Monica Orozco “It Lasted 16 Outfits”

“It Lasted 16 Outfits”

Is a re-enactment of five weeks of my misadventures in dating in L.A. The first bloom of love may fade quickly, but a good outfit lasts forever. These self-portraits were shot in the exact places where Mr. X and I went on our whirlwind mini-romance and offer a peek inside the female side of the ritual: the mating dance, the dressing game, the spectacle, the theater. Are the outfits a shield for or a reflection of the woman within? Who knows.
Who was he? Does it matter? The fact is that love is a many splendored thing. And SHE wears many many outfits.

"It Lasted 16 Outfits"
Photos by Monica Orozco
ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood
6360 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Exhibit will run April 30th thru June 16

Reception
Thursday, May 13, 2010
7:00pm-10:00pm

ArcLight Theater Parking Validation $2 first 4 hours
RSVP not necessary

Monica Orozco - "De Colores—Portraits of L.A Women"

“De Colores-Portraits of L.A. Women”

An ongoing project that showcases eye-popping portraits of the “wonder women” of my hometown, Los Angeles.
Beautiful, diverse, strong, and fearless; they inspire me endlessly. These are the angels (and demons) of the City
of Angels I know and love. Reflecting the individual spirit of the project, each wonder woman is shot before a
backdrop of her favourite hue. This deeply personal project is an homage to my hometown and an expression
of appreciation for the beauty and strength of wonder women everywhere.

"De Colores—Portraits of L.A Women"
Photos by Monica Orozco
ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood
6360 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Exhibit will run April 30th thru June 16

Reception
Thursday, May 13, 2010
7:00pm-10:00pm

ArcLight Theater Parking Validation $2 first 4 hours
RSVP not necessary

Ecohealth 2010 Schools Photography Competition

Enter Ecohealth 2010
Schools photography competition for 11-16 year olds

Anyone aged 11-16 can enter photographs into this themed competition run by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London Photographic Association (LPA).

Winners from two age categories will have their winning photographs exhibited at the international Ecohealth 2010 conference in London and online at the LPA website. Winners will also be given prizes from the Wildlife Trust and Natural England.

Call For Entry Closed 2nd July 2010

Further information here

Ginger Liu Exhibits in LA - Framed Stories

New Puppy Gallery & drkrm/gallery
presents
FRAMED STORIES
Photographs

New Puppy Gallery in collaboration with drkrm/gallery present “Framed Stories” an exhibition of photographs featuring works by both local and international artists including Ginger Liu (Los Angeles), Stéphane Houari (Paris), Donald Schwartz (Los Angeles), Rafael Serrano (Los Angeles), Håkan Sjöström (Stockholm), Lauren Jack (San Francisco) + Jessica Yurasek (Los Angeles), Erik Boker (Los Angeles), Evi T'Bolt (Los Angeles), Hector Santizo (Los Angeles), Cerraeh Dutchess Laykin (Los Angeles)

“Framed Stories” opens with a special preview on May 1st . An opening reception follows on Saturday, May 8th. The show runs through May 30th.

New Puppy LA was founded in late 2007 to function as a creative space to reach out, share, explore and teach. To work with and promote community support to explore and develop creative healthy outlets for youth and families.

New Puppy LA is located at 2808 Elm St. in Cypress Park
Los Angeles CA 90065 Close to the 5, the 2, and the 110 freeways.

New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm St.
Los Angeles CA 90065
323-439-3355
www.newpuppyla.com

New Puppy Gallery & drkrm/gallery presents
FRAMED STORIES
Photographs
May 1st –May 30th, 2010
Preview May 1st 8-10 pm
Opening Reception Saturday May 8th 7-midnight

Photography by Ginger Liu from the series "You're Practically A Man"

People of Today at the NPG: Sukey Parnell

A picture of Dame Joan Bakewell by Sukey Parnell has just been bought by the National Portrait Gallery for the national archive. The portrait was originally commissioned by Saga magazine and was featured on the front cover in March 2009. The print is currently on exhibition in the People of Today Gallery on the ground floor, alongside Sukey's other recent acquisition to the collection, a portrait of comedian Bill Bailey, which was Photograph of the Month in January 2010. Dame Joan Bakewell is 'delighted' by the news.

Sukey's personal work has been a two-time finalist in the Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006 and 2007 with images from her personal project on female midlife, Women of an Uncertain Age. The first volume has recently been published on Blurb.com. Sukey says that she now wishes to extend the project across different cultures and continents. 'I'm in the process of developing an idea for an ambitious gallery show that looks at old age and "femininity". Watch this space!'

Sukey has recently donated prints to the Guardian photography auction in aid of Samoa and for a second time to the annual gala charity auction in New York in aid of InMotion. 'It's fantastic that my work can be used in this way to raise money and awareness around domestic violence. I was so surprised when they asked me last year. I'd heard of everyone else in their catalogue but me! How great, not only to help, but to see my name alongside Diane Arbus, Martin Parr and Annie Leibovitz! I had no idea when they first got in contact just how big it is! It shows that images can still make a difference.'

Sukey is currently combining writing and practical work in her academic studies. She received a studentship to study for a PhD in September last year to carry forward her research into 'the representation of age and "femininity" in the photographic portrait'. 'I didn't realise when I launched into the PhD just how big or all consuming it would be. Or that I would experience such a huge culture shock! But I think I'm finding my feet now and it's starting to become a very productive arena to engage with and challenge ideas.'

Sukey was a guest speaker in the Ageing Matters series at the Wellcome Collection in February, chaired by Claudia Hammond and has just presented papers on her research and photographic work at Exeter, Boston and Thames Valley Universities. Sukey is just putting the finishing touches to her new website which features two blogs, a news blog and a project blog. 'I really want to open up a conversation about how we see age and beauty. Please get involved.

We need to support each other and our projects. Get people talking about images, how and why the affect us and our lives. Our community is changing and we need to be talking about that. What and how we see our world.' Visit Sukey's blog at sukeyparnell.com/project.

