Photo Forum Christmas special - Thursday 9th December

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm.


At November’s Photo-Forum Chris Steele-Perkins took us through the work in his 2009 book 'England, my England' shot over the last 40 years and Guy Smallman showed several stories from Afghanistan.

On Thursday 9 December were to have presentations from Lee Thompson and Horst A. Friedrichs but Lee has pulled out. We have some alternatives lined up in reserve but if anyone has a short piece they'd like to present now's your chance. Email Alex McNaughton - alex@alexmacnaughton.com.

Horst A. Friedrichs was born in Frankfurt in 1966. He began his career at the age of seventeen, working as a photo-assistant in a photography studio in Frankfurt. He studied at the Munich Academy of Photography and worked freelance for American, British and German publications including The New York Times, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Merian and Geo.

His documentary photography has taken him around the world and four of his ongoing projects have been made into books. The first “Troubadours of Allah” was published in 1999 and explored the musical culture of Sufis in Pakistan. In 2006, “Doña Maria and Her Dreams” followed the lives and stories of a desert community in Venezuela. Continuing to focus on communities and music, “Mali – A Magical Journey” was published in 2008 and was the result of an invitation to explore Mali by the celebrated Kora musician Toumani Diabaté. Horst moved to London in 1997 to begin another long-term project on the contemporary British Mod scene. This project resulted in “I’m One – 20th-Century Mods” published in 2009.

http://www.horstfriedrichs.com/news

Horst has shot and directed two short films, “Blood Red Sea”, in 2004 about the slaughter of Japanese dolphins and in 2006 “Dona Maria and her dreams”, a film to accompany that book. In 2008 he received a prestigious Gold Lead award for best documentary photography, for his article in Geo magazine No. 3 entitled, “A hundred years of solitude”.

Horst will present work from two of his books – “Mods” and “Rockers”.

This time we'll raffle even more prints than usual to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over. The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

Photo-Forum is run by photographers for photographers as a venue for working photographers across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London.

After the show we’ll go for a Christmas social drink and some food in the Rugby Tavern (not our usual pub), 19 Great James St, WC1N 3ES. All welcome. There’s a map at

http://bit.ly/hQ64Tl

Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU

Photo Forum
www.photo-forum.org
photoforumuk@gmail.com

Photo-Forum Thursday 8 July 2010

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm

At our June Photo-Forum Irina Kalashnikova showed us work from North Korea and Tal Cohen presented his news and current affairs photographs. We cooled off with the long awaited snow slideshow from last winter and had another group slideshow of photographs from the May elections. Thanks to Alex Mcnaughton for production.

On Thursday 8 July we will have Susannah Ireland and Steve Forrest showing their work.

Susannah graduated from the NCTJ photojournalism course in 2005 and spent a year learning the ropes with News Team International in Birmingham covering everything from page 3 to premiership football. Susannah won The Times Young Photographer of the Year in 2007 and moved to London on a six month contract. She now freelances in London working primarily for The Times and The Independent on news and features.

Susannah will show photographs from Afghanistan last August where she covered the elections for The Independent while embedded with the Welsh Guards. We'll also see her ongoing project on rowing and boat clubs in London as well as a look behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet commissioned by The Times but which never saw the light of day.

Steve Forrest originally trained in graphic design/advertising and started his career as an Art Director in one of London's most prestigious advertising agencies, before working his way down to a small crappy ad agency on the Edgware Road. Realising that this career path was going in the wrong direction, he quit, bought a camera and went traveling before enrolling on a press photography course at Stradbrooke College in Sheffield, aged 30.

Following a stint as a staff photographer at a local Oxford paper photographing sunflowers and face-painting he spent six months covering the first Intifada in The Gaza Strip, five years working for the world's maddest boss at Guzelian in Bradford before escaping to Africa to cover the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. After a year of that Steve came back to London and took over an agency called Insight-Visual. He now runs a small agency called Workers' Photos with his partner Amaya Roman and is also a member of Panos Pictures in London. For the past seven years he has been a regular freelancer for The New York Times and other international newspapers and magazines.

