Wednesday 10 February 2010



this is a wrexham based photographer michelle williams whose group i joined on facebook.

i am hoping to meet up with her to ask about her photography, business, clients, etc. she seems to do paid work on weddings, so i will ask about some work experience as a back up photographer at the weddings she covers.

i have made contact with a number of photographers now with a view to partnering up on some shoots. martin parr does this regularly. it encourages you to go if you have arranged it with someone especially if it is outside on a rainy cold day, it is also safer and it is mutually inspiring. Often the other sees what you have missed and vice versa.

this is some of the work she has produced



Tuesday 9 February 2010

images of people photo exhibition



email from www.artinliverpool.com


Call for Submissions - Images of People Photo Exhibition

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From Bruce Smith - Images Of People Exhibition..

Venue: Carlisle Building, 61 - 69 Victoria Street, Liverpool, L1 6DE, UK

This exhibition has been set up to raise awareness for the charities bellow and to showcase photographers images that depict peoples lives reflecting ENERGY, EMOTION and FEELINGS.

There will be 3 winners in each of 3 categories, 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes with an overall winner prize of £1000 voucher to be spent on a fashion photography master class. http://www.brucesmithphotographer.com/home.php

There will be signed copies of my book Pro Digital Fashion Photography, that will be given as prizes to the 3rd runner up in each category. I am looking for 1st and 2nd prizes from sponsors

We are looking for 100 final images for the exhibition.. These images will be digitally printed on archival quality paper, mounted and framed ready for the exhibition There will be a public auction to sell the prints to the highest bidder, all funds raised from this auction will be split between Sightsavers International http://www.sightsavers.org/ and to Liverpool's charities providing photographic education to children with learning difficulties and social problems. also to raise awareness and funds for http://www.wayuutaya.org/ . http://www.sightsavers.org/
I am looking for sponsors and supporters to provide help and prizes for winning images
If you can help or can recommend any one that you think can help, please pass this message on to any one you think may be interested in supporting this event or that would be intrerested in submitting images.



errol morris: mr death

Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., an engineer from Malden, Mass. decided to become the Florence Nightengale of Death Row — a humanitarian whose mission was to design and repair, electric chairs, lethal injection systems, gallows and gas chambers, . In 1988, Ernst Zundel, publisher of "Did Six Million Really Die?" and "The Hitler We Loved and Why" commissioned Leuchter to conduct a forensic investigation into the use of poison gas in WWII Nazi concentration camps. Leuchter traveled to Auschwitz and illegally took brick and mortar samples for analysis in order to "prove" that the Holocaust never happened.

Leuchter fully expected his involvement with Ernst Zundel to be the crowning achievement of his career, but instead it ruined him. Reopening the doors to this century's keystone atrocity. Morris bypasses a more obvious discourse on bigotry to examine instead the origins of evil in vanity and self-deception.


errol morris

the glue society



This is an australian cooperative similar to the one i had in mind for thephotofoundry. i like the 'one stop shop' aspect as i am sure customers do too.


THE GLUE SOCIETY

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Stuck on the Glue Society

Here are some award-winning designs from the Sydney multimedia shop that specializes in creating content that is not traditional advertising

By Helen Walters

The Glue Society was founded in Australia in 1998 by former ad agency creatives Jonathan Kneebone and Gary Freedman. Reluctant to step aside from the day-to-day business of coming up with ideas, they formed the company to focus on writing, design, and direction. The company now has offices in Sydney and New York, while their portfolio of work determinedly stretches across media to incorporate graphic design, sculpture, installations, and broadcast television alongside more traditional print and TV advertising.

Exemplified by Sydney/New York-based creative collective, the Glue Society, these companies reject both the title "agency"—and the very idea of having retained clients. They're creative-content providers, pure and simple.

Ready and able to be employed by anyone who will have them (brands, agencies, even individuals) they work solely on a project-by-project basis. There's no long-term account management, no planning, no media buying. And yet as an entity, they're able to deliver more than the individual creative types (such as photographers or directors, for instance) historically commissioned by more traditional advertising.

Put simply, the Glue Society and its ilk are teams of ad-savvy, cross-media thinkers. As such, they're free to go wherever the budgets are, and can work on a wide range of projects. In the past year alone, the Glue Society has worked on projects that have included sculpture, graphic design, Web sites and viral campaigns, traditional TV advertising, print, short films, and even— in conjunction with BBH—a 60-minute TV show which was entirely sponsored by Axe and which was broadcast on MTV (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/24/06, "Bet You Can't TiVo Past This").

article from businessweek.com

ashley ward photography


not inspired by baby photography but might be necessary to pay the mortgage. this style is better.

interesting baby photography. a bit on unusual. good complementary colours. modern. good with them sleeping.

not keen on the web site. the 'falling' pictures too distracting. better stuff on flickr.