Daniel Moncur-Sime saves fashion Shoot

Daniel Moncur-Sime saves fashion cover photoshoot for Viva magazine

Sunday 18th March, 7.30pm, mother's day - a call comes in from the editor of Viva magazine, Rebecca Legon. "Can you save a Fusion cover and editorial photoshoot tomorrow ?".

At Tropical World, Leeds, a whole creative team had been booked by Viva magazine for the fashion cover shoot of their premier issue of their re-branded look.

But the photographer from London pulled out at the very last minute,this meant the makeup artist who was traveling with the photographer also canceled!

'Dan can you take over?' My answer was indeed, a resounding yes! A re-jig of Monday's office work freed up the Monday and so I hit the long road for a 4 hour drive to Leeds. And to top it off I found a replacement makeup artist too!

Arriving in the morning at Tropical World Leeds I met Rebecca and found the creative team in full swing, all the models being made up by Adam Bryant the hair stylist and Laurra Cotterall the makeup artist. Having a quick creative meeting and general wreckie of the various scenes, we quickly decided on the best way to get the most dramatic imagery.

An incredible location, Tropical World was a walk through maze of different exotic indoor landscapes in a giant biosphere. From jungle to desert, waterfalls and rock walls the models, Katie, Marina and Luke, settled into the scenes and brought the clothes and accessories to life! Together with the striking makeup they brought a strong presence and we created series of eye-catching and incredible imagery.

It turned out wonderfully well, a whole set of story-telling photography - fashion in the jungle! Rebecca was thrilled that the day had worked out so smoothly, even if we did have to twist the park ranger's arm to allow us to stay past our allowed time!

All that remained was the 4 hour drive back to the studio, the upload of the images for selection of the photos to be edited for the editorial feature story. And by the end of the week, the photos Viva wanted to use had be fully edited and at the end of the week were on the editor's desk. Great job done!

To top it off this was a bonus photoshoot for me with Viva; I am booked with by them to do a separate shoot for inclusion in the same issue. So now, it's a double whammy two features of fantastic fashion story.

This next shoot is set for 19th April, in the wilderness of Chorlton-cum-Hardy's parklands! More on that fresh exciting creative shoot later!

The Viva rebranded premier issue is out at the beginning of May, in time for summer.

Daniel Moncur-Sime’s photography can be seen at www.danielmoncursime.com and at the London Photographic Association website. He can be contact on 07890 530 130 and email dan@danielmoncursime.com

Sebastian Rich - To Kill A Sniper!

MARINE

“ I could start a brand new life with all this Sebastian “ a Marine who asked to remain anonymous quipped as he and his platoon grappled with the heavy cheap plastic shopping bags containing 17. 5 million dollars worth of the world’s purest opium.

“You could win my f*****g heart and mind any day” with just one bag or even half. The same Marine said with a smile.

This was day three of “Operation Moshtarak “ translated from the Dari meaning “Together” to take the sprawling town of Marjah in Helmand Province Afghanistan. The Taliban’s very heart of banking and commerce.
The millions of dollars worth of opium we found was just one of many stashes tucked away in the kiosks and ramshackle shops that made up Marjahs central bazaar. Other units would go on to find much more. But in the meantime our platoon of Alpha 1/6 company doggedly took the haul back to forward operating base to be turned over to the Afghan equivalent of the D.E.A. The cynical amongst us would say that one might as well just put the opium back on the streets and by pass the middlemen.

A snipers high velocity round whizzed and fluttered just inches above our heads and the platoons collective ear lobes instinctively touched shoulders.
“F*****g motherf***** when is somebody going to turn that piece of s**t into pink f*****g mist “

This was the Taliban’s mopus operandi. They were never able to confront the might of the USMC head on in an old fashion battle, as they knew all to well that they would be wiped out in an instant. So they resorted in hit and run tactics. A sniper would harass for a an hour or so while other insurgents would use the opportunity to bring a few men closer to the Marines firing RPG’s (Rocket propelled grenades)
But today we had a sniper “ who could shoot” as our Gunny would say. This sniper had killed a young Marine just the day before with a single round straight thru the centre of his head. I had filmed the young Marine being taken off the battlefield by corpsman and was well aware of the danger from this particular individual. Normally we never took much notice of the so-called snipers as they were crap shots and just sprayed their Kalashnikovs vaguely in our direction just to let us know they had not gone away. But this guy was a different matter all together and to be taken seriously.

I watched as the Marines poured huge amounts of firepower down on our sniper. First an air strike was called in. Two Cobra attack helicopters firing a total of four hellfire missiles at 68.000 dollars each and hundreds of rounds of 20mm shells from its M197 three barreled Gatling guns ripped into the snipers coordinates. But just a few minutes later he was up and running again mocking us with his gunfire. Another air strike. Two fixed wing aircraft with a five hundred pound J damn bomb costing 70.000 dollars apiece literally vaporized the earth and buildings that were the snipers reported position. Unbelievably shots once again came from the dust and mayhem. He somehow defied all logic and survived this unbelievable onslaught.

Our “Gunny” had had enough of this “bullshit” and put together a squad armed with a Javelin missile to end this guy’s run of ridiculous luck and temerity.

“You wanna come and kill a bad guy Mr. TV Newsman”

Fifteen Marines and I ran into open ground with suppressing fire for the missile operator just a couple of hundred meters from our sniper’s position. Two bullets smacked into the ground between myself and the “gunny” We quickly exchanged a rather odd glance at each other. I noticed all the while that the “Gunny was still sipping from his coffee flask as cool as you like. “In your own time “ roared “gunny” at the young corporal with 80.000 dollars worth of javelin missile perched on his shoulder. Bullets from another direction were cutting into the ground to the right hand side of us. More insurgents had joined the fray. With a huge dust erupting whoosh of flame the Javelin missile roared away from its slightly startled operator. The missile armed and deadly accurate slammed into the snipers position in a ball of angry flame spitting earth and assorted debris high into the air. Finally silence, well at least from that direction.

