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11th
May 2012
Course:
The new HND
Photography course beginning in September at Sussex Course College
is now interviewing. An advanced 2 year course with "a specialist
vocational programme with a strong work related emphasis" it
is both diverse and in-depth and will be one of the most affordable
ways to study photography in higher education in the UK. Grants
and bursaries are also available. For details please contact David
Fowler, dfowler@sussexcoast.ac.uk.
Exhibition:
Farley
Farmhouse near Hailsham, the home of photographer Lee Miller
and artist Roland Penrose, is offering tours as part of The
Brighton Festival Fringe. Sunday 13, 20, 27 May. £9, bookable
online.
8th
May 2012
Workshops:
It's a way off, but they booked up quickly last year. Grace Lau
is running workshops in conjunction with this year's Stade
Photography competition on 1st June & 13th July:
"This year Grace Lau, photographer and writer, has kindly agreed
to run the instructive and inspiring 15 minute workshops which proved
so popular last year. So, for those planning to enter the STADE
COLOUR 2012 photography competition bring your ideas and the
photographs you have already taken and visit or telephone the Fishermen’s
Museum, Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings Old Town 01424 461446 and book
your 15 minute workshop".
For any further information contact colourstade@yahoo.co.uk. Up
to 3 A4 prints can be entered. £3 entry fee. Adult & under
16 categories. Deadline 9th September.
6th
May 2012
Call
For Entries: Battle & Rye based Pure
Arts Group Annual Selection Call
For Entries 2012/13 is now open: "Pure Arts Group annually
select up to 60 artists to support & promote for a 12 month
period. Submissions are invited from artists aged 18 years or older
on 3rd June 2012, living, working or studying in London, the South
East and the near Europe (France, Belgium, Holland). For 2012/2013
selection there will be two selection/judging panels; one for photography
and one for all other medium/genre. The Photography panel includes
Photographer Nigel Green, Nikki Tompsett, Visual Arts Co-ordinator
for the School Creative Centre, Rye and London Curator Ella de Trense".
This years prize fund is £3,000. Submission fee £40/£20
students. Deadline 3rd June.
4th
May 2012
Event:
Willie
Doherty will be talking about his work on 10th May at Towner:
"Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear twice Turner
Prize nominated artist Willie Doherty in person. Doherty will speak
about current exhibition Disturbance, which spans his 30 year career,
and discuss his most recent work in conversation with Declan Long.
Long has written extensively about Doherty’s work and is MA
coordinator for Art in the Contemporary World at Ireland’s
National College of Art & Design." 7pm, £8 admission/£6
concs.
2nd
May 2012
Event:
As well as Jack
In The Green, thousands of bikers, morris dancers and all the
rest, this year's May Day Bank Holiday in Hastings will feature
a pop up photography studio by Chris
Parker. "I'm setting up a temporary photo studio in the
old garage opposite The Fishermen's Museum on Rockanore Road to
record the variety of people who pass by.
A day in the life of Hastings. That kind of thing. Please pop in
during the day to be snapped if you fancy contributing to the project."
1st
May 2012
Event:
Claire Lloyd, the recently appointed director of the Brighton
Photo Fringe, will give a talk at the Bullet Coffee House Hastings
at 8pm on Monday 14th May. Claire "has been employed in the
arts sector for over two decades and has worked at the ICA, Culturelab
and most recently for the Folkestone Triennial".
She will be the first speaker at "Photology"
a new monthly programme of "talks & discussion about photography
in Hastings" organised by Alex Brattell with Photo
hub group. Photology speakers for 2012 will include Simon Norfolk,
Val Williams & Simon Roberts. First Monday of the month (except
when it's a bank holiday weekend).
30th
April 2012
Call
For Entries: Coastal
Currents 2012
is now inviting submissions
for exhibitions, events and open studios in the Hastings area
for this year's festival, 8-23 September. Founded in 1999, Coastal
Currents has become established as one of the UK's best arts festivals,
always including good photography.
