Events

We regret to announce that after 26 years of supporting photographers and championing photography throughout the UK, Redeye, the Photography Network will wind down on 31 July 2024 due to a number of factors, including lack of funding. Read our full statement here. We are no longer publishing events. The archive of past events is available below.

Digital Photography: The State of the Art

20 June 2014, 09:00 to 16:00

Are you fully up to speed on the latest digital imaging techniques? Does your work look as good as it possibly can, either printed or on screen? Do you want to spend a day hearing from top experts in this field? 
 

The National Photography Symposium 2014

12 June 2014, 13:00 to 14 June 2014, 16:00

Advance booking for this event is now closed. There are a few places available on the door. Please try and arrive at or soon after 14:00 on Thursday to maximise your chance of getting a place. We will put another message here if all tickets are sold.

Redeye is delighted to announce its sixth National Photography Symposium, the essential annual gathering for ideas and discussion around photography, taking place at the Library of Birmingham.

“What a weekend. I am all photography inspired.” - Karen Strunks of the 4AM project

Alternative Histories of Photography: Documenting the World

5 June 2014, 17:00 to 18:30

Redeye presents the first in an occasional series of alternative histories of photography, aimed at introducing you to aspects of photographic history that aren’t too well-known. We are delighted to bring you a talk from Dr. Kelley Wilder of De Montfort University on photography’s uses in documenting the world.
 

Photographic Grids: Northern Quarter After Dark

15 May 2014, 17:00 to 22:30

As part of Northern Quarter After Dark on 15 May 2014, Redeye is proud to present a public, mass participation photography project exploring Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Redeye is working with photographers Dave Allen and Jerry Tew.  How it works is that:

Michael MacKenzie: Valley of Light

8 April 2014, 17:30 to 20:00

To coincide with Open Eye Gallery’s current exhibition Breaking the Code of Silence, Redeye brings you a talk by Michael MacKenzie on his project Valley of Light. Michael will discuss this unfinished body of work, which explores his Italian mother’s life in a small village in Southern Italy, Valleluce. Through the use of landscape and still life photography Michael Mackenzie has documented the places and spaces his mother would regularly frequent in her daily life during her educational, domestic, social, religious and leisure times.

Pictures of Leeds

27 March 2014, 18:00 to 20:30

A panel discusses the city’s relationship to photography; participants are invited to bring along their photographs of the people and environment of Leeds to be designed live throughout the evening and made into a publication.

Attention has come to Leeds recently from the photographic community because of the publication of a book called 'Strangely Familiar' by Peter Mitchell. Martin Parr said in the preface:

Visual Mystery Tour: The Architecture of Liverpool with John Davies and Walter Menzies

16 March 2014, 14:00 to 16:00

Redeye is delighted to announce a tour of the architecture and urban landscape of Liverpool exploring the relationships between building and politics through relics of the past, the dynamic present and plans for the future.

Talk and Networking with Luke Stephenson

11 March 2014, 18:30 to 21:00

Redeye is proud to present an evening talk and networking event with Jerwood Photography Prize winner Luke Stephenson, looking at his work which explores life in Britain and the British psyche through a series of projects including Spectacle Wearing Folk, The World Beard and Moustache Wearing Championships, The Clown Egg Register and An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds amongst others. 

About Luke Stephenson
Luke was born in 1983 in Darlington, North East England.

Writing for Photographers and Artists

9 March 2014, 12:00 to 18 March 2014, 21:00

Why do photographers need to write, or to know about writing? What kinds of writing are relevant to photographers, practically and professionally, to help them develop their careers?  How does the written word define and expand the impact of the photograph?

Portfolio Advice and Critique

5 March 2014, 17:00 to 19:00

Redeye is delighted to announce an evening of portfolio advice and critique at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art.

Are you planning to go to the portfolio reviews at Format festival this year but not entirely happy with your portfolio or does any of this ring true for you?

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