Photography Competition : Glasgow

6x4 Panoptic Challenge : Trongate 103


Here's a great chance to get involved in the Merchant City Festival, get out in Glasgow with your camera and get £100 in photography vouchers.

On Saturday 23rd July you receive 6 themes. Then go out, experience the festival, and take 6 photographs showing your interpretation of each theme. Your photographs will be printed and, on Sunday 24th, displayed in the atrium space at Trongate 103. The most original and inspiring photographs will be selected as winners and the best overall entry will win a prize of £100 photography vouchers.

Summary:-
Sat 23rd: Photographs taken at any time between 10:00 - 14:00
Sun 24th: Photographs will be displayed in an exhibition 14:00 - 18:00

Here's a link for more details ... link

Admission : Free

Trongate 103
Glasgow
G1 6HD
Scotland

Tel : 0141 276 8380

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Lindsay Docherty : Highrise

On at the Hillhead Library (Glasgow) in June is a photography exhibition by Lindsay Docherty. Lindsay's dramatic black & white images form part of the West End Festival and Refugee Week. They document the lives of residents in Glasgow's high rise blocks.

3 June to 26 June 2011

Mon - Tue & Thu; 10:00 - 20:00
Wed; 10:00 - 17:00
Fri & Sat; 9:00 - 17:00
Sun; 12:00 - 17:00

Admission : Free

Hillhead Library
348 Byres Road
Glasgow
G12 8AP
Scotland

Tel : 0141 339 7223

Photography Workshop Glasgow

Burrell Collection : Composition & Image Manipulation

The Burrell Collection is running a couple of (free) photography workshops; one this month and one in June (2011).

Saturday 28th May 2011 : Composition

Saturday 4th June 2011: Manipulating Images

Both workshops start at 2:00pm and run until 4:00pm. They're free and it's advisable to book. Here's a link... link



Burrell Collection
2060 Pollokshaws Road
Glasgow
G43 1AT
Scotland

Tel : 0141 287 2550

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

The Glesga That I Used To Know : Scotland Street School


Scotland Street School Museum (in Glasgow) is a Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece. And from 3rd June 2011 until January 2012 it's giving you a chance to see Glasgow of the 1970's. Photographs taken during that decade will be on display and they show Glaswegians going about their daily lives as the city's landscape transforms around them. These are the kind of exhibitions I love. Here's a link for more details ... link

3 June 2011 to January 2012

Tues - Thurs & Sat > 10:00 - 17:00
Fri & Sun > 11:00 - 17:00



Admission : Free

Scotland Street School Museum
225 Scotland Street
Glasgow
G4 0RH
Scotland

Tel : 0141 287 0500

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Business as Usual : Jenny Wicks

Jenny Wicks has an interesting exhibition on at the moment; it's on in The Arches in Glasgow. She is displaying a collection of photographs depicting moments in the life of 89-year-old identical twins and former mechanics Dick and Ted. Apparently they are considered local heroes in their home of Preston. Not superheroes mind; that would be Tom Finney.

Here's a link to the exhibition ... link


6 April to 23 May 2011

Mon-Sat > 10:00 - 23:00
Sun > 12:00-22:00
Admission : Free

The Arches
253 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G2 8DL
Scotland

Tel : 0141 565 1000

Photography Exhibition : Livingston

Analogue Decay : Alastair Cook

The Howden Park Centre in Livingston is a fantastic venue I recently discovered. At the moment it has an interesting photography exhibition by photographer Alistair Cook. In these days of sterile digital imagery it's refreshing to see images celebrating the imperfections of analogue photography. Alastair explores the natural decay of the chemical process and connections between people, land and heritage.

Here's a link to the exhibition ... link


8 April to 9 May 2011

Mon-Sat > 09:00 - 21:00
Sun > 11:00-18:00
Admission : Free

Howden Park Centre
Howden
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AE
Scotland

Tel : 01506 777666

Photography Exhibition : Edinburgh

August Sander

Where do you start with the likes of photographer extraordinaire August Sander? By using some of the wordage about him from the National Galleries of Scotland website? Yeah why not?!?

"In the 1920s and early 1930s, a new approach to photography – use of close focus, a greater objectivity and a concentration on modern life – was pioneered in Germany. It closely paralleled the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) movement in painting, graphics and film, which included the work of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad.

One of the major figures of the new German photography and a key figure in the history of photography in general was August Sander. Best known for his portraits, which formed the basis of his commercial studio, he set out on an ambitious project to photograph all layers of German society from the farmers and country-people, through the workers, craftsmen, technicians and industrialists in the towns and cities, on to people who were sick and disabled".

This exhibition is really really a must-see! Here's a link to it ... link to it

12 February to 10 July 2011

Open Daily; 10:00 - 17:00

Admission : Free

The Dean Gallery
75 Belford Road
Edinburgh
EH4 3DR
Scotland

Tel : 0131 624 6200