Jacobs Pro Lounge

2011-02-09T11:02:00.007Z

Photo-Forum Thursday 10 February

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm

Tom Stoddart

This month we’re putting on an extended show of work from

internationally renowned photographer Tom Stoddart rather than two
shorter shows as we usually do. We’ll also squeeze in a brief
presentation by Adam Dean of his Sony Award shortlisted photographs
from Afghanistan and a new slide show from the recent flurry of
student protests. There’s still time for your pictures to be included
in that show. Please send jpg files, around 1200 - 1600 pixels wide to
Alex Macnaughton at alex@alexmacnaughton.com today.

Tom Stoddart began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his
native North East of England. In 1978 he moved to London and began
working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time
Magazine.

A pragmatic and talented journalist, Tom Stoddart has photographed
many of the world’s major events. He covered the fall of the Berlin
Wall, the fighting around the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut
during the 1980s, the election of President Nelson Mandela, the siege
of Sarajevo (1992 – 1995) and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

In 1997 Tony Blair gave Stoddart exclusive behind the scenes access to
his election campaign as Labour swept to victory after 18 years of
Conservative government. More recently his astonishing images of the
AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa have consistently taken magazine
and newspaper readers that much closer to the heart of the matter.

Now established as one of the worlds most respected photo journalists,
Stoddart is represented by, and works closely with Getty Images to
produce powerful photo essays on the serious world issues of our time.

Tom’s modesty, humility and compassion for his fellow man have helped
him produce images that speak for those with little voice. The
campaigning nature of his long-term projects, books and exhibitions –
like Edge of Madness (photography from Sarajevo, 1991-95), iWITNESS
(worldwide observations, 1980-2004) and “AIDS in Africa” (1995 to
today) – confirm his status as one of the most respected international
photojournalists working today.

Tom’s commitment to showing serious world issues continues to be the
bedrock of his professional life. In 2006 he was presented with the
prestigious Honorary Fellowship Award by the Royal Photographic
Society in recognition of his achievements and contributions to
photography.

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

2011-01-07T17:17:00.002Z

Photo-Forum Thursday 13 January

Jacobs Pro Lounge - 6pm prompt start until 8pm.

On Thursday 13 January we have two news photographers with a presentation from Carl de Souza and the Lee Thompson show that we had to postpone last month.

Carl de Souza is a staff press photographer working for AFP news agency. He has been working as a press photographer for 10 years, starting off at a regional news agency in Bristol and then in London for AFP. Recently Carl was posted in Pakistan for three months. He was afforded a phenomenal amount of freedom during this time to shoot features and cover the tragic and devastating floods which ravaged the country. He will be featuring some of this work at Photoforum.

Working for Britain's leading newspaper The Sun, Lee Thompson has been at the heart of many of the world's top breaking stories. Whether it is covering the disappearance of Madeline McCann or the Josef Fritzl case, Lee's photos have continuously graced the front pages. Always rising to the challenge, his work has taken him across the world to areas as diverse as war-torn Congo and the slums of India. His talent, dedication and passion for photography shines through his work which has appeared in numerous national newspapers and magazines. He started working as a photographer at 17 for the Chester Chronicle and moved to South West News Service in 2002.

Lee has been based in London and working for The Sun on a freelance basis since 2006 and will show us a range of his newspaper work.

http://leethompsonphotography.co.uk

2011-01-07T16:48:00.004Z

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

at the National Portrait Gallery

11th November 2010-20th February 2011

'Huntress with buck' by first prize winner David Chancellor

http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/photoprize/site10/index.php

2010-12-08T18:01:00.003Z

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

2010-07-07T10:03:00.001+01:00

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

2010-06-03T11:11:00.002+01:00

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.
__________________________________

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

2010-06-03T11:07:00.003+01:00

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

2010-04-01T16:58:00.000+01:00

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

2010-02-12T15:41:00.004Z

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

2010-02-04T15:49:00.004Z

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.

Photo Forum - Thursday 12th November 2009

2009-11-09T17:38:00.002Z

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm promptstart until 8pm.

At our last Photo-Forum in October we had Kois Miah, Helen Rimell and Gabrielle Motola presenting their work.

November Photo-Forum will feature the work of Jeremy Selwyn, Andrew Wiard will be discussing some of his photojournalistic work and Julio Etchart will present two stories, 'Burmese Days Revisited' and 'The Forbidden Rainbow'.

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

Date for the Diary Photo-Forum Fabulous Xmas Party will be on the 3rd December

(please note this is not the 2nd Thursday)

Canon Launch New Camera in New York at 5am This Morning!

2009-10-20T12:48:00.005+01:00

Canon Eos 1D mk 4
Main Features include:

All Previous auto-focus issues resolved,

16 Megapixels

Full HD 1080 video with variable frame rates of 24P, 25P and 30P and at 720P, 50P and 60P, with manual override,

45 point auto focus system,

ISO up to 12800 (enhanceble to 102400),

1.3X crop sensor,

10 frames per second,

http://www.canon-europe.com/eos1dmk4/?WT.ac=billboard_EOS1DMK4__UK

Also Canon will soon be upgrading the firmware on the Canon eos 5D mk 2, to provide similar frame rates amongst other benefits.

