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.

Photojournalist Sebastian Rich Joins LPA

Sebastian Rich has been a photographer / cameraman in hard news, documentary and current affairs for over thirty years.

He joined Independent Television News (UK) in 1980 and developed a gift for being in the right place at the right time on some of the world’s biggest breaking news stories; he gained a reputation not just as an uncompromising cameraman in the theatre of war but also as an insightful and highly talented photographer.

Jon Snow the highly regarded British television journalist, describes Sebastian in the forward of his first book 'People I Have Shot' as (“Probably the finest news cameraman and photographer of his time… his camera work is amongst the most sensitive I have ever witnessed” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News) ... more

Photographer Clayton Bastiani Takes Book Industry By Storm

Since focusing on photographs for the book industry, Clayton Bastiani has seen a tremendous interest from publishing houses worldwide wishing to use his photographs as book jacket illustrations... more

Photographer Odette England Represented by Klompching Gallery

Representation:Odette is thrilled to announce that she is now represented in the US (east coast) by KLOMPCHING GALLERY in New York. KLOMPCHING GALLERY is described as ‘dynamic’ and ‘one of the galleries to watch in NYC'. Its exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as The New Yorker, Hotshoe, New York Magazine, ArtReview, New York Times, The British Journal of Photography, The Architect’s Newspaper and Modern Painters..... more

Photographer Nigel Hillier wins Landscape Awards

Nigel Hillier won the `Landscape On Your Doorstep` category in the 2009 Landscape photographer of the year competition. He had 2 prints commended both of which will be in the awards book. One print will be in the exhibition to be held in London`s National Theatre in December.... more

Marta Kockanek Exhibits At The Mall Galleries London

Sue Ryder Care

Art Liberating Lives 2009 Exhibition at The Mall Gallery

Marta has had two images chosen to be included in a group exhibition, Art Liberating Lives at the Mall Galleries from the 16-20 December 2009.

Marta is a second year Photography student at Coventry University and is thrilled to be included in an exhibition showing at such a prestigious Gallery.

Art Liberating Lives celebrates art as a form of therapy and sees supporting artists submit to be part of an annual exhibition at London's prestigious Mall Galleries... more

Astrid Schulz Photography invites you on .......

Saturday, 12 December, 3-4pm!

I'm organising a candlelight vigil at my exhibition at Viewfinder Photography Gallery as part of a huge international day of action on climate change. We need a bunch of people to make it work. It’s going to be fun, short and super easy - will you come?

Events like this are happening simultaneously in every corner of the world just as our leaders gather in Copenhagen for the most important climate negotiations of our time. The message is: The World Wants A Real Deal - a treaty strong enough to tackle climate change and the destruction of the planet.

Come and join me! Bring a candle and something to share (cookies, cake etc.), I will serve tea.
This is also a great opportunity to see my 'Car Park: under cover' exhibition, if you have not been already...


Check out the event and RSVP here

If you can't make it to mine, check out this map showing events across the world

Tate Appoints First Photography Curator

Tate has appointed Simon Baker as the organisation’s first Curator of Photography and International Art. In this newly created role, Simon is working on the acquisition and research of works for the Tate Collection as well as contributing to the photography exhibition programme at Tate Britain and Tate Modern.

Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) Tate Modern, said:
“Over the last few years photography has become increasingly central to Tate's activity whether in relation to temporary exhibitions or to the development of the permanent collection. Simon’s appointment allows us to continue to develop the ways in which we celebrate and explore the art of photography with the advantage of scholarly expertise enthusiasm and focus.”

Simon studied history of art at University College London, receiving his PhD in 2002. He was a Henry Moore Fellow at UCL, then Gould Fellow in History of Photography at Princeton University from 2003-4. Since 2004 until joining Tate, he was Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Nottingham, specialising in History of Photography and Surrealism as well as running the MA in post-war and contemporary art. He has published widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art, including recent essays on the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. In 2006 he co-curated the exhibition Undercover Surrealism (on Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS) with Dawn Ades and Fiona Bradley, and then in 2008, worked with the same team to co-curate the exhibition Close-up: proximity and defamiliarisation in art, film and photography, at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. He is currently chair of the editorial group of the Oxford Art Journal.

Simon Baker is co-curator of Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, a major photographic exhibition opening in May 2010 at Tate Modern organised in conjunction with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

For further press information please contact Bomi Odufunade, Press Officer, Tate Modern on 020 7887 4942 or email bomi.odufunade@tate.org.uk

"You're Practically A Man"

"You're Practically A Man"
Photography by Ginger Liu
part of
DRKRM Gallery
Last Picture Show ‘09
Year-End Group Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday November 14th 7-10pm
November 14th – December 30th

"You're Practically A Man" is a personal essay about identity. The scars are from Abdominal Myomectomy, Uterine Fibroid Embolization (unseen) and Partial Hysterectomy, and represent the efforts I went through to try and keep my womb. I lost that fight to a fibroid the size of a six-month pregnancy. The fibroid weighed down on my bladder and I was lucky to get one hour of unbroken sleep at a time. I couldn’t go out anywhere because I constantly needed the bathroom. And once a month, during my period, I would bleed non-stop for two days and lose so much blood that I was too weak to stand. Hysterectomy was the final option.

The title of the essay refers to a woman’s comment made to me after I told her about my operations and represents the consequential view from some people that women are not whole unless they have children. A male friend of mine also commented that my hysterectomy was no big deal because I am a gay woman and gay women don't have children."

