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NEWSSeveral arts organisations in Glasgow, including Street Level Photoworks, are facing closure due to proposed rent increases. Show your support by visiting the gallery, becoming a member, and signing the petition. GRAIN Projects has announced that Eliza Bennett (Stafford) and Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang (London) are the recipients of its 2026 Artist Bursaries. These bursaries aim to support artistic development, experimentation and the production of new work. JOBSINIVA is currently advertising for several roles, including a Library Manager and a Copyright & Digitisation Officer Richard Young Gallery is looking for an Archivist/Gallery Assistant OPPORTUNITIES
OPPORTUNITIES - COMMISSIONSWomen in Nature - Photo Museum Ireland - new photographic commission - €15,000 and travel bursary (deadline 20 Apr) OPPORTUNITIES - FUNDINGMason Hayes & Curran Bursary - Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin -to support one visual artist with subsidised living and working space (deadline 21 Apr) Arts and Disability Ireland’s Connect funding scheme - training, new work, and research and reflection awards for individual artists with disabilities (deadline 12 May) Deloitte Photo Grant 2026 - open to all photographers under 35, to submit an idea for a project on the theme of ‘Proximities’. The winner will receive €25,000 (deadline 14 Jun) The Joan Wakelin Bursary - The RPS (in partnership with The Guardian) - £2000 for the production of a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue (deadline 6 Jul) The Eamonn McCabe Bursary - The RPS (in partnership with the McCabe family and The Guardian)- £3000 to a photographer aged 30 or under to deliver a photography project responding to the theme of ‘sporting endeavour’ (deadline 3 Aug) OPPORTUNITIES - RESIDENCIESTemple Bar Gallery + Studios Recent Graduate Residency Award - offering professional development, an artist bursary and a one-year studio (deadline 10 Apr) Temple Bar Gallery + Studios International Residency Opportunities - three-month residencies offered in Helsinki and New York (deadline 10 Apr) Hidden Narratives Residency - seeking Italian photographers, with an interest in and focus on archives and archive research - Royal Geographical Society, in partnership with Photoworks & the Italian Cultural Institute, London (deadline 13 Apr) Darkroom Residency - Darkroom, London - three months’ access to initiate, further or complete a body of work (deadline 26 Apr). £25 application fee Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) - one-month residency open to artists at the beginning of their careers who work with photography and/or lens-based arts - Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark (deadline 30 Apr) OPPORTUNITIES - EXHIBITIONSRHA Ashford Gallery exhibition opportunity (deadline 27 Apr) VISUAL and Carlow Arts Office - exhibition proposals for 2027 (deadline 22 May) OPPORTUNITIES - PHOTO FESTIVALSFfoto Cymru 2026 - Ffotogallery, Cardiff - invitation to submit projects, works and ideas that engage with photography in new and meaningful ways. No submission fee (deadline 7 Apr) Remedy Photo Festival - seeking photographic work that explores health in its broadest sense. No submission fee (deadline 25 Apr) OPPORTUNITIES - MENTORINGCultivating Diasporic Futures – Uprooting Hate - pilot mentorship programme open to BLK and/or diasporic intersectional UK photographers under 31 (deadline 5 Apr) OPPORTUNITIES - PHOTO BOOKSLUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award - open to professional photographers & artists using photography with a proposal of a book dummy. The winner will receive a €25,000 production grant (deadline 13 May) Future Photobook Award - Coventry University - open to students or recent graduates (deadline 7 Aug) OPPORTUNITIES - WRITINGVisual Culture in Britain Essay Prize 2026 open to scholars at all levels (deadline 27 Apr) OPPORTUNITIES - RESEARCHCall for Papers: Seeds of Change Conference: Regenerative Practices in Digital and Analogue Photography - The University of Salford and The Sustainable Darkroom (deadline 27 April) PhD Opportunity: Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG - fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship - The School of Humanities at the University of Westminster and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (deadline 30 April) OPPORTUNITIES - OTHERSFfotogallery 1-2-1s - with Siân Addicott ( Director) and Bob Gelsthorpe (Creative Producer) - Ffotogallery, Cardiff. No submission fee (deadline 6 May) Reverberations in the Archive - Autograph, London - submit your event proposal exploring how legacy is preserved, transformed and carried forward in archives (deadline 26 May) TALKS, DISCUSSIONS, & MEET-UPS
