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Upcoming Events and Exhibitions

29 September 2020, 18:00 to 19:30

An overview and discussion concerning the ethical challenges and issues facing photography today, with Savannah Dodd, founding director of the Photography Ethics Centre. Free and all welcome.

More info about Open Space: Photographic ethics and the appetite for change →

Networking

Special Event

Redeye Annual General Meeting 2020

30 September 2020, 18:30 to 20:00

Online,

The AGM is one of the key meetings for Redeye members each year. It's a chance to hear about and discuss plans for the future, reflect on the past year, and make some key decisions. You'll meet other Redeye members as well as staff and board members. It’s a great opportunity for any questions you have about our programme or other matters.

In 2020 for the first time it takes place virtually, on Zoom. Register below and you will be sent the Zoom link just before the event.

More info about Redeye Annual General Meeting 2020 →

Networking

Critique

October Critique Surgery

5 October 2020, 16:00 to 19:00

Online,

Get informal advice on your projects and career during 1-1s with specialists in photography. Our regular Critique Surgeries are a supportive and welcoming space to share your work and get feedback and inspiration for continuting to improve your photographic work.

This series, as with all our events, will be conducted online for the foreseeable future on one-to-one Zoom meetings.

More info about October Critique Surgery →

Past Events and Exhibitions

Talk

Special Event

Redeye at The Photography Show

21 September 2020, 11:00 to 12:00

Online,

Student and graduation panel session: Where now?

Paul Herrmann and a group of mentors from across the image-making industry will come together to give quick-fire advice to those who have just graduated (or who are still studying) and are wondering what options there are to progress their careers in light of the recent global upheaval. The panellists will invite their audience to think creatively and adapt their mindset to a working environment that while challenging, could also offer some very different opportunities.

More info about Redeye at The Photography Show →

Talk

Masterclass

Getting Your Ducks in a Row

15 September 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Getting the business side of your practice organised is one of those tasks that always seems to slip down the to-do list. But not doing so, and not following up when your work gets misused, can be costly. Has your work ever been reproduced without your permission? Or has a client ever made more of your work than was agreed? And why when challenged do so many people say 'But it's only a photo'? This event will give you the skills and knowledge to understand when and how to push back and demand fair payment for your images.

More info about Getting Your Ducks in a Row →

Networking

Special Event

Redeye Member Catch Up

19 August 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Ahead of the start of our autumn activities we wanted to check in with our members. This will be an online member meet-up led by Redeye Director Paul Herrmann to discuss work and photography during and after the pandemic, strategies for coping and how Redeye can best support our members.

More info about Redeye Member Catch Up →

Member Led

Talk

Workshop

Snapshot: Introduction to Cyanotypes

16 July 2020, 18:00 to 18:30

Online,

Redeye's Snapshots are a series of skill sharing workshops, offering quick introductions to new creative ideas and techniques.

Join us for a 30 minute demonstration from fine-art photographer Scott Hunter, providing insight into exploring this traditional printing technique from your own home without the need for a darkroom. In this introduction to Cyanotype printing, you will gain understanding into mixing chemistry, coating papers, selecting objects, and exposing the prints.

More info about Snapshot: Introduction to Cyanotypes →

Special Event

Rethinking Digital Preservation in a Time of Crisis

7 July 2020, 09:00 to 8 July 2020, 17:00

Online,

During the Covid-19 lockdown we’ve all become acutely aware of one of the most essential values of digital preservation: remote access. Most physical collections, libraries, and archives have been closed down for several weeks. This two day event explores how we can best preserve and give access to our digital archives and collections.

More info about Rethinking Digital Preservation in a Time of Crisis →

Networking

Talk

Open Space: What's Next for Photography Graduates?

2 July 2020, 18:00 to 19:00

Online,

Our Open Space events are discussions on a particular subject. Open to all, and we particularly welcome anyone with experience or knowledge of the subject covered.

Open Space: What’s Next for Photography Graduates will allow graduating students to discuss their concerns and hear about some of the help available to graduates at this challenging time.

More info about Open Space: What's Next for Photography Graduates? →

Workshop

Snapshot: Jessa Fairbrother

18 June 2020, 18:00 to 18:30

Online,

Redeye's Snapshots are a series of skill sharing workshops, offering quick introductions to new creative ideas and techniques.

Jessa Fairbrother is a widely acclaimed photographic artist known for the intricate hand embellishments into her work. For this Snapshot she will be talking us through her current investigations and the use of embroidery that concentrates on knots.

More info about Snapshot: Jessa Fairbrother →

Workshop

Zine making with Shy Bairns

10 June 2020, 18:00 to 18:30

Online,

Redeye's Snapshots are a series of skill sharing workshops, offering quick introductions to new creative ideas and techniques.

Join us for the first Snapshot event on Wednesday 10th June with artist collective Shy Bairns. We will be making zines, simple self-published books with a historically used to celebrate fandom and for grassroots activism.

More info about Zine making with Shy Bairns →

Networking

Masterclass

The Rethink Sessions

8 April 2020, 17:00 to 9 June 2020, 19:30

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond.

More info about The Rethink Sessions →

Workshop

Critique

Rethink Session: Refreshing your artist statement

9 June 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond.

A good artist statement gives the audience an access point into your work, communicating clearly who you are. It is about finding your creative voice. For this Rethink Session we will take a focused look at writing about your work with writer, curator and academic Camilla Brown.

