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New Issue Out Now! Issue 103 'Life Stories' (Winter 2020/21) is now on its way to subscribers and available to order from our online shop. Photographs are associated with the momentary and the fleeting but they often appear most meaningful when they are placed in the context of a life. Issue 103 of Source explores the ties between photography and this familiar, yet powerful, narrative frame. Featuring portfolios from Nik Roche, William Lakin and Margaret Mitchell, alongside the winning article from our Writing Prize and many more features, interviews, and, of course, reviews. Find out more & order.
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Image: Nik Roche, from It's hard to report a stolen bike stolen, Source Issue 103 'Life Stories'
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Join us online to celebrate the launch of Issue 103 - 'Life Stories' on 4th February 6.30pm via Zoom. Featuring live interviews & Q&A with photographer Nik Roche and contributor Dr Annebella Pollen (author of our Flea Market Photobook series). Hosted by editor Richard West. In association with Gallery of Photography Ireland. Free to attend and all welcome. Booking required: book here.
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In Summer 2020 we ran our first ever Writing Prize, and we are very pleased to finally be able to start sharing our selections. First place went to April Yee and her submission 'Man in Paradise' is published in Issue 103 'Life Stories'. Shortlisted were submissions from Josh Allen (which was developed into a feature and also published in Issue 103), Julie Dennis, Julia Tanner and Mads Holm. We're very happy to be publishing the other three shortlisted submissions on our website as part of our 2021 web article programme, starting with Mads Holm - 'Making Space to Speak From'. Read it here.
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Image: Andrew Quinn, Graduate Photography Online 2020
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We're pleased to say that Graduate Photography Online 2021 is going ahead as planned and that all submission guidelines are now available on our website. This year's selection panels include Mariama Attah (Curator - Open Eye), Karin Andreasson (Picture Editor - The Guardian), Duncan Forbes (Director of Photography - V&A), Cindy Sissokho (Curator - New Art Exchange), Gina Turner (Photo Editor - Bloomberg) and Emma Jones (Curatorial Assistant - Tate). Open to all final year photography students. Deadline 12th May (BA round) and 6th August (MA/MFA round). Find out more.
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Image: Grace Robertson (2009), Jim Holden/Rex (L); Dame Margaret Weston (1979), Getty Images (R)
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British photojournalist Grace Robertson has sadly died at 90 years of age. She worked for Picture Post, documented the post-war lives of working class women, and was married to fellow photographer Thurston Hopkins. Reported in British Photographic History Blog and Guardian.
The first female director of a national museum in the UK, Dame Margaret Weston has sadly died at 94 years of age. Weston was instrumental in the setting up of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1983. Reported in British Photographic History Blog and Guardian.
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Job Getty Images is seeking a Curatorial Assistant. Full time. London based. Find out more.
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Job Imperial War Museums Duxford is seeking two part time Digitisation Technicians (still media) to join their preservation/access teams. £22,470 p/a pro rata. 29/14.5 hours per week. Deadline 10th February 2021. Find out more.
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Job Central St Martins (University of the Arts London) is seeking a part-time Joint Stage One Leader for their BA (Honours) Fashion Communication and Promotion course. £18,569.20 - £22,372.80 pa. Deadline 3rd February 2021. Find out more.
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Competition (Last Chance) The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards is still accepting entries. Digital materials must now be submitted by 31st January 2021, and book copies received by 14th February 2021. Open to books published between 1 January and 31 December 2020. All guidelines online. Find out more.
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Competition University of St Andrews has put out an open call for submissions to The Art of Energy virtual exhibition. How would you artistically conceptualise our current energy predicament where we need to balance energy demand with concern about human-driven climate change? How can we make sense of the entanglement of life with energy in the past, present and future? Submissions sought across mediums including photography (max 5 images). Cash awards for the top three finalists: £1,000, £250, £150. No fee to submit. Deadline 10th February 2021. Find out more.
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Grant The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation is making Analogue Photography Grants of between £250 and £1000 to individuals or groups for analogue photography projects. Application deadline 2nd April 2021. (Notification June 2021). Find out more.
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Open Call Belfast Photo Festival 2021 is open for submissions. (Submission fee €22/29.) Deadline 5th March 2021. Find out more.
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Screening (live) Street Level Photoworks will host a live screening of Portraits and Dreams (2020) directed by Wendy Ewald & Elizabeth Barret, which revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made, on 28th January 2021 7pm via Zoom. Wendy Ewald will give a brief introduction. This event will not be recorded for viewing after the date. (A recording of the online talk and book launch this screening follows is available to watch online). Find out more.
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Image: Sophie Goudstikker, Studentinnen zum Tee bei einer Kollegin, 1907
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Talks (live) The Centre for Photography at Woodstock's virtual symposium Race, Activism and Photography which took place in December 2020 will be rebroadcast live from 29th-31st January 2021. Examining recent societal injustices, systemic racism, and the continued underrepresentation in the art world through the lenses of art and activism. Featuring panel-led roundtables, lectures, and artist presentations, in association with WOODSTOCK AIR residency programme. Keynote address by Carrie Mae Weems. Free to attend. Find out more & register.
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Talks (live) Redeye's first digital Hothouse event in partnership with Fuse will take place on 30th January 2021 12-4pm (GMT). Featuring presentations from a variety of artists working with photography now spanning fine-art, documentary, conceptual projects and snapshots. Free to attend, drop in, Zoom webinar. Find out more.
