Events and Exhibitions
Saturday Town is a photography series by the award-winning photographer Casey Orr. Since 2013 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop-up portrait studio photographing young people on Saturday afternoons. The project explores fashion, identity and the self-expression of young people on Saturday afternoons on the high streets and public spaces of towns across the country.
This is the largest show of Saturday Town and Casey Orr’s first retrospective show - on at Open Eye Gallery intil 18 May.
Venues
Past Events and Exhibitions
Join us at Open Eye Gallery for an evening with photographic artist Lydia Goldblatt. Lydia will talk about her life and work including the critically acclaimed project Still Here.
Featuring work by North West artists that reflects on social and political change, particularly since the 1960s. This is the second of three exhibitions of North West based artists taking place across the region in 2015. Initiated by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West and guest curated by Lynda Morris the three exhibitions aim to raise the profile of artists both inside and outside the region.
Join us at Open Eye Gallery for an evening with Stephen King and Natalie Wardle, two photographers exploring gender, identity and sexuality.
Join us at Open Eye Gallery to share and talk for a minute about one photograph that means something to you, and to hear others share theirs.
The 2015 Liverpool School of Art and Design Degree Show will be open to the public from Friday 29 May to Friday 12 June. This show is an opportunity to see the work of the final year students as the John Lennon Art and Design Building is transformed into a giant gallery of original and contemporary art and design.
The day conference is aimed at anyone wanting to move from single or short series of images towards more compelling and ambitious photographic projects. It is suitable for students and photographers at any level.
This exhibition reflects on the turbulent period in Japan following the war, exhibiting over 100 black and white photographs by 11 leading post-war Japanese photographers.
The exhibition features work by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe and Ken Domon among others. Rather than arranging the works by period and author, this exhibition is divided into three sections – “The Aftermath of the War,” “Between Tradition and Modernity,” and “Towards a New Japan.”
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Carole Evans, photographer and co-founder of Portrait Salon, joins us at Open Eye Gallery to give a talk on her life and work.
Ebb and Flow is an audio-visual survey of the history and changes that have taken place within the oldest Chinese community in Europe, curated by Jill Carruthers.
Drawing from the rich selection of photographic prints preserved in the Open Eye Gallery Archive, the show looks at the physical and architectural transformations of Liverpool’s Chinatown, as well as documenting the establishment and development of the local Chinese community.
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Open Eye Gallery presents, for the first time in the UK, the intense work of Sicilian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia (born 1935 in Palermo, Italy). Breaking the Code of Silence will guide the viewer along a journey into one of the darkest periods in post-war Italian history.
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