Human Endeavour ‘Flanerie’.
As we have been making our project Degeneration, we have set ourselves some rules to try and stick to when taking photographs. As we have 4 photographers in our group and want to mix our photographs together in the exhibition and book format, we need to have some form of continuity throughout. So we are … Continue reading
Human Endeavour. Derby.
Human Endeavour recently gave a free workshop in Derby to support their forthcoming exhibition with the Collectives Encounter at Format Photography festival 2011. As part of the workshop we invited participants to join us on location to be a part of the process of creating new work around the theme of Degeneration. Although Derby does … Continue reading
Human Endeavour. Research. The Red Road Flats.
An important part of our project Degeneration has been the research we have collected for each location that we have visited. As an example of this I am showing some of our research here of the Red Road Flats in Glasgow. The comprehensive development of central Glasgow areas was the largest of any city in … Continue reading
Free photography workshop by Human Endeavour in Derby on 11th and 12th February 2011
Alex Currie, ‘Ibrox, Glasgow 2010’, from the series ‘Degeneration‘ / Human Endeavour Human Endeavour will lead a ‘Documentary photography research-led project’ workshop in Derby. As part of the 2nd Collectives Encounter at Format11, Human Endeavour collective will give 1.5-day workshop in Derby. The Collective will present their project ‘Degeneration‘ and show the processes behind making … Continue reading
ticking off my New Year’s wish list
on an earlier post, I wished everyone an activ(ist) new year highlighting few campaigns people in the arts should join. These campaigns still need support from and for all of us working in the arts! there were also wishes, which were related to applications I have been working on over Christmas. I am very pleased … Continue reading
Any resolutions for the new year?
or I’d rather call it ‘wishes for the new year’. some of us haven’t been blogging that much lately and our excuses are my wishes: WE WANT THIS! Grant for the Arts for Photo-Festivals Small Art Grant for Human Endevour Grant for the Arts for Wideyed and ASA is … Continue reading
Bruce Gilden. The Troubled City.
I came across a Bruce Gilden photo essay on the Magnum website recently and decided to share a link to it here, as there are obvious links to Human Endeavour‘s Degeneration project but also Gilden has been commissioned to make new work in Derby for the Format Festival. Brian Griffin described him as a ‘Genius’ … Continue reading
My flânerie with Alec Soth and Richard Long
I am afraid everyone would think (quite rightly) that my bookshelves are monolingual with all these French references! Au contraire! However, there is plenty of room for any other books, films etc and wordpress doesn’t carry them. So far, Human Endeavour has put some weight on the British side with works which are little disseminated. … Continue reading
‘Robinson in Space’ Patrick Keiller.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisable” click on the image to purchase the DVD Robinson in Space. (d. Patrick Keiller, 1996) begins with Robinson’s unseen narrator quoting the 1960s French radical Situationist Raoul Vaneigem demanding that “a bridge between imagination and reality must be built.” It ends with Robinson’s … Continue reading
Collectives Encounter 