New Pro Lounge Exhibition

2009-10-20T09:59:00.008+01:00

Ian Gavan

Thursday 15th October - Wednesday 19th October 2009

London Fashion Week -

Images from the front row and behind the scenes

Joint Winner of the Canon Professional Services London Fashion Week Competition

www.iangavan.com

Leica Launch full frame DSLR - M9

2009-10-14T14:53:00.007+01:00

Leica M9

Leica's first digital full frame range finder

Main features include:
Full frame sensor,

18 Megapixels,

Enhanced high ISO performance,

http://uk.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m9/

Hands on preview:

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/leicam9/

Nikon Launch D3 Successor

2009-10-14T14:34:00.004+01:00

Nikon D3sMain features include:

720 P HD 24 fps video mode,

Higher ISO 200-12800 (boost to 102400),

1.2 Crop mode,

Anti dust filter,

RAW buffer increased to 28 frames,

http://www.europe-nikon.com/product/en_GB/products/broad/1862/overview.html

press launch and hands on review

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09101402nikonD3s.asp

Photo Forum - Thursday 8th October 2009

2009-10-06T17:42:00.001+01:00

Jacobs Pro Lounge - 6pm prompt start until 8pm.

At our last Photo-Forum in September we had strong shows from Graeme Robertson and Brian Harris. October Photo-Forum will feature personal work & portraits by Gabrielle Motola. We have photographs by Helen Rimell who has been documenting sex workers in Bombay and will also show her work from projects in Kashmir. Kois Miah will present work on the Maoist rebel fighters in Nepal.

As always we’ll have a raffle of prints from the photographers to helpfund Photo-Forum.

Rockers - An Exhibition by Leonie Morse

2009-09-07T12:12:00.001+01:00

10th September - 29th October 2009

Photo Forum - Thursday 10th September

2009-09-07T11:45:00.001+01:00

Photo-Forum Thursday 10th Sept 2009 - Jacobs Pro Lounge
6pm prompt start until 8pm.
Our last Photo-Forum in August had fine shows from Dana Popa, Justin Sutcliffe and Jon Almasi.
September Photo-Forum will feature Brian Harris with his “Remembered” project shot for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and a recently re-edited set of photographs from the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
Graeme Robertson will be showing us highlights from the last ten years of work at Getty and the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/graemerobertson
I'm A Photographer Not a Terrorist
Ahead of the Canary Wharf flash mob, 3pm Saturday 12th September against press restrictions in pseudo-public spaces
http://photographernotaterrorist.org/events/
we will be doing cop/tog role-play, an exciting first for Photo-Forum, acting out the new bust card:
http://PhotographerNotaTerrorist.org/bust-card
and for those that missed the portrait opportunity at the launch party we will have the return of the Photo-Booth:
http://PhotographerNotaTerrorist.org/launch-party-photos/
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Photo-Forum is organised by photographers as a place for working photographers across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories, approaches and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London.
http://www.photo-forum.org
Food, drink and animated conversation in the pub after.
This is an event for photographers by photographers.
Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU
Please forward to photographers who may be interested.
Photo-Forum suggestions and comments always welcome.-- Photo Forumwww.photo-forum.org photoforumuk@gmail.com

2009-08-19T11:53:00.003+01:00

Vice Magazine & Olympus Photography Competition

http://www.viceland.com/storiesoftheeye/

2009-08-19T11:39:00.002+01:00

501 Jeans Live Unbuttoned competition

http://www.viceland.com/liveunbuttoned/index.php

2009-08-19T10:45:00.000+01:00

Annie Leibovitz

Falling on hard times

http://nymag.com/fashion/09/fall/58346/

David Bailey Competition - Alive At Night

2009-08-10T12:35:00.004+01:00

Photographer David Bailey is on the hunt for people to be part of his next unique exhibition which will capture London at night.
From London Underground workers to burlesque dancers, David will be capturing amazing images of the city’s people as part of his Nokia 86 Alive at Night exhibition.
People interested in taking part should send a short story to www.aliveatnight.co.uk explaining why either they, or someone they know should be part of Bailey’s project.

https://www.aliveatnight.co.uk/

I'm a Photographer not a Terrorist Launch Party - 8th August

2009-08-10T11:52:00.009+01:00

Hackney Secular Singers

Customer of the Month - James McCauley

2009-08-07T11:30:00.002+01:00

"Monsieur.....with these tarts you are really spoiling us"

Reminder - Party this Saturday 8th August

2009-08-07T09:52:00.007+01:00

'I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist'

campaign launch party

in association with Photo-Forum

6 till late - The Foundry

Photography is under attack.

