Shot Up North deadline 30th June
From comment from ‘Ed’ at the Sun Awards on the Newswire today:
“Call for Entries for the SUN Awards 2008 are open until 30th June. Categories include BEST IMAGE; BEST USE OF IMAGE; BEST PROMOTION of a PHOTOGRAPHER; and a special category for this year The DIGITAL INNOVATION.”
Thanks for the reminder, Ed.
John Baxter won in 2007 with this garden landscape replete with topiary, caravan, garden shed, domestic pet and fifty-somethings. A killer combination, wouldn’t you say, with echoes of Crewdson? All it needs is a sleepwalker in slippers for the requisite Looking Glass effect. Lovely. Click through the photo to Baxter’s website for more.
Popularity: 24% [?]
Picturing China in Durham
Until 30th August there are “More than 100 photographs of everyday life, fashion, industrialisation, crime and punishment, foreigners in China and the Chinese abroad, including many images of contemporary events and personalities by Government Minister and later Ambassador Fu Bingchang (1895-1965)” at the Oriental Museum in Durham.
From an informal review [via my email inbox]:
“The Picturing China exhibition is accompanied by a free news-sheet with articles by a number of people who have studied in particular the photographic contributions to our understanding of pre-revolutionary China. Some of this comes from photography by westerners living there for periods, some from the work of Chinese photographers. I would strongly suggest you give yourself a half hour to read this before going around the exhibition as it is extremely illuminating.
Many of the images are absolutely haunting.”
Popularity: 6% [?]
Summer degree shows 2008
Cleveland College of Art and Design’s photography degree show opens on Thursday 5th June and runs until 11th. The Rye Hill Gallery launches Newcastle College Photographers’ work on 9th June for a week. The University of Sunderland’s show opens on 21st June until 27th in the beautiful Backhouse Park building on Ryhope Road.
These shows are an excellent opportunity to see new work from the region’s emerging image makers and a great chance to buy work or hire artists while they’re still affordable. If your work is being shown, we’ll write about it if you mail in the details, and if you go along to one of these, tell us what you think.
Popularity: 10% [?]