Steve Forrest will show some of his portrait work and photos from two projects: Paranoid Britain and The Westminster Village.

As always we'll raffle prints from the photographers to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there's any left over. The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to buy a print from one of today's leading photographers, please support it and perhaps win some great work for just a few pounds.
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Photo-Forum is run by photographers for photographers as a venue for working photographers from across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London.

Food, drink and animated conversation in the pub after. It's the Bloomsbury Tavern and there's a map at http://bit.ly/duHgyb

Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU

Photo-Forum Thursday 10 June

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm.

At the May Photo-Forum we had two great shows from Ant Upton and Sarah Lee.

On Thursday 10 June we will have Irina Kalashnikova and Tal Cohen
showing their work. We’re going to start the evening at 6:00 prompt
with our much delayed snowy weather slide show and that’ll be followed
by our British election 2010 slide show. If you have pictures for
either show then please send jpeg files to: photoforumuk@gmail.com as
soon as possible and by 9pm Tuesday 8th June at the latest.

Snow pictures need to be from this last winter and for the election
slide show we’d like anything connected to the election, not just the
mainstream events but local ones, meetings, leafleting, protests,
jokes and stunts - anything at all that has to do with the election
and the period immediately following up to the State Opening last
Tuesday.

Russian photographer Irina Kalashnikova will be showing work from her
two trips to North Korea in 2008 and 2009. Irina has been working as
photographer since graduating from the London College of Printing in
2006. Irina's website is www.irinakalashnikova.com
Recent exhibitions and awards:
The British Press Photographers Year 2009 – show at the National
Theatre, London;
The National Union of Journalists’ “Stand Up For Photojournalism 2009”;
‘The North Koreans’ slideshow presentation in Foreign Correspondents
Club, Beijing, China (August 2009); New York PhotoFestival by Trolley
(May 2009); FormatFestival, UK (March 2009), Bang and Olufsen show
rooms, Derby, UK (March 2009);Colour Photography Award (2007)
Book ‘The North Koreans’, Trolley Books, UK, June 2010.

Tal Cohen will be showing his work and talking about going from
photographer to photo editor. Tal has been working as a press
photographer in Israel and the West Bank since 1992. From 2001 until
2005 Tal was working for the French Press Agency (AFP), as their
photographer in Tel Aviv. He then relocated to London in 2008 and
after two years working as a freelance photographer in the UK he was
appointed by Israel’s oldest daily newspaper “Haaretz” to the role of
Chief Photo Editor. Tal's website is www.talcohen.net

As always we'll raffle prints from the photographers to help fund
Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so
please come along!) with donations to good causes when there’s any
left over. The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to buy a
print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and
perhaps win some great work for just a few pounds.
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Photo-Forum is run by photographers for photographers as a venue for
working photographers from across the spectrum to bring images, ideas,
photo stories and work in progress for supportive debate and
criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in
Central London.

Food, drink and animated conversation in the pub after. It’s the
Bloomsbury Tavern and there’s a map at
http://bit.ly/duHgyb

Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU

Photo Forum
www.photo-forum.org
photoforumuk@gmail.com

Apple Ipad launch:
Jacobs Pro-lounge - Thursday 3rd June 11-5pm

Join us at Jacobs Pro Lounge in New Oxford Street for a first look at Apple's iPad and find out how it could impact the way you interact with your photographs.

The gorgeous 9.7-inch iPad display shows off your photos in vivd colour with excellent brightness and contrast. With the built-in Photos app, you can see and touch your photos in intuitive new ways - tap, pinch and flick. Your photo albums appear as tidy little stacks you can pinch to preview, then tap a stack and the whole album opens up. From there you can scroll through thumbnails, taps to view full screen or flip through photos one at a time.

Additionally, the Apple App Store is teaming with photography-related applications and we'll show you the highlights to-date. Including apps for image manipulation, retouching, effects and colour correction.

Visit to Jacobs to get your hands on an iPad and you'll never look at your photos the same way again.

