January 2012
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KODAK is officially bankrupt
That’s it! It’s final. The Eastman Kodak Company has filed for bankruptcy.
Read more at HUH magazine or go to this site specially set up by Kodak www.kodaktransforms.com
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February Theme: 'The Romantic Camera'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 2nd February, at 6.30 - afraid that’s only 2 weeks away so get thinking and shooting!
The brief this month is the “Romantic Camera”. This is the title of the exhibition currently on at the new photography gallery in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which I am delighted to say we will be getting a behind-the-scenes tour of by the...
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Gallery 779
www.gallery 779.com
3 photography graduates from Sunderland University are creating a new online photographic gallery for the North East. They’ve got some really interesting ideas and are definitely worth checking out!
December 2011
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January Theme: 'Home'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 12th January, at 6.30 (NOTE: This is not the 1st Thursday of the month).
The brief this month is to photograph ‘Home’.
You could look at the location - whether that be the country, town or the house.
Or focus on the people that make you feel at home.
Or perhaps you’re not at home and want to portray something that reminds you of it, or...
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WatchDemocratic Camera Club Book 2011
November 2011
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Scotland The World Over - Blipfoto
‘Scotland The World Over’ invites everyone to take part and photograph a saltire wherever they may be. Launched by Cabinet Secretary Michael Russell, Scots and Scots at heart will start to build a film, one frame at a time, by simply uploading pictures with a Saltire centred in the frame. What surrounds the Saltire in the rest of the image is entirely up to the participant.
The finished film...
Stolen photographs - what to do?
Simon Crofts has published an in-depth (8 page!) article on EPUK (Editorial Photographers UK) on how to claim for copyright damages -and how much - when your pictures are stolen:
http://www.epuk.org/Opinion/994/stolen-photographs-what-to-do
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December Theme: ‘Open – Self Initiated’
It’s our 2nd Birthday!
This month is an open theme where you are encouraged to show a body of photographic work that is self-initiated, with the whole evening given over to the presentation of work.
It will be on Thursday 01 December, at 6.30pm and we might be persuaded to partake in an early Christmas drink afterwards.
We are also looking for submissions for the annual Democratic Camera...
October 2011
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Artists Talk: Edoardo Agresti and Gianluca Capri
Please join us for a fascinating insight into the practice of two of Italy’s most successful photographers.
Monday 31 October, 7pm at Stills Free
Edoardo Agresti is a partner of Nikon Professional Service and teaches for Nikon School Travel as well as exhibiting internationally and has published in several international magazines and travel guides.
Gianluca Capri studied in Paris in...
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November Theme: 'Photography and Prose'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 3rd November, at 6.30pm
The brief this month is ‘Photography and Prose’. This could be photographs that directly reference prose, illustrating a passage or line from a book, a prosaic series of photographs, or perhaps a short written piece on a photograph. As always with Camera Club please interpret the theme in your own inimitable style.
As usual,...
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SSHoP Annual Lecture: Karen Knorr
Genii Loci: Work in Progress
The Scottish Society for the History of Photography’s Annual Photographer’s Lecture welcomes internationally acclaimed photographic artist Karen Knorr. She has has published widely and won numerous prestigious awards for her intelligent and beautiful images involving interior installations and constructions.
more information here
Friday, 28th October...
September 2011
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October Theme: 'Family and Friends'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 6th October, at 6.30pm
The brief this month is ‘Family and Friends’. Taking a personal approach, consider how the brief can be translated into work that can be understood by a wider audience without becoming formulaic. How you choose to represent ‘family and friends’ may say a lot about your subjects, but also your relationship to them. See...
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Play:Shop - new exhibition
I have images in two new installations, in public display cabinets in the Central Lending Library. These are here 3rd - 27th September, so if anyone happens to be in town, it might be worth a look. (It would also be helpful for me to hear what others get, if anything, from these works) Ground floor installation = “PLAY”, Mezzanine level installation =”SHOP” Emily...
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Photography and the Artist's Book Symposium
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections, Manchester
Friday 21st October, 2011 £15 waged/£10 unwaged
This one day symposium, which precedes the 6th Manchester Artists’ Book Fair, will draw together theorists and practitioners in order to fully explore the issues raised by the relationship between photography and the artist’s book, investigating the following ideas:
- The...
August 2011
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Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011
Lens Culture, one of the most influential contemporary online photography magazines today, is hosting its 3rd annual International Exposure Awards.
The International Exposure Awards discover, reward, and promote talented, new, emerging and established photographers and multimedia creators from around the world. Awards winners are given exposure to a worldwide audience through Lens Culture,...
