Radio 4 Programme on Robert Mapplethorpe

In Living Memory is available on iplayer.

"The Mapplethorpe Affair"
When a Birmingham art student borrowed a book of photographs from her university library, she sparked a controversy that left the vice-chancellor facing a possible prison sentence. Chris Ledgard examines the work of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and opens the book West Midlands Police wanted to burn.

Recent blog entry on BBC website
regarding the rights of photographers to take images in public places.

This is a good summary of this issue.
Click here to read the post.

Mill Road Christmas Fair - Student helpers needed!!!!

Saturday 5th December 2009

Mill Road Winter Fair, Saturday 5th December, will include a new project called HATS!

This could be an opportunity for your students to compete or to lend a hand for an hour as photographers or general helpers. I'm sending you the timetable of the slots we need to cover plus details of what's involved. We'd be most grateful if you would pass this information along to any students you feel might be interested or indeed if you yourselves were interested in participating, you'd be very welcome.

If you are interested - contact Andrea who can forward the details to you.

Taylor Wessing Photography Portrait Prize 09

Admission free

On until 14 February 2010

For more info click here.

New exhibition at National Portrait Gallery

For more info click here.

Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs at British Library, London

Bringing together photographs from the British Library’s unique collections, examining the development of the medium and its lasting influence.

Until March 7 2010

Entrance free

For more information and excellent resources on 19th Century photography, click here.







Image by P H Emerson

100 years of great press photography

A nine-part series starts Saturday 7th November in The Guardian and runs for the following week.

From striking images from the front line of conflicts to the moving social documentary of every day events, see the greatest press photographs of the last hundred years in our nine-day collectable series, free every day in the Guardian and the Observer, starting this weekend.

Saturday 7 November, with the Guardian: 1910-1929
Sunday 8 November, with the Observer: 1930s
Monday 9 November, with the Guardian: 1940s
Tuesday 10 November, with the Guardian: 1950s
Wednesday 11 November, with the Guardian: 1960s
Thursday 12 November, with the Guardian: 1970s
Friday 13 November, with the Guardian: 1980s
Saturday 14 November, with the Guardian: 1990s
Sunday 15 November, with the Observer: 2000s

Helena Almeida Inside Me

at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Until November 15
Admission free

Helena Almeida at Kettle's Yard
For more info click here.

Jane Bown: Exposures
John Lennon by Jane Bown
100 portraits from Jane Bown's 60 years at the Observer.

Until 21 November 2009
Admission free
At Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

For more info: www.kingsplace.co.uk

Exhibition at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA Campus, Norwich

Image by Justin Partyka

The East Anglians

29th Sep 2009 - 13th Dec 2009

This exhibition of beautiful colour photographs by Justin Partyka will take you on an intimate journey into one of the last vestiges of East Anglian's deep-rooted agrarian community.

For more info click here.

Exhibition Review

Andre Kertesz "On Reading" at The Photographer's Gallery

Image by Andre Kertesz

I chose to go to The Photographers’ Gallery in London to view the exhibition of Andre Kertesz’ work called “On Reading”. All the photographs shown were taken between 1915 and 1980, spanning most of his career; they were taken in many of the different places that he lived, including Argentina, France, Hungary, USA and the UK. I chose to see this exhibition as I am interested mainly in traditional photography, rather than digital, and was intrigued to see how his techniques of shooting and printing may have altered the effect of his images, making them more successful than others.
The range of photographs in this exhibition was interesting as they were all different sizes, none of them printed bigger than A4. This made the viewer have to get very close to the image to see the smaller details. I also enjoyed how the photographs were collected throughout his career; I thought it was a shame that they were not displayed in chronological order, yet the techniques that he used had definitely developed as he became more practised at using a camera, and seemed to get more settled in finding his own personal style. This span of time across the photographs was also affected by the events at the time that the image was taken; many were taken during the war, which made a difference in the areas that Kertesz photographed, and the people who were around to be photographed.
I found this exhibition particularly intriguing as I find it interesting how people are influenced by books and the type of literature that they read; these images showed how all sorts of people in all sorts of places have read books. It was fascinating how the time that the photograph was taken is imminent in the image due to the clothes that the subjects are wearing, and the surroundings that they are in. This collection of images ranged from those set-up and posed, and those using the decisive moment, with more of a photojournalist feel. Many of the images made the viewer feel like a voyeur, the model unaware of the picture being taken.
Overall, I really enjoyed this exhibition as I felt that it truly celebrated the pleasure of reading, and combined it with the artistic force of photography; it was also the first time I have seen Kertesz’ work exhibited, which I found interesting as he is said to be one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.

