AGENCY SEEKS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Pocko People, a cutting edge artist agency representing a core group of international artists working in the fields of illustration, design and animation are looking for new photographers to join their current roster of artists. They will be working in the commercial market targeting all the major and below the line advertising and design agencies in London and fashion brands. If you are: fashion or still life photographer, have at least 5 years experience, a good list of clients (young talented photographers might be taken into consideration), please contact valentina@pocko.com

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Magenta Foundation

The Magenta Foundation (based in Toronto, Canada) is pleased to announce year three of its Emerging Photographers exchange. The Magenta Foundation is Canada's first dedicated arts-publishing house. This is an open call for submissions. All photographers in Canada, the US and the UK under the age of 34 can submit. All requirements and details on how to submit are on our website. The winners of this competition will be published in a high quality art book with an exhibition in Toronto October 2007. Other prizes to be announced - please make your submissions via

http://www.magentafoundation.org/

Pavilion Online Gallery

Pavilion is now seeking submissions by practising photographers based in Yorkshire and the North East of England, to showcase conceptually and intellectually challenging photographic work, through Pavilion's Online Gallery. Some of the photographers selected for the Online Gallery will have the opportunity to showcase their work through a small-scale solo exhibition at the Round Foundry Media Centre, Leeds during 2007. Deadline for Submissions is 5.00pm 1 December 2006. For further information visit:

http://www.pavillion.org.uk/

Opportunities for Photographers with DXN Magazine!

DXN is a lively, full-colour, free magazine dedicated to profiling culturally diverse artists and arts activity in Manchester. They are currently looking for new photographers with creativity, flair and an interest in presenting an intelligent new perspective on issues surrounding diversity. DXN typically contains features, interviews, reviews, previews, forthcoming events information, stories, poems, images and much, much more. 10,000 copies are produced every quarter and distributed across Manchester City. They are currently working on the January issue.

If you are interested in being added to the DXN photographers’ database, email your details and CV ASAP to: dxnadmin@can.uk.com . They are keen to represent contributors/artists from Black, Asian, Chinese and Refugee communities but are would like to hear from anyone with an interest in cultural diversity.

TALKS & EVENTS

Rut Blees Luxemberg talk - Concrete Thoughts
Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Monday 27 November; 6.30pm

Rare visit from this top urban photographer featured in the current exhibition at Whitworth Art Gallery.
£5 (£3 concessions) For further details or to book telephone 0161 275 7450

Creative Focus

A one-day business planning workshop for the creative industries in Greater Manchester on Friday 17th November 2006, 9.30am- 6.00pm at CIDS, 5 Oak Street, Manchester, M4 5JD (lunch included). Free.

Creative Focus is one-day workshop aimed at creative businesses in the Manchester area. The workshop, created and facilitated by creative industries consultant David Parrish, take you through business planning strategies in a relaxed and informal manner. In addition to helping you think through your business ideas and plans, the workshop is designed to link you into the most appropriate support that will take you to the next level. To book, contact: Jan Lee info@cids.co.uk or call freephone 0800 169 1143 for more information.

The Circuit Debate Part 3

RAW Power Meets RAW Power - Introducing Aperture 1.5
City of Manchester Stadium
1:00pm - 5:00pm, 22nd November
Free Seminar

Watch Richard West share his favourite supercharged tips, tricks and hidden secrets for serious photographers wanting to take full advantage of newly released Aperture 1.5. You'll learn how to push Aperture 1.5 to the limits, see how it integrates with the latest offerings from Nikon and pick up a few fun titbits along the way. To register, see

http://www.gbmdt.co.uk/seminar/ or phone 0161 605 3838.

IMAGE RESEARCHER NEEDED

Alan Graves is looking for a freelancer who would like to take on the role of image researcher for 7/8 concept pieces. He already has a good selection of material that has been provided as a guide for our client and a clear brief to follow but needs to expand on this. Familiarity with After effects will be a benefit. To find out more, contact alan.graves@with.co.uk.

RENTAL: SPECIAL OFFER

NB Please note this offer has expired.Redeye

Fancy a go with an exotic large format lens, digital back or high power lighting? Redeye has arranged a special offer on equipment rentals at Calumet Manchester Branch (Downing Street Industrial Estate, M12 6HH) - 30 % discount on all rentals during November. You need to call 0161 274 0501 and mention Redeye to get the discount. Also of note is the possibility of renting the amazing Imacon Flextight scanner for as little as £100 for a weekend. Standard rental prices can be found at

http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/

ANGELA HILL - AN APPRECIATION

Redeye was very sad to hear of the death of photographer Angela Hill. Angela was Paul Hill's long term partner in running The Photographers' Place, a highly influential study centre in Derbyshire, for many years. June Buchan writes:

'I was fortunate enough to be on their second ever workshop in Derbyshire with Ray Moore. It was a very wet and no light week. But Paul and Ray pushed us onwards and upwards, and in the end it was a wonderful experience. Angela was there all the time - being a great supporter of everything, and providing warm sustenance if I remember rightly - and lots of food. If I knew that she was a good photographer herself, which I suspect I did, I didn't take sufficient notice of the fact because I was just beginning to try to launch myself, and could concentrate on little else. It was, however, a most amazing week. I do have the end of week picture with Angela in it.

'The next time I met her was nearly 30 years later - last year - when I arranged to meet Paul in Leek. We met in an indoor market and Angela was manning a stall about binoculars and birdwatching - something apparently that she loved.

