New Art Gallery Walsall have got the next instalment of Martin Parr’s Black Country Stories project on show for a couple of months from today. The project was commissioned by Multistory. Martin was in Sandwell in 2010, he did Walsall last year and this year and next he’ll be in Wolverhampton and Dudley. He’s also … [Read more…]
Instagram is a social photo-sharing thing. I’ve been using searchinstagram.com to check out a few pics taken around Birmingham. Some of them are of the other Birmingham but it’s easy enough to spot the difference, by and large.
James Crockford went to the Master Photography Awards and walked away with a few more prizes than he expected: Mario Acerboni Creative Wedding Award – West Midlands Mario Acerboni Creative Wedding Award – overall MPA Architectural Photographer of the Year MPA Commercial Photographer of the Year Overall Best UK Image Cap duly doffed. Here’s the … [Read more…]
Gutter Floozy has a blog and is on Flickr (I’d have embedded a couple of pics but embedding is turned off). She says: I am not an incredible photographer but I aim to fairly attractively show what’s happening on Birmingham’s streets, mostly in Digbeth. I’m also a Landscape Architecture student and knitter of toys and vandalism.
Here’s photographer Jonathan Cherry on his recent trip to Rohini, India: I was in India for only two weeks & the majority of that time was spent in the 30-year-old sub city of Delhi called Rohini. It was a fascinating place to stay & apart from feeling a little out of place Rohini offers a beautiful … [Read more…]
Birmingham Loves Photographers is still a very enjoyable blog. Which is a relief – I quite often get excited about a new face on the online scene, only for them to fizzle out after a couple of weeks (often when it turns out it was just a student’s university project). Anyway, BLP is worth a … [Read more…]
I popped in to the launch of the Preclusion exhibition at the derelict/occupied Whitmarley building in Stirchley last night. For something that had come together so quickly (and a big well done to Harry for managing that) it was great to see a decent crowd down there (not quite shown in the photo below). It … [Read more…]
Ah, so this must be what the whispering was about. Preclusion No Venue : No Permission : No Money A genuinely guerilla experience, Preclusion is a totally unsupported spontaneous art exhibition. A space has become available for a limited time and the secretive El Perro Radicale has chosen to take advantage of this opportunity to unveil a … [Read more…]