To see fantastic new work from Magnum photographers - check out Insight America.




InSight America is an innovative documentary project that aims to explore these questions on the eve of one of the most important elections in American history. Calling on the talents of some of the world’s most respected photojournalists, using the Web to update their observations daily, InSight America is a collage of personal investigations and reflections that attempts to capture the things preoccupying Americans during the weeks leading to Election Day.

Some of the recent images are below - this is really documentary photography as its very best!

Image by Bruce Gilden












Image by David Allen Harvey

Paul Fusco
The Robert F Kennedy Train Photographs

To see a slideshow of the images and commentary by Paul Fusco explaining his work - click here.

Image by Paul Fusco

At the National Portrait Gallery, London

International Garden Photographer of the Year 2009
Closing date: 31st January 2009

For more info click here.

Monday 27 October - Saturday 1 November
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT THE CAMBRIDGE GUILDHALL
CAMBRIDGE CAMERA CLUB
The Club presents over 200 images by its members covering all types of photography, now more usually digital capture and printing. The subjects are also diverse, featuring people, landscapes, natural history, architecture and creative compositions.
1.00pm - 5.00pm Monday
10.00am - 5.00pm Tuesday-Saturday
FREE ENTRY
MORE INFO: http://cambcc.org.uk or email INFO@cambcc.org.uk

The British Youth Council
Snapshot 60 Photo Competition

This Is War! Robert Capa at Work
Gerda Taro
On the Subject of War

Now at Barbican Art Gallery, London until 25 January 2009
Entrance fee applies

This Is War!
Robert Capa at work
Robert Capa (1913–1954) is one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century and defined how modern warfare was photographed.

This exhibition, which includes over 150 images, some never-before-seen photographs and newly discovered documents, illuminates Capa’s working process and features many of the photographs that have become iconic images of war.

Gerda Taro
a retrospective
The talented and groundbreaking German photographer, Gerda Taro (1910–1937) spent her brief but dramatic career photographing the Spanish Civil War alongside Robert Capa, her lover and collaborator. She was one of the first female photographers to work on the frontline and the first to be killed in action in 1937, aged just 26, whilst covering the battle for the city of Brunete.

Taro’s unflinching images of the casualties of war, distinguished by her experimentation with the dynamic camera angles of New Vision photography, are a remarkable contribution to the tradition of war photography. This is the first exhibition of her work in the UK.

On the Subject of War
artistic responses to Iraq & Afghanistan
Conditions of war have changed since the 1930s and 1940s, but the potential of war photography to shape politics, opinion and lives, remains real.
On the Subject of War presents some of the most significant works of international contemporary art made in the context of current events in Iraq and Afghanistan: Omer Fast’s The Casting, (2007); Geert van Kesteren’s Why Mister, Why?, (2004) and Baghdad Calling, (2008); Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy, (2002–05) and An-My Lê’s 29 Palms, (2006) and Events Ashore, (2005–08).

Recollections by Phillip Jones Griffiths
National Conservation Centre, Liverpool
18 October 2008 to 15 March 2009.

The first display of his work since Griffiths passed away in March this year, the exhibition will feature around 60 images of Britain in the 1950s and 60s.

Griffiths' depiction of the Vietnam War redefined photojournalism and provided a window on the actions of America. Recollections will showcase lesser known but equally engaging images of Britain, and in particular Liverpool, at a time of social and political change.
Image by Phillip Jones Griffiths

At National Portrail Gallery, London
From 16 October 08 to 1 February 09
Annie Leibovitz, My Brother Philip and My Father, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1988
Photograph © Annie Leibovitz







Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated photographer, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. "I don't have two lives," Leibovitz says. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."

Tweaker Freaker

At Slam City Skates,Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9DP

from 16th October to 16th November

opening is thursday 16th October 6pm - 8pm

featuring our very own DAN BOULTON .... check it out!

Whitechapel Gallery, London

Thurs 30 Oct, 7pm
Tom Hunter – photomonth lecture

Photographer Tom Hunter discusses his work and current projects. Known for his images of urban life and ordinary people, often considered social ‘outsiders’, Hunter’s influences range from Thomas Hardy and old master paintings to the Hackney Gazette. Remarkable for being the first photographer to have an exhibition at the National Gallery, London (2005), Hunter’s work has been exhibited widely in Europe and North America. In association with Alternative Arts photomonth£7/5 concessions and Whitechapel MembersFree for Whitechapel Patrons and AssociatesBooking essential
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Image by Tom Hunter

Spread the story. Stop the disease.

