"Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest."
Lisette Model

The link below is for an article that was in Newsweek this week and from where I found the above quotation which I think most photographers would agree with. Anyway the article is called

"Is Photography Dead?"

makes interesting reading ....

New at The Photographers Gallery
www.photonet.org.uk

Seeing is Believing
Until 27 January 2008
Seeing is Believing explores photography's strong relationship to the non-rational, the unknown and the ethereal. It brings together vintage photographs from the archive of the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, with work by seven international artists who share a fascination for the unexplained.









Antonie d'Agata: Insomnia
Until 27 January 2008
Considered one of a new breed of Magnum photographers, Antoine d’Agata’s images appear to exist between time and space in an alternately bleak, painterly and carnivalesque atmosphere. From his native Marseilles to New York, Mexico and Central America, d'Agata has drawn from over 10 years of travelling as the inspiration for his photography.












Lee Miller in The Print Sales Gallery
Until 3rd February 2008
Celebrating the centenary of one of the most significant contributors to the history of photography, Print Sales exhibits the work of Lee Miller.

Nick Waplington
at Whitechapel Laboratory, Aldgate East, E1
12 December 2007 - 20 January 2008
Admission free
www.whitechapel.org


For the Whitechapel, he has created an installation which continues this investigation, leading from the Gallery out into the streets of Whitechapel. Nick Waplington is an amazing photography who came to prominence with his project 'Living Room'. This is a fantastic opportunity to catch his work in exhibition.

Ageless Snapshots
Photographer Robb Kendrick demonstrates the making of tintype portraits.
This is a fascinating video and a real insight into large format and historic processes in photography.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-12/vaquero/tintype-multimedia.html

National Geographic Magazine - The Photographers - Series of Videos

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Captain Scott's Last Polar Expedition
Photographs by Herbert George Ponting
National Portrait Gallery, London
Until February 2008
Admission free
www.npg.org.uk

Shutting Up Shop by John Londei
National Portrait Gallery, London
until 4 May 2008 in Bookshop Gallery
Entrance free
www.npg.org.uk

Portrait Photography Prize 2007
at National Portrait Gallery, London
until 24 February 2008
Admission fee £1.00
www.npg.org.uk




First Prize
Joseline Ingabire with her daughter Leah Batamuliza, Rwanda
from the series Intended Consequences: Mothers of Genocide, Children of Rape
by Jonathan Torgovnik

George Eastman House - Video Podcasts

Just found some good links to videos on You Tube for George Eastman House in the USA.

Check out the following "Welcome to the Photo Collection"



You can also subscribe to the video podcasts via itunes - click link for more details:
http://podcast.eastmanhouse.org/

Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis Exhibition
Until 26 January 2008
The Hackelbury Gallery, 4 Launceston Place, London W8
Free admission

All images are being shown in the UK for the first time.

For more info: www.hackelbury.co.uk

Mary Weinberger at Dimbola Lodge
until November 25 2007 in the Tearoom.
Mary currently has her pinhole photographs on exhibition at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight.

For more info: click here

Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year
National History Museum
Until 27 April 2008
Entrance fee applies
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/events/detail.jsp?key=13112

Jane Bown Exhibition
Unknown Bown
Until Friday 25 January 2008
at The Newsroom, Guardian and Observer Archive Visitor Centre
Entrance free.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/story/0,,2155557,00.html

Born 1947 - Camera Press at 60
National Portrait Gallery, London
From 30 October 2007
Room 38a - Entrance Free

This display marks the sixtieth anniversary of photo agency Camera Press and features photographs by founder Tom Blau of subjects from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s such as Daphne du Maurier, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier and John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
It also displays newly commissioned works of eminent British people in 1947, photographed by leading photographers such as Jillian Edelstein, Mary McCartney, Bryan Adams and Perou.
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wocamerapress.asp

The Genius of Photography - New Series on BBC4
Starts Thursday 25th Oct
(repeated on Mondays at 8pm)
Follow the story of photography in BBC Four's six-part series 'The Genius of Photography'. See some of the most famous photographs ever taken and find out more about what made them so very special.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/

Photography Guide in The Guardian

On Saturday October 27 the Guardian is giving away a free 100 page guide.
Read about what inspired professionals such as Martin Parr, Anton Corbijn, Jane Bown and Sam Taylor-Wood, and gain invaluable practical advice from our expert workshops.
Also, from Monday 29 October, G2 will run a daily photography tutorial which will give readers the chance to send in their own photographs to be critiqued by professional photographers.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/photography/0,,,00.html

Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now (over 18s only)
Barbican Art Gallery
Until 27 January 2008
Entrance charge applies
Features photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki and Robert Mapplethorpe among others.
DO NOT GO IF EASILY SHOCKED!
http://www.barbican.org.uk/

Taken from the Daily Herald Picture Library

at National Media Museum, Bradford
Until February 17 2008
Entrance free.
For more info: http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/

Sarah Jones
at National Media Museum in Bradford.
Until 17 February 2008
Entrance free
For more info: www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

Hereford Photography Festival.
Britain's longest running photography festival.
On until 27 October 2007 in various locations in Hereford.
This year's theme is South Africa.

For more info - http://www.photofest.org/