Birmingham’s People comes from the folks at Birmingham Photospace and is a continuation of the portrait project they carried out over the Artsfest weekend in September. The website has been featuring the portraits taken, including the latest of ‘Radway’ (below) who, unless I’m mistaken, is none other than Violet Attack from the Birmingham Blitz Derby … [Read more…]
Ian from 7 Inch Cinema correctly guessed that this video might be up my street – a collection of images they’ve compiled for Birmingham Seen which opens at BMAG today and runs until 3 January 2010. Ian also sent over a biog of Derek Fairbrother (1931-99), whose images they are. The following is an extended … [Read more…]
Thanks for the thoughts and input into the future of CiB. I hope it didn’t seem I was suggesting it be disbanded – I wanted more to open up debate on how technology itself has moved on from when CiB began and that the direction/organisation/intention of CiB needs looking at. Your suggestions have been very … [Read more…]
I’ve often wondered why museums and galleries aren’t using their web presence in more innovative and useful ways. I worked within a gallery for a number of years, and this gave me the unsurprising insight that many factors contributed to this: underpaid overworked staff, simply no capacity (in terms of time) to explore new avenues, … [Read more…]
So how many of you were awake at 4am on the 04/04/09? And how many of you visually documented that moment? As was previously mentioned here on CiB, the 4am Project is the genius concept of Karen Strunks, a Birmingham photographer who singlehandedly convinced thousands of strangers across the world that it would be a … [Read more…]
I have just discovered the wonderful photography of Liz Hingley. She studied photography at Brighton University and is currently based in Italy on a photographic scholarship at Fabrica. She has photographed and exhibited around the world and more recently visited Birmingham to photograph some of the city’s religious life. Her work will make up part … [Read more…]
In response to the ‘Music is Not Pollution’ video, documentary photographer Jane Baker and was excited to hear about how creatives are using their talents to campaign about local issues and stir up some action. Jane is a documentary photographer who has recently moved to Birmingham and has just produced an audio visual story about … [Read more…]
At 4am on 4th April photographers left their warm beds to take photographs of their bit of the world for the 4am Project. Here are some of the photographs uploaded to Flickr so far: You can read first hand accounts of the 4am experience by Pete Ashton, RachelCreative, Nicky Getgood, Citizensheep and Jon Bounds. Did … [Read more…]