We all ran into the relative safety of a nearby compound firing as we went. Gunny counted us all into the compound and poured praise on the missile operator and the rest of the Marines. I pushed my camera into his face to be met with. “Mr. Newsman get that thing out of my face I don’t look good on Thursdays “ !! I was a little bemused, as it was Tuesday! As the days rolled on I was to learn that every day was not a Thursday even if it WAS Thursday. I had never come across this way of being told to get my camera out of someone’s face like this before. After over thirty years in this crazy business I appreciated the originality.

Every one grinned an adrenaline infused smile at each other and one by one we sunk to the dirty earthen floor of the compound gulping huge amounts of water. A mission successfully carried out and no casualties. The cost of killing one Taliban sniper (excluding an unknown amount of bullets) $492.000 dollars before tax.

Photography: Sebastian Rich
U.S. Marine in - Operation Moshtarak,Marjah, Afghanistan.

2010 Wannabee Gallery Fine Art Prize

Kevin O'Connor of the LPA has been invited to join a high profile international jury by the prestigious Waanabee Gallery in Milan.

The Vito Montemurro foundation for young contemporary art, in cooperation with the Wannabee Gallery presents the 2010 Wannabee Prize at the annual International Art Contest.

Kevin say's "I am delighted to have been asked to join such a high profile judging panel.The inclusion of photography and video in this mixed media fine art competition is very healthy. I believe that the more photography is seen in art galleries / shows alongside painting and sculpture the faster photography will be accepted as a fine art collectable by the general public".... more

For applications and further information contact,

press@kinagency.com
Phone: (001) 310.925.7013

World Cup Football - Photographers Wanted

World Cup Football 2010

"A Photographic Celebration of Multicultural London Inspired by Football"

LPA member Philip J. Bigg needs a team of photographers to shoot images during the World Cup this summer and exhibit their work in a West London gallery... more

This is a great opportunity to collaborate in a project that should get a lot of PR!!!!

LPA Let's Face It 6 - Portraiture Competition Winners

LET’S FACE IT 6
The Picture-Perfect Portraiture Exhibition at the 2010 LPA Awards

A throng of admirers of commercial and fine-art photography celebrated some world class portraiture at the ‘Let’s Face It 6’ exhibition by the London Photographic Association on 31st March.

They packed the Assembly Rooms gallery space in Soho, London’s quintessential media-and-entertainment district, to honour winners of the 2010 LPA Awards at the sixth edition of the annual competition.

• THE WINNERS

The winners of the series category are:

Peter Adams - UK Gold series winner - interview


Eric White - USA Silver series winner - interview

Abel Ruiz de León Trespando - Spain Bronze series winner - interview

The winners of the single category are:



Nina Contini Melis - Spain Gold single image winner - interview

Nino Gehrig - UK Silver single image winner - interview

Zak Waters - UK Bronze single image winner - interview



Also commended were the excellent portraits by another 14 entrants. And the LPA would also like to highlight the participation of another 14 finalists.

• WHERE TO SEE LET’S FACE IT 6

Portraits by the winners and commended photographers were on display at the Assembly Rooms exhibition on 31st March. At the same event, attendees were also treated to the complete series submitted by the winners and the commended contestants via a slide show on a large screen.

The exhibition at the Assembly Rooms continues until 29th May.

An online gallery of the winners, the commended and the finalists’ portraits, plus exclusive interviews with the Gold, Silver and Bronze victors, can be accessed on the LPA website. Click here.

• YOUR OWN PERSONAL COPY OF THE EXHIBITION

A premium-quality catalogue featuring the complete entries submitted by the winners, the commended entrants and the finalists was kindly sponsored by Blurb, the international online book publisher. Each exhibiting photographer and the award’s judges will receive a free copy.

You can also purchase your own, for the non-profit price of £29.95 each, directly from Blurb’s website.

• LPA FOUNDER KEVIN O’CONNOR COMMENTS

“The LPA's raison d’être is to assist photographers to market themselves by gaining awareness in a very crowded marketplace. And running regular competitions is a great way of doing this,” says Kevin O’Connor, the LPA’s founder and the exhibition’s curator.

“The competitions give us the opportunity to show off the winners and their works through our numerous outlets: online galleries, published interviews, exhibition displays, and published catalogues.

“We then network this information through our social-networking platforms (including Facebook and Twitter) so that most of the planet will get to know our photographers’ output; it doesn’t get much cooler than this.”

• GUESTS AT THE LPA AWARDS

The full-house exhibition on 31 March was attended by a host of LPA members and supporters, including established photographers, new talent, photographers’ agents, image buyers from the BBC, The Times newspaper and stock-photography giant Corbis, and journalists.

Moreover, an interactive element was added as a TV-production crew followed LPA member Richard Bradbury, who was being filmed for a programme about his very special book project to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital called The Children Of London 2010.

• HOP HOUSE’S IN-DEMAND DESIGN

The LPA would like to thank Laura Goode and Hop House Design + Advertising for the catalogue’s exceptional design.

It is so exceptional, the only two proof copies brought to the Assembly Rooms exhibition rather inconveniently disappeared.

We would like to emphasise to anyone who has seen them that they were there for display-only purposes.

• LET’S FACE IT 7

Call for entry for the Let’s Face It 7 exhibition and 2011 awards kicks off in September. More details to follow shortly.

Advertising Photographer wins Art Prize

The West Midlands Bi Annual Art Prize has been won by midlands based advertising photographer, Lorentz Gullachsen.

Gullachsen say’s "I was aware that I had two images selected for the exhibition and that was great, but to have won was a great shock. There was some wonderful paintings, fine art illustrations and sculpture in the show. I was honoured just to be selected’"

The image is of an Attendee at the Wolstock festival and part of a personal project, ‘In the American West Midlands’ which was shot in a portable studio over a weekend in Wolverhampton.

Lorentz say's "the last year has been tough for all in advertising and so I have taken the opportunity to do a part time MA at Birmingham City University. It is having a positive effect on my work and I feel I am going to be better equipped for the upturn".

