Jack Adams is a photographer. On Saturday he was at the Dachsund UN, one of the weekend’s Fierce Festival events (and a very popular one by the sound of things – gutted I couldn’t make it). He’s also got some prints for sale on Etsy and is on Flickr if you want to check out … [Read more…]
As spotted by D’log, Sharon Johnstone does some very lovely macro photography. There are plenty more images on her website.
Another Birmingham photography project for your weekend enjoyment. Birmingham {Viewpoint} is run by a chap called Pete and it works like this: On a monthly basis, a subject will be published on this blog for those taking part. They will then have a month to photograph this subject and email their photographs to the email address below or submit it … [Read more…]
The A34 Stratford Road runs from near the centre of Birmingham to Stratford-Upon-Avon. This photo-blog is about the people who can be found between the Sparkbrook and Shirley areas. The Stratford Road Project is a great photo-portrait thing from Rob Gilbert – definitely go check this one out.
This intrigues me: artist Chris Poolman and writer Mark Ellis have been selected to undertake a series of journeys through the region, modelled on three great American literary journeys, producing a documentary film as they go and a collection of short stories and other writings. The great American stories to be followed through West Midlands’ … [Read more…]
It says here: Yes, its official: Birmingham Instagram Group’s first Instameet will take place on Sunday 1st April in the Jewellery Quarter. More details soon. Coming?
I’m not really one for reprinting press releases that are sent to me but I’ll make an exception. Here follows a message from Pete. —– I’m running a couple of courses which I hope will become regular monthly things. The first is Matt and Pete’s Photo School (see poster) Here we’re combining an academic approach to … [Read more…]
The National Trust recently made the details of over 700,000 of the objects in their care available online for the first time. I quick search for objects around Birmingham reveals 1,350 items, a fair few of them with accompanying pictures. You can check out the online collection at nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. If anyone spots anything particularly good in there, … [Read more…]