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Jan 07 2010
From today Space Lands by Paul Freeman will be at the Three White Walls Gallery in the Mailbox.
Documenting the construction of ‘Spaceport America’ in the New Mexico desert it examines the relationship between exploration, militarism and commercialism.
Dec 30 2009
The Birmingham Photospace group are taking a well earnt Christmas break at the moment but I just thought I’d post this full set of the spotlight images from our exhibition as they’ve not been presented as a series on the blog before. They look much better as prints so if you haven’t then please come down to see them in the flesh.
The whole group would like to wish all our supporters a very happy New Year, we’ve got big plans for 2010 and we hope you’d like to be part of them, stay tuned!
Birmingham’s People runs until the end of January at The Drum Arts Centre.
Dec 10 2009
Last night marked the private view of our exhibition at The Drum. We had a great night – to see the portraits up and enjoyed by all our guests was fantastic!
We drank cava, looked at the images, wandered round spotting our sitters – faces so familar to us from the choosing of the images – wandering round looking at themselves on the walls.
We had a lively Q&A with one of our artists, Matt Murtagh – who talked more about working with sitters, his inspirations and how the portraits were taken.
We had a great turnout – a huge thank you to everyone who came along to The Drum on a cold, wet Wednesday – we really enjoyed your company. Thank you also to everyone who helped out in some way – Jane for being a super PR lady par-excellence, Ian for taking some amazing photos (these are two of them – we’ll be putting more up in due course!) and for everyone who made a donation on the night, or this morning via our Paypal button.
The show is up throughout December and January – do pop along to see it – and let us know what you think!
Dec 05 2009
This is James Barrow who introduced the Photospace team to the ancient art of Japanese Taiko Drumming which he teaches workshops in.
Find out more at his site here
Dec 05 2009
Nitesh was a charming guy who provided a real outsiders view of Birmingham – see his great video interview below
Nitesh Sherchman from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Dec 05 2009
And here’s one of our ’spotlight’ images that we haven’t blogged yet, a fantastic vibrant picture taken by Jennifer Peel while I was on my lunch…
Dec 05 2009
Here at Birmingham Photospace we’ve been incredibly busy organising the exhibition, particularly the private view next week, so much so that we’ve rather fallen behind with our blog posts for which we apologise.
Here’s Diana, a really enthusiastic lady…
Birmingham’s People: Diana from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Nov 30 2009
Birmingham Photospace is pretty busy at the moment what with our exhibition launching in one weeks time. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the private view.
This week has been devoted to trying to get the word out and on Saturday I had the pleasure of being interviewed on BBC WM about Birmingham’s People and the image of Birmingham in general.
Listen on the iPlayer here (from about 20 minutes in!)
edit – will be off the iPlayer tonight so I’ve uploaded the interview as an audioboo here
Nov 25 2009
I realise I might be accused of being over-interested in facial hair (and with my husband growing a moustache for Movember) there’s quite a lot of it in my life at the moment.
I did choose this portrait to blog because of the excellent facial hair, but on looking at it a bit closer I realised I liked it because I couldn’t work out what Mr Williams was thinking when he had this portrait taken. We’ve seen people looking stern, some friendly and some completely thrilled to be in front of the camera (I’m thinking of you, Mr Wong!) – but I really can’t tell what Mr Williams is thinking.
I guess that’s one of the interesting things about photographs and visual art in general – so much is left up to the viewer. I wonder if we’ll ever get to ask him about this portrait?
Nov 24 2009
So, we took a break from posting images from our fantastic forthcoming exhibition last week – the truth is I was snowed under with the day job!
The group have been working really hard though on arrangements for the Birmingham’s People exhibition at the drum -selecting the spotlight images, printing images, buying frames, working with our lovely partners at The Drum to tell people about the exhibition and generally preparing for our private view.
We’re very excited about the exhibition, so in honour of that here’s another one of the images from the weekend. I can’t help smiling when I see this photo – this chap and his friend came along to see the exhibition of the photos on Sunday afternoon of Artsfest in the Council House and they spent ages enjoying the photos and chatting with people. Really warm, friendly people, completely in the spirit of Artsfest.
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