West Midlands based photographer and filmmaker Stephen Vernon Clarke, focuses on simple portraiture and landscape photography, with a polished finish.
Take a look at his portfolio on his shiny new website www.vernonclarke.com, the result of a re brand from Liberty Creative.
Peter Watkins is a freelance Midlands based photographer. Over the last few years, he’s had a both group and solo exhibitions at various venues, including the Custard Factory, The Public and Light House.
He’s also been awarded with an Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards, in the Architecture: Buildings, Fine Art: Landscapes and Fine Art: Nudes categories.
Take a look at his portfolio and keep up with his work on tumblr.
Dave Piper is a Birmingham based photographer, who works mainly in fashion and portraiture photography. Though they may have been given a glamorous finish, you might recognise something familiar about these two photos, they’re taken from a shoot he did at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath.
Having also recently shot his first cover for FACE ON magazine (image below), he’s now branching out into hosting nationwide photography workshops.
The Birmingham dates are set for 29 and 30 September, at the Calumet Store, so plenty of time to get a bit of practice in if you’re interested. The two day course ‘What is Digital Light? – A Theoretical and Practical Digital editing course’, will cover the following;
This workshop will challenge and inspire. There are no rule books, there are no wrong answers – nor right ones. However, there are other theories and other ideas.
This course is not only about Photoshop, it’s about how to pull apart and re-bild your photos using a post-production style designed to really enhance your work.
For this workshop, the confident use of a DSLR and some experience of Photoshop is neccessary. The course will push and explore the ideas to enhance and finish your photography, including a study on the importance of self-critique.
Prices are TBC, and there’s also a beginners course to follow – any questions can go to Dave@davepiper.org.uk
Yoyophoto is a contemporary print service offering unique, limited run prints, recently launched by award-winning photographer George Benson and image maker/ musician Sam Underwood.
The site currently features work by George and Sam, but they’re keen to get more photographers on board in the near future.
They’re currently at the collecting contacts stage, so if getting your work featured on the site is something you may be interested in, sign up to their mailing list to receive news on when the site is accepting portfolio reviews.
Since launching, they’ve also been featured on 4Homes and are supplying to Mydeco, so you’d clearly be in good hands!
Since waving goodbye to Jennifer Tee, Eastside Projects now welcome the debut of ‘Memento Park’ from Carey Young. Launching on 26 November, the exhibition runs until 29 January.
Commissioned in conjunction with Cornerhouse, Manchester and mima, Middlesbrough, the exhibition surveys a decade of the artist’s practice, which focuses on the interconnections between economic systems, legal language and contemporary culture.
Transforming the Eastside space into three cinemas, Young’s videos Memento Park (2010), Uncertain Contract (2009) and Product Recall (2007) will be screened alongside further monitor based video works, a series of cameraless photographs, and three further text works which will complete the exhibition.
Read about the exhibition in full over at Eastside Projects.
Well done to Birmingham based architectural photographer Tim Cornbill, aka Polyester Powder Coated. He’s been shortlisted in CABE‘s Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty competition with this photograph of Gas St. Basin.
Photographer Liz Hingley spent two years researching and documenting the diverse culture and religious communities who inhabit Handsworth’s Soho Road.
Her critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Under Gods’ stories from Soho road is now open at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, running through until 26 February 2011.
At a time when religion is seen to cause much social unrest and breeds fear through misunderstanding, the photographs show the reality and intensity of different lifestyles and the beauty religion brings to everyday inner city life.
- Liz Hingley
Take a look at the collection on her website for a few interesting quotes which accompany the photographs.
Simon Winnall is a Birmingham based lifestyle and advertising photographer with a rather lovely looking portfolio. This shot from his ‘Vintage Snapshots’ project has recently won Best Image from The SUN (Shot Up North) awards, which celebrates non-London based photographers – congrats!
Multistory in association with The Public present Martin Parr’s unique look at life in the Black Country. After spending a year documenting modern day society and culture, The Public are preparing to unveil this collection of over 750 photographs.
Parr’s process of documenting and recording is fuelled by his passion and a curiosity, taking inspiration from his surroundings. His intimate approach, photographing his subjects in their own environment, gives him space to explore their lives and values in ways that often involve inadvertent humour.