Ginger Liu is a graduate of London’s University of Westminster with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Media Practice (Photography, Film, Multi-Media). Her work has been published in the UK and USA, and has appeared on MTV. She is a Hollywood based photographer, writer and publicist.

drkrm. gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to fine art and documentary photography, cutting edge and alternative photographic processes and the display and survey of popular cultural images.

drkrm. was founded by John Matkowsky who has a twenty-five year reputation as a fine art black and white printer in Los Angeles. Mentored by Tom Consilvio, the founder of Silver Lab, John learned the finesse of the fine artistic print while working on the images of Gary Winograd, William Claxton, Lou Stoumen. and many other renowned photographers.

Linda Lieberman - Exhibition and Book

Linda Lieberman's work is published in a new book 'Silver Footprint' by Robin Bell. Also included is work by Don McCullin, Lee Miller, Ernst Haas, Terence Donovan, Tom Stoddart, John Swannell, and more!!

As digital photography has become increasingly popular and dominant, the more traditional film-based black and white photography and the chemically produced photographic print have become uniquely repositioned in art, craft and culture. The art of the photographic printing is now recognised as a serious craft, a rare skill that is much admired and respected.

The book is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing and is supported by an exhibition .... more

Portraiture Photography Competition

Call for entry is now open for the LPA Portraiture photography contest.
This is the sixth year of Let's Face It and in that time we have been introduced to some very talented photographers.

The Portraiture Award - As always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.

Categories:
Single entry
Series of up to 6 Images. A series must have narrative / theme.

You may supply a caption of up to 100 words to support your entry.

View last years single and series winners.

Entry details here

Photography by Loui Sanches Martin, single image winner 2008

LPA Launch Video and Film Showcase Website

The London Photographic Association (LPA) are launching it's sister website LPA - movingPictures.com in December 2009.

LPA movingPictures will promote the work of its members to the international advertising and editorial community as well as a large international audience of film lovers.
Members will manage their own portfolios and profiles.

The development of movingPictures is in response to the growth of moving images on the web, both commercial and fine art. As many of our members are embracing video and film we felt it was time to offer a professional platform for film makers, videographers, directors,directors of photography,editors and producers.

The movingPictures website will have the same SOE functionality as the LPA website, this makes it a strong marketing tool. It will have plenty of space for members profiles and news items as well as their films.

Christmas present from Blurb

Our friends at Blurb have come up with a nice festive offer to make your books even more affordable this festive season: free shipping on up to five books!* So if you’ve already made a book and want more copies for that special Christmas gift this year, no problem, this offer isn’t just open to new customers – it’s for everyone! But you’ll have to be quick as the offer must end on November 24, 2009. It’s available on any size book too. Simply enter the code BLURBCHEER2 at the checkout to redeem this offer.

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Ts and cs: *Offer valid through 11/24/09 (11:59 p.m. PST). Offer extends to any Blurb user and covers shipping costs up to $7.99, £3.99, or €5.99 or AUD $12 for up to five books, made by you, shipped to one address. Offer is valid for transactions in USD, EU, GBP, or AUD only. This offer is good for one-time use and cannot be combined with any other offer.

LPA's Gallery 1839 represents Luis Sanchez Martin

LPA member Luis Sanchez Martin is now represented by Gallery 1839.

Based in Spain, travels are a source of inspiration especially in street and scenic photography where some cities like New York, Prague, Budapest or London are authentic creativity shelters for him. The recurrent travel to his childhood is also reflected in many of his pictures.... more

LPA Photo Contest Results

The LPA photography competitions have a habit of finding interesting people doing interesting things.
This is why we run them of course. You can now view the winners and read their interviews.

Photographs were submitted in response to a quote by Henry Bromel.

Love and Pain and Beauty
"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good.

Some bad".

'Henry Bromel', Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

Single and Series winners and commended galeries

Benedite Topuz: Paris, France
Series category, Gold - Interview

Natalie Tkachuk: Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
Series category, Silver - Interview

Rene Roalf Jensen: Viborg, Denmark
Series category, Bronze - Interview

Boris Austin: Beijing / London, United Kingdom
Single image, Gold - Interview

Guido Torres: Mexico City, Mexico
Single image, Silver - Interview

Richard Ansett: London, United Kingdom
Single image, Bronze - Interview

Photography by Benedite Topuz

Bonhams Photographic Department

Bonhams appoint Jocelyn Phillips as head of new photographic department.

Jocelyn Phillips has been appointed Head of Bonhams new Photographic Department to be based in London.

A Cambridge Classics graduate she also has an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies from University College London (Institute of Archeology). The thesis for her Masters degree was on 19th century photography and classical art, which was her introduction to the world of photographs.

Jocelyn joined Sotheby’s Photographic Department in 2004 and by 2006 was Acting Head of Department. In 2008 she was promoted to Deputy Director at Sotheby's. During her time there, in addition to the twice yearly various owner sales, she worked on the single owner collection of Dr Ehrenfeld (19th century photographs of India) in May 2005, and the prestigious final instalment of the Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes (part IV, held in Paris in November 2008).

This year she has been a nominator for the Prix Pictet (photographic prize for sustainability set up last year by Pictet Bank in conjunction with the Financial Times. And earlier this year she made a presentation on the auction market for photographs at Foam Museum in Amsterdam, as part of the Foam Editions Collecting Photography programme.

Besides her interest and expertise in Photography she has had a lifelong interest in contemporary and classical dance and has performed at Cambridge University, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at the Royal Opera House, London.

Jocelyn Phillips says, “The market for photographs at auction is constantly developing, showing strength across the board from 19th century to contemporary work. Photography’s universal appeal and central position in our visual culture continues to draw in new collectors as well as inspire veterans of the subject. I am delighted to be a part of this new venture for Bonhams and look forward to welcoming all to our first sales in 2010.”

Matthew Girling, Bonhams European and Middle East CEO comments: “We are delighted to have Jocelyn join us to head up this exciting new development, a stand alone Photographic Department, which will help Bonhams to service the huge and growing interest in collecting photography.”