Birmingham Live, for most, is a website that posts up reviews and some excellent photographs of bands playing in Birmingham. There are people out there covering gigs almost every night of the week. However, for the up and coming music photographers and reviewers involved, it’s a platform where they can learn their craft and get … [Read more…]
Self Portrait Birmingham: This site has been set up as part of the new Self Portrait Birmingham Project. The Project is inspired by the original Handsworth Self Portrait of 1979 but updated with the latest digital technology Nod to Podnosh for passing this my way.
BiNS and Keri Davies have both gawped at the fantastic parkour (free-running – remember Jump Britain? The start of Casino Royale? Ah, nevermind) pictures by Sutton Coldfield’s Mark Lilly. The photos were for Deleted Scenes but are also up on Flickr too. This here shot was taken in Sutton Coldfield: The others are worth a … [Read more…]
There’s been a discussion bubbling away in the past few weeks about establishing a dedicated space for photography in Birmingham. Much of this has been taking place among members of the Birmingham Flickr group. Now there’s to be a get-together to try and take things further: A small group of us are getting together on … [Read more…]
John Garghan is a photographer who, to be mundane about it, takes beautiful photos of the details of burnt out cars. He puts it much better: My aim is to capture the disturbance to surfaces created by acts of joy riding and arson by zooming into disfigured vehicle parts that are occupied in the lifecycle … [Read more…]
The team from The Big Picture have set a world record for their huge photo mosaic, unveiled outside Millennium Point. There’s loads of information about this on the Big Picture website. You can see a whizzy online representation of the mosaic and there’s a Big Picture collective memory where reactions to the mosaic are being … [Read more…]
Photosynth is: an online application that stitches together digital photographs of an area and converts them into a three-dimensional map Unfortunately it’s hard to do justice to it in words. However, when this video was released a couple of years ago there was a lot of ooh-ing and aah-ing about it: About this point you’re … [Read more…]
Three White Walls Art Gallery in the Mailbox in Birmingham will be displaying photographs by renowned artist, photographer and filmmaker Pogus Caesar, 28th August until 7th October 2008. Info about the exhibition on the Three White Walls Gallery site. Info about Pogus Caesar himself on the Oom Gallery website.