By Charlotte Brisley

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to all our new year 12 students - we really hope that you will enjoy studying photography with us at Long Road.

Welcome back to all our returning year 13 students - good to see you all again and we look forward to seeing you progress your work on the A2 course.

The purpose of blog is to keep you up to date with news, events, exhibitions, competitions and any other good stuff happening in the world of photography - so please do check it out regularly!

It also has details of information for course - including deadlines, homeworks and workshop times.

Best wishes
The Photography Team

Tripods for Sale

1. Manfrotto 390
Alumininium (I think), weight ~1.5kg, closed height 58cm, extended height 160cm, 4 section screw tighten legs, integral 3 way pan-tilt head. I don't have the load bearing, but it will take a medium-format SLR and probably even a large format. I've used this as a "studio" tripod since it fairly heavy and bulky. It doesn't have a cover but I have the original box.

2. Manfrotto digi-718SHB
Aluminium, weight ~1.0kg, closed height 40cm, extended height 125cm. 4 section lever-tighten legs, integral 3 way pan-tilt head. The load bearing is less than the 390, but will comfortably take my Bronica 645. Comes with carry case.
This is more worn; one scratch, and most of the non-essential rubber finishes (feet etc) have been lost. Great for shooting outdoors because of the light weight and small size but a lowish extended height

Both £30
Please see Andrea for details and she will put in touch with the seller.

Majority Report: America, Amateur Photography and the Internet Curated by Roger Hargreaves | 2 September - 2 October 2009

FREE exhibition at the Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans. Majority Report presents a selected snapshot of the state of amateur photography in the digital age through a photographic narrative of America at a pivotal moment. It questions our assumptions about the nature of amateur photography at a time when the private is becoming public and when journalism has become the domain of the citizen. The exhibition draws together photographs taken in America and posted on the image hosting website Flickr. Since its inception in 2004 the site has developed into a complex depository of over three billion images that mark a diverse range of agendas and photographic strategies.

For more info click here.

People and Places

A competition to capture visitors enjoying the National Trust's great outdoor spaces.

Open to 16 and over.

For more details - click here.

Remember there are several National Trust properties in the area:
Cambridgeshire
Anglesey Abbey
Houghton Mill
Peckover House and Garden
Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse
Wicken Fen
Wimpole Hall

Exhibition of John Gay at Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London

Until 18 October.
Entrance free.

Seventy five photographs of post-war England and iconic views of London feature in this major exhibition which marks the centenary of John Gay’s birth. Drawn from English Heritage’s extensive collection of photographs, the exhibition presents a wide range of images of people, buildings, animals and landscapes taken by Gay between the mid-1930s and 1990s.

For info and directions to gallery - click here.

Image by John Gay

The Times/Canon Young Photographer of the Year

The Times has launched the eighth edition of its Young Photographer of the Year competition, which in partnership with Canon will see the winner receive more than £3000 worth of kit and one-on-one training with the newspaper's staff photographers.

The contest calls for photographers aged 18 to 26 residing in the UK or Ireland to submit one image for each of the three categories - lifestyle, portraiture and reportage.

For more info - click here.

Heather Angel interview on Radio 4

Listen here on BBC iplayer (Interview starts 20mins 30secs in to programme).

