Manchester Central Library

Do you have a project you would like some feedback on? Would you like to meet other photographers in the Manchester area?

Our Come and Chat sessions are friendly, relaxed and welcoming spaces to show your work, chat with photographers about their work and business and help you feel reconnected and inspired!

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Photographing the Invisible by Jill Furmanovsky

15 April 2023 to 24 June 2023

For the last 50 years, Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing music’s greatest icons. Now, for the first time, Jill is opening a retrospective exhibition ‘Photographing the Invisible’ at Manchester Central Library displaying some of her most famous works and hidden gems from her extensive archive

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In Praise of Blandness

27 August 2020 to 31 December 2020

In Praise Of Blandness invites the viewer to appreciate the aesthetic of the ordinary and the everyday.

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Paper Geographies

20 February 2020 to 25 April 2020

Paper Geographies is an exhibition at Manchester Central Library that brings together 12 artists who use photography to explore the relationships between materiality and place. The expanded field of photography is represented by works that challenge the medium’s own specificity; including documentary and appropriated imagery, performance and sculpture, moving image, analogue processes, digital and 3D animation.

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Sixteen

15 March 2019 to 15 April 2019

In a major new touring exhibition leading contemporary photographers join forces to present the multimedia project Sixteen, exploring the dreams, hopes and fears of 16-year olds across the UK.

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Networking

Large Format: Progress and Possibilities

23 March 2019, 13:30 to 15:30

Interested in large format film photography? Want to improve your ideas and technique? Come and hear from photographer Craig Easton, and if you like, bring along your work for group critique and feedback.

Craig Easton uses large format photography as part of Sixteen, a major new national touring project involving 16 photographers looking at the experience of 16-year-olds all around the UK. The project evolved from his earlier work The Scottish Referendum Project and aims to give a platform for young people from all walks of life to express their aspirations, hopes, dreams and fears for their futures.

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You Brought Your Own Light - Allie Crewe

26 July 2018 to 29 September 2018

There is nothing linear about femininity - or what it means to be a woman - in the 21st century. Sex and gender are not limited to the monolithic paradigm of genetics; they are informed by something intangible, and it this essence of the female paradox that makes Allie's work as relevant as it is important and sets her apart form others in her field.

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Member Led

Member-led event: Allie Crewe

19 September 2018, 18:30 to 19:30

Come along to be introduced to the evocative work and world created by Redeye member Allie Crewe. You brought your own light is an immersive celebration, depicting women’s stories of change and transformation.

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Hit the North - Hobo Photo

19 April 2018 to 30 June 2018

This spring, one of Manchester’s landmark buildings hosts Hit the North, a major group art exhibition, produced by Hobo Photo.

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Talk

Hit the North

8 May 2018, 18:00 to 19:30

Redeye has partnered with Hobo Photo to bring you an evening of talks on the best of Northern photography. The event is part of the Hit the North exhibition at Manchester Central Library; featuring work from leading Northern photographers across five decades.

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Shirley Baker: Airport ’87

5 October 2017 to 6 January 2018

A poignant look back at Manchester Airport as seen through the lens of acclaimed photographer Shirley Baker, thirty years ago, having spent a day at the airport in 1987 capturing the experiences of passengers using the airport.

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Seminar

Dodge the Shredder with Emilia Telese

27 January 2017, 10:00 to 16:00

A full day workshop empowering photographers and artists to fundraise effectively and create a financial strategy for their practice.

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Career Development Session 7: Getting Seen; publication in print and online

23 April 2015, 10:00 to 17:00

The final career development workshop takes you on a journey through the countless ways you can get work published in print and digitally. Which ways are worth pursuing?

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Career Development Session 6: Exhibiting and Print Sales

24 March 2015, 10:00 to 17:00

The final two career development workshops look at the different way you can get your work out and seen in public - through exhibiting, publishing in print, and online. The first in this "Getting Seen" series concentrates on exhibitions and galleries.

Exhibiting is a great way to get your work to an audience, but unfortunately everyone else thinks so too! Many photographers investigate the idea of exhibiting but retreat, baffled by the gallery system in the UK. This workshop is about demystifying the exhibiting process. It explores:

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Redeye Career Development Workshop Series - making a living in photography and the arts

6 October 2014, 12:30 to 23:00