'I wish I had known that she was such an accomplished photographer in her own right, and I wish I'd looked at her pictures way back then - I feel sure it would have been really good for me, but the photography world was so heavily male-laden at that time, and feminism was so rife.

'I also wish I'd known - which I didn't until after she died - that she was a really good rider, loved horses and kept them. If I'd only known! I would have been off riding rather than trying to get something out of wet, lightless, Derbyshire stuff in b/w!'

EXHIBITIONS

MANCHESTER

See also

http://www.look07.com/ for exhibitions in Greater Manchester.

Grand Trunk Road by Tim Smith with Irna Qureshi
People's History Museum, Bridge St, Manchester
11 Nov 06 – 15th April 07

Documenting a trip that Tim and Irna made to Pakistan and India where they interviewed life along the road and interviewed those with links to Britain. There will also be a full and varied free events programme to complement the exhibition, including a guided tour and elephant headdress making. Please phone the museum or see

http://www.phm.org.uk/ for more information.

Our House by Len Grant, Shaw + Shaw, Liz Lock and Mishka Henner, Charlie Burns
The Lowry, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ
until 19th November 2006

An exhibition about people's experiences of regeneration in Manchester, Salford and Tameside. Len Grant covers the Millennium Community project at New Islington, Jo and Christoph Shaw look at Salford and Liz Lock and Mishka Henner survey Hattersley ahead of its first major regeneration. Charlie Burns is a 15 year-old Hattersley resident who offers his own take on his home town. Accompanied by a 160-page book.

Worktown by Paula Keenan and Jon Purcell
The Lowry, Salford Quays
Until Sunday 19 November 2006

Gallery visitors will feel at home in the cosy surroundings of the innovative Worktown exhibition at The Lowry. A living room has been specially created to display photographs of daily life in Salford taken by the 22 participants of The Lowry’s mass observation project. The results of the project, which has lasted for over 7 months, are exhibited on everyday items. Visitors can find cushions covered with dogs, graffiti-adorned beanbags and a uniquely produced wallpaper pattern featuring Salford landmarks, photographed by the participants.

Drip Yellow Strip by Ed Swinden
The Chapman Gallery, The University of Salford, Peel Park Campus, Salford
M5 4WT
until 17 November 2006

Themes of conformity, anonymity, repression and disintegration underpin the work of Salford-born artist Ed Swinden. Drawing inspiration from pop psychology and hard news, the collection Drip Yellow Strip critiques the fabric of British urban life. Drip's random print processes form nightmare images of physical, mental and moral decay. Yellow's abandoned gutter trash reveals forbidden desires. Strip takes the dehumanising urban experience to its ultimate conclusion as skylines melt to form an infinite barcode. For more information visit

http://www.edswinden.co.uk/

Nodding at the Back by Ian Reynolds
Contact Theatre, Oxford Road
till 2nd December

Photos of hip-hop artists.

Made In Manchester by Paul Wolfgang Webster
Le Mont Restaurant, Urbis, Cathedral Green, Manchester.
Until 1st December 06

This exhibition looks at the architectural gems of the city, including the Hacienda, Band on the Wall to Atlas Bar, Central Library and The Temple of Convenience and G-Mex. Two of Manchester's iconic figures are also documented, Hacienda's Anthony Wilson and the late Foo Foo Lamar. Made in Manchester is a collection of black & white hand printed archival silver platinum prints.

Wild Britain - Photos by Ben Hall
Manchester Museum, Oxford Rd, Manchester
until 25 Feb 2007

First major exhibition for one of the UK’s best young wildlife photographers. See

http://www.museum.man.ac.uk/

Absence and Loss by Marion Davies
Manchester Jewish Museum, Cheetham Hill Road until Jan 11th. Closed Fri and Sat

Photographic Journey of a daughter of German refugees back to Berlin.

MERSEYSIDE

See also Redeye's guide to the Liverpool Biennial in our news section.

Going Native - various artists
Arena Gallery, Duke St, Liverpool, L1.
2nd-29th November 2006.
This show includes pinhole photographs by Sean Halligan.

Liverpool Biennial International 06 Exhibition
Open Eye Gallery, Wood St, Liverpool
until 26 November 2006

Open Eye Gallery is part of the International 06 programme, which presents important new works by international artists. The focus this year is on Liverpool's people, history and buildings, and Open Eye is presenting specially-commissioned new works by two exciting artists: Carlos Garaicoa (Havana) and Lisa Oppenheim (New York). Although distinctly different in approach, their works both contain themes of memory and change, recreating what was once visible or simply remembering what is now lost.

YORKSHIRE

The British Landscape by John Davies and
The Old Order & the New: PH Emerson
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford until 4th February

Landscape masters, classic and modern, exhibit in Bradford. See

http://www.nmpft.org.uk/

NORTH EAST

I skuggan av den morka skogen by Dan Quinn
The Waiting Room, 9 Station Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees, TS16 0BU
19th November till Jan 2007 unusual opening times
see

http://www.the-waiting-room.co.uk/

Dan Quinn recently spoke at a Redeye event; here's a chance to see some of the work for those who missed it.

FURTHER AFIELD…

Jerwood Photography Awards 2006 Prize Winners’ Exhibition
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN (Southwark tube)
17 November – 9 December 2006

Portfolio Magazine and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation have teamed up again this year for the fourth annual Jerwood Photography Awards. The five winners will be announced in a ceremony on 16 November, and their work will be exhibited at the Jerwood Space. The awards feature the innovative and dynamic work of five of the most promising recent graduates from art institutions in the UK.