LISA DER WEDUWE & JAMIE BRETT YOUTH CLUB – MUSEUM OF YOUTH CULTURE is a not-for-profit organisation working to preserve, share and celebrate youth culture history. Started in 1997, born out of SLEAZENATION MAGAZINE, they archive and share any and all elements of youth culture. Currently they are an unrecognised heritage collection, but aim toContinue reading “YOUTH CLUB ARCHIVE”
Category Archives: Artist Talks
LAIA ABRIL: ‘Chapter One : On Abortion’ – ARTIST
From the offset Laia Abril stressed how important it was that when approaching a difficult subject matter it is important to look after the mental health of everyone involved in that project. It can be difficult to be so close to the victim’s trauma narrative, so it is important that everyone involved receives therapy. AnContinue reading “LAIA ABRIL: ‘Chapter One : On Abortion’ – ARTIST”
MARTIN ANDERSEN: ‘CAN’T SMILE WITHOUT YOU’
The Photobook Cafe – during lockdown instead of having their talks with visiting artists in their London venue they have been hosting them using Instagram Live, meaning I can access and interact from home. Senior Lecturer at CSM, CSVPA & University of Brighton. https://martinandersen.co.uk An intimate view documenting Tottenham football club 2013-2017. Title came fromContinue reading “MARTIN ANDERSEN: ‘CAN’T SMILE WITHOUT YOU’”
COLIN DODGSON: ‘DEEPER GREEN’ – PHOTOGRAPHER
The Photobook Cafe – during lockdown instead of having their talks with visiting artists in their London venue they have been hosting them using Instagram Live, meaning I can access and interact from home. Colin Dodgson created the photo-book ‘Deeper Green’ in collaboration with the World Land Trust. They feature photographs of Belize showing theContinue reading “COLIN DODGSON: ‘DEEPER GREEN’ – PHOTOGRAPHER”
DAVID BRANDON GEETING – PHOTOGRAPHER
Contemporary Photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. David Brandon Geeting presented and spoke about his work on Google Meet, as everyone is currently social distancing. I really like his unique and quirky style of photography. He mentioned only learning about work that he finds visually interesting, which I can agree with to an extent, but IContinue reading “DAVID BRANDON GEETING – PHOTOGRAPHER”
MINICLICK PHOTO TALKS
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 paidContinue reading “MINICLICK PHOTO TALKS”
JACK LATHAM – PHOTOGRAPHER
Based in Bristol Likes Ben Weaver as a publisher because he genuinely cares about the subject matter of what he is publishing. Uses large format Is well-researched on his subject matter before and during photographing. (Archival Material) Latham photographed the places and people that feature in the many varied accounts of what happened to GudmundurContinue reading “JACK LATHAM – PHOTOGRAPHER”
BEN WEAVER – CO-FOUNDER OF ‘HERE’ PRESS
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & ART DIRECTOR BASED IN LONDON CO-FOUNDER OF ‘HERE’ PRESS (INDEPENDANT PUBLISHING HOUSE FOCUSED ON DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY) ART DIRECTOR OF ‘THE WIRE’ MAGAZINE (INDEPENDANT NON-MAINSTREAM MUSIC MAGAZINE ONLINE & IN PRINT) “A series of flood-damaged photographs rescued from the home of Kurtis’s grandmother before his family fled a financially-ruined Argentina in 2001, connectContinue reading “BEN WEAVER – CO-FOUNDER OF ‘HERE’ PRESS”
ROXANA ALLISON – DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER
OPERATION JURASSIC Collaborative photo-book with Roxana Allison documenting her brother Chris’ experience in prison. Introduction by writer Pete Brook. He was sentenced for defacing property with graffiti, then again briefly in USA ICE for having an expired visa. Portfolio review from Edmund Clark showed the book needed another element: graffiti. Defacing public property with graffitiContinue reading “ROXANA ALLISON – DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER”
PETE BROOK – WRITER, CURATOR, EDUCATOR
Based in San Francisco He educated prisoners in USA and analysed photographs of/within prisons with them Prisoners perspective different from arty people. They value the truthfulness and reliableness of the photo’s content rather than the aesthetics or “deeper meaning”. “Would the public fix its prisons if it could see them?” New York Post JACOBIA DAHMContinue reading “PETE BROOK – WRITER, CURATOR, EDUCATOR”
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