Call
For Entries: "Brighton
Photo Fringe would like to invite submissions
for OPEN 2012 – an open submission solo exhibition opportunity
for an emerging to mid-career photographer or lens based artist."
Winner gets a high profile show, production budget and 500 quid
on top. £15 entry fee, deadline 4th June.
Call
For Entries: Submissions are now open for the third Margate
Photo Festival which runs from 10 - 12 August. Submissions
are invited from curators and artists/photographers: "Projects
selected will deal with social/political issues affecting contemporary
society, work with communities, social projects (and audience participation)
or some mix thereof. Projects involving mixed media, talks or workshops
are not only allowed but actively encouraged."
Deadline 1st June, free to enter.
Call
for sponsorship: Joss Samuelson, a 24 year old St Leonards
based street photographer has landed his first big commission as
a photographer on a Raleigh
International expedition to Central America in September. However,
as it's a charity he has to pay his own way and contribute to the
work they do "covering everything from sanitation systems to
community centres and reforestation" and so is seeking sponsorship.
Read
more on the Photo hub group blog.
26th
April 2012
Call For Entries: Brighton's Photobook
Show is inviting submissions for their next 2 shows: "Supporting
both emerging and established artists, our aim is to raise the profile
of artist-led photobooks, with particular focus on self-published
or hand-crafted works. C Book Show will be held at the fantastic
new premises of Create Studios in Brighton, England, 17 - 19 August
2012. D Book Show will be held at the Finnish Museum of Photography
in Helsinki, Finland. 31 August - 2 September 2012." Online
submission form is here.
Deadline 18 July.
24th
April 2012
Exhibition: "Beaches. Photography by Robert Maxted"
is at the Cafe
in Alexandra Park from 1st to 31st May. Includes work from Eastbourne,
Hastings, Bexhill and Cooden. 9-6 every day.
21st
April 2012
Exhibition: Lucy
Bell Fine Art presents "Colin
Jones: On Ballet" from 28th April - 26th May: "Professor
Colin
Jones was born in London in 1936, his creative life has followed
an unorthodox path, taking him from a working-class childhood in
the East End of London to dancing in the English Royal Ballet. The
exhibition is the result of a lifetime of photographing the English
National Ballet and other great Ballet companies. It is because
of his background and training in dance and his understanding of
photography that this work is so exceptional." Tuesday - Saturday
11-4.
Exposure:
Lucy Phillips will be speaking about her project "What
Cannot Be Seen" as part of Splash#1
at Recyclart
in Brussels on 9th May.
The 'slideshow event' will also include work by UK photographers
Simon Roberts, Andrew Newson, Jamie House and Mishka Henner.
20th
April 2012
Exhibition: "The Independent Image" continues
at The
Conquest Hospital Hastings until 21 May. A group show from IPSE
(Independent Photographers in the South East) founded in 1991
by Jill Staples as "an informal support group for independently-minded
photographers".
Call
For Entries: It's global not local, but worth a reminder
that the 12th World
Pinhole Day is on Sunday 29th April.
19th
April 2012
Exhibition: "Green
Fuse" at Hastings
Arts Forum, April 28 – May 8, will feature photography
from, amongst others, Amanda
Jobson & Marybeth Haas: "It’s Jack-In-The-Green
time! Using Dylan Thomas’ poem Green Fuse as inspiration,
the show will embrace the traditional and well-loved local May Day
holiday festival and all rites of Spring. The exhibition, which
is curated by Amanda Jobson and Laetitia Yhap, will encompass both
Arts Forum galleries and the Isabel Blackman Gallery in Winding
Street, Old Town."
