FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR MOST ICONIC IMAGES
“I felt like there was kind of this void,” says Tim Mantoani. “There were all these anonymous photographers out there who have not been given enough credit.”
Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.’
See more here
Historic Scotland Photography Competition
BE INSPIRED BY HISTORIC SCOTLAND AND CAPTURE SCOTLAND’S PAST IN A PICTURE
From majestic castles and palaces to magnificent cathedrals and abbeys, photograph some of Scotland’s great historic places and you could win a fantastic prize. With the chance to exhibit your work up for grabs, your photo could go down in history.
PRIZE
- One day on the job with The Scotsman picture desk
- £500 vouchers to spend on camera equipment
- Winning photo published in the 2014 Historic Scotland calendar
- Photo to be the focus of a free ‘Winning Photos’ exhibition held at Stirling Castle throughout December 2012
11 runner up photos to be included in the calendar and exhibition.
To find out more, visit http://photo.historic-scotland.gov.uk/?utm_source=corporate-homepage&utm_medium=online&utm_campaign=photocomp
June Theme: ‘Open - Self-Initiated’
Next month’s Camera Club will be on Thursday 7th June, 6.30, and once again it’s time for the open theme, where you are encouraged to show one body of work that is self-initiated.
If there’s any projects you’ve been working on that haven’t slotted into one of the theme’s, now is the time to show the world!
As before, the whole evening will be given over to the presentation of work.
What does being in a camera club mean to you?
Following Nicky Bird’s talk on ‘Evidence’ last week, some of you expressed an interest in helping us find some answers to this question by participating in an informal discussion.
The idea is that this question is the starting point, and we want to do this as why people come to camera clubs is rarely discussed.
Your participation will help us talk about this and also some of you might have thoughts on how it could develop in the future – for example - to include a larger practical project responding to a specific theme…
Whether you attend Democratic Camera Club to ‘show and tell’ or simply to hear others talk about photography, we are interested in capturing a range of viewpoints and experiences to help shape the ‘what next’ question. We are keen to include long standing and new members, as well as those of you who couldn’t attend May’s Camera Club.
If you are interested in taking part, please contact Evan resource@stills.org (if you haven’t done so already) by 20 May so we can arrange to meet soon.
The Lives of Great Photographers
The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
Sat 26th May - Sat 25th August 2012
From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Dorothea Lange, Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous images ever produced. It illuminates the extraordinary and sometimes exceptional lives these photographers led. The exhibition includes original salt and albumen prints from as early as 1843 and gelatin silver prints from leading photographers of the twentieth century.
Preview event: Friday 25 May, 5.00-6.30pm.
More information/opening times here
May Theme: ‘Evidence’
The next Camera Club will be on Thursday 3rd May, at 6.30pm.
The brief this month is “Evidence”. This could be interpreted as a trace of something having occurred, a found remnant or sign of an event. It could be documentation of changing faces, places or usages, or perhaps proof in a more conventional way, whether criminal, scientific or even fictitious! It’s very open so please interpret in your own style.
As usual, create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour or black & white) to be presented in printed format.
Inspiration might include: Christian Boltanski, Claire Strand, Fischli and Weiss, Henry Bond, Weegee, Sophie Calle, The FBI, Library of Congress, The FSA.
National Photography Symposium
Looks really interesting - it was great last year!
The speakers so far include: Simon Norfolk, Jem Southam, Anne McNeill, Peter Kennard, Esther Teichmann, David Hoffman, Pete James, Sara T’Rula, Pauline Hadaway, Neil Turner, Andrew Wiard, Zelda Cheatle, WM Hunt, Jeffrey Boloten, Alan Sparrow, Suzanne Plunkett, Laura El-Tantawy, Anna Fox, Anthony Luvera, Ewna Spencer, David Moore, and more confirming all the time.
Sessions include: work and the economy, collaborations, archives, press ethics, the print market, women in photojournalism and a range of informal discussions and inspiring presentations.
More info and booking here: http://uknps.org.uk/
London Festival of Photography
If you’re down that way in the next few months, take a look at this - lots happening.
More info here: http://www.lfph.org/diary
CREATIVE FUTURES fellowship in creative documentary photography
Creative Scotland and the British School at Rome invite applications for a Creative Futures fellowship in creative documentary photography at the British School at Rome, January to March 2013.
CREATIVE FUTURES
Creative Scotland’s ‘Creative Futures’ programme aims to promote the professional development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland’s creative practitioners and organisations. As part of this programme, a creative photography fellowship, sponsored by Creative Scotland and the British School at Rome (BSR), is offered at the BSR for a second year.
More information can be found here
AiR Residency 2012 - Call for Submissions
AiR Residency 2012 - Call for Submissions
An opportunity for artists working with photography to participate in a residency exchange programme between Scots and Italian artists based in Pavullo, Italy and Edinburgh.
AiR is a partnership between Stills, Edinburgh and Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy.
Duration: May and June 2012
For more information and application details please visit the website here
April Theme: ‘Music’
The next Camera Club will be on Thursday 5th April, at 6.30pm.
The brief this month is “Music”. You could look at a live music experience (the event itself, behind the scenes, the aftermath?), document a more personal musical obsession, the music business as a multimillion pound whole, or perhaps try to capture a piece of music in a series of representational or abstract photographs. As always it is totally up to you!
Create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour or black & white) to be presented in printed format.
Inspiration might include: David Bailey, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Harry Papadopoulos, John Hopkins, Tom Sheehan, Nick Pickles, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe
52 by 52
52 by 52 is an online weekly photo challenge set by fifty-two accomplished photographers throughout the course of a year. To happily coincide with our screening of Somewhere to Disappear Alec Soth set this challenge
Canon release their long-awaited 5D MkIII.
Lo-fi at Urban Outfitters
Film, paper and photogram works. Sorry the opening clashes with camera club but the exhibition is open between 22nd February and 22nd March.
March Theme: ‘Community’
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 1st March, at 6.30.
The brief this month is “Community”. We’re all part of a community of some sort, surrounded by other communities or perhaps try to avoid being stereotyped as being from one particular community. Use this to portray something about you and yours or to explore others. It could be social, work, family or online - perhaps considering the relationships between them, or focussing on the people, places and expectations of a particular society and the resulting integration or isolation.
As usual, create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour or black & white) to be presented in printed format.
Inspiration might include: Alex Soth, Boris Mikhailov, Chris Killip, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Garry Winogrand, Josef Koudelka, Malick Sidibé, Martin Parr, Robert Frank, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Pieter Hugo, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe etc etc.
Speaker was: Somewhere to Disappear: A documentary film about Alec Soth, screened as it’s Scottish Premier!
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