BOOK LAUNCHES Book Launch, Talk, and Signing (in person): Igor Chekachkov: 100 Days of War - Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop, London - 2 Apr, 6.30 pm to 8 pm. Free Book Launch (in person): A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire - author Michelle Henning and Sarah James in conversation - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool - 28 Apr, 6 pm to 8 pm. Free, booking required Talk and Book Signing (in person): Amak Mahmoodian - MPF Foundation, Bristol - 6 May, 7 pm. Pay what you can Book Launch, Talk and Signing (in person): photographer AdeY in conversation with curator Brandei Estes (National Portrait Gallery) - Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop, London - 15 May, 6.30 pm to 8 pm. Free ARTIST TALKS Talk (in person): As If - photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney, and composer David Donohoe in conversation with radio presenter and filmmaker Donal Dineen - International Centre for the Image, Dublin - 4 Apr, 2 pm to 3 pm. Free, booking required Talk (online): Sebastián Bruno - Ffotogallery, Cardiff - 9 Apr, 6.30 pm. Free Talk (in person): Rene Matić - Photographers’ Gallery - 9 Apr, 6.30 pm to 7.45 pm. £7 - £10 Talk (online): Jim Mortram - Oriel Colwyn, North Wales - 21 Apr, 7 pm. Free/donation Talk (in person): Craig Easton - An Extremely Un-get-atable Place - Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow - 23 April, 6 pm to 7.30 pm. Free Talk (in person): Gary Lee Boas - Tate Modern - 23 April, 7 pm to 9 pm. £5 - £15 Talk (in person): photographer Clare Hewitt and artist Genevieve Robertson in conversation - MAC, Birmingham - 25 Apr, 2 pm. Free, booking required Talk (in person): Joy Gregory - Birmingham School of Art, presented by GRAIN Projects - 28 Apr, 6 pm to 7.30 pm. £5 plus booking fee. Talk (in person): Amak Mahmoodian - Photographers’ Gallery, London - 30 Apr, 6.30 pm - 7.45 pm. £7 - £10 Talk (online): Nhu Xuan Hua: Expression in the Absence of Dialogue - Autograph, London - 6 May, 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm. Free, booking required Talk (in person): Jane Evelyne Atwood - Photographers’ Gallery, London - 12 May, 6.30 pm to 7.45 pm. £7 - £10 MEET-UPS Photography Meet-Up: InSide Documentary Photography Community Meet-Up (in person) - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne - 20 Apr, 6 pm to 8 pm. Free, booking required LECTURES Lecture (in person): Catherine Opie in context - Flora Dunster - National Portrait Gallery, London - 1 May, 7 pm to 8 pm. £8 - £10 DISCUSSIONS Panel Discussion (in person): Martin Parr’s The Last Resort, 40 Years On - MPF Foundation, Bristol - Diane Smyth will lead a conversation with photographer Paul Reas, curator Val Williams, and photographer Maisie Cousins - 20 May, 7 pm. £4 - £10 EVENTS
Chester Photo Festival Symposium - featuring keynote Professor Victor Burgin, What is an author? The artist in the age of AI - Storyhouse Cinema, Chester and University of Chester - 16 Apr to 18 Apr. Free to £60 Tsundoku Art Book Fair - International Centre for the Image, Dublin - 17 Apr to 19 Apr, 11 am to 5.30 pm. Free, open to all Photography X Archives - reflecting on the role of archives in photographic practice - includes keynotes from Sunil Gupta and Julian Germain - University of Portsmouth (presented in collaboration with Photoworks and Pompey Darkroom - 1 May, 11 am to 6.30 pm. £8 - £25 Photography Ethics Symposium 2026 - photographies x Photography Ethics Centre - Queen’s University, Belfast - 3 Jun to 4 Jun. Online tickets still available for two panel discussions. Free Everything in the Forest is the Forest Symposium - curated by Clare Hewitt and produced with GRAIN Projects, UWE Bristol, and University of Birmingham - MAC, Birmingham, 19 Jun, 9.30 am to 5 pm. Summit Photo 2026 - exploring how photography can drive positive change and address today’s global challenges - speakers include Rhiannon Adam, Anne Nwakalor, and Jermaine Francis - Royal Geographical Society, London (in collaboration with Photoworks and the RPS) - 17 Jul to 19 Jul. £15 - £25 EXHIBITIONS
NORTHERN IRELANDIn Their Own Image - Belfast Exposed - ft. Chad Alexander, Emma Campbell, Ailbhe Greaney, Peter Richards, Paul Seawright, Victor Sloan, Donovan Wylie, and others - to 23 May Iollann Ó Murchú: Tarraingíonn Scéal Scéal Eile (One Story Leads to Another) - Belast Exposed - to 23 May