West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, March 6th – May 2nd 2010.

View Lorentz's LPA folio here.

Andrew Lever Wins Professional Photographer Award

LPA member Andrew Lever who is a Travel and Documentary photographer has just won a Commended Award in `The Professional Photographer Of The Year Award 2009`. This Annual photo competition received over 7,500 entries worldwide.The awards ceremony took place at the `Sustain` Gallery London on the 28th January.

Andrew`s prize winning image was of a lone naturist walking across an empty beach in the Canary Islands.Andrew says " I`m delighted with the award as it was a spontaneous shot I took while on holiday .He added " This is the perfect example to always carry your camera with you as you will just never know what you will come across, even on a deserted beach ! "

Did Daniel Moncur-Sime really pull off a fashion shoot in the middle of a Bhangra music Video?!

Short answer – Yes! As always trying to do something different!

The quick details
Client: Virk Films International, when: Friday 5th March, where: Green screen studio, Birmingham University,

Commissioned by Jazz Virk (Virk Films, jazzvirk@gmail.com), international award winning music video and film director and producer who has previously produced ground breaking videos for celebrity stars Nelly Furtado, Jazzy B, Basement Jaxx is working with established music producer Simon Nandhra, to produce the video for his latest single release ‘Wherever you go, Bhangra will be there’.

Jazz was very happy to finally work with Daniel – having already kept Daniel’s creative fashion photography on his Iphone as reference and influences. Interestingly, part of the commission was to recreate one of the looks that Daniel’s creative team had devised and produced on one of his previous fashion shoots!

Setting up a mini studio within the green screen studio, Daniel worked with makeup artist and close friend Arpita Karania (info@Arpita.co.uk) , turning the multitude of professional dancers and models into icons of beauty! Anyone who was privy to the shooting was immersed in a fairground of creative excitement, with lights flashing off, cast and crew buzzing, and everyone could feel the heated excitement of the day!

The music video tells the story of the singer journeying from the stars to Earth searching for his dream soul mate. On the journey he discovers all most desirable sexy androids and beautiful women. At the end he realises the female hologram companion on his star ship is really the one, bringing her to real existence.

The photos produced are being used as embedded windowed stills in the video and in the promotional literature. The release of the video is set to be around April 2010.

It was all very exciting stuff, new friends were made and even the international models Kimberley Thomson (Kimberley-thomson@hotmail.com), Tia Magno (tiamagno@gmail.com), Colleen Deary (colleendeary14@hotmail.com) asking how soon can we work together again, even for just for the photos – a real rare treat!

Just the sort of positive feedback we all need!

To contact Daniel for your new photography project please call 07890 530130, or email dan@danielmoncursime.com , to view his exciting portfolio visit www.danielmoncursime.com or at the LPA website http://www.lpa-folios.com/Daniel_Moncur-Sime.

Phillip Lee Harvey's forthcoming London exhibition

Phillip Lee Harvey's forthcoming exhibition at the AOP Gallery 20th April - 1st May 2010

Philip Lee Harvey has travelled the globe in search of his subjects, finding them everywhere from the dark drama of a Haitian voodoo ceremony to the stark brightness of Bolivian salt flats. Now, out of an archive of thousands of pictures from across the globe, forty of his remarkable images are to be shown to the public at a leading London gallery.
Lee Harvey has spent the past 18 years travelling the world taking photographs for magazines and for advertising agencies. Last year alone he worked in over 20 countries, as diverse as Yemen, China and Hawaii. He draws his inspiration from the great travel photographers such as George Rodger, of Magnum fame, but also from Victorian explorer-painters such as David Roberts and John Frederick Lewis.

Editorial: A frequent contributor to BBC Lonely Planet magazine, he has also published his work in National Geographic Traveller, The Independent, the Saturday Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveler, Tatler, Vanity Fair and Geo magazine.

‘As a writer interested in far-flung places, I have been fortunate in having made some trips with Philip. It has been a revelation to see someone thinking about light, working with light, and in the end capturing light in the way that he does.’ Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland.

Commercial: Lee Harvey’s advertising clients have included Shell, UPS, T-Mobile, Ford, Bentley, Ericsson Communications, the Irish , British and Egyptian Tourist Boards, Sony, British Airways, Volkswagen, UBS Banks, Intercontinental Hotels, ITV, Mastercard, Kodak and BP.


Awards: Lee Harvey has won numerous awards including ones given by the London Photographic Association (LPA), Association of Photographers, Creative Circle, Royal Photographic Society, John Kobal, Travel Photographer of the Year, the International Colour Awards and Campaign magazine.

Biography: Born in Canterbury, England in 1969, Lee Harvey completed a Graphic Design degree at the Norwich School of Art and Design, before going on to assist some of the UK’s leading advertising photographers. Eager to develop his photographic career, he soon started taking on editorial and advertising commissions of his own. Since then, he has worked in over 100 countries, ranging from Antarctica to the Sahara. His journeys have taken him to some of the world’s most inhospitable and demanding destinations.

For more information see www.philipleeharvey.com

Philip Lee Harvey is available for interview, and will make available some of his images for use alongside reviews of this exhibition. For further information, please contact jon@philipleeharvey.com
Philip is represented in London and New York by: Peter Bailey Company, www.peterbailey.co.uk,

Telephone: 020 7935 2626 email peter@peterbailey.com

London Photographic Association Awards For Portraiture

London Photographic Association Awards for Portaiture
Let's Face It 6

Here are the shortlisted photographers chosen by our judges.

Donna Richmond - The Times
David Edmunds - Creative director - Curator
Bill Procter - Creative director

Nina Contini Melis - Nino Gehrig - Zak Waters - Angus Thomas - Annett Reimer - Luis Sánchez Martín Constantino Schillebeeckx - Richard Bradbury - Charles McKean - Giles Farrington - Rick Medlock Lisa Layne Griffiths - Nigel Byde - Peter adams - Eric White - Abel Ruiz de León Trespando - Petr Titarenko Dougie Wallace - Richard James Taylor - Bronwyn Kidd - Vinzenz Schwab - Martin Piccione - Philip Bigg - Catlin Harrison - Andrea Simoncini - Will Wilkinson - Jayne Dennis - Robert Zielinski Kevin Nicholson - Christopher Moore - Jeroen Huisman - James Edmonds - Sukey Parnell - Sam Peach - Nigel Hillier Teri Havens - David Graham

The final placings will be published on the website on the 31st March - the day of the private view and book launch.

