Sodley-on-Sea Is Showing As Part Of This...........

Sodley-on-Sea has taken on a life of it's own. It's moved on from just being some daft c**t sticking bits of paper together in the back room of a semi in Salford, to being an Arts Council funded project. Funny how things happen.

So not only did it receive funding it's also going to be shown as part of Enlighten Manchester - Festival of Light and Sound Art 2015  at Central Library Manchester this coming December.

If you click on the link it tells you when and how you can book. Although it's free you still need to book. You can also book onto a couple of workshops that I'm doing starting this Saturday (14/11/15) They are not free. 

Fuck Dragon's Den.

 

Good ideas don't need a telly programme. If I had one musical bone in my body I would upload it HERE and get me a single and you can too Pop Pickers. Pop pickers, that wasn't one of uncle Jimmy's sayings was it? Can you still say Pop Pickers?

I reckon this idea could be as big for muso's as blurb is for photographers. And of course it's come from here in Manchester. If self publishing has been the big news over the last few years then go HERE to the new kid on the block and self record deal.

Ed Watts Does William Eggleston.

It's about time Manchester Photography did a post about a Manchester photographer. It's Ed Watts I'm referring to. I'm sure a lot of you know him. He's been organising photo related stuff at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and further afield with gems such as The Alternative Camera Club, Roast Beef and such like for ages.
Here though I'm interested in what he's been up to with his own photography. The above picture, that even the most photographically illiterate provincial council art gallery curator should spot is William Eggleston's 1973 piccy Greenwood Mississippi.
Watts, and I'm going to call him that rather than Ed so that I sound more impartial and professional, has been thinking about this photo for years. I can testify that he has wanted to recreate that space for donkey's. Well thanks to the folk at this years FORMAT Festival he's going to build that ceiling as a life size installation/sculpture and invite others to photograph this iconic scene. I wonder if that room was ever photographed by anyone else? It's so famous a ceiling but it's the only photo I know of the place which is unusual because as we all know photographers love to photograph the same thing over and over again. Just look at that canal/river in Hackney, I'm sick of the fucking sight of it.
Anyway Ed, I mean Watts is going to give all of us photographers the chance to photograph that red ceiling again and again and again and we can flood the internet with shit loads of versions of it so when we next type in Greenwood, Mississippi 1973 we will get the same but different.
As I said in the last post too many photographers call themselves photo artists without doing anything more than point and shoot. Watts is screwing that notion up with this piece.

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015

 I'm sure there used to be another photo prize with Jerwood in the title? Anyway this Jerwood prize has announced this years winners and they are, Joanna Piotrowska, Tereza Zelenkova and Matthew Finn who's picture is shown below because his series Mother is to a simple soul like me, the most accessible.

More details about the prize and winners HERE.

It's Competition Time !

This just in from Manchester Uni....

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI)

 

PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2015

  Call for Entries

  The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) Photography Competition 2015 is a juried competition that invites submissions from students, academics and members of the general public. Entrants are asked to submit (a maximum of three) images that depicts the social organisation of ordinary and habitual everyday practices in which consumption takes place and how they relate to  changing infrastructures, policy and power.

 

All shortlisted entrants will have their work mounted and displayed in the offices of the Sustainable Consumption Institute. Both the winner and runners-up will receive a cash prize (1^st prize £100; 2^nd prize £50, 3^rd prize £50 plus 2 x runner ups @ £25 each) and also feature on the SCI website.

 

The competition begins on the 1^st February and closes for entries 1^st April 2015

 

To upload your image(s) please click on the link below:

 

https://www.flickr.com/groups/sci_photo_competition_2014/

 

 

Please find attached a flyer giving more details of the competition which can be printed and placed on noticeboards within your area.

 

 

 

Susan Hogan| Institute Manager | Sustainable Consumption Institute | School of Social Sciences   |  Faculty of Humanities  |  188 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road|  The University of Manchester, UK M13 9PL  |  Tel : (0044) (0) 161 275 4030

 

For the latest news on SCI activities visit our website at http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk

I'm Not Dead,

I've just been busy trying to start stuff before I've finished stuff and while I'm still half way through other stuff. You ever get like that ? Heads up my arse and need to focus and finish one thing at a time. So the blog gets pushed back.
If anyone wants to help out around here it would be appreciated. If you want to write something for the blog let me know. Obviously you got to know something about photography/art/Manchester. You'll get full credit and a decent sized friendly audience. If you're interested let me know at info@manchesterphotography.com

'OPEN CITY' update.

