Forthcoming Contemporary Group Events
Bill Jackson has been selected for the Digital-Expo LA 2008 in downtown Los Angeles. The selectors were Howard Fox , Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rex Bruce Director of The Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art.
The exhibition runs from the 14th August - 6th September 2008
http://digitalart.la/index.html
© Bill Jackson
Lunchtime Lecture by Ray Spence FRPS
Friday 29th August 2008 1.00pm
Entry Free
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & MuseumRoyal Pump Rooms The Parade Royal Leamington Spa CV32 4AA
Email: prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01926 742700
A Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group lecture in conjunction with the Leamington Spa Art Gallery.
Ray Spence will be showing and discussing his recent work concerning the renovation of the much neglected art deco Bath Assembly Rooms into a major new music venue. Ray's work focuses on a shapes, forms and colours found in the faded splendour of the building during reconstruction.
© Ray Spence
Members of the Contemporary Group
Are invited to the following events organized by:- London Independent Photography.
Booking details. Booking is essential for all events.
Please contact Julie Long: julielong@talktalk.net 07726 881 334
www.londonphotography.org.uk
TITLE:- SIMON ROBERTS Worldwide
www.simonroberts.com
DATE:-Saturday 11th October, 2008
VENUE:-The Camera Club, London, SE11 4DS
TIME:-10.30am – 5.30pm
COST:-£25 (members), £20 (concessions), £30 (non-members)
Simon Roberts’s photojournalism has been published internationally. His awards include the Ian Parry Scholarship (1998), and Getty Images Photojournalism Award (2006). For the latest book Motherland, Simon travelled throughout Russia between July 2004 and August 2005, creating one of the most extensive photographic accounts of that vast country by a Westerner. Simon’s workshop will involve a slideshow presentation mapping his award-winning work as a photographer from editorial commissions to his book, Motherland. Following the presentation Simon will be available for portfolio reviews. Please edit your work into series of approximately 10 images.
TITLE:- RAY SPENCE Traditional Processes Digitally
www.rayspence.co.uk
DATE:-Saturday 15th November, 2008.
VENUE:-The Camera Club, London, SE11 4DS
TIME:-10.30am – 5.30pm
COST:-£25 (members), £20 (concessions), £30 (non-members)
For thirty years, Ray has specialised in Fine Art Monochrome printing and alternative printing processes. Since 1988 he has worked digitally combining new and traditional technologies. A Fellow of the RPS, his work is in many private collections as well as the RPS Permanent Collection. His most recent book is ‘Black and White Photography in the Digital Age’. This workshop looks a producing digital images in the style of traditional photographic processes including cyanotype, liquid emulsion, and Polaroid. Participants will use a flatbed scanner to create new work. Ray will bring a range of fine art digital papers for you to buy so you can print your own images. No experience necessary but basic Photoshop recommended.
TITLE:- TIM DALY creative Digital Printing Workshop
www.timdaly.com
DATE:-Saturday 1st March 2008 and Saturday 13th September 2008
NB. This workshop is being run on two dates because of restricted numbers per workshop. Please book for one workshop only, not both.
VENUE:-The Camera Club, London, SE11.4DS
TIME:-10.30am – 5.30pm
COST:-£25 (members), £20 (concessions), £35 (non members)
Tim Daly is a well known writer on digital photography and digital printing. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Chester and an Ilford/Harman Masterclass leader. Tim’s latest book, ‘Creating Exhibition-Quality Digital Prints’ was published by Argentum in February 2008. His workshop will teach you how to prepare, preview and produce hand crafted digital prints. Tim has a unique teaching approach – you will be using fine printing papers and software skills developed from traditional darkroom techniques. Bring your own files (over 10MB).
23rd September until 11th October 2008.
‘Still Life Revisited’. Group exhibition of the Contemporary Society
At Smethwick Photographic Society Churchbridge Oldbury
Telephone for times of access 0121 552 0279
Masterclass by Ray Spence FRPS
‘Manege’ Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, Russia
27th September 2008-08-12
The Saint Petersburg PHOTOFAIR is the oldest Photographic Art exhibition in Russia.
It is held at the prestigious ‘Manege’ in the centre of St Petersburg from 26th September – 4th October 2008.
The exhibition covers both historical images from Russian archives and museums, together with contemporary work from invited photographers from throughout Europe. The cultural event attracts 20,000-30,000 attendees to the exhibition each year.
Ray Spence is one of the invited exhibitors and will be showing a large selection of his work on ‘Flora Photographica’. Ray will also be presenting a masterclass within the exhibition on his work. This will be a great opportunity to meet photographers from Russia to exchange ideas and to promote the activities of the Contemporary Group of the Royal Photographic Society.
For further information contact:Marina Jigarkhanyan – Head of the Department of Contemporary Art, curator of the exhibition E-mail: jigarkhan@manege.spb.ru
Annual General Meeting
4th October 2008.
AGM followed by a talk by Brian Steptoe ‘Olympic Blue’
The Bedford Suite Grafton Hotel, Tottenham Court Road London.
A day of history and research at the Rawson Institute, Bolney.
Date Saturday 4th October
Time 9.30 for 10.30 start
Cost £20
Contact Jill@ipse.org.uk
Roger said to me, “Speaking to your group gives me the opportunity to look back over my fifty years in photography and trace the way in which my career gradually evolved as a photographic historian. If you think it would be appropriate I can touch on the processes and pitfalls of research and explain in some detail my recent experiences with the Metropolitan Museum of Art as curator of an exhibition and writing the catalogue”.
