PhotoHastings Ezine
The Online Digital Magazine & Newsletter
Each issue, a PhotoHastings members’ practice chosen at random, will be profiled about their work, to include images and an artist statement. We are also writing and seeking original photo-book and exhibition reviews, both regional and in London, being our nearest major city. We will also be running feature articles which we feel are interesting to our readers and subscribers, and we will be collating and sharing a listing round up of exhibitions both regional and London based in our mail-outs.
If you have any events or news to share that is relevant to the PhotoHastings community or have ideas about what you might like to see in the ezine please get in touch with us via info@photohastings.org.
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Norman Road a Happening Place for Photography
This month sees exhibitions across four galleries in Norman Road St Leonards, each with its individual character and each showing photography.
Most Recent Articles
Emily Allchurch – Closer to Home
Lucy Bell Gallery St Leonards, February 11 - March 18, 2023Emily is giving a talk on Saturday 11 March from 5-6pm tickets are £5 or £3 for students, via gallery@lucy-bell.com. You need to look at the whole image, peer at the finer details, and step back again;...
A London Trip, from Bermondsey to St James’s via Frith and Swallow Streets
On a recent visit to London in February I had a busy day with a long list of exhibitions I really wanted to see. Sid Motion Gallery My first stop was at Sid Motion Gallery in Bermondsey. Tucked away in a side street this was my first visit here. There is a flight of...
Euan Baker – Hastings, the Book
Winner of the 2022 open call with Unit 33 books, this special edition publication showcases the spirit of events in and around Hastings, and Euan Bakers' love for the energy and outpouring of creativity that is a Hastings festival. At the book launch in early February...
Tim Willcocks : Member in Profile
I am a photographer working with analogue and digital media, with a particular interest in abridging or altering the usual photographic processes to create original work, chiefly portraiture and often constructed tableau. I trained as an advertising and editorial...
Chris Killip – A Retrospective at The Photographers Gallery
Embarrassing, maybe, well OK yes, but I confess to never having previously heard of Chris Killip. I just pop into the Photographer's Gallery on an as and when basis with no real idea what to expect. Sometimes I am underwhelmed or fail to ‘get it’. However, not on this...
Women Who Ride Bikes
This project came about after years of riding motorbikes with me asking the question, ‘how does the way we dress as female riders affect the way people treat us and what assumptions are made about us?’ I went on my first visit to the 'Women in Motorcycles Exhibition'...
Grace Lau – Portraits In a Chinese Studio
From 21 January to 12 February 2023 artist Grace Lau will recreate a 19th-century Chinese portrait studio in a Southampton shopping centre, inviting participants and passers-by to sit for free photographic portraits alongside Chinese New Year celebrations. Portraits...
High Rise Connecting Conversations – An Experiential Installation Hastings to Kyiv
A collaboration between Explore The Arch Theatre Company and SERIA project in Kyiv, Ukraine It was in the lost and forgotten week between Christmas and New Year that I made my way across the blowy cold seafront to the Stade Hall. I have exhibited there before but...
JJ Waller’s St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings Vol. 2
My first thought when considering documentary photography in St Leonards and Hastings, is that it’s hard to fail. The place present’s a wonderful mish mash of life, from all walks, full on and in colour. What then makes a photo collection, a book, be more than a...
Anne Mason : Member in Profile
How would you describe your photography practice? I consider it to be a form of personal exploration, a ‘visual discussion’, as well as being something of an addiction. I enjoy collaboration and debate, and to me these are important parts of the creative process. Much...
Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain Reviewed
As one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Cornelia Parker (born 1956) is responsible for some of the most unique and unforgettable artworks of the past thirty years. I have always admired her practice and was very excited to visit this major exhibition. Driven...
Photographic impressions of Coastal Currents 2022
As a recent arrival to St Leonard’s on Sea, Dan Percy writes about his highlights of this year’s Coastal Currents artists’ Open Studios. Alongside a range of events and exhibitions, the Open Studios are an opportunity to see local artists and makers in their place of...