London Photographic Association Awards
Exhibition of Portraiture
at
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: 31st March 2010
Exhibition runs until 29th May 2010
Mon - Friday 10:00am to 5:00pm

Contact 020 8392 8557

Photography by Luis Sánchez Martín

2009 Gold winner

Sebastian Rich With The US Marines In Helmand Province

Sebastian Rich has been a photographer / cameraman in hard news, documentary and current affairs for over thirty years, he joined the LPA a couple of months ago. I received an email from him last week saying that he is now back in Kabul having been embedded with the US Marines in Helmand province.
Here is a videopiece he shot for NBC News and I have to ask, would you fancy doing that?

You can view Sebastion's various featured galleries + buy his new book 'Lost For Words' … more

One Day Video Cameras And Lighting Workshop

Moving Image Course

Direct have come up with the ideal one day training course to plug the skills gap. This Moving Image Course gives you the opportunity to learn creative techniques for handling the latest cameras and lighting for video.

Course fee is £195.00 + VAT
LPA members discounted to £150.00 +VAT Please contact me (Kevin) and I will arrange the discount for you.

With the web gaining ever more strength and cameras such as the Canon 5D ll taking off, we have noticed an increasing demand from photographers wishing to expand their knowledge when creating moving images on shoots. Perhaps it’s a “behind the scenes” segment from a fashion shoot to go up on a clients website, or a short cut from a portrait sitting, but whatever the situation, video skills are becoming essential for the working photographer.
The course will be run by an award winning lighting cameraman Jonathan Harrison who is highly experienced in demonstrating lighting and shooting both technically and creatively. It will be an intensive ‘hands-on’ one day course in our SE1 studio and will include tungsten, HMI fresnel, Par, Kino Flo and LED lighting equipment as well as all the latest in video DSLR camera technology from Canon.

Places are limited, for further information and how to book your place, click here.

The Convergence Of Stills And Moving Image

The convergence of stills and moving image is becoming a major talking point for professional photographers.
Skillset are keen to find out more about the skills needed to meet this demand and have put together a few questions aimed at either professional photographers or regular commissioners of photography.

They would like to ask you to give them your views by completing a short online consultation. It will take less than 2 minutes to complete and the answers will help inform the development of future short courses. It also includes an invitation for further participation through a Focus Group.

Skillset is the industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative media industries maintain their world class position. Find out more about how we do this here…more

Here is the link direct to the questions: http://www.skillset.org/photo/article_7593_1.asp

This consultation is the beginning of an ongoing research programme that Skillset will be carrying out through 2010.

Thank you very much for your help and support.

LPA Publicity shoot for NPA at Pinewood Studios

The LPA is sponsoring the New Producers Alliance Feature Trailer Competition. This involves shooting the publicity shots around the filming of the trailers and later, showcasing the trailers on the new LPA movingPictures website.

We need a photographer or photographers to shoot publicity stills around the making of three feature movie trailers. Payment for this is in kind only.

Two of the shoots will probably be at Pinewood studios and the third in Portsmouth as the movie is set in a submarine.

The proposed dates are as follows,
Films The Container & Nitrate will be shot at Pinewood on 20th & 21st March & 27th & 28th March respectively.
Submarine shoot location for Bleak Sea not confirmed yet but probably Portsmouth on 20th & 21st March.

The NPA Feature Trailer Competition is for their members who submit feature film ideas. The chosen three have won the chance to make a 1.5 minute trailer of their project and all three will be shown in an industry showcase to a specially invited audience at Cannes Film Festival in May.

We will be on the set for one day only for each film, dates to be confirmed.
The pictures will be used online, in the industry magazine produced for Cannes and possibly a poster for the trailer.

We think this is an exciting project to get involved in and we will work with the photographers to give them the maximum PR opportunities that we can. We are looking for photographers who have had experience of working on set or can demonstrate that they are creative, can work with people and think on their feet.

We will give each photographer involved a years membership of the LPA +
▪ Member's bio, a selected image and a link to your LPA folio
posted on the LPA Blog.
▪ Member's biog and link to your LPA portfolio posted on LinkedIn
LPA discussion page.
▪ One week of Twitter updates with links to your LPA folio.
▪ One week of Facebook posts with images from portfolio and a
link to your LPA portfolio page

David and/or I will be on the shoots and will supply transport or pay reasonable travel expenses.

David Edmunds is running this project so please reply to this with links to your folio and details of relevant biog information.

LPA Welcomes New Member Daniel Moncur-Sime

LPA would like to welcome Daniel Moncur-Sime as its newest member! A highly creative and exciting photographer who specialises in creating dynamic fashion and beauty photography is currently working on a variety of personal and client projects.

The latest exciting fashion shoot was working with international beauty, glamour and pinup model Sabrina Lerna. She came to him requesting help with developing her portfolio and posing techniques to become more of a ‘main street’ fashion model. Travelling a couple of hundred miles for his skills and expertise, it was fitted in just before her latest trip back to the USA.

Technically a real challenge, Daniel spent a lot of time and energy directing the new posing techniques and form, because for Sabrina it was something that didn’t quite come naturally at first. But at the end of the day’s shoot there were several dynamic and exciting new photography artworks to choose from.

And the images can be seen on Daniel’s gallery at the LPA website http://www.lpa-folios.com/Daniel_Moncur-Sime and on his website www.danielmoncursime.com

To know more about how Daniel works with his models and brings out the best, get in contact through his website www.danielmoncursime.com or email dan@danielmoncursime.com.
Don’t forget he is available to model agencies, directly to models and either in studio or location across the country.