Across the country anyone with a camera is targeted as a potential terrorist. This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery and press freedom.The campaign will coordinate a collective response to the restrictions on photography across the country. We will be organising events where photography is restricted to show how pointless these restrictions are. It will also be an information resource for photographers' rights and will map areas where photography is restricted.Entertainment: Interactive self portrait photo-booth 4 Minute Slideshows: 'Paranoid Britain' by Steve Forrest, 'The Miners' Strike' by John Harris, 'Are We Invisible' by David Hoffman, 'Silly Season' and edible delights from 8pm downstairs at the Foundry.Special Guest appearance from the Hackney Secular Singers

The Foundry 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL

http://PhotographerNotATerrorist.org/

2009-08-07T09:37:00.005+01:00

Photo-Forum - Thursday 13th August

Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm.
Our last Photo-Forum in July had shows from Dalia Khamissy, John Angerson and Mike Lusmore.
The August Photo-Forum will be discussing planned action at the Guardian/Observer.

We are pleased to have Dana Popa showing, 'Not Natasha' about sex trafficking in Moldova. Currently exhibiting at PhotoFusion: http://bit.ly/78mSN
Justin Sutcliffe http://www.justinsutcliffe.com/ will show a photo- essay from the West African nation of Guinea Bissau, about its culture and the corrosive effects of cocaine. The second is a personal project, whose working title is "on the way to" which is a lighter, more wry project. Justin will also be imparting some tips, tricks and essentials for foreign travel.
Finally we will be featuring Jon Almasi with a selection of candid celebrity images and highly entertaining street photography.

Photo-Forum is organised by photographers as a place for working photographers across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories, approaches and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London
http://www.photo-forum.org/ Food, drink and animated conversation in the pub after. This is an event for photographers by photographers.
Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU
Please forward to photographers who may be interested.--

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

2009-08-06T10:21:00.006+01:00

Antichrist - Lars Von Trier

Lars Von Triers latest film 'Antichrist' is visually stunning from beginning to end. The cinematography by Antony Dod Mantle is refreshingly unusual and stands out a mile from most films. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe are a couple trying to come to terms with the accidental death of their son. The breathlessly beautiful opening scene of the film is in slow motion and black and white depicting their son climbing up and falling out of a window whilst the couple are having passionate sex. Dafoe is a therapist who burys his own anguish in attempting to rehabilitate his wife after she is overcome with grief and collapses at the funeral, waking up a month later in hospital. He decides to take her out of the hospital, forcing her to flush all her medication away and becomes fixated with her therapy, forgetting she is his partner, she becomes his patient. Most of the film is set in a cabin, 'Eden', and the surrounding woods, where she spent the last summer with her son, which they travel to after discovering that nature is at the root of most of her fears. What is fascinating is the constant shifts in their relationship, you see her character go through various stages of grief, which coincides with the four chapters of the film: Grief, Pain (Chaos Reigns), Despair (Gynocide) and The Three Beggars. Throughout the film there are constant references to nihilism and destruction, Dafoe is the witness to all of these, a deer which at first he thinks is beautiful until it turns to reveal it is in the middle of giving birth to a stillborn calf, as well as a fox which appears to be eating itself, which speaks to him and says "chaos reigns". The woods seem ominous, like there is a powerful energy watching them, not altogether evil but indifferent. Gainsbourgs character is obsessed by the chaos and inevitability of nature and its affinity with the female. Eventually Dafoe's bizarre therapy style of trying to find the source of her fear, backfires and Gainsbourg's character becomes more and more distressed and psychotic, leading to her ultimately attacking him.

Due exaggerrated shock tactic reviews about graphic sex and self mutilation, a lot of people will not go to see this film, which is unfortunate. There is graphic violence but it is integral to the film and is dealt with in a non-gratuitous way. The film has been wrongly labelled as horror, yet it doesn't sit in the psychological thriller category either. It is more of a dark adult fairystory or moralistic folk tale.

We highly recommend that you see it, at least once.

2009-08-04T11:52:00.005+01:00

Pete Molinari - Secret gig at Pop Boutique

Covent Garden
Monday 8th August

Rankin Retrospective - Friday 31st July- Friday 18th September

2009-08-04T10:43:00.004+01:00

http://www.rankin.co.uk/

The Old Truman Brewery

http://www.trumanbrewery.com/files/rooms/2764/NewsletterExhibitions.html

2009-08-04T10:07:00.012+01:00

The Times / Canon

Young Photographer of the Year Competition

2009

The Times has launched the eighth Times Young Photographer of the Year Award. The winner of the competition, which is sponsored by Canon, will win a six-month full-time contract with TNL and a year’s membership to the British Press Photographer’s Association.

The winner will also receive the following Canon camera equipment:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera body
Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8 L lens
EF 70-200 F/2.8 L IS lens
Canon 580EX II Speedlite flash

The competition is open to any UK and Republic of Ireland resident aged between 18 and 26.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/related_features/young_photographer/article3583642.ece