Event:
To accompany the Green Fuse exhibition there'll be a free Family
Fun Day run by the curators which will feature mask-making and drawing
activities. Hastings
Arts Forum, Saturday, April 28, 12-3.30pm All welcome
Call
For Entries: "The BBC wants its viewers and listeners
in the South East to help create a special artwork to mark the Queen's
Diamond Jubilee. BBC South East Today, working with artist Helen
Marshall and computer art experts Polly Tiles, aims to create a
photo mosaic portrait of the Queen using thousands of individual
images. The artwork, which is expected to be about 5m (16ft) high
and 9m (29ft) wide, will be made up of between 4,000 to 10,000 photographs
- all submitted by members of the public. It will be displayed at
the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery
from 25th May until 10th June for the Diamond Jubilee." If
you'd like the honour of one of your photographs becoming a tiny
part of the queen's face, further details are here.
17th
April 2012
Event: On Saturday 21st April, at 4pm, Lucinda
Wells will present the first in a planned series of "skill-share"
workshops: "Lucinda will be showing artists how to use Vimeo
to extend and develop their practice. These sessions are free, informal
and open to all Phg members and Telling Stories: artists. Please
contact info@tellingstories.info if you wish to book a place as
there are limited numbers." 4pm, One
Cafe, London Rd St Leonards.
30th
March 2012
Call
For Entries: "It is the third year of the Stade Open
Photography Competition. This year the theme is colour. Entries
are asked for accomplished or beginner photographers of any age
to enter. It is an opportunity to celebrate the Stade in all its
history and colourful busy-ness. Images to be A4, colour or black
and white, experimental work welcomed. Winners and selected photographs
will be framed and exhibited in the Fishermen's,
the Shipwreck museums and the Blue Reef Aquarium." The exhibition
will be part of the Brighton
Photo Fringe 2012. Contact Lauris
Morgan-Griffiths. Entry fee £3 for up to 3 photographs.
Deadline 09/09/2012. (See here
for a BBC report on last year's competition).
30th
March 2012
Opportunity:
Composer Polo
Piatti is organising the International
Composers Festival 2012 in August at St Mary in the Castle in
August and is looking for someone to video it (and I'm sure some
stills would be handy too). There's no money in it, but 3 days of
musical fascination and a great cv line should make it worthwhile.
Please contact Polo here.
26th
March 2012
Exhibitions:
The Eastbourne
Festival 2012 runs from 7th to 29th April and features plenty
of photography in its exhibitions and open studios programme. Work
from Angela Parsons, Axel Hesslenberg, Michael Ellis, Eastbourne
Photographic Society, Christine Munro, Simon Rawles, John Hesse,
Will Gudgeon, The Latimer Group, Motley Artists Open House, Clare
Whistler and Judith Alder, Brochure download is here.
24th
March 2012
In
Memoriam: Rye based photographer & teacher Eric
Watson tragically died suddenly on 18 March. Eric was known
particularly for his work with Smash Hits and The Pet Shop Boys
in the 1980's and latterly was a popular and inspirational teacher
of photography at Rye College. He had recently received a long awaited
kidney transplant and will be much missed by friends and family.
See Eric's
obituary in The Guardian.
23rd
March 2012
Exhibition:
"Truth and Lies", an exhibition by Mike Leale and John
Shanks will be in Gallery One of Hastings
Arts Forum from 29 March to 10 April: "Mike is inspired
by Irving Penn and graphics, resulting in an ongoing experiment
with photograms and scanographs. John is a photographer whose work
reflects his passion for drama, poetry, art and literature, with
a particular eye for buildings and found objects."
20th
March 2012
Vernal
Equinox 2012: And it's PhotoHastings' third birthday! The
photographic community in this area is ever richer in range &
scope. The rest of 2012 promises great things with, amongst much
else, the second Brighton Photo Fringe Hastings in the Autumn co-ordinated
by Photo
hub group. They now have their excellent blog embedded in the
front page of their website which provides an excellent complement
to this one. PhotoHastings has teamed up with Phg to organise Photology
talks starting in May 2012. Watch this space for further details...
