Mar 28 2010

Photos of the Private view

Category: birmingham's people,photographyLiz Garlinge @ 22:28

Birmingham's people

So, the exhibition has settled in nicely in its new home, at Bryant Priest Newman, and we’re busy planning on our events for 2010. It seems like a good time to show you the amazing and wonderful photos our friend Ian James took of the private view at The Drum.

For a group who got together following a post on a Flickr messageboard, it seemed strange that we didn’t have a Flickr account of our own, so we’ve set one up, and you can see Ian’s photos there. There are some wonderful shots in the collection- so many, many thanks to Ian who came along as a volunteer to record the night. As ever, we’re inspired by the talent and generosity of people in the city – makes us even keener to get our permanent space for photographers!

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Mar 15 2010

Birmingham’s People Has A New Home

Category: Birmingham,birmingham's people,exhibitionEmma Jones @ 16:04

We’re very pleased to announce that our Birmingham’s People exhibition has moved to a new venue.

Birmingham's People at 3 Mary Street 3 Mary Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, is the home of architects Bryant Priest Newman, who kindly offered us the space after they heard that the exhibition was nearing the end of its time at the Drum.

And what a space it is! The Practice covers three floors, two of which now house parts of the exhibition. Various ‘Birmingham’s People’ now look over BPN’s meeting room, reception area and working offices.

Practice Manager Lorna Parsons explains on the BPN blog: “We’re a practice focussed on people and how communities influence the design of buildings and spaces. We feel it’s important to involve people in the whole design process so our approach is collaborative, focussed on creating communities and working with existing ones. Perhaps it is for that reason we are rather taken with Birmingham’s People.”

And we’ve found it really interesting to see the Birmingham’s People exhibition in a more intimate venue. Even if you have already seen the exhibition when it was up at the Drum, we’d urge you to go and have a look at how it fits into a working space. Just give Bryant Priest Newman a call on 0121 233 1818 to arrange a visit in office hours.

We’re also hoping to hold a Private View over the next couple of weeks – watch this space.

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Dec 10 2009

Birmingham’s People – Private View

Category: Photospace,Portraiture,birmingham's peopleLiz Garlinge @ 21:40

Matt Murtagh being interviewedLast 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.

Patrick talks to the group The show is up throughout December and January – do pop along to see it – and let us know what you think!

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Oct 30 2009

Birmingham’s People 35 – Lihnguyen

Category: birmingham's peopleMatt Murtagh @ 11:17

These two couldn’t stop laughing for the whole time they were being photographed, we did a couple of straight portraits but this one stood out.

The best images all come when everybody involved is enjoying themselves!

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Oct 28 2009

Birmingham’s People 34 – Burchell

Category: birmingham's peopleMatt Murtagh @ 12:30

This is Andrew who provided a real outsiders view on Birmingham, He’d been out of the country for fifteen years and his initial impressions of the ‘new’ Brum were not completely positive. Watch our interview with him in the video clip below. Birmingham’s People: Andrew from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.

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Oct 26 2009

Birmingham’s People 32 – Patrick

Category: birmingham's peopleMatt Murtagh @ 23:16

Patrick’s the suave director of Birmingham Photospace.

Ladies, he’s taken.

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Oct 23 2009

Birmingham’s People 31 – Bignall

Category: birmingham's peoplePatrick Willcocks @ 11:55

A very cheerful sitter who in real life and in the image was 110%.

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Oct 22 2009

Birmingham’s People 30 – Jessica

Category: birmingham's peoplePatrick Willcocks @ 09:30

Again a young woman that embodies Birmingham and fashion.

The image has a quirkiness and playfulness about it. Does this represent the sitter?

(judge for yourself in our interview below!)

Jessica from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.

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Oct 21 2009

Birmingham’s People 29 – Haughton

Category: birmingham's peoplePatrick Willcocks @ 10:52

This is strong for me at two levels – it represents Birmingham a
mixture of cultures living well together but also it represents me as
a one part of a mixed marriage.

What strength this gives to Birmingham.

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Oct 20 2009

Birmingham’s People 28 – Lette

Category: birmingham's peoplePatrick Willcocks @ 11:24

This image to my mind is very strong, the camera being turned back
onto the photographer.

The sitter, looking upwards, perhaps momentarily, from his camera, fills the image – as he is taken at an angle.

Wonderful shot.

This shot was taken by the very talented Jennifer Peel while Matt was on his lunch.

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