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Workshop (live) Open Eye gallery's Postcards from us x is a visual art project which reflects on our collective experience of 2020. Led by artist facilitator Michelle Pratt, the project aims to connect Liverpool locals of all ages through an exploration of photography, collage and writing. Make your own 'postcard from 2020' workshops will take place on 29th January, 5th February and 12th February 11am-12noon. Email miche...@hotmail.co.uk to sign up. Find out more.
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Talks (live) Edinburgh Napier University is hosting a series of live free-to-attend live photographer talks. The next talk from Carolyn Mendelsohn will take place on 2nd February 2021 4.30pm (GMT). Find out more & register
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Image: 'Vessel II', Joe Habben, Graduate Photography Online & Futureproof 2020 (featured in Part 2 of the Futureproof talks)
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Talk (recorded) Street Level Photoworks' Futureproof programme (showcasing selected photographic artworks by graduates of Scottish degree courses, partnered with Source Graduate Photography Online 2020) included two Zoom talks with selected photographers which are now available to watch online. View Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
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Talk (live) Pictures of Nursing is a travelling exhibition and digital resource curated by Julia Hallam for the National Library of Medicine, NIH, Washington, DC based on a collection of 2,500 postcards donated to the Library by Michael Zwerdling, a former hospice nurse, dating 1890-1910. A curator talk asking 'what can picture postcards tell us about the history of nursing, and images and stereotypes of nursing over the years?' will take place online on 11th February 2021 5.30pm (GMT). Free to attend. Find out more.
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Image: by IWM. Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War exhibition at IWM London in 2012, featuring Beaton’s wartime photography for the British Ministry of Information.
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Talk (live) Session 3 of the VII Interactive: Photographers and Archives seminar series 'Accessing the Archive' will take place online on 4th February 3pm (GMT). Moderated by Paul Lowe, with curators Alison Nordström and Hilary Roberts. How will your photographs outlive you? How will they be seen? Who uses archives, why and how? What are the potential benefits? How do you balance access and preservation needs? How do you fund archives? Are they viable sources of revenue? What is the future of archives in the internet age? Free to attend. Find out more.
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Talk (live) Artist Buhlebezwe Siwani in conversation with Mariama Attah (curator at Open Eye gallery) will take place on 3rd February 2021 6.30pm (GMT) via Zoom, hosted by The Photographer's Gallery. Siwani examines the Black female body and experience in the South African context, and will share how activism is at a cross section of her practice as she looks at themes around patriarchy, home and spirituality. Pay as you can. Find out more.
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Image: Andrea Liggins (featured in Source Issue 35 (Summer 2003)
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Talk (live) Beyond the Visible - Andrea Liggins hosted by the Royal Photographic Society will take place on 6th February 2021 14.30-16.00 (GMT). Andrea Liggins has worked and studied photography for 50 years and has been involved in photographic education for almost 40 years. She featured in Issue 35 (Summer 2003) of Source. Free to attend. Find out more & register. Other forthcoming RPS online talks include Steel-Oil-Steam with Tom Evans and Terry Hulf on 4th February and David Keep ARPS - Project Based Approach to Photography on 7th February (£3 non-members).
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Image: Ania Ready, Torn Apart, 2020
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Image: opening still from Otherwise Unseen - Tessa Bunney 11.01.2020
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Talk (recorded) The full archive of the Association of Photographers recent Breakfast Club talks is available to listen to online. There are twelve talks in the series covering many topics in photography with many guests. Find out more.
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Talks (live) Birkbeck's History and Theory of Photography Research Centre's spring term talks will take place online and are scheduled as follows: 26th February 2021 (Taous R Dahmani - ‘A typology for ‘Direct Action Photography’: 5 Acts merging political activism’s lexicon and photography’s vocabulary (1958-1989 / UK)’); 12 March 2021 (Justin Carville - ‘Racializing Insurgency: Photography, Colonial Governmentality and Ireland’); and 16 March 2021 (Sean Willcock - ‘Negative Histories of Colonial Photography: Encounters with Photographic Processes in the Imperial Field’). (Contact Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe with any queries: asym...@mail.bbk.ac.uk). Sign up & find out more
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Talk (live) A Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D — Part the Second will take place over 20th & 21st February 2021, led by Rachel Nordstrom (University of St Andrews), Victor Flores (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias), Denis Pellerin and Rebecca Sharpe (London Stereoscopic Archive). A free online event celebrating stereoscopic 3D with guest photo historians, researchers, artists, curators, collectors and innovators. Four sessions over two days. Detailed programme to come. Free to register & attend. (Recordings of event will not be available afterwards). Find out more & register.
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Image: First Beast (2018), Gerard Byrne
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Exhibition Beasts by Gerard Byrne is now showing in Kerlin Gallery's virtual viewing room. Beasts is a series of black-and-white, silver gelatin photographs shot inside the Biologiska museet, Stockholm. (Byrne featured in Source Issue 100 'Scripted Reality'.) Find out more & view.
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Festival FORMAT21: CONTROL will take place virtually and in venues across Derby from 12th March – 11th April 2021. This is the 9th edition of the international festival, featuring numerous photography exhibitions and events. View the full programme online.
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