19th
March 2012
Exhibition:
Over in Hailsham, Gallery
North will be showing "Take Five Photography", an
exhibition by Roger Scott, Liz Scott, Peter Stafford, John Deller,
David Mills & Edward Sturgeon. 27th March to 28th April.
18th
March 2012
Exhibition:
Hastings based Brian
Rybolt is amongst the photographers included in the forthcoming
East
Sussex Open 2012 at Eastbourne's Towner
from 24 March – 29 April, admission free.
8th
March 2012
Lecture:
Jem
Southam will be giving a talk at Towner
in Eastbourne on Saturday March 10 at 2pm. £4/3 conc. "We
are delighted to welcome one of the UK’s leading photographers
to give a rare insight into his work and career. Towner holds a
significant number of works by Jem Southam in our collection, two
of which are on show in New Eyes. These works are from the series
The Shape of Time, made by the artist between 1994 and 2000. They
show rock falls, river mouths and ponds across South England from
Cornwall to East Sussex. Southam uses a large format camera to produce
an extraordinarily high level of detail and intensity in his C-type
prints." (Via Mel Brewer).
6th
March 2012
Course:
Sussex Coast
College Hastings is offering a new Photoshop evening class:
"Learn the Adobe Photoshop toolset, including techniques for
montage, painting, retouching, special effects, filtering and colour
correction. Suitable for image creation, as well as photo editing.
You’ll do practical exercises using various Photoshop tools.
Tuesdays 6-8pm Start Date 13/03/2012. Duration 10 weeks., course
cost £90. Tutor Simon Cooper."
More details here.
4th
March 2012
Exhibition:
"Through the Eyes of Lee Miller: Curated by Carole Callow.
Celebrating 30 Years of Fine Archival Printing" will be at
Lucy Bell Fine
Art, 20th March – 21st April.
"A chance find shortly after Lee Millers death in 1977, of
a box of negatives in the attic at Farley
Farm House led to the unearthing of Miller’s life and
work, while a simultaneous series of events brought Carole Callow
to the farmhouse, where she became sole printer to the newly discovered
archive. Shortly after, more boxes of negatives arrived from Vogue’s
offices in London and the archiving began to take shape. Lee Miller
was an outstanding printer and the existing vintage prints enabled
Callow and the Penrose family to translate her work as she would
have produced it herself, true to her vision. This exhibition celebrates
the 30 years of Carole Callow’s print and archival work. She
is perhaps the only person with such an intense and intimate understanding
of this aspect of Lee Miller’s work." Tuesday–Saturday,
11–4.
1st
March 2012.
Lecture:
Art and Photography: An illustrated talk by Dr Graham Whitham is
at Hastings Museum
& Art Gallery on
Sunday 4 March 1.45pm. £3: "Dr Graham Whitham will explore
the relationship between ‘Art’ and the ‘Camera’
from the earliest scientific experiments to the present day. A Hastings
& St Leonards Museum Association Event."
28th
February 2012.
Exhibition:
"Girls on Film" by Andy
Wilson will be at One
Cafe, London Rd, St Leonards On Sea throughout March.
24th
February 2012.
Course:
The Isabel Blackman
Centre in Hastings Old Town is offering introductory short courses
on digital photography run by Reg Hollands. Reg is appealing for
donations of unwanted equipment to help learners on low incomes
so if you have an old digital camera or laptop that's no longer
used Reg would be delighted to hear from you. For further details,
please contact Reg at woodstock163@yahoo.co.uk or Tania Charman
at tania.charman@ageukeastsussex.org.uk.
23rd
February 2012.
Exhibition:
Ian Leach will be showing many of the images from his web
gallery as framed prints, at the Cantelupe
Community Association Arts and Crafts fair on Saturday the 10th
of March at St Barnabas Church, Sea Road, Bexhill on Sea. 10-4,
free entry.
17th
February 2012.