Running alongside this will be an exhibition of photographs by students and staff of Sandwell College Photography Department. ‘Show Me A Secret’ will explore and display their own interpretations of Black Country life following Martin Parr’s mentoring.
Both exhibitions run from Thursday 11 November 2010 to Sunday 23 January 2011; opening daily, 10am – 6pm, and have free entry.
‘Empire of Rust’ is an exhibition of photography by Birmingham based artist Brigitte Winsor, currently on show until 30 October at The Warehouse Cafe.
…an abstract exploration of wabi-sabi – the Japanese aesthetic of the imperfect, the incomplete and the impermanent – where beauty can be found in the unconventional. Abstract and colourful, it highlights how art can be found in the least likely places of the everyday environment.
The Creative Alliance apprentices are holding an exhibition, Some Utopia, at the Custard Factory from 30 September – 8 October.
The apprentices were given the opportunity to transform a unit in Zellig into a space that expresses their own ideas and interpretations of utopia. With artists all from different creative backgrounds, the exhibition will feature fine art, photography and visual arts.
This is a unique opportunity to see the talents of emerging artists from the work done by Creative Alliance. Opening times for the exhibition are as follows;
30 September: 11am – 3pm
1 October: 8.30am – 2pm
4 – 8 October: 11am – 3pm
From 30 September – 21 November, a major retrospective exhibition, Face to Face, will take place in two adjacent locations in Birmingham’s Colmore Business District, exhibiting the work of Birmingham born photographer and filmmaker, Brian Griffin.
A large-scale outdoor retrospective will showcase Griffin’s portraiture over the last 38 years, including many of his most prominent portraits of leading musicians, politicians and celebrities. Two accompanying indoor exhibitions will feature Griffin’s award-winning series’ Team and The Water People.
The outdoor retrospective will be displayed at Snowhill Station, with the indoor exhibition held at the new One Snowhill development.
Following the exhibition, Team and The Water People will be on long-term loan to Birmingham Central Library, adding to their extensive collection of vintage prints.
This fresh faced quarterly magazine has been put together by a small team who have created, produced and printed LABB magazine in Birmingham.
Aiming to harvest and showcase emerging talent in art, fashion and photography, LABB allows readers to explore something new as oppose to the same churned out work seen in fellow coffee table mags.
Fashion, it’s like a science, you always want to push the limits, find something new, but its always based on the existing. Not everyone who works in a lab wears a white jacket… WELCOME TO OUR LABB!
Issue 1, Volume 2 is currently available, with Volume 3 on the way for September. In the meantime they’ve also got a blog, LABB Loves, which is great if, like me, you like flicking through dozens of highly stylised fashion photography.
I’m a photographer, not a terrorist! is a project by Birmingham Metropolitan College’s Diploma of Professional Photo Imaging students.
Their end of year show will be for one night at Masonic Buildings on Severn Street, Birmingham on 25th June from 6.30pm till 9.00pm and the after show party will be at the same venue from 9.00pm till late, by invitation only.
Here’s some background to the project:
The students, this year, have chosen to voice their displeasure and resentment at the draconian and ill-conceived Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. Many of the students have been accosted and questioned by the police and security guards whilst in the act of taking photographs for assignments in the course. Also, many of the public have confronted the students during their photographic activities accusing them of potential child offences even though they were clearly photographing a tree or derelict buildings etc.
There’s more on their website here.
I Am Camera is an exhibition featuring 25 photographers displaying work at Boxxed on Floodgate Street in Digbeth between 10th and 19th of June.
Here’s some more words about it:
I Am Camera is a collective showcase of work put together by a group of emerging and established artists who are currently rooted within Birmingham.
The exhibition will showcase the work of these artists who all come from a wide range of visual media professions including Fine Art, Documentary, Landscape, Fashion and Commercial roles.
I Am Camera is happy to be bringing this event to the heart of Birmingham between the 10th & 19th of June. There will most certainly be something for everyone to feast their eyes upon so why not pop by say hello and enjoy the work on show?
There’s also a handy list of all the artists on show on the I Am Camera website here.