LPA Referral Incentives Program for new membership

We are actively looking for new members to join the London Photographic
Association and we would like to introduce our,
LPA Referral Incentives Program:

Existing members who refer new LPA paid members will receive
personal LPA portfolio exposure through social network sites.

Here's how:
Member's bio, a selected image and a link to your LPA folio
posted on the LPA Blog.

Member's biog and link to your LPA portfolio posted on LinkedIn
LPA discussion page.

One week of Twitter updates with links to your LPA folio.

One week of Facebook posts with images from portfolio and a
link to your LPA portfolio page

New members who refer new LPA paid members will receive the same
as existing referral members plus the first month membership for FREE.

LPA Referral Incentives Program not only helps LPA and its
membership to grow but it encourages photographers to update their
portfolios and bio on a regular basis with fresh and new material.

Photographers need exposure. Photographers need LPA.

Photography by Ross Andersson

LPA Members Meeting

London Photographic Association members' meeting – 3rd February 2010



LPA Social Media developments
Kevin O'Connor opened the meeting by explaining the rationale behind working with Ginger Liu Media to raise awareness of the LPA and its members. The importance of the social networking side of the LPA site was discussed (Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin). Kevin explained that members need to link to the LPA twitter account, Facebook group and Linkedin group and interact with them: this will help themselves and the LPA to grow. Employing Ginger to manage the LPA's networking saves members time and lets them enjoy the benefits of networking through a large group, rather than having to go through the learning curve alone. Kevin promised to keep banging on about the worth/importance of social media…oh dear!

Gallery 1839
Kevin pointed out that very little work has been done on the gallery since an initial three month burst around the opening exhibition (which showed the work of Lea Gold Holterman).

David Edmunds has now taken over the curatorial duties of 1839 and all submissions for consideration should be addressed to him. David will be exploring other avenues for print sales rather than relying solely on consumer/collectors sales. The gallery is there for the members' benefit and we want them to use it. However, it was also suggested that members putting work forward for consideration should think carefully about the type of work they want included. Questions they should ask themselves include: is it pictorial or collectors' work? Why would someone want to buy it? It was agreed that all work must be considered, but the gallery must not look like a picture library: it is a gallery selling fine art contemporary photography. 


Further discussion and exhibitions: London and the 2012 Olympics
Peter Mackertich felt that "Putting 'London' into the London Photographic Association" was an important issue. This led on to members discussing the importance of exhibitions. It was suggested that an annual LPA Exhibition with good PR around it would be of benefit.
Peter also pointed out that it is now just two years before the 2012 Olympics in London and this would be a good opportunity for the LPA to hold a major exhibition with London as its theme.

Points raised with this in mind included:
• A prestigious place for the exhibition is needed
• It should be lens based, to include film and make it contemporary
• Contact Boris Johnson re location
• Needs good PR throughout
• Fundraising for exhibition
• Necessary to be themed, need outside curator
• Limited number of photographs each photographer can submit
• Heart of the exhibition should be in a gallery, although public places were also discussed
• Is it worth contacting Transport for London?
• Should it be open to London photographers only? Decided it would not be fair to do that - so open to all members!
• Terence Hudson suggested two sides to the exhibition: "London through Londoners' eyes" and "London through foreigners eyes"?
• Another suggestion was a theme "environment" or "green issues" 

Clearly there is much to consider here and ideas are very welcome.
The date of the next meeting will be published shortly.

Kevin
LPA

Photography by: Enda Cavanagh

Inaugural Meeting Of The LPA Members Group

Notes From
London Photographic Association members'
meeting – 3rd February 2010 


LPA Social Media developments
Kevin O'Connor opened the meeting by explaining the rationale behind working with Ginger Lui Media to raise awareness of the LPA and its members. The importance of the social networking side of the LPA site was discussed (Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin). Kevin explained that members need to link to the LPA twitter account, Facebook group and Linkedin group and interact with them: this will help themselves and the LPA to grow. Employing Ginger to manage the LPA's networking saves members time and lets them enjoy the benefits of networking through a large group, rather than having to go through the learning curve alone. Kevin promised to keep banging on about the worth/importance of social media…oh dear!

Gallery 1839
Kevin pointed out that very little work has been done on the gallery since an initial three month burst around the opening exhibition (which showed the work of Lea Gold Holterman).

David Edmunds has now taken over the curatorial duties of 1839 and all submissions for consideration should be addressed to him. David will be exploring other avenues for print sales rather than relying solely on consumer/collectors sales. The gallery is there for the members' benefit and we want them to use it. However, it was also suggested that members putting work forward for consideration should think carefully about the type of work they want included. Questions they should ask themselves include: is it pictorial or collectors' work? Why would someone want to buy it? It was agreed that all work must be considered, but the gallery must not look like a picture library: it is a gallery selling fine art contemporary photography. 


Further discussion and exhibitions: London and the 2012 Olympics
Peter Mackertich felt that "Putting 'London' into the London Photographic Association" was an important issue. This led on to members discussing the importance of exhibitions. It was suggested that an annual LPA Exhibition with good PR around it would be of benefit.
Peter also pointed out that it is now just two years before the 2012 Olympics in London and this would be a good opportunity for the LPA to hold a major exhibition with London as its theme.

Points raised with this in mind included:
• A prestigious place for the exhibition is needed
• It should be lens based, to include film and make it contemporary
• Contact Boris Johnson re location
• Needs good PR throughout
• Fundraising for exhibition
• Necessary to be themed, need outside curator
• Limited number of photographs each photographer can submit
• Heart of the exhibition should be in a gallery, although public places were also discussed
• Is it worth contacting Transport for London?
• Should it be open to London photographers only? Decided it would not be fair to do that - so open to all members!
• Terence Hudson suggested two sides to the exhibition: "London through Londoners' eyes" and "London through foreigners eyes"?
• Another suggestion was a theme "environment" or "green issues" 

Clearly there is much to consider here and ideas are very welcome.
The date of the next meeting will be published shortly.

