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Katie Cookie in “Arrangements in Black and Grey” Show at Fox Talbot Museum

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Photon Detector favorite Katie Cooke is showing some of her pinhole work at the Fox Talbot Museum:

Visit our upper gallery to see our current photography exhibition. ‘Arrangements in Black and Grey’ invites you to explore the relevance of black and white photography in the 21st century through a collection of beautiful images from six British artists, Anthony Jones, Deborah Parkin, Trevor Ashby, Nettie Edwards, Mark Voce and Katie Cooke.

Each artist approaches and uses monochrome differently, from the patient process of using a pinhole camera to producing work with only an iPhone to hand, there is more to these photographs than meets the eye.

The fine language of black and white focuses on texture, line and shape. By taking away the distraction of colour we are forced to look at the picture in a different way. The importance of light moves into the foreground and we start to understand the world in subtle tones rather than bold colour.

Show runs 12 April – 22 October, 2013 at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, England

Katie Cooke’s "Balancing Act" pinhole show, Edinburgh

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Relentlessly awesome photographer Katie Cooke‘s Balancing Act series of pinhole photographs opens 3 July, 2010 at Axolotl, Edinburgh, Scotland, and runs for the month.

Cooke writes, “This is a show of my long exposure self portrait pinhole photographs, mostly from the Balancing Act series that I made between 2006 and 2007, exploring the gain, loss, and regain of my ability to stand.”

Two prints from this series are hanging in my home, and they’re beautiful. Go see them in person if you can.

You can see more of her work at her web site, katiecooke.com, and here on Flickr.

Police delete London tourists’ photos "to prevent terrorism"

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Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city’s sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as "modern sculpture".

But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.

Continue reading at the Guardian

This is worth a read, it’s short and makes a number of good points [that you’d think are painfully obvious, but apparently still need to be made… over and over and over again].

Via GRINZ

Photographing police in the UK may now be a crime

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From today, anyone taking a photograph of a police officer could be deemed to have committed a criminal offence.

That is because of a new law – Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act – which has come into force.

It permits the arrest of anyone found “eliciting, publishing or communicating information” relating to members of the armed forces, intelligence services and police officers, which is “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”.

That means anyone taking a picture of one of those people could face a fine or a prison sentence of up to 10 years, if a link to terrorism is proved.

The law has angered photographers, both professional and amateur, who fear it could exacerbate the harassment they already sometimes face.

Continue reading at BBC News

 

Via the GRINZ newsletter, whose editor had this to say:

I have two words for this: Rodney King. So the police in that situation could have arrested the photographer (videographer) and destroyed the evidence, and been well within their rights to do so…if it had been illegal to photograph police, what record would even EXIST of the Springbok Tour? Hmmm…worth considering. I’m certainly not saying police are out to get us all – just that documentary photography / photojournalism should be unfettered.

Right on.

Free film offer from Fujifilm UK (London only)

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The Fujifilm Professional Newsletter says:

Process 10 rolls of any brand of 120 colour negative film at London-based pro lab Genesis Imaging and receive a free 5 roll pack of either Fujicolor PRO160S, PRO160C or PRO400H 120 colour negative film.

The Fujicolor PRO Series offers an exceptional range of professional colour negative films to suit all purposes. PRO Series films produce natural skin tones, extremely fine grain, have a wide exposure latitude and are optimised for digital scanning.

To claim your free 5 roll pack, simply process 10 rolls of ANY BRAND of 120 colour negative film at Genesis Imaging. For more details contact Ken or Lynda at Genesis on +44 20 7384 6299.

This offer is open only while stocks last and is limited to one free 120 film 5 pack per order, per person, per day.

Genesis Imaging
Unit 1 Hurlingham Business Park
Sulivan Road
Fulham
London
SW6 3DU
United Kingdom

www.genesis-digital.net

Tel: 020 7384 6299

UK & IRE Photography Jobs Finder Web site launches

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Photography Jobs Finder press release:

Photography Jobs Finder launches to provide the photography industry with its first dedicated recruitment website for job seekers and employers.

In a recent survey of 78 people working within the photography field 59 stated they had experienced problems when searching online for work and found it a time consuming process.

Responding to this survey the Photography Jobs Finder website (www.photographyjobsfinder.com) has been launched. Providing an online recruitment service dedicated to employers and jobs seekers from the photography industry, its purpose is to streamline the task of job searching.

Alex Hamer, creator of Photography Jobs Finder, says, "Being a photographer I have always found it a laborious task when searching for work. Jobs are often scattered over many websites and there is not one dedicated location for the photography industry to visit. With Photography Jobs Finder I am trying to solve these problems and make all our lives easier!"

Photography Jobs Finder already advertises a number of jobs, ranging from freelance photography to picture editors. As well as this it provides job seekers with the ability to build their CV online for potential employers to search from and view.

Photographers can now sign up free to a weekly jobs bulletin delivered straight to their inboxes.

For further details about Photography Jobs Finder go to www.photographyjobsfinder.com

The site appears to cover the UK and Ireland at this time.

Pinhole workshop at Zoom In, London, UK

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The not-for-profit Zoom In Photography School are having a pinhole workshop at their location in Clapham. Their course prospectus begins:

The Pinhole Photography course is a fun way to learn and demystify the mechanics of your camera. Deliberately structured to help you understand your own camera better but also providing essential skills in those who wish to develop this old photographic technique in their photographic art work. You will cover everything from preparing your camera, constructing your camera using simple mathematical formula to taking meter readings and photographs and processing positive images from your negatives.

Continue reading at Zoom In

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