I’ve been asked to participate in Street Level Photoworks‘ Futureproof exhibition, which showcases new photo-image makers in Scotland. The exhibition in Glasgow shall run from Saturday 7th Aug – Sunday 12th Sept. I will exhibit framed works that form part of the project this is what creates every adventure and will create new photo-giveaw […]
I will be exhibiting an installation of works as part of West Port Book Festival in Edinburgh, at an event organised by Screen Bandita. “Found Footage” will be an exciting, experimental night of live performance, film projection and photography installation. The event takes place on Friday 25 June at St. Marks Artspace. The work I [...]
My degree show is finally ready and open for visitors! I am exhibiting my final year project this is what creates every adventure in the “glass box”, and the work on show includes a lightbox of old slides, looped audio installation, 8 framed works and an interactive website. I’m also giving away 100 mounted found [...]
I am sitting on the floor of a small room surrounded by hundreds of photographs. They cover the floor, the chairs, the table, the shelves, my bed. I have begun to mount them onto index cards, which has enabled me to begin to estimate how many I have. At the moment 400 cards have been [...]
A few months ago, I began to compile an album of photographs – found photographs – with captions, and called it ‘Not my mother’s album’. Unbeknownst to me, my mother had begun at the same time, to create an album of sorts, in memory of her father (which I shall hereafter refer to as ‘My [...]
Edwards, Elizabeth ‘Thinking photography beyond the visual?’ Photography:Theoretical Snapshots ed. by Long, J.J., Nobel, Andrea, and Welch, Edward (Oxon: Routledge, 2009) pp.31-48 p.31 [Edwards wants] to consider ways in which we might extend our understanding of photography beyond the visual itself and thus extend our theory of photography beyond the domina […]
Orphan photos, negatives & slides found in flea markets, inside old cameras and in the bottom drawers of family and friends. http://www.orphanpix.com/orphanpix/Home/Home.html Filed under: Blogs, Found photographs
View video here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_harris_collects_stories.html At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers’, and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing “We Feel Fine.” Brooklyn-based artist Jona […]
Sontag, Susan. ‘The Image-World’ On Photography (London: Penguin Books, 1979) p.153 [On the contrary,] the new age of unbelief strengthened the allegiance to images. The credence that could no longer be given to realities understood in the form of images was now given to realities understood to be images, illusions. [In the preface to the [...]
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is [...]
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