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September Theme: 'Conflict'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 1st September, at 6.30pm
The brief this month is ‘Conflict’, inspired by, but not necessarily to be about the recent riots. The theme can be interpreted in whatever way you feel appropriate, and can reflect as broad or personal a conflict as you like; internal, personal, family, community, national or international, and focussing on current actions or...
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SOWN Exhibition - Daniele Sambo
This photographic project interconnects Glasgow community gardens and represents them as a source of energy enlightening the city. The work takes into consideration the use of space and the making of place in an urban environment, continuing to look at the transformations in the city and with the spirituality of place.
The work will be exhibited from 5 September - 5 October, at...
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Stills' August Facebook Photo Challenge →
We are continuing our monthly Facebook Photo Challenge and we invite submissions from you all. The winner will receive a personal album on the Stills Facebook page with a link to their own website, giving them the opportunity to share their work more widely.
The theme for August is ‘culture’, a term which is open to interpretation at the best of times so really allow your imagination...
July 2011
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WatchNext in Blipfoto’s series of behind-the-scenes video’s of regular ‘Blippers’, is Katherine Ellis. This short film reveals how she manages a busy life, what makes her tick and why she chooses to tell her story on Blipfoto.
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David Peat - Through the Looking Glass - Forty...
An exhibition of David Peat’s street photography ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is in the Watermill Gallery which is part of Aberfeldy Watermill. Relevant to this month’s theme - if you happen to be up that way.
Sat 11th Jun 2011 - Mon 25th Jul 2011
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August Theme: 'Street Photography'
The next ‘Camera Club’ will be on Thursday 11th August, at 6.30
(NOTE: This is not the 1st Thursday as usual - though please come along on the 4th for the opening of our exhibition, Stephen Sutcliffe, Runaway, Success).
The brief this month is ‘Street Photography’. Street photography includes any photograph made in a public place and can therefore be very free and non-uniform in...
Sylwia Kowalczyk selected for Fresh Faced and Wild...
Great news that Sylwia has been selected for The Photographers Gallery’s selection of the UK’s best photography graduates of last year, Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 2011!
Normally this includes an exhibition of the winners in The Photographers Gallery’s Ramillies Street premises, but that won’t happen this year as they’re being renovated, so the exhibition is on their...
June 2011
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SNA Awards Photographic Competition
The Scottish Nature Photography Awards Photographic Competition was launched in 2010 to provide a platform to celebrate Scotland as a key destination for nature photographers from around the world. Now in its second year, the competition invites entries of images taken in Scotland by professional, semi-professional or amateur photographers.
Our 2011 Photographic Competition will again seek to...
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Photography Competition - 'Fountainbridge comes...
To celebrate this exciting new chapter in the story of Fountainbridge, we are offering keen photographers a great opportunity to capture the essence of ‘Fountainbridge Comes Alive’ - and win £500.
We are looking for an image that captures the essence of ‘Fountainbridge Comes Alive’: a summing up of Fountainbridge’s history and famous industrial roots, revitalised...
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Linda Kosciewicz-Fleming - Galerie Huit Photo...
For anyone who’s going to be in Arles this summer at the Photography Festival, my work has been selected for the Galerie Huit Open Salon International 2011. Follow the link here or for more information on all the finalists here
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July Theme - 'Abstract'
“It demands that you… have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.” - Wassily Kandinsky
The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 7th July, at 6.30 and the brief is to present photographic images that are abstract. A handy reference defines this as:
‘not representing the subject in a literal way’, and...
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THIS CONCERNS YOU!
The Hargreaves Copyright Review was published a couple of weeks ago.
Read this damning critique by Simon Crofts now.
May 2011
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WatchProfile piece on Scott Richards, part of a new series Blipfoto are doing with their community of ‘Blippers’.
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Your chance to become a commissioned sports...
Channel 4 brings you Momentum, a photography competition in partnership with the BT Paralympic World Cup and Blipfoto – the unrivalled online creative community of daily photographers – to find the most instinctive, challenging and extreme sports photographers out there.
Momentum aims to uncover fresh, hard-hitting action sports photos, and photographers capable of changing perceptions about...
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June Theme: 'Open - Self-Initiated'
Next month’s Camera Club will be on Thursday 2nd 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.
I know you’ve all been secretly working away on masterpieces that don’t fit our theme’s, so now is the time to bring them out!
As before, the whole evening will be given over to the...
Print auction in Vienna – Richard Avedon, Cindy...
Just a heads up that Stills Democratic Camera Clubber Simon Crofts has a couple of prints selected for the Westlicht Photographica print auction in Vienna. Bidding in the auction lasts until 28th May. Online lots can be viewed here.
