Taken from the poster (PDF) found on Rhubarb Rhubarb‘s noticeboard:
Where?
Birmingham Central Library, Conference Room 4, floor 4
What?
A meeting to gauge interest in a new photography collective. Aimed at people who are post college, with some experience of exhibiting who want to discuss work, creating exhibitions and inviting guest speakers etc
Who?
Thank you for mailing this out :)
Hi, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about the collective, so I have tried to put some straight forward information together. I basically need to see people’s work to know if they will benefit from being part of the collective and if they have the experience to contribute to it as well?
I wanted to create a new meeting of photographers with a similar level of experience and practice, to be able to talk about our work, with a view to creating new exhibitions, new commissions etc The emphasis on the group is predominantly fine art/documentary because that is my background.
I was part of a fairly successful collective 2 years ago and was aware of a variety of opportunities/funding that could have been benefited from, but to the collective being too diverse, and other reasons etc they weren’t explored. This is why I am selecting the members for the collective.
The selection criteria is that you have to have exhibited post university, ideally have a degree/MA in photography and want to show/discuss work that is fine art/documentary. I do understand that some commercial work can brilliantly make the cross over and result in a great exhibitions, so please let me see your website so I can see if it is this type. This group is for people who work as photographers or are just about to be, it is not a hobbyist group. This group also isn’t suitable for people who want to show their holiday/pet photos, it’s for photographers who have series of work that they want to talk about or ideas etc.
Just a reminder that the first meeting is this Monday the 26th of April :)