talking about walking (without cameras) tomorrow in Newcastle
As part of the Collectives Encounter parallel activities, the North East Photography Network invited Wideyed photo collective to go for a walk as part of their series of ‘Photography Walks’. This project aims to develop themed walks where the group will think about and discuss aspects of photography while walking around different parts of the … Continue reading
Planning to flân
Less than a fortnight to go now… So, quick update. And we’ve literally drawn up a plan. On the left of this sketch is a big old wooden plan chest, which will be propped on spare index cards or books, and sitting on top of it will be the main printer, hidden under we’re not … Continue reading
AKA Tinkerbell
On New Years Eve, Yasmina blogged her wishes, one of which was that ours and ASA’s ACE application would be successful. Ever since, she’s continually assured us that everything would be OK, we’d surely get it, any day now… And the good news that we have been awarded a grant for Mapping the Flâneur arrived … Continue reading
Mapping more progress
With only a month to go till the opening of Collectives Encounter, it’s probably time to start talking about our part of it in more detail. First, an interesting quote from Walter Benjamin: From a European perspective, things looked this way: In all areas of production, from the Middle Ages until the beginning of the … Continue reading
Preparing to flân
We’ve been thinking about street photography this week. In the concise Oxford Hachette French-English dictionary, the translation of the verb ‘flâner’ is simply to stroll, dawdle, or idle. Inject some Benjamin or Baudelaire into this dry definition, and you get the more poetic Flâneur, who “has been portrayed in the past as a well-dressed man, … Continue reading
Mapping progress
As part of our engagement with Collectives Encounter 2011, we’ve agreed to blog about process. Over the holiday period, Wideyed and ASA were too busy with a funding application to ACE to even think about blogging, but the application was submitted this week so, now that we’ve (more or less…) recovered from that, we’re getting … Continue reading
The Death of the Postcard
The Death of the Postcard is an “experimental travel documentary around India and South America. Director Adrian Barber collected thousands of e-mails, photos and video clips from travellers to create a shared view and shared narrative of contemporary travel and travel correspondence – the ‘digital’ postcard.”
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Wideyed is a non-profit photography collective founded in February 2008 by artist/photographers Lucy Carolan, Richard Glynn and Louise Taylor, which is dedicated to creating, curating and promoting compelling contemporary photography for exhibition and cross-media publication. Its members provide peer and technical support for each others practices, engage in commissions, community arts projects and workshops, explore … Continue reading
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