Heather Angel has spent the last 30 years photographing some of nature's most spectacular sights. Be it storks hunting locusts in burning bushes, or a polar bear breaking wind, her photographs capture the unusual and unexpected. She has been described as 'the doyenne of wildlife photography', and has photographed the Prince of Wales in his wild flower meadow at Highgrove. But her latest project brings her home as she explores the wildlife on offer at Kew. She spent a year creating a book of photographs that challenge the perception that Kew is just about plants. She joins Jenni to talk about her exhaustive career.

For more info on Heather Angel - click here.

Don McCullin at National Media Museum at Bradford

There is currently an excellent exhibiiton of Don McCullins work from his In England book on until September 27th 2009. For more info click here.

If you can't make it to Bradford there is lots of really interesting stuff online:

• Videos of Don McCullin talking about his work

Wildfowl and Wetland Trust Nikon Photography Competition 2009

Closing date: 7th September 2009

Visit the reserve in Welney (or further afield if you are away over the summer).
For more details click here.

Local exhibition at Bedford Community Arts (BCA)

Land of the Free

Steve Schofield

13 June 2009 - 8 Aug 2009

Steve is a recent graduate from University of Derby
For more info: www.steveschofield.co.uk

RSPCA Young Photographer Awards
A national competition for under 19s

For more detaisl click here.

Nikon Travel Photography Competition

Closing date: 31st August 2009

For more details click here.

Great British Summer Competition
Win a holiday!
Closing date: 31st July 2009

Must be over 18 to enter.
For more details click here.

Fay Godwin on Radio 4 on Tuesday 30th June at 11.30am.

Christine Finn discovers a rich seam of literary life in photographer Fay Godwin's work.

Best known for her later landscape work, Godwin spent the 1970s and 80s taking portraits of some of the leading figures of the literary scene. Many iconic book-jacket images were taken by her, including a sultry Ted Hughes with that lock of hair falling over his face, Philip Larkin and the rubber plant, Seamus Heaney and the tree, Desmond Morris in a safari suit, a pensive Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Keith Waterhouse slumped in a basket chair and Salman Rushdie with a hookah.

Christine gained access to Godwin's home and studio as it was being prepared for sale, and with Godwin's friend, photographic historian Roger Taylor, examined the archive. It shows that many of Godwin's later collaborations on books of landscapes - most notably with Ted Hughes, but also with Richard Ingrams and Philip Larkin - were born in the portrait sittings and the relationships that grew out of them.

The programme also hears from poet Alan Brownjohn about the experience of sitting for Fay, and examines an archive of prints, contact sheets and letters from her sitters, held in the British Library since her death in 2005, with photo critic and editor Sue Steward.

For more info - or to listen online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lb6q7

Free Portrait Photography Workshop at The Photographers Gallery
with Jason Evans


Must be under 25 to apply.


For details visit The Photographers Gallery website.
From Strictly, photographed by Jason Evans, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in i-D, July 1991

Local Photography Competition

Open to Key Stage students - this includes A Level!

One of the judges is an ex-Long Road student - so who knows ...... get your entry in!!!

For more info - click here.

Wrong place, wrong man? Fresh doubts on Capa's famed war photo

Click here for full story from The Observer this weekend.

Taster Day

Tuesday 9th June 2009

Hello and welcome to all those year 10 students who attended the taster day at Long Road today.

It was wonderful to meet you all and hope you enjoyed the day.

New York Trip 2009

An exhibition of images from this trip is now on at Long Road Sixth Form College until Friday 19th June.

The images can also be viewed on our Flickr page - click here.

Ever wish you could talk to real-life photographers ...
well this is the next best thing!

Foto8 have been at the New York Photo Festival and compiled a whole load of audio interviews with living, breathing, real life working photographers.

Click here to be taken to the page.

Melanie Henderson from Long Road Photography currently has work on exhibiton at The Lloyd Gill Gallery in Weston-Super-Mare. The image below is one of the images featured.

For more details on the gallery click here.

