birminghams people

Birmingham Loves Photographers and Self Portrait Birmingham

Chris Unitt — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:22:21 +0000

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 subscribe/follow. They’ve been doing a good run of interviews with various photographers, have just released the results of the first round of their Portrait Project and they’ve also flagged up the Library of Birmingham Self-Portrait:

During the autumn of 2011, seven photographic sessions will take place in a range of locations – in the city centre and in community libraries across Birmingham, at which citizens will be invited to take self-portraits in a studio setting, using a shutter release and a plain backdrop. Participants will be given a copy of their photo to take away. The resulting images will be used in a digital installation in the new Library of Birmingham, with potential for a future publication project.

It has it’s own website at Self Portrait Birmingham but there’s no information there about this just yet, although BLP mention an event at Ward End Library on Saturday 1st October from 10.00am-4.00pm.

See also the Birmingham’s People project from a couple of years back.

Links for 8 December 2009

Chris Unitt — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:34:05 +0000

Brummie of the Year 2009 – vote now
The poll’s up on BiNS
We Live In Public – Private Screening – Eventbrite
There’s a free screening of We Live In Public at The Electric on Weds 9 December. Not many tickets left for this…
editorialgirl » Birmingham’s People: How do you represent Birmingham?
In which Matt Murtagh deals with inaninty from BBC WM’s Loyd Williams in a commendably professional manner
Critical Mass West Midlands
“Critical Mass is a free 11-week ‘Introduction to Playwriting’ course for black and minority ethnic writers aged 18+. Workshops will run from January – April 2010, one evening per week (7-9.30pm) at both The Drum Arts Centre in Birmingham and The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry”. Nothing to do with cycling then
Clusta | The Almanac Zoo
“The Zoo has an array of new characters to meet. Remember to keep watch as some of our furry friends appear a little shy at first. The Zoo is open morning, noon and night, so be sure to revisit when it gets dark”
Museums at Night | Culture24
Bit early on this, but nevermind – “Night owls can look forward to a weekend of ghostly goings on as museums unlock their doors for the annual after-hours celebrations. Museums at Night 2010 will run from Friday 14th May to Sunday 16th May”

Birmingham’s People

Chris Unitt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:24:36 +0000

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 Dames.

The project will be exhibited at The Drum from 7 December 2009 to 29 January 2010. You can also sign up to attend the (free) private view and artists talk on 9 December.