Photographer James Nachtwey has been covering war and human rights

stories for 30 years, traveling from Northern Ireland to Iraq, from the

orphanages of Romania to the deadly killing grounds of the Sudan. He knows the power of news photographs to raise awareness and make real change.
In 2007, he was awarded the TED Prize, which comes with $100,000 and one wish to change the world. These photographs and this project are his wish.

Please spread the word .... for more info: http://www.xdrtb.org

Open Day - Saturday 11th October 2008
Run a BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
For more info on the course - click here.

Richard Heeps Exhibition
'A journey through the Fens'
from October 4 - October 26 at:

Haddenham Galleries
20 High Street
Haddenham
Ely, Cambridgeshire
CB6 3XA

Opening Times:
Tuesday - Friday 10-1 & 2-5
Saturday 10-5
Sunday 11-5

There will also be a 'Meet the Artist' on Thursday, 16 October 7-9pm.











Kinema Office by Richard Heeps

Cut and Paste Photomontage 1920-1950
24 September – 21 December 2008

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Canonbury Square, London N1

Over the last decade, photomontage has received a fresh and revitalising impetus from technology and contemporary art. This show aims at a rediscovery of the sources of modern image-making, bringing together key works by masters of the genre, which was – and remains – a strikingly modern, popular and international one. It will include original works by artists such as Gustav Klucis, George Grosz, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky and Bruno Munari.

For more information on the exhibition - click here.

Gustav Klucis, Design for a Postcard for the All-Union Olympiad (Spartakiada), 1928
© DACS 2008

New Exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London





Exploring a rich dialogue between drawing and photography, Cast is a major exhibition of newly commissioned work by British artist Dryden Goodwin.

Featuring people travelling through the public spaces of London’s West End, Goodwin’s portraits catch strangers engrossed in private moments of quiet reflection. Physically intervening with the image through animation and drawing, the artist disrupts the stalled nature of the photograph, which he describes as a way of ‘thinking into the photograph’.

Caul 1 (detail), 2008 © Dryden Goodwin/Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery (London)


















In the heart of the West End, Soho has long been a haven for creativity and criminals, scandal and sex, and a source of inspiration for photographers.

Featuring the work of Jean Straker (UK, 1913 – 1984) and David Hurn (UK, b. 1934) alongside images from the Daily Herald Archive, these three fascinating archives document this bohemian area of Londo

All night jazz session at the Cy Laurie Club, Great Windmill Street, 31st March 1956.

From the fashionably dressed women of the Bois de Boulogne to fantastic early flying machines, Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) kept a vivid photographic record of his life.

Print Sales revisits the work of one of the first photographers to be exhibited by The Photographers' Gallery, today considered one of the great figures of twentieth century photography

Bobsled race, Zissou and Madeleine Thibault, Rouzat, 1911 © Ministere de la Culture-France/ AAJHL

October is THE month for Photo Festivals in the UK
So here is the quick rundown .......













For more info: http://www.bpb.org.uk









Through September - November 2008
For more info: http://www.teesvalleyphotographyfestival.co.uk/





photomonth 08 the east london photography festival is the largest photography festival in the UK with over 100 exhibitions and events taking place in more than 60 galleries and spaces and featuring up to 500 photographers.
For more info: http://www.photomonth.org/

Ways of Looking

Official launch Friday 12 September in Bradford / Saturday 13 September in Leeds

For the month of September, Leeds and Bradford will be the undoubted destinations for photography and new media, with the first edition of Ways of Looking. Exhibitions, talks, films and events will be happening in museums, historic houses, contemporary galleries, cinemas, stately homes, and even a railway station.

Fourteen organisations have joined forces to present a diverse range of photography and new media work: Axis, Bradford 1 Gallery, Bradford Grid, Brontë Parsonage Museum, The Culture Company, Harewood House, Hyde Park Picture House, Impressions Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Met Gallery, Lumen, National Media Museum, Pavilion, and PSL [Project Space Leeds]. Highlights include the international premiere of new digital work by Swiss artist Annelies Strba at Bronte Parsonage Museum, original nineteenth century photographs by Roger Fenton at Harewood House, a moving billboard commission at Leeds Railway Station, and the emerging stars of photography at the National Media Museum.

Pavilion ArtistsGallery Two at the National Media Museum, Bradford.13 September until 25 January 2009Pavilion will be exhibiting work by Pavilion's five commissioned artists for 2008. This exhibition will feature five new bodies of work by photographers: Peter Ainsworth, Tess Hurrell, Jo Longhurst, Moira Lovell and Kevin Newark. Each project explores and readdresses concerns pertinent to our time, demonstrating the value of contemporary photography to today's culture and society.

Full details of all Ways of Looking events at http://www.impressions-gallery.com/news/news.php?id=13