Brooklyn Bridge by Melanie Henderson

Summer Art Show at Long Road

Private View - Friday 5th June 6pm - 9pm
Public Viewing - Saturday 6th June 10am - 4pm

Another competition - The Terry O'Neill Award

For more info - click here.

This Friday evening sees another V&A Photography Event.
For more detail - click here.

Competitions, competitions and more competitions!!!

Lots of competitions around at the moment - click on the link for more information.

Travel Photographer of the Year

International Garden Photographer of the Year

Landscape Photographer of the Year

New Photography Gallery Opens in London

Diemar / Noble is a leading photography gallery in London. Now stock and exhibit work from the whole cannon of photography, from 19th Century masters to contemporary artists.
Courses in photography and collecting are also available. Diemar/Noble Photography will be opening its doors to the public from Friday 8th May 2009.

For more info see:

http://www.diemarnoblephotography.com/

Image by Jennie Gunhammar

Exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford

Until 27th September 2009

Mother and son, Bradford, 1978 by Don McCullin

Entrance free

For more info - click here.

Richard Heeps Workshop at Long Road.

Cambridge based photographer, Richard Heeps will be running a workshop working with AS Photography students to document the college. This is a fantastic opportunity and the resulting work will be exhibited at the college in September 2009.

The slideshow gives a selection of Richard's work from a variety of projects.

To sign up for the workshop collect a permission from Photography and return to finance office with payment by Friday 15th May.

Introduction to Richard Heeps from longroadphotography on Vimeo.

Photography on Radio 4

(Yes they can still talk about it even if you can't see the pictures!)

Every afternoon at 3.45pm this week, there is a 15 minute programme on Photography.

Monday:  Rankin.  

Adil spends a day watching top fashion photographer Rankin in action as he tries to capture members of the public with 'the look' that defines Britain today. 

Tuesday:   Nick Turpin

Adil joins street photographer Nick Turpin in the heart of London as he tries to capture the buzz of the nation's capital at work and play.

Wednesday:  Wedding photographers

Adil talks to brides-to-be as they nervously prepare for their big moment - their first ever photo shoot involves wearing little more than their finest underwear.

Thursday: Tim Flach

Adil joins Tim Flach as he attempts to photograph two contrasting types of dog, pedigree Chinese Crested show dogs and Stafforshire Bull Terriers from Battersea Dogs Home.

Friday: Richard Foster

Adil dresses up to meet Richard Foster, the photographer behind glitzy boots and glittering watches in glossy magazines. 

Don't forget you can listen online or listen again on the iplayer.

Local photography competition

Images of Change

Closing date Tuesday 19th May

For more info click here.

Ex student Tom Griffith has work on exhibition in Saffrom Walden Library.

Open till 24th May.

Cindy Sherman Exhibition - featuring new work.

At Sprueth Magers,
7a Grafton Street, London, W1
For more info click here.

Opening times: 10am - 6pm Tuesday to Saturday

From 16th April - 27th May 2009

There’s a basic duality to Cindy Sherman’s photography, which lies in the fact that she is both artist and model. For her latest exhibition, Sherman explores the omnipresent themes of image, status and identity by assuming multiple personas and questioning the fundamental differences between them.

New Exhibition at The Photographers Gallery, London

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2009

On until 12 April 2009

For more info: www.photonet.org.uk

Featuring work by:

Paul Graham From the book a shimmer of possibility (2007)

Emily Jacir Detail from Material for a film (2004 - ongoing)

Tod Papergeorge Central Park, New York, 1982

Taryn Simon White Tiger (Kenny), Selective Inbreeding, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and Foundation, Eureka Springs, Arkansas  (2007)

Magnum Expression Award

Major new Photography competition sponsored by Magnum and Hewlett Packard

For more details: www.expression.magnumphotos.com

David Houghton Exhibition

Time Watching

11 March - 16 May 2009

Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans

Gallery Opening Times:  11am - 5pm Wednesday - Saturday

www.herts.ac.uk/artsandgalleries