal and collective projects, concerns and challenges. Public welcome.
Sept 10, 16:00-18:00: Sofa discussions: Two photographers share their work and thoughts with each other and with the public. Today: Anita Witek with Charlott Markus, Simon Roberts with Andrew Phelps
Sept 11, 11:00-12:00: Public working sessions: POC members are sharing their personal and collective projects, concerns and challenges. Public welcome.
Sept 21, 19:00: “Pocktails” evening!
The participating POC photographers are:
Patricia Almeida
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
Bert Danckaert
Götz Diergarten
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Petros Efstathiadis
Charles Fréger
Marina Gadonneix
Peter Granser
Yann Gross
Matthias Koch
Seba Kurtis
Charlott Markus
Loan Nguyen
Andrew Phelps
Augustin Rebetez
Simon Roberts
Brian Ulrich
Anita Witek
Visit our facebook page with more details here.
Third Floor Gallery warmly invites you to a conversation between Ewen Spencer, Simon Roberts and David Hurn. These three leading documentary photographers have all had exhibitions at Third Floor. “Teenagers” by Ewen Spencer brought us to the streets of East London and its nascent grime scene. “We English” by Simon Roberts is a visual poem of the English at leisure. “Passing Time” by David Hurn brought us 55 years of photography, much of which revolved around Hurn’s return to Wales in the 1970’s.
Ewen Spencer has published extensively, including with The Face and “Open Mic”, which documents the mid-2000s East London grime scene in his very recognizable, personal style. He has also worked on major advertising commissions for the likes of Nike, Puma, T mobile and Sony, as well as the TV series “Skins”.
David Hurn has a rich and varied career and has published and exhibited widely. From documenting the Soviet invasion of Hungary, to creating the advertising photographs for James Bond and Barbarella, Hurn is one of the most renowned members of the Magnum agency. After returning to Wales, Hurn established the documentary photography course in Newport in the 1970’s, and finished his longlasting document of Wales: “Land of my Father”.
As part of my exhibition, Let This Be A Sign, at Swiss Cottage Gallery I will be leading a tour of the show and a placard making workshop on Saturday 16 June, 2 – 4.30pm.
I will be joined by Guy Atkins, from the Save Our Placards project.
The workshop is suitable for all ages and is FREE!
You can reserve tickets on the London Festival of Photography here or share information on the Facebook page here.
Here are a few to get you inspired….
The polls have closed, the votes have been counted and the results are in for this year’s Museums at Night. It can be revealed that I’m heading to the Working Class Movement Library, Salford.
Why not join us?
Come along to the Library between 1 and 4pm on Saturday 19 May and we’ll add your story to the Library’s unique collection.
Bring yourself and an object that sums up what you do or is important to your cause. Simon will take your picture or a quick video clip and that’s it.
We’ll add your story to the Working Class Movement Library – Salford’s unique collection that captures over 200 years of the stories and struggles of ordinary people’s efforts to improve their world. From women campaigning to get the vote to people banding together to improve their working conditions – this is your history.
You can also find out what you’ve got in common with campaigners in the past. Do you use Twitter? Two hundred years ago you would have had to use an illegal printing press to get your message out to your followers, then dismantle it and move on before the authorities caught up with you.
Are you a blogger? In 1819, cartoonists and writers produced savage satires on the horror of the Peterloo Massacre. They didn’t circulate quite as fast as protest songs on YouTube do today, but they had the same impassioned impact.
Got something you can share straightaway? Add a picture to our Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/groups/1938946@N24/.
More details of the event here.
From strikes and protests to tailors and the Spanish Civil War, the Working Class Movement Library tells the story of 200 years of campaigning. During an event on Saturday 19th May I will help the library celebrate the image, drawing inspiration from the stories of past campaigns archived in the library. These, and the public’s photographic responses, will be used by the library to debate the power of pictures and writing to move and to persuade.
Working people have always struggled to get their voices heard. The Working Class Movement Library records over 200 years of organising and campaigning by ordinary men and women. Our collection provides a rich insight into working people’s daily lives as well as their thoughts, hopes, fears and the roles they played in the significant events of their time.
Why not join us?
I’m giving an artist talk at Quay Arts centre on Isle of Wight. Book tickets online here.
You can also take part in Quay Arts’ Piers & Bridges debate and upload your photographs of the world of piers and bridges to their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/quay.arts tagging ‘Quay Arts’ and you could win a one-to-one critique session with me on Friday 11 May.
Deadline to upload your images: Tuesday 8 May
Image: Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997) Underbank Farm, Woodlands, Ashdale, Derbyshire. 1940
This symposium at the V&A is a fantastic opportunity to explore the complex presence of the past, national identity, taste and nostalgia in relation to the Recording Britain collection of water colours and drawings produced at the start of World War II with both art historians and practicing artists. Speakers include Patrick Wright, David Heathcote, and artists Ingrid Pollard, Abigail Reynolds, Simon Roberts and Paul Scott. At the outbreak of the Second World War an ambitious scheme was set up to employ artists on the home front. The result was a collection of more than 1500 watercolours and drawings that make up a fascinating record of British lives and landscapes at a time of imminent change. Recording Britain was the brainchild of Sir Kenneth Clark, who saw it as an extension of the Official War Artist scheme. By choosing watercolour painting as the medium of record, Clark hoped that the scheme would also help to preserve this characteristic English art form – you can find out more about the scheme here.
This week’s New Statesman magazine features photographs from the Our Lives project I worked on last year – a commission with Save the Children on UK child poverty.
A selection of the photographs will go on display in the Upper Waiting Hall of the Palace of Westminster, London SW1 from 12-16 March.
Our Lives will be then be on show in the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House from 27 April – 20 May as part of the World Photography Awards exhibition. There will be a seminar in conjunction with the exhibition on 28th April where I’ll be speaking alongside the other photographers who worked on the project- Liz Hingley, Laura Pannack, Abbie Trayler-Smith and Carol Allen-Storey.
In this session of In the Photographers Studio, we speak to award winning photographers Simon Roberts,
I will be giving an artist’s talk at the Light House gallery on 15th March to coincide with my We English exhibition which runs from Friday 27th January – Friday 13th April. More details here.
Tonight I will be presenting my Landscapes of Innocence and Experience video as part of the Open ’11 festival. Wendy Pye will also be screening work and together we will be ‘in conversation’ with Miranda Gavin, Deputy and Online Editor of HotShoe Magazine.
The works will be screened in the gallery throughout the day.
Places are limited and can be booked here.
About Open ’11:
The Brighton Photo Fringe Open ‘11 presents an exhibition, events programme and collection of texts at Phoenix Brighton between 19 November – 18 December 2011. Open Wednesday – Sunday 11.00am – 5.00pm, and late nights every Thursday, until 9.00pm. Through an international open call the Open ’11 brings together a diverse group of curators and artists to explore different perspectives on the critical issues emerging from contemporary photographic practice.
I will be giving the keynote lecture in association with Photomonth East London, International Photography Festival, at Whitechapel Gallery in London on October 27th. The lecture will focus on his Election Project series and he will also be screening his new film ‘Landscapes of Innocence & Experience’. For more details and tickets visit the Whitechapel Gallery website here.