john garghan

Links for 22 October 2009

Chris Unitt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:14:40 +0000

Digbeth is Good » Getgood Link: YouTube – Night Out at The Custard Factory
Nicky’s found a great 2min vid of a night at the Custard Factory
You will never look at them in the same way again: Networking at the Fire Station Open Day
“There has been a massive decline in dumped burnt out cars here in Birmingham which is a great success story for the local council and the brigade but it does nothing for the state of the local culture and art scene not to mention my livelihood”. John, in case you’re not aware, takes close-up photos of the scorched paintwork on burnt out cars
Grass Roots – a set on Flickr
If nothing else, the Birmingham World Cup Bid thing has provided an excuse for photographer Ravi Deepres to pick up where his football-themed ‘Patriots’ exhibition left off. Maybe I’m missing not playing Sunday league this season, but I’m liking the ‘Grass Roots’ set from his latest ‘Football in Harmony’ project

Links for December 20th

Chris Unitt — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:56:56 +0000

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The sit-down comic
An interview with Birmingham’s Laura Howells – the Beano’s first ever regular female artist (hat tip to Andy Mabbett)
John Garghan, exhibition in the new year
The guy who takes the fasinating photos of torched cars. He’s getting ready for an exhibition at the Solihull Arts Complex at the Touchwood Centre, Solihull. 19 Jan to 7 March
Screen WM – Annual Review
You can get Screen WM’s annual report for 07/08 (and the past couple of years) here
Where next for the Custard Factory and other independent venues?
Interesting post from Kenny at Big Cat pondering what direction a large-ish, credible venue should take in terms of booking acts. Would be interesting to see what people would suggest
New Season Announced at Birmingham Rep : Whatsonstage Midlands
There’s some Philip Pullman, a Caribbean musical, a collaboration between writers and actors from the UK, Japan and Korea and lots of other good things
Young People’s Free Theatre Scheme- successful West Midlands theatres – Audiences Central
A list of “theatres who have been successful in their application for the Arts Council England Young People’s Free Theatre Scheme”
Kebablog – DAB con
A poke around Birmingham’s digital radio options
Dressing-the-Pooh | Crescent Theatre Blog
Interesting from the Crescent Theatre – they’ve got a production of Winnie-the-Pooh coming in the new year. A comment on a previous blog asked whether Pooh would be played in full, semi or no costume. Here’s the answer (maybe drop them a comment on your thoughts)
Still Waiting
Not sure what this is, but it’s to do with Antonio Roberts so it’ll probably be interesting

John Garghan

Chris Unitt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:50:31 +0000

John Garghan is a photographer who, to be mundane about it, takes beautiful photos of the details of burnt out cars.Â 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 of metals, fabrics, and glass. Their corrosion is a natural process that tries to reclaim human made objects to an elemental state more in line with the energy of the molecules these objects are made of, torching accelerates this journey of returning to the earth and I look to capture, investigate and at times distort results of the advancement of its lifecycle

John also has a blog called ‘You will never think of them in the same way again‘ which gives an interesting insight into what he’s been up to and what he thinks about.

John has a Flickr account too.Â Happily, Flickr has just made it easier to embed photos and slideshows on other sites (like blogs) so here’s a slideshow of John’s work (not all are of burnt cars):

Thanks to Jon Bounds for spotting John Garghan’s blog and Joanna Geary for the Flickr embed info.