April 2011
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
4th August to 18th September 2011
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Edinburgh International Festival are delighted to announce a major new exhibition of one of the world’s leading artists, the renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Consisting entirely of works which are being shown in Europe for the first time, this exhibition will feature 26 large-scale works...
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May Theme - 'Science'
The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 5th May, at 6.30 and the brief is to engage and interpret ‘Science’ in a photographic manner. We want to leave it quite open, so you could use science as visual inspiration, use a particular scientific technique, or explore the scientific fundamentals of photography.
As usual, create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour...
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INTIMATE SPACE - art student call for submissions
INTIMATE SPACE is part of an art & construction project in the framework of the Youth Olymic Games 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria. Georgia Creimer is hereby inviting art students from all over the world to send in a photo and a text contribution which relates to the idea of an “intimate space”. Please see the website links for detailed project description and the conditions of...
March 2011
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BBC Programme Looking for Photographers
Are you an amateur or student photographer? Do you live in or around Edinburgh? Objective productions would like to meet you!
They are looking some enthusiastic photographers for a BBC consumer show.
They will be in Edinburgh on Wednesday 13th April 2011
So come armed with your cameras and artistic skills.
For more information and to apply email: sandymccracken@objectivescotland.com or call...
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Search for Edinburgh's Best Young Photographer
Calling Edinburgh’s young (15 - 25) photographic talent - a new Europe-wide competition aims to showcase the continent’s best young photographers as part of the EUROCITIES ‘Your City - Your View’ project. Entrants must submit up to three images which show a different view of Edinburgh - and the organisers have stated that they don’t want the usual promotional shots,...
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April Theme - 'The Personal'
“To attempt to show our emotions, state of mind or psyche in photographs could appear to be futile, given the objective nature of the medium, …but as they govern much of our behaviour and continuously affect our lives, they can hardly be ignored.” - Paul Hill, Approaching Photography
The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 7th April, at 6.30 and the brief is to create a single...
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Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse 25 February 2011 - 5 June 2011 This exhibition celebrates the royal portraiture of Marcus Adams (1875–1959), who devoted his career to the photography of children. Over a period of thirty years, from 1926 to 1956, Adams created a unique photographic record of two generations of royal children. More info…
February 2011
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March Theme - ‘People of the 21st Century'
“Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretence, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.” - August Sander The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 3rd March, at 6.30 and the brief this month is to create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour or black &...
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World Pinhole Photography Day
The eleventh annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day will be April 24, 2011.
Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on Pinhole Day, can scan the image and upload it to the www.pinholeday.org website where it will become part of the premier gallery of lensless photography. In 2011, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is the same day as the Easter holiday; for 2011 only, we...
January 2011
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Vivian Maier
The work of Vivian Maier, one of America’s more insightful street photographers, has only just been discovered 2 years after her death.
John Maloof, a 29-year-old eBay entrepreneur acquired his first boxful of her negatives for $400 at an auction in 2007. He is only about one-tenth of the way into the task of scanning and archiving 100,000 negatives of hers in his possession, and they have ...
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Music Photography Seminar
Born To Be Wide is set to host a music photographer seminar at Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on Thursday 3 February. The event will focus on those who are normally behind the lens and look at what the job involves and why it is important for musicians.
Taking part will be a diverse range of photographers including veteran Kevin Cummins, whose long career spanned quarter of a century at NME and...
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August Sander - Dean Gallery
ARTIST ROOMS August Sander
12th February - 10th July 2011
Dean Gallery | Admission free
This exhibition brings together the most important images and masterpieces for which August Sander is known. Recognised as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, these works represent a major overview of his achievements as an artist, photographer, and recorder of...
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February Theme - 'Future'
The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 3rd February, 6.30 and the theme/brief is ‘Future’.
Create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, in colour or black & white and presented in printed format, that encompasses ‘future’ in some way. This could be perhaps be related personally, examine future technology, or look at the natural or social environment. Artists to look...
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Photography exhibition at Tea Tree Tea
The photographer-friendly Tea Tree Tea cafe at 13 Bread Street and the Proximity Project invite you to two exhibitions this January! The top floor is taken by your fellow Democratic Camera Clubbers Simon Crofts and Sylwia Kowalczyk (aka Seeing Dubble) who will show a selection of their personal work - a selection of documentary street photography from Simon and portraits from Sylwia.
The...
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Susan Derges & Garry Fabian Miller
Last Chance to see:
A Little Bit of Magic Realised
24 November 2010 - 29 January 2011
Ingleby Gallery has represented Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller for over ten years and A Little Bit of Magic Realisedis an opportunity to explore the wider career of these two artists in the context of early historical photographic experiments.