More info about Rethink Session: Refreshing your artist statement →

Redeye's programme during the coronavirus pandemic

1 June 2020, 13:15

Online,

Opening of Disparity Collective exhibition in Tapestry, Liverpool. The collective was formed at Redeye's Lightbox course. Photo: Paul Herrmann

Our top priority is always to support photographers, and never more so than through the current coronavirus pandemic. Although we have had to cancel most of our planned face to face events, we are planning the best way to bring all our programme online for remote delivery, while retaining the sense of community that is so important.

We’ve set up a survey for your thoughts and suggestions about how best to deliver this, if you have a few minutes to send any thoughts and comments.

More info about Redeye's programme during the coronavirus pandemic →

Networking

Stay and Chat

15 April 2020, 16:30 to 28 May 2020, 16:00

Online,

In these unsettling times we think that it is more important than ever that we stay connected. Redeye hosts regular ‘Stay and Chat’ sessions; remote meet-ups for anyone to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, strategies for coping and how best to support the photographic community.

More info about Stay and Chat →

Trace - The Covid-19 Portfolio online art sale

30 April 2020, 08:00 to 28 May 2020, 11:45

Artist Sian Bonnell, Artist/Printer Charlie Meecham, Producer Tracy Marshall and a number of members of arts collective Trace - have harnessed the energy, generosity and goodwill of their photography friends & colleagues to produce an online art fair offering affordable work by international photographers in aid of the charities Crisis and Refuge.

More info →

Networking

Talk

Rethink Session: Climate art and action in the time of the pandemic

26 May 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed our daily lives. Moving forwards we know how effectively we can collectively adapt and reprioritise; should we and how we can apply this to the climate crisis?

For the next Rethink Session Phil Korbel, social entrepreneur and co-founder of The Carbon Literacy Project, will join the discussion. We will look at how artists can get more actively involved; make their own arts practice carbon neutral; and use visual communication skills to spread the message. Can we make a positive impact on the planet an integral part of this ‘new normal’?

More info about Rethink Session: Climate art and action in the time of the pandemic →

Networking

Talk

Rethink Session: Artists' response to the pandemic

19 May 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

John Dunstall; scenes from the Great Plague of 1665

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond.

Photographers and artists have always created valuable historical records at times of crisis, including the current COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for a Rethink Session with Ian Hunter of Littoral Arts looking at the various works that photographers and artists are producing, and to talk through our collective response.

More info about Rethink Session: Artists' response to the pandemic →

Talk

Rethink Session: Culture and Care

6 May 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Culture is “in the driving seat” of political change. For this Rethink Session we welcome two change leaders to discuss how care might be more centrally embedded after Covid-19, and the role of the arts and culture in accelerating that change.

More info about Rethink Session: Culture and Care →

Networking

SEPN Virtual Meet up

5 May 2020, 17:00 to 18:45

Online,

The Socially Engaged Photography Network is a national and inclusive network bringing organisations, photographers, community groups, academics and curators from across the country to discuss and accelerate the practice of socially engaged photography. North West cultural hosts Redeye Photography Network and Open Eye Gallery are delighted to host the next regional meet up on Tuesday 5th May, 5 - 6.40pm.

More info about SEPN Virtual Meet up →

Talk

Talk: DJ Clark, multimedia journalist

29 April 2020, 12:30 to 13:30

Online,

DJ Clark won the World Press Photo Interactive award in April 2020 with an extraordinary immersive film, Battleground PolyU, from the peak of the Hong Kong protests of November 2019. We are delighted to welcome him to a Zoom discussion for Redeye.

More info about Talk: DJ Clark, multimedia journalist →

Critique

Virtual Critique Surgeries: April 2020

27 April 2020, 16:30 to 28 April 2020, 19:00

Online,

Get informal advice on your projects and career during 1-1s with experts in the industry. Our regular Critique Surgeries will be conducted online for the foreseeable future, on one-to-one Zoom meetings.

More info about Virtual Critique Surgeries: April 2020 →

Talk

Rethink Session: a philosophical take?

21 April 2020, 18:00 to 19:15

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond. Please join us for a Rethink Session with Dr Katrin Joost presenting a philosophical take on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on our lives individually and collectively.

More info about Rethink Session: a philosophical take? →

Talk

Masterclass

Rethink Session: Business models

14 April 2020, 18:30 to 19:45

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond.

Business Models: Can they help us in times of dramatic change?

More info about Rethink Session: Business models →

Networking

Talk

Rethink Session: Fundraising and responding to the pandemic

8 April 2020, 17:15 to 18:30

Online,

Redeye's Rethink Sessions aim to help photographers and artists navigate and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis; to reprioritise, and find new ideas and income during the pandemic and beyond. The first of The Rethink Sessions will aim to tackle a couple of the most common questions we have been asked; ‘How do I fund my practice through the pandemic?’ and ‘How can I respond artistically?’.

More info about Rethink Session: Fundraising and responding to the pandemic →

Networking

Special Event

Stay and Chat: New Ways of Working

24 March 2020, 14:00 to 15:30

Online,

In these unsettling times we think that it is more important than ever that we stay connected. This event is a starting point for ‘Stay and Chat’; a remote meet up for our members to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, strategies for coping and how Redeye can best support the photographic community.

More info about Stay and Chat: New Ways of Working →