Is It Important To Have An Expensive Camera?
Molly: When it comes to buying a new camera, you can often end up deciding between two cameras with that ultimate decision of wondering if that extra £1000 is really going to improve your photos. I’ve personally come to that time in my life where I need to invest in a new camera. However, the last camera that I bought was 4 years ago, and … Continue reading Is It Important To Have An Expensive Camera?
March Events Guide
Download the Event Guide PDF Here TALKS Friday 11th 16:00 – 19:00 @ Baltic Mill, Newcastle Art & Reason: How Art Thinks II. http://www.balticmill.com/whats-on/art-and-reason-how-art-thinks-ii Monday 14th 18:30-20:30 @ Tate Modern, London Curator’s Tour: Performing for the Camera http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/performing-camera Thursday 24th 18:00 @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Flat Death: Public Discussion Flat Death: Public Discussion Thursday 3rd 18:00 -20:00 @Red Eye, 3 Cambridge … Continue reading March Events Guide
The Other Things Camera Lenses Can Do
Does your lens have to stay on the camera? Well, no… not really, of course most lenses are designed to be coupled with the camera, however there are certain things you can do to change the way the light hits the camera. This would be to remove the lens and change the angle in which the lens is facing, or even flip the lens around … Continue reading The Other Things Camera Lenses Can Do
Top 5 Photography Galleries UK
The Photographers’ Gallery – London Situated just off Oxford Street in London and even having its own bus stop, The Photographers’ Gallery is one of the UK leading galleries for photography. Showcasing work from some of the biggest photographers in the world, for example; Martin Parr, Robert Capa, Viviane Sassen, Edward Steichen, Sebastião Salgado and many more. The Photographers’ gallery also houses an impressive book … Continue reading Top 5 Photography Galleries UK
Update- Jenny Lewis: One Day Young
Almost a year ago my fellow co-blogger Danny wrote a feature about Jenny Lewis’ book, One Day Young in Hackney. During the past year Lewis has developed this further into an additional project One Day Young Malawi. The first project highlighted a new representation of motherhood and often appear like modern madonna and child paintings. However, this new branch really pulls on your heart strings making … Continue reading Update- Jenny Lewis: One Day Young
Robert Mapplethorpe – Exhibitions
The Bowes Museum is currently holding an exhibition ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: THE MAGIC IN THE MUSE, this exhibition comprises a number of works taken from Artist Rooms owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. This exhibition has been running since the 28th November 2015 and will end on the 24th April 2016. Considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Mapplethorpe … Continue reading Robert Mapplethorpe – Exhibitions
Jesus on the Cross, Chocolate Jesus
Jesus on the Cross, Chocolate Jesus In 2006 George Helsop sculpted a life-size Jesus model made entirely of chocolate as part of a chocolate exhibition for the Ale and Porter Gallery. This would not be the first rendition of Jesus in chocolate for art, both Richard Manderson in 1994 and Cosimo Cavallaro in 2007 have attempted this. What this sculpture represents is most … Continue reading Jesus on the Cross, Chocolate Jesus
News: Tullie House Celebrates LGBT
A couple of the Stopbath team recently attended an LGBT talk at the Tullie House Museum and Gallery in Carlisle. This was presented by Colin Tennant were he lead us through the history of photography and how the power of photography has influenced different movements such as discrimination against race, sexuality, gender and class. Tennent walked us through a number of photographers who carry out … Continue reading News: Tullie House Celebrates LGBT
Shooting Squares
Shooting Squares Last week I talked about the theory of using a square format camera opposed to cropping from a rectangular format. Does shooting square in the first place make you see differently? The camera I’m using is a 10 year old Phase One p20 digital back on a Mamiya 645AFDII, this is overly complicated as a camera system. For digital, this is one of … Continue reading Shooting Squares
Art & Controversy
The art world is full of controversial artists, artists who create work that shocks the world. These could be, performance artists, photographers, painters, sculptors etc. Some artists have even made a living from only creating controversial works of art. In 1917 a work of art was created by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) this consisted of a urinal laid on it’s back and presented as a work … Continue reading Art & Controversy
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