Open Eye Gallery

Digital Detox is a full day workshop that will give you a grounding in analogue photography, concentrating on cyanotypes and salt prints.

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Seacombe Ferry, From ‘The Pier Head’ Series, 1985. © Tom Wood

The Pier Head - Tom Wood

12 January 2018 to 25 March 2018

The Mersey Ferries operate between Liverpool and the Wirral peninsula. Photographer Tom Wood lived in New Brighton for 25 years, and for most days throughout the 70s and 80s he crossed the river. Whilst waiting for the ferry to arrive or crossing the river, he took photographs.

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Takiyah Daly at her home, Andrew Jackson & Granby Four Streets CLT, 2017

Culture Shifts: Local

5 October 2017 to 22 December 2017

Culture Shifts: Local presents collaboratively produced photography from eight socially engaged photography projects across Liverpool. The work demonstrates how photography as an art practice can be used to help communities define themselves, bridge cultural divides and communicate the vital issues of today.

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40 Years of Open Eye Gallery- 1977-2017. Wall Work by Thom Isom. Photo by Mark McNulty.

Open 3: Affecting Change

7 July 2017 to 17 September 2017

Early career photographers work with communities, businesses and individuals who are affecting change in Liverpool.

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© Luke Ching. 1/F 17 Fung Yi Street, To Kwa Wan, KL, Hong Kong（Door, Wall, Window) 2001.

Culture Shifts: Global

6 April 2017 to 18 June 2017

Culture Shifts: Global explores the city and our urban environments as seen through outsider’s eyes.

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Raf Simons, Autumn/Winter 2003. Catwalking.com

North: Identity, Photography, Fashion

5 January 2017 to 19 March 2017

Co-curated by Lou Stoppard and Adam Murray, North explores the way the region is depicted, constructed and celebrated in select photographs, artworks and fashion collections. The show brings together collective visions of the North, unpicking the tropes and themes that appear regularly in design and media and takes into account the rich cultural history of the region.

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Special Event

Liverpool to Tokyo with Vesta Hex

2 March 2017, 18:30 to 20:00

Liverpool to Tokyo with Vesta Hex

In partnership with Open Eye Gallery, Redeye presents photographic artist Vesta Hex, as she shares a body of research that explores the ways we consider, create and consume photography in the UK compared with Japan.

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40 Years of Open Eye Gallery: 1977-2017

5 January 2017, 18:00 to 21:00

Open Eye Gallery invite you to the launch of their 40th Birthday Year.

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JERWOOD/PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015

28 October 2016 to 19 December 2016

Open Eye Gallery will present a group exhibition of new photography enabled by the first national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards.

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Ideas Lab on Writing & Photography

14 December 2016, 18:00 to 20:00

An ideas lab inviting writers and photographers to think collaboratively about their practice.

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The Edges Of These Isles - Film Screening and Discussion

29 November 2016, 18:00 to 19:30

Photographer Simon Bray and painter Tom Musgrove discuss their new collaborative project, The Edges of These Isles.

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Redeye open forum - Finding meaning in photography

24 May 2016, 19:00 to 20:00

Come and join Redeye in a discussion (over a drink) about meaning in photography. It aims to be an informal and enjoyable evening with a serious purpose. It links to Open Eye’s current exhibition Open 2: Pieces of You - six photographers who share a curiosity in exploring how we gather and make meaning of our experiences.

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Flat Death

15 January 2016 to 3 April 2016

Jordan Baseman, Deadness, 2013. Still courtesy the artist and Matt’s Gallery, London

Edgar Martins attempts to understand our relationship to death and photography’s role in this process through a variety of images. Jordan Baseman’s exhibition of memorial images sits within a long tradition of photography being used by families to remember their loved ones after they have passed.

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Still Here: An evening with Lydia Goldblatt

25 February 2016, 18:30 to 19:30

Join us at Open Eye Gallery for an evening with photographic artist Lydia Goldblatt. Lydia will talk about her life and work including the critically acclaimed project Still Here.

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Workshop

The Perfect Photobook

16 December 2015, 18:00 to 20:00

Join us at Open Eye Gallery for a conversation with Redeye's Director Paul Herrmann about the photobook.

Paul has been deeply influenced by photography books since the start of his career, and he will introduce some of his favourite examples. He will go through the advice and tips he's received from publishers and other photographers, and open out the conversation to everyone there, including some invited guests involved in the world of photobooks.

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Networking

Tights and Control Pants: An evening with Stephen King and Natalie Wardle

22 October 2015, 18:30 to 21:00

Join us at Open Eye Gallery for an evening with Stephen King and Natalie Wardle, two photographers exploring gender, identity and sexuality.

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Special Event

One Photograph

29 June 2015, 18:30 to 20:00

Join us at Open Eye Gallery to share and talk for a minute about one photograph that means something to you, and to hear others share theirs.

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Metamorphosis of Japan After the War

22 January 2015 to 26 April 2015

This exhibition reflects on the turbulent period in Japan following the war, exhibiting over 100 black and white photographs by 11 leading post-war Japanese photographers.

The exhibition features work by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe and Ken Domon among others. Rather than arranging the works by period and author, this exhibition is divided into three sections – “The Aftermath of the War,” “Between Tradition and Modernity,” and “Towards a New Japan.”

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Talk and Networking: An evening with Carole Evans

20 April 2015, 19:00 to 21:00

Carole Evans, photographer and co-founder of Portrait Salon, joins us at Open Eye Gallery to give a talk on her life and work.

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Ebb and Flow

17 May 2014 to 22 June 2014

Ebb and Flow is an audio-visual survey of the history and changes that have taken place within the oldest Chinese community in Europe, curated by Jill Carruthers.

Drawing from the rich selection of photographic prints preserved in the Open Eye Gallery Archive, the show looks at the physical and architectural transformations of Liverpool’s Chinatown, as well as documenting the establishment and development of the local Chinese community.

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Breaking the code of silence

22 February 2014 to 4 May 2014

Open Eye Gallery presents, for the first time in the UK, the intense work of Sicilian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia (born 1935 in Palermo, Italy). Breaking the Code of Silence will guide the viewer along a journey into one of the darkest periods in post-war Italian history.

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Alvin Baltrop and Gordon Matta-Clark: The Piers From Here

7 December 2013 to 9 February 2014

The exhibition focuses on the area of the Piers in New York City during the mid 1970s - while Matta-Clark was pursuing the idea that art could act as a catalyst for urban regeneration and land re-appropriation, Baltrop investigated the life at the margins.

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Networking

Picturing Prostitution

21 January 2014, 18:30 to 21:00