Kevin O'Connor
LPA

Will Wilkinsonʼs ‘Sex, Drugs, Arturo’ The Exhibition

‘Sex, Drugs, Arturo’

Photographer, Will Wilkinsonʼs latest exhibition entitled Sex, Drugs, Arturo captures the eccentric life of an English Artist working high in the Tramuntana mountains of Mallorca, far away from his background of North London.

Wilkinsonʼs bold work is the result of a 2 year collaboration with a man who is not only a great artist in his own right, but an open and charismatic person, who is happy to share his life and work in detail.

The exhibition paints a warm and vivid portrait using striking photography, video installation, poetry and live storytelling.

ʻSex, Drugs, Arturoʼ

The Apartment 9 Palace Court London W2 4LP
Exhibition 26th February - 31st March

info@theapartment.uk.com
tel. Patrick Brillet 07984 420 743 or Isabelle May 07990 508 181

Will Wilkinsonʼs LPA Portfolio

Linda Lieberman - Upcoming Exhibitions

Linda Lieberman will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair Tour & Taxis, Brussels from the 4th – 8th February 2010 with Alicia David Contemporary Art London

Linda Lieberman: OCEAN
Linda will have a Solo Show with The Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography Gallery and Agency in Sussex.
46 Norman Road / St Leonards On Sea / TN38 OEJ / 01424 434828

Linda is a Photographer /Sculptor living and working in London. Born in Scotland her work draws its inspiration from the changing ecology and environment around her. Throughout her life, Linda has consistently worked at evolving her direction and style.

At present Linda is working with her black and white photographic images, presenting them raw to convey a strong message, that ecologically man cannot ignore what feeds him socially, politically, economically and spiritually.

Linda Lieberman: LPA Portfolio

Elene Usdin Femmes D’Interieur Photographs and Illustrations

Femmes D’Interieur
Elene Usdin
Photographs and Illustrations
February 18 – March 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, from 6-8PM

The Farmani Gallery presents the New York debut of Femmes D’Interieur, the latest series from Paris based artist Elene Usdin, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 6-8PM.

In this series, Usdin combines both her talents of photography and illustration and creates stunning imagery that also provides social commentary regarding the place of women as the decorations within their own domesticated situations.

Usdin, a member of the creative collective Hartland Villa, which includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan Vivies, was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the “fair-etale” series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress.” Her editorial and fashion work can also be seen in Eyemazing, Twill, and The World Magazine.

This latest series “Femmes D’Interieur,” which as already exhibited at the Gallery of Graphic Arts in Paris, Usdin reflects upon the representation of women as a decorative element, morphing objects like common household items, furniture, and even the countryside with that of women painted in the style of portraits from the Classical Era. This offbeat reinterpretation of “woman-as-object” is at one time unsettling and yet Usdin has the ability to convey this strong subject matter with wit and charm in her stunning artworks. It is has been said of Usdin’s work, “it is always about women – the women of fairytales, of mythology, and of fantasy,” and she provides that same ideology in this series.

Each artwork is a unique original, hand painted C-print mounted on aluminum. For the exhibition the gallery will show a mix of originals and reproductions available in two sizes. For more information please visit www.farmanigallery.com or email us at info@farmanigallery.com. We can also be reached via phone at 718-578-4478.

The Farmani Gallery is located at 111 Front St., Ste. 212, Brooklyn, NY in the DUMBO neighborhood between Washington and Adams St. By subway take A or C to High St., F to York St. or 2 and 3 to Clark St. Station. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sat.: 1 – 6PM. Information: www.farmanigallery.com or info@farmanigallery.com or ph# 718-578-4

Elene Usdin's LPA Portfolio

Suzanne Rochette At Soho Gallery New York

Suzanne Rochette has, for the second year in a row had one of her images selected to be part of the Soho Photo Gallery Krappy Kamera exhibition. The image was made with a Polaroid Pinhole toy camera, then followed by emulsion lift on Vellum .

The Krappy Kamera concept was born in 1992 at the Soho Photo Gallery® during a regular monthly opening reception when a few members admitted they preferred using their junky cameras to their high-end ones.

The opening reception is on March 2nd, and the show will run until April 3rd. There will be 50 images on display, chosen from over 1000 entries. Informations can be found at www.sohophoto.com

Suzanne Rochette: LPA Portfolio

Photographers Social Networking The LPA Way

Social networking the LPA way: member benefits

We work hard to communicate news about the LPA and our members far and wide. Benefits of being part of the LPA website include social media marketing through social networking sites, business networking sites, social bookmarking sites, video sharing sites, photo sharing sites, a forum and blog. These expose you - our members - to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. 


Membership of the LPA includes the opportunity to be part of extensive and online publicity. This can tie in with individual members' exhibitions, gallery openings, competition wins and special events. We can help generate online PR with the press by maintaining relationships with multi-media journalists, bloggers and publications.

Did you know that the LPA has:
- a Facebook page
- a Twitter feed
- a LinkedIn page
- a blog

Take a look at them, link to them and interact with them. Help us grow and you'll help yourself grow!

Photography by Karon Kapoor

London Photographers Flat For Rent

LPA member Astrid Schulz is off photographing in Kolkata for 4 weeks and would like to rent her flat out while she is away.

When: between 07 March 2010 and April 2010
What: cosy one bedroom flat
Where: Central London, near Warren Street Tube
How much: £160 per week inc. bills (telephone not included)
Will also charge a refundable deposit of £500

Everybody who is interested and wants more info, please send an e-mail (info@astridschulz.com) or call UK no: 07947 155 611 or 0044 20 7388 2162

LPA Photographers Socialial Networking For Members

Exclusive: the LPA is the first online photography and film association with social media marketing and online PR

The London Photographic Association is proud to announce that it has become the first online photography and film membership organisation to offer social media marketing and PR to its members. We're working with Ginger Media and Entertainment to provide members with the best possible opportunities in social media marketing and online PR - at no extra cost.

