Roz Doherty from the Leeds branch of The Miniclick Photo Talks visited our course group to tell us about herself and Miniclick. Roz herself is a photographer and studied photography part time at Bradford College for 6 years. She explained that Miniclick is run off “love of labour”, and that her full time job paid her bills.
Miniclick is curated by 11 people: Jim Stephenson, Lou Miller, Bryony Good, Roz Doherty, Lauren Holder, Marta Benavides, Livia Smith, Kristina Salgvik, and Joe Conway and has bases in Brighton, London and Leeds. They are involved in Brighton Biennial Fringe, Look Liverpool, Photo North Festival.
The aim of Miniclick is to offer open and accessible talks/discussions on photography; focusing on stories and ideas instead of kit and cameras. I’ve been to a miniclick talk event before at the Brunswick in Leeds – crime & punishment with Pete Brook and Roxana Allison. I really enjoyed it and the focus of ideas being communicated by photography really appealled to me, as the usual photography groups have paid memberships to compare kit, which I’ve always found a bit elitist, boring and not worth paying for.
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I would definitely attend more talks run by Miniclick because it introduces me to new ideas and how artists approach issues/briefs differently. It would also be a good way to network within the creative industry and to build my confidence when meeting new people and getting involved in topical conversations and observations.
Roz Doherty also gave examples of how people who weren’t artists or photographers came to the photo talks – such as people interested in the paranormal when they had a talk event on Paranormal Photography. I think this is cool because it brings people together than may have not met otherwise to discuss ideas, make friends and even collaborate on projects of shared interests.
Roz recommended for us to check out: Joanne Coates of Lens Think Yorkshire & Redeye Hothouse
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