Image copyright Rebecca Stunell.

We may not have created a new iconic photographic image of Manchester on last months 'OPENCITY' photography day. But some interesting pictures were made and it was a step in the right direction for UK photographic freedom. Some of the images can now be seen HERE.

Christina Seely & The LUX Project Are Coming To Town.

I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by Christina Seely. She introduced herself and her long term project LUX. She's coming to Manchester in August to add us to the work. She was after some contacts here, a bit of company during the long exposures and a bit of local knowledge. Gill Moore stepped up and is going to act as Christina's guide and possible Sherpa during the expedition to..... well where? a good location to view the city from, any suggestions? I was thinking from Salford towards town either Oldfield Road or perhaps my current stomping ground Pomona. She wants some nature in the foreground so if anybody has any better ideas let me know and I'll forward your suggestions on to Christina.It looks like an interesting and mammoth project and I'm glad the bright lights of Manchester are being included.

I'm In A Gang and I May See Some Of You Homies At The Weekend.

In that great Manchester tradition and one that continues I have at last joined a "Gang"

I may see you Lil Homies tomorrow as it's the start of The National Photography Symposium here in Manchester. I shall be there so come over and say yo if you are there too. I'll be the incredibly handsome motherfucker in the Manchester Photography T-shirt. Just kidding I've not really got a Manchester Photography T-shirt.. I'm off to bed now coz I'm loosing the plot.

At Last.

If like me you're too poor (nowt to do with credit crunches, just general povvyness) to buy Paul Graham's "A Shimmer of Possibility" in book form, he has at last uploaded if not all, a fair sized chunk of it to his website. http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/possibility.html You can also read a great article about it here written by Colin Pantall. http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-graham.html

New Fraction Mag

The latest edition of Fraction Mag is online www.fractionmag.com and yours truly has some work in it as part of the group show "Typologies" http://www.fractionmag.com/group1/group1.html go see. It's work from my series "25 Potential Weapons Descending in Order of Desperation" http://www.manchesterphotography.com/gallery_174768.html. I'm well pleased to have been included in this. Not only because it's the first time I've been published in anything outside the UK, but also because it's a bit of an honour to have such illustrious stable mates!

Pause To Begin.

Above is a taster of Pause To Begin. A new and interesting project brought to us by Flak photo www.flakphoto.com and photographers David Wright http://www.davidwrightphoto.com/davidWright.html and Ethan Jones http://www.ethanaarojones.com/. They have travelled across the USA & Mexico to conduct interviews and discuss contemporary (American)art photography with a selection of 15 photographer's. It should be interesting if not a little narrow. Different images and work will be uploaded to the Flak website during October.It's just a hunch but I'm expecting a lot of large format stuff!

Blogger Arrested.

From the BBC: The Malaysian blogger,Raja Petra Kamarudin a strong critic of that countries government has been arrested. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7612845.stm

Manchester To Get A Saint....

No not Sir Alex, although this summer having had to put up with that dick Ronaldo http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9TmUSN04aCkptaiU1L5oesCg_lw he's certainly had to have the patience of one, but no this is a Victorian nun named Sister Elizabeth Prout. Read all about it here: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1060050_nun_could_be_made_saint

Image copyright Jackie Nickerson

I couldn't post that without a link to the excellent "Faith" by Jackie Nickerson now could I? http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/10/jackie_nickerso.php

Michael Todd

Image REUTERS/Greater Manchester Police/Handout

I am very sorry to hear of the death of Greater Manchester's Chief Constable Michael Todd. My sympathies to his family and colleagues............. http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1190654120080311

Going Going Gone

From polar bears to the Bomb: historic Getty picture archive is sold for $2.4bn more here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/from-polar-bears-to-the-bomb-historic-getty-picture-archive-is-sold-for-24bn-787354.html

For fucks sake!

A MAN has been left with terrible facial injuries after what could be Britain's first case of bank rage. Read more: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1035863_bank_rage_horror_attack

Yawn yawn

It's boring but I suppose necessary to keep up to date, latest on copyright here: http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=686066