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Critique

Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023, 11:00 to 13:00

A group of people looking through photography prints on a table

Our Critique Surgeries are a supportive and welcoming space to share your work and get feedback and inspiration to continue making work!

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uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things

10 June 2023 to 17 September 2023

uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things.

The artists at Open Eye Gallery highlight Western exploitative practices related to the extraction and destruction of natural resources in African countries. Work by David Aguacheiro and Rahima Gambo is presented alongside a new iteration of Sandra Suubi’s performance installation ‘Samba Gown’.

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Hothouse Liverpool

29 November 2019, 10:00 to 16:00

Hothouse arrives in Liverpool in partnership with LOOK Photo Biennial for a day-long celebration of photographic talent. Throughout the day there will be quick-fire presentations from photographers about their recent work and projects, which will drill down to the substance and inspiration behind a project. Get involved - apply to present, plus there is ample opportunity for networking and to show your portfolios and books.

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Exhibition: A Portrait Of..., Open Eye Gallery

2 August 2019 to 29 September 2019

Portraits change the way we understand one another. Whether this is professional photos, selfies on Instagram or snapshots of our friends, the photos that we take of ourselves and each other speak volumes about who we are and who we want to be. Through portraits, we come face to face with someone else: they create a space in which we can challenge the assumptions that we often hold about people. This exhibition presents projects that give us a chance to empathise, to consider the experience of someone else’s life.

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Kinship - Open Eye Gallery

10 May 2019 to 7 July 2019

Opening Friday 10 May, Kinship at Open Eye Gallery navigates the dynamics of modern relationships. The exhibition presents projects from seven photographers, all women, addressing traditional ideas of how people might relate to others based on their gender, age, or position within a family. Together, the artists seek to open up new ways of thinking about how we express our sense of kin — as friends, family and partners. Kinship features the work of Pixy Liao, Lydia Goldblatt, Johanna Heldebro, Jenny Lewis, Momo Okabe, and Margaret Mitchell.

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Literary Evening: The Other

4 April 2019, 18:30 to 20:00

The Other is an inclusive literary night encouraging its writers to get to know each other and foster new friendships. In response to Open Eye Gallery's current exhibition 209 Women, this edition will be an all-women line-up (including non-binary/female identifying writers) sourced from an open call.

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Wake Up Together

22 November 2018

Two bodies of work pushing for the right to exist in our skin on our own terms: Ren Hang UK premiere & Robin Hammond's Where Love Is Illegal.

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Snapshot to WeChat: A Migration of Identity

6 April 2018 to 17 June 2018

As part of Liverpool 2018’s China Dream season, Snapshot to WeChat: A Migration of Identity presents three projects examining the role of photography today, casting some light on life in a rapidly transforming global culture.

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Workshop

Redeye Academy: Digital Detox - Cyanotypes and Salt Prints

31 March 2018, 10:00 to 17:00

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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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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Picturing Prostitution

21 January 2014, 18:30 to 21:00