Ginger Media and Entertainment represents the new school of public relations and PR and their expertise can really help you as individual members. The company is renowned as one of the leading social media marketing and digital PR companies in the USA and UK. It combines online PR, social media marketing and SEO with traditional methods of publicity and event organising.

Ginger Media and Entertainment’s owner, Ginger Liu, has one of the largest networks in the entertainment, media and art industries and has been interviewed on US radio thanks to her definitive role in social media marketing. Her combined experiences as a London-educated photographer, film and media professional and Hollywood-based social media marketing director make her a key influence in the PR world.

Our partnership with Ginger is unique for a photography and film membership association and is another demonstration of our forward-thinking dedication to raising the profiles of our members. Please help us make a success of this venture by keeping your online profiles full and updated, letting us know what you're up to (no story is too small - after all, Twitter communicates in just 140 characters!) and linking to the LPA whenever you can.

Follow us on Facebook - Twitter - Linkedin

Photography by: Estelle Dougier

Inaugural Meeting Of The LPA Members Group

Putting London into the London Photographic Association (LPA)

We spoke with a lot of LPA members at Vision '09 and the DPI events last year to get their feedback about the future of the London Photographic Association. One overriding request was to refocus our attention on London photographers (whilst continuing to support and promote our international members). With that in mind, we'd like to arrange regular meetings in London to brainstorm and action the future of the LPA.

Members' meetings in London
We propose using our first meeting on Wednesday 3rd February to bring our ideas together. Let's air our hopes and fears and see if we can agree on the future of the LPA and the purpose of future meetings. This is your chance to shape the Association and play an active part in steering the industry. Through these get-togethers, we should be able to work out a support structure that covers both commercial and fine art photographers.

Some ideas for consideration:
- getting speakers from various parts of the industry to come in and talk to us about hot topics
- arranging technical workshops
- securing good discounts for external workshops

Get involved
I would like to get some membership help: perhaps we should look to form a committee to help drive things forward? For our meetings to work well and be genuinely useful, we will need members to get involved. You are the Association, after all.

Put the date in your diary
We have booked the upstairs room (with bar) at the Dog & Duck pub 18 Bateman Street Soho W1D 3AJ on the evening of Wednesday 3rd February from 7.00pm onwards. This will be the inaugural meeting of the LPA members group. Will you be there?

RSVP
Please email Kevin if you can make it.

Photography by: Faisal Almalki

Photographers Copyright Petition - Please Sign!!!!!

Please take the time to read this and sign the petition.

We call on the Government to abandon plans, announced on 29 October 2009, to allow free and unhindered reproduction of photographs without payment or credit on non-commercial websites.

This is completely at odds with the Government's stance on file sharing of other forms of intellectual property (films and music) and raises the prospect of crippling thousands of small businesses while protecting large corporate interests.

The proposal uses phrases like "It must be seen to benefit all parties, not some at the expense of others" and yet the Government's proposal does exactly that. It takes the work of photographers who have invested time and money in creating work, and gives it to people who have no relationship with that work, for free.

Photographic businesses are already under severe strain and the proliferation of digital cameras gives the impression that creating professional quality imagery is easy. This will further devalue the work of professional photographers and destroy the photographic industry.

SIGN HERE......

Photography by: Luis Sanchez Martin - Fine art prints sold at Gallery 1839

Travel Photographer Philip Lee Harvey in Haiti

“Travel photography isn’t always about tourism and filling hotel rooms. It’s also about informing people”, says Philip Lee Harvey. He travelled to Haiti with his assistant on a commission for a travel magazine and feels that it is important to show the character of this fascinating and misunderstood country. “Haiti is largely forgotten by the rest of the world,” he explains. ”Economically and strategically, it is not important to anyone else. However, it has a powerful colonial history which has left a legacy of beautiful hotels which could provide the infrastructure for a new wave of sustainable tourism. At present, tourists tend to visit Haiti as a stop-off on Caribbean cruises. They drop anchor and visit an area of beach which, unseen to them, is fenced off from the rest of the island. Elected islanders come to greet them and offer a ‘traditional Haitian’ welcome but the tourists don’t see the fence and certainly don’t see the island – and islanders – which are beyond. They leave with no clue as to Haiti’s true identity or issues.”

More of - Philips work, photographs of Haiti, additional Haiti text.

Sukey Parnell Speaks at the Welcome Collection

Aging Matters

Sukey Parnell has been invited speak at the Wellcome Collection on 11th February on the representation of ageing. The event is at 7:00-8:30pm.

What would have seemed very old 100 years ago is clearly not regarded the same way today. How have our perceptions of older people changed and how do we compare with other cultures and societies? We will look at visual representations of older people in the arts and media and also discuss whether our perceptions of older men and women vary.

Speakers

Stephen Burke, Chief Executive, Counsel and Care
Chris Phillipson, Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, University of Keele
Sukey Parnell, photographer

This event is free.
Booking will open on Thursday 21 January 2010 at 14.00.

Image:

by Sukey Parnell b. 1961

Sukey Parnell at the National Portrait Gallery London

LPA member Suki Parnell's picture of Bill Bailey (above) is the Photograph of the Month at the National Portrait Gallery and will be on view from 4th January in the People of Today section on the ground floor.

Bill Bailey b. 1964
by Sukey Parnell b. 1961
C-type print, 24 April 2008
Photographed at the sitter’s home, Hammersmith, London, with Jacob (the cockatoo) and Becks (the chameleon).
Given by the photographer, 2009
NPG x133115

Comedian, musician, actor. Bill Bailey’s solo comedy career started in 1995, with Cosmic Jam which earned him a Perrier award nomination at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has toured internationally with Bewilderness (2001) and Part Troll (2003). Bailey is best known for his TV work in the series Black Books (2000–2004) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In December 2009 Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra toured nationwide including a performance at The O2 arena, London.

Sukey Parnell graduated with an MA in Photography from Thames Valley University in 2007. Since then, her editorial commissions have included work for the Independent on Sunday, Sunday Magazine and Radio Times. Parnell was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize.