Eye Candy Festival, a visual pop culture festival, will be showcasing illustration, art and design through a programme of events in the form of exhibitions and meet-ups etc. There will also be workshops and a talks program with industry heavyweights. The event will be held in the Southside district of Birmingham, this is only a … [Read more…]
The Hockley Flyer and YBA Publications are holding a competition to find the best photograph for the front cover of the new magazine; Historic Jewellery Quarter. This is a brand new magazine which hopes to give an insight into the Jewellery Quarter’s past. They are looking for a photograph that captures the very essence of … [Read more…]
Hotel Indigo is based on the 23rd and 24th floor of the iconic city centre building The Cube. They are running a competition, along with other Hotel Indigo hotels, to challenge photographers to capture the cities around the world using the themes of ‘See, Hear and Taste’. Entrants have the chance of winning a Lomography … [Read more…]
mac birmingham is looking for a group of 20 young people, aged 16 to 24, to be part of mac’s cannon hill collective. The only requirement is that you are based in the West Midlands but you can be from any creative discipline. As part of the cannon hill collective, you will come up with … [Read more…]
Crisis Skylight Birmingham Crisis Skylight is the education scheme of the homelessness charity Crisis. Working in hostels & community spaces it engages with the homeless using arts classes & creative courses. The results of some of this work is currently being exhibited at St. Martin’s Church. Running from the 4th to the 30th August the … [Read more…]
Reference Works is a major new photography commission in which four leading photographers will make visual responses to the current Central Library building and to the build, transition and relocation to the new Library of Birmingham. Those photographers being Michael Collins, Brian Griffin, Andrew Lacon and Stuart Whipps
Some photographs from Keith Berry’s site on Pbase. Really nostalgic pictures from 60’s and 70’s plus some recent ones of mine. Worth taking a look at http://www.pbase.com/beppuu There’s some crazy stuff on the rest of that YouTube channel.
The current 48 Sheet project (the reason there are interesting billboards around town) is clearly a GOOD THING. Another thing that is clearly a GOOD THING is when other projects start riffing off what others are doing. A case in point: In order to document these works 48 Sheets, BirminghamViewpoint and Birmingham Loves Photographers have teamed … [Read more…]