Exhibition:
"Beauty of Decay. Art & Photography", a group exhibition
by Zoom,
is at the De La Warr
Pavilion's studio from 23-26 February. 10-6 (except 26th, 10-3).
8th
February 2012.
Exhibition:
Lucy Bell Fine
Art is showing "Tim
Clinch: Untitled" until 10th March. Includes work from
France and Spain, large format Polaroids, silver gelatin prints.
Wednesday - Friday 10-2, Saturday 11am - 4pm or by appointment.
22nd
January 2012.
Exhibition:
Marjan
Zahed-Kindersley will be showing photographs at One Café
Gallery , London Rd, St Leonards On Sea. 3rd Feb until 1st March.
"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is
not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does
not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to
tell it to. — Montaigne."
11th
January 2012.
Course:
Andrew Newson's
Photoclub in the Pub is coming to Hastings & St Leonards On
Sea starting on Wednesday 8th February. Originally from Crowborough,
"Photoclub in the Pub is a creative photography course, run
from the pub! It’s about being creative and it’s about
learning with like-minded people in a social environment. The course
has 12 monthly meetings over a year. You can choose to attend the
first 6 or all 12." 7.30pm-9.30pm, pub tba, more details here.
10th
January 2012.
Courses:
Sussex Downs College is offering a variety of evening classes in
photography & Photoshop at its Eastbourne & Lewes campuses.
Several are starting in January. Their prospectus is downloadable
here.
(Via
Brighton Photo
Fringe Newswire).
9th
January 2012.
Film:
Moonbug
is a new documentary feature by Nichola
Bruce showing over one week from Sunday 15th Jan (12pm) at The
Electric Palace: "Bitten by the ‘Moonbug’,
photographer Steve
Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet
and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he
was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind
one of the most historic endeavours of our time. Documented by filmmaker
Nichola Bruce with rare archive footage and an original score by
Matt Johnson (The The), Moonbug is both a photographic road trip
and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history".
15 Jan 12pm, 16,17 Jan 7pm, 18-20 Jan 3.30pm, 21 Jan 12pm. £3
admission.
7th
January 2012.
Exhibition:
The
Black Shed Gallery in Robertsbridge is currently showing "My
Father's Craft" by Stuart
Duff;"Taken
at his father's toolroom, his father a retired toolmaker, My Fathers
Craft is a series of enlarged silver gelatin prints of his father's
trusty tools, ethereal objects of a by-gone craft. All the photographs
have been shot using 10x8 film and printed by one of the UK's most
recognized and acclaimed photographic printer Robin Bell".
Wed-Sat 10am-4pm until 31st March.
5th
January 2012.
Exhibitions:
"Photographic Art" is the forthcoming exhibition by Marie
Stone at Hastings
Arts Forum's Gallery Two, 19-31 January; "Marie worked
for two years at Madame Tussauds getting to meet a host of well-known
faces including the Dalai Lama, Joanna Lumley, Tony Blair, Linford
Christie, Hugh Grant, Pierce Brosnan and Lenny Kravitz. Throughout
her time at Tussauds, Marie had also been building up her own
portrait and wedding business and after two years took the bold
step to start out by herself. So keen on not losing Marie’s
abilities, Madame Tussauds kept Marie as their main photographer
on a freelance basis, a role she still has today, sending her
around the world to photograph such high profile celebrities as
Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson and Serena Williams."
Fairlight
based Nigel
Green's "Reconstruction" is at UCA Canterbury's Herbert
Read Gallery from 20 January - 14 February; "Reconstruction
is a photographic project documenting the post First and Second
World War architecture of Picardy in Northern France. Representing
a unique expression of architectural influences, the buildings of
the reconstruction define a form of vernacular modernism that extends
from the 1920s to the 1970s. The exhibition at the Herbert Read
Gallery will be the first show of the project in the UK. A book
to accompany the project is also available and includes a specially
commissioned essay by the architectural historian Martin Kew Meade".
Further details are here.
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