Roger Taylor's career as a historian began as a happy accident, browsing in a second-hand bookshop, the owner gave him a large folio, saying “Somebody should do something on this fellow” Inside the folio were prints by the Scottish photographer George Washington Wilson. This became the subject of his first book and the start of a long career as a historian, teacher and curator, specialising in Victorian photography. In 1967 Roger began teaching at Sheffield City Polytechnic. There he developed one of the first undergraduate fine art programmes in the UK. In 1985 he became a curator at the newly established National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.
Since 1996 he has been working on various research projects, among them exhibitions of the photographs of Lewis Carroll and Roger Fenton. His most recent project was curating an exhibition on the culture of the British calotype and an impressive book to go with the exhibition. The exhibition was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last autumn. It has now moved to Paris. What is wrong with London I ask?
3rd – 28th November 2008.
‘Olympic Blue’ and accompanying book by Brian Steptoe.
Royal Photographic Society, Fenton House, Bath.
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An event taking place in Yorkshire to which Contemporary Group Members are invited.
Date: Sunday 26th October 2008.
Title: Documentary Photography with Gus Wylie HonFRPS and Ian Beesley.
Documentary & Travel Photography at the University of Bolton.
Venue: National Media Museum, Bradford
Time: 10.30 am to about 4.30 pm
Cost: £8 including morning coffee/tea
Contact: Robert Gates ARPS. RPS Regional Organiser, Yorkshire. bob@rpsyorkshire.org
Gus will give two talks ‘Bikers & Rockers’ (colour) and ‘Western Isles’ (mono).
Ian Beesley’s talk is titled ‘The Ethnographic Photographer – Blood, sweat, toil & tears. Ian is currently Senior Lecturer for the MA course in International Photojournalism,
Gus Wylie was born in Lowestoft in 1935, but he spent a considerable part of his childhood in rural Scotland.
He studied fine art at the painting school of the Royal College of Art, but has also taken numerous film and photography courses. During his Masters in photography, he travelled across the United States on a Greyhound bus, taking a series of colour photographs of rockers and bikers.
Gus was a Professor of Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has also taught in Florence and at the Royal College of Art. Acclaimed as a leading exponent of monochrome photography, Gus Wylie’s photography books on the Hebrides have earned him the accolade of ‘best modern photographer of the Western Isles’. He recently exhibited his Hebridean photographs in Stornoway and was deeply moved by the warmth of the reception there.
In 2006 Gus was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society. He is currently the course director of the postgraduate Masters course in fashion and photography at the University of Arts in London.
Ian Beesley was born in Bradford in 1954 and after an incident involving Potassium Permanganate at Hanson Boys Grammar School swimming gala in 1971 he was invited by the headmaster to seek employment. He failed the physical to become an apprentice gravedigger and consequently ended up as a labourer on the local sewage works. Here he was quickly promoted to boilercleaner and then roadrunner for the railway gang. His workmates realising his artistic ambitions encouraged him to pursue a career and he left in 1973 to go to Bradford Art College and then onto Bournemouth & Poole College of Art 1974-77. Ian graduated with a double distinction in editorial and documentary photography and was the recipient of a Kodak Scholarship for Social Documentation.
He has worked as a freelance documentary photographer ever since. His work is exhibited regularly both here and abroad. Portfolios of his work are held in the collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, The National Media Museum, The National Museum of Coal Mining, The National Museum of Labour History, The Imperial War Museum and the collections of Bradford, Leeds, Oldham, Preston, Salford and Stockport Art Galleries.
A Day with Gus Wylie Hon FRPS
Lancashire Monochrome.
Sunday, 16th November 2008.
10.00am to start 10.30am finishing around 4.15pm
10 start with coffee/tea/biscuits followed by a morning lecture between 10.30pm and 12. After a cooked lunch we resume at 13.30 and finish around 16.15.
Venue: Leyland & Farrington Social Club, Derby Street, Leyland. (near J28, M6)
Cost: £8 for non-LM members (to include cooked lunch and refreshments during the day).
Gus studied Fine Art at the Painting School of the Royal College of Art, but has also taken numerous film and photography courses. During his Masters in Photography, he travelled across the United States on a Greyhound bus, taking a series of colour photographs of ‘rockers’ and ‘bikers’. A London exhibition was scheduled for 2007.
Gus was a Professor of Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York where Eastman Kodak was formed, and has also taught in Florence and at the Royal College of Art. Acclaimed as a leading exponent of monochrome photography, Gus Wylie’s photography books on the Hebrides have earned him the accolade of ‘best modern photographer of the Western Isles’. He is currently the Course Director of the Postgraduate Masters Course in Fashion and Photography at the University of Arts in London.
Gus will bring some of his books to sell, his latest being ‘The Hebrideans’).
Contact details: www.lancashiremonochrome.co.uk a map with direction can be found by going to this website. The Social Club is a short walk from the railway station and there is free parking at the venue.
Enquiries to: LaunchburyK@aol.com
Saturday, 15th November 2008.
Distinctions Advisory Workshop, Contemporary Category.
Venue: RPS Fenton House Bath
10.30. expected ending by 4 pm
£15 if bringing work. £10 for observers. Please book with Brian Steptoe, 99 McCarthy Way, Wokingham, RG40 4UB and make cheques payable to RPS Contemporary Group.
Contact: Brian Steptoe, bsteptoe@compuserve.com
Panel members Carol Hudson FRPS (panel chair) and Brian Steptoe Hon FRPS will give advice to RPS members considering entering work for the Contemporary category Associateship and Fellowship distinctions.
The event will include showing and discussion of some recent submissions and description of the criteria used for assessments in this category.
Snack lunches available at small extra charge on the day.
While every effort is made to confirm the accuracy of the various Exhibitions, Talks, etc. listed on this website, inaccuracies can occur. It is advisable to double check with the venue or organiser's, especially if travelling some distance.
