Portrait at Coombe End
Laura Goodman’s photographic exhibition continues its UK tour in Glasgow at The Gallery at Mussel Inn.
The Coombe End Preview is on Thursday 4th September: mail Laura if you’d like an invitation. The work will be on show until 30th September, and then we’re hoping Laura will come and do a talk about her methods and practice at Number 7, the new private gallery space.
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Alexey Titarenko
Wonderful long exposure photographs of passing crowds in Titarenko’s City of Shadows series, found probably via BLDGBLOG who calls their post pandemonium, rather aptly. It might also be on Lens Culture though. Definitely worth following these two if you don’t already do so.
Long exposure population movement like this is a lot more difficult than it looks. In a series taken with a Holga pinhole camera in Baltic Square a couple of years ago, there is definitely the essence of at least one Pet Shop Boy and a huddle of hangers on, although the exposure hardly shows more than a slight drift in the colour cast. Those photos will need recanning, since the HD containing about 2 years worth of work looks to have failed. Hurrah for negatives, hmm?
This is turning into black-and-white month.
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Michael Ormerod: his legacy
Miichael Ormerod was born in Cheshire, but lived most of his life in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He died in a motorcycle accident in Arizona in 1991, about 5 years too early for the internet to have much of a record of his life or work. Certainly there’s no website.
There are approx 70 of Ormerod’s photographs with Millennium Images: click through to see the pages.
An annual competition amongst the photography students at Newcastle College was recently won by Pierfrancesco Celada. We’ll be interviewing Pier about his photographs and his travel plans in the next week or so. Adrian Lourie’s photographs of Blackpool were the result of last year’s Award.
We would like to develop a growing archive of entries to and winners of the Award as a continuing tribute to Ormerod’s life and work. If you are or have been a:
1. judge of one of the annual Awards (there’s been a different judge each year).
2. student who entered and won the Award
3. student who hasn’t won, but has a body of maybe 10, or a single photograph you’d like to show
4. a friend or colleague of Ormerod’s who would like to share thoughts or ideas
5. a trustee or similar of Ormerod’s estate
Please get in touch!
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