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Graduate Mentoring Scheme: find out how taking part progressed Holly Houlton’s career

Have you recently graduated university and are perhaps feeling a little daunted by the next steps to launch your photography career? Look no further, Redeye’s Graduate Mentoring Scheme is back for another year running, to carefully pair graduates with relevant industry professionals based on their interests, supporting the leap from leaving university to working in the real world.  
 

Photography Workshops with Chester Visual Arts and Photoworks at the Simon Roberts' Exhibition

Redeye recently ran a series of workshops in partnerhsip with Chester Visual Arts and Photoworks, as part of Simon Roberts' exhibition How did we get here? / Where do we go now? 

Rebecca Burns, Programme Coordinator, shares her thoughts on how the workshops went.

Exhibitions to visit this month - June 2023

We have been spoilt lately with an excellent range of photography exhibitions in the North of England. Here are Redeye staff's top picks of exhibitions to visit this Summer. 

A photograph of an exhibition with photographs in frames hanging on temporary walls

Lightbox: what is it like to take part?

Photo Credit: Installation documentation of FORM Collective exhibition in Brighton 2018. Featuring work by June Cadogan, Joanne Coates, Rachael Burns, Kevin Casey, Becky Warnock, Cath Stanley and Liz Tobin. 

Applications for Lightbox 2023: a creative collaborative course have just opened. If you're considering applying for the professional development course and want to know what it's like to take part and what impact it can have on your career. Why not read some of the testimonials from past participants here.

Photograph documenting an exhibition in Brighton by a collective of Photographers called FORM. Photograph includes various printed pictures hanging from the ceiling, pinned on the wall and attached to the floor.

‘The Power of Place’ - Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022

Inspiring visual arts exchange between UK and Hong Kong 
26th September – 9th October 2022

 

Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022 is a programme designed to encourage meaningful cultural exchange and to forge enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors.

Nathan McGill discusses power in photography and his approach to participatory arts practice

Alberto, Cannon Hill Park. 'The Photographer is Me' - participatory arts photography project with Nathan McGill, 2021

 

Ukraininan. Photographies: an interview

Redeye is pleased to be a promoting partner for a new venture, Ukraininan. Photographies (U.P), which supports the Ukrainian photography community and shows the work of a wide range of photographers in Ukraine, especially those affected by the war. We talked to U.P’s founders, Max Gorbatskyi and Viktoria Bavykina, about the background and purpose of the organisation.

Photo, Mykhaylo Palinchak: Military exercises for civilians, Kyiv February 6, 2022

Maya Sharp - Photography and Storytelling

Images by Maya Sharp: Untitled 2020, Untitled 2022

 

Maya Sharp is a recent graduate photographer and fiction writer; with specific interests in the gothic, storytelling and in place. Focusing much of her practice on the Yorkshire moors where she grew up, Maya brings a contemporary edge to romantic literacy and photographic tradition. Since graduating, she has found work as a photographer's assistant, learning more and more about photography every day.

 

 

‘A picture is worth 1000 words.’

Photography graduate Degree Shows 2022

Photographic work by Matty Hopley, exhibited at Salford University degree show 2022

 

A large fabric cyanotype exhibited on a wall, showing the silhouette of a body which looks as though it is falling

Buying Photography: Where to start and how to build a collection?

At Redeye we are always keen to encourage people to buy photographic prints - it’s a good investment, it helps support new and established talent, and it’s enjoyable and rewarding. With a season of art and photography fairs under way, we asked art advisor, founder of www.theartpa.com, and former Redeye staff member Petra van den Houten to reflect on how to start and how to build a photography collection.

 

Photographs framed and exhibited on a dark green gallery wall at Photo London 2022.
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