REPUBLIC OF IRELANDProject Groundswell - Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin - ft. Yvette Monahan, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Maria Oliveira, and Gonçalo Fonseca - to 12 Apr The Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize - Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin - ft. Chad Alexander, Michael Croghan, Conor Horgan, Joe Laverty, Yvette Monahan, and others - 22 Apr to 24 May As If - International Centre for the Image, Dublin - ft. Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, and David Donohoe - to 5 Apr Still Looking - International Centre for the Image, Dublin - ft. Ciara Richardson, Conn McCarrick, Evanna Devine, Finbar Flanagan, and Jake Hughes - 13 Apr to 19 Apr Visual Poetry: The Photography of John Minihan - National Gallery of Ireland - to 11 Oct Patrick Hough: UnWorlding - Galway Arts Centre - film, photography and sculptural installations - 15 May to 28 Jun Jackie Nickerson: Stateside - Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda - to 9 May Jan McCullough: I Took a Hammer in My Hand - Butler Gallery, Kilkenny - to 3 May
SCOTLANDSimon Phipps: Brutal Scotland: Scotland's Post-War Modernist Architecture - Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow - to 16 May Aqsa Arif: Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown - Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow International) - 5 Jun to 21 Jun Ayesha Jones: The Backbone - Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow International) - 5 Jun to 30 Aug Still Glasgow - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow - ft. Khansa Aslam, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Roderick Buchanan, Nick Danziger, and others - to 13 Jan 2027 Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh - to 19 Apr Åsa Johannesson: The Queering of Photography - Stills, Edinburgh - 1 May to 27 Jun
ENGLAND (outside London)Dean Raymond Gooch: Bottoms - Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland - to 26 May Self-Defined. New Stories From Archives - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool - 17 Apr to 7 Jun Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest - MAC, Birmingham (Impressions Gallery Touring) - 18 Apr to 31 Aug Martin Parr: The Last Resort 40 Years On - MPF Foundation, Bristol - to 24 May Lynda S. Robertson: Punk Politika - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton - to 18 April Melanie Manchot: In Darkness and Light - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton - to 9 May
LONDONTheo McInnes and Thomas Ralph: Bibby Boys - Photofusion, London - to 4 Apr Gordon Parks: We Shall Not Be Moved - Alison Jacques, London - to 11 Apr Rodney Graham: Who does not love a tree? - Lisson Gallery, London - to 11 Apr Samuel Laurence Cunnane: Blue Road - Hayward Gallery, London - to 3 May Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire - Autograph, London - 16 Apr to 19 Sep Catherine Opie: To Be Seen - National Portrait Gallery, London - to 31 May John Gossage: From the Garden to the Darkness - Large Glass, London - to 30 May Luigi Ghirri: Felicità - Thomas Dane Gallery, London - to 9 May Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini: We Others - The Photographers’ Gallery, London - to 7 Jun Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 - ft. Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian, and Rene Matić - The Photographers’ Gallery, London - to 7 Jun American Photographs - V&A, London - to 16 May 2027
WALESSebastián Bruno: TA-RA - Ffotogallery, Cardiff - to 11 Apr Ffocws - ft. Xristina Castro, Bedwyr Meredydd, Tamsin Sterling, and others - Ffotogallery, Cardiff - to 9 May Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5 - ft. Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida - Ffotogallery, Cardiff - 7 May to 4 Jul
SCREENINGSDuane Michals: The Man Who Invented Himself (2014) directed by Camille Guichard- documentary screening - FILM UND FOTO KLUB - The Banshee Library, Edinburgh - 20 May, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm. Free, booking required. * N.B. We strive to be as careful as possible when compiling our e-newsletter, but mistakes occasionally occur. Please double-check all details on the organisation’s own website. Inclusion in our e-newsletter listings does not imply an endorsement by Source.
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