DSLR Video Day

Jacobs Pro-lounge - Thursday 3rd June 11-5pm

Canon will be here on the day with the 1D MK IV, 5D MK II and 7D to demonstrate the possibilities of HD video and its implications for multimedia.

Zacuto will be demonstrating their brackets and rigs for adapting stills cameras for better video performance.

The events held in the pro-lounge are invitation only events, and this acts as your invitation. You are welcome to bring suitable guests but these events are not open to the general public. Feel free to forward this email to other interested parties.

The demonstration day will be held on Thursday 3rd June in the Professional Lounge at our New Oxford Store - 74 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A

Photo-forum - Thursday 8th April

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm.

At the March Photo-Forum we had Eddie Keogh’s amazing sports
photographs and Mike Goldwater presented an amazing range of travel
and corporate imagery.

On Thursday 8 April we have a show of work from Alan Davidson and
James Vellacott.

Alan Davidson started straight from school as a messenger at Keystone
more than 40 years ago. Since 1977 he has worked mainly for the Daily
Mail as a contract freelance, specialising in showbiz and social but
with a news photographer’s view. Nowadays Alan shoots mainly news and
politics, just a different flavour of showbiz but starting at 7am
instead of finishing at 7 am. He will be showing us his early black
and white showbiz, social and royal photographs.

James Vellacott started out working in a camera shop in 1987, James
worked for The Daily Mirror from 1995 until last year. He will show us
a selection of his work and talk about making the move into video.

As always we'll have a raffle of prints from the photographers to help
fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show
with donations to good causes when there’s any left over. The
Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to buy a print from one of
today’s leading photographers, please support it and perhaps win some
great work at a giveaway price.
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Upcoming events:

The London Photographers’ Branch is proud to announce a pre-election
rally on Terror Laws, Civil Liberties & Press Freedom. Supported by
the National Union of Journalists, NUJ London Central Branch and I’m a
Photographer, Not a Terrorist!
http://bit.ly/bM80Gf
Friends Meeting House in Euston.
Tuesday 13 April 7:00pm

Photographers & the Police Seminar
http://bit.ly/cMCduo
Speakers; Human Rights Lawyer Shamik Dutta, Photographers
David Hoffman & Paul Stewart. Chaired by Nick Dunmur
AOP 81 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS
Wednesday 14 April 2010 6.30pm – 8.30pm

An Exhibition of photography and video from the Haiti earthquake by David Levene
Tuesday 16th February-Sunday 21st February

11am-7pm

ALL Proceeds got to the Disasters Emergency Comittee Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Photo Forum - Thursday 11th February

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm

January's Photo-Forum showcased work from Heathcliff O'Malley and Kelvin Bruce with a brilliant discussion on privacy laws and war photography.

11th February we will be seeing the work of Leah Gordon and and Nick Cobbing.

Leah has covered life in Haiti for many years will show life before the earthquake:

"Each year, Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti, holds pre-Lenten Mardi Gras Festivities. Troupes of performers act out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that courses the streets, rarely shackled by traditional parade. Whatever the carnival lacks in glitz and spectacle, it makes up for in home-grown surrealism and mythical metaphor. The characters and costume partially betray their roots in medieval European carnival but the Jacmellien masquerades are also a fusion of clandestine Voodou, ancestral memory, political satire and personal revelation. The lives of the indigenous Taino Indians, the slave's revolt and more recently state corruption, are all played out using drama and costume on Jacmel's streets. Leah Gordon has been documenting this event for 18 years using a Rolleicord and collecting oral histories that explain the history and culture behind the mask."

Nick Cobbing's widely published photographs of Arctic glaciers and sea ice have picked up many awards. He has just completed his fifth Arctic trip, producing the pictures of North Greenland which were shown at Cop 15 last year. Nick will show these recent photographs and talk about the logistics of his work, the collaborative approach he takes with organisations and the challenge of making climate science understandable to the lay public.

We will also be showing, belatedly "A Winter Wonderland - images from a snow covered London". If you have images to contribute to the slideshow please send them to photoforumuk@gmail.com as soon as possible.

As always we'll have a raffle of prints from the photographers to help fund Photo-Forum.