Title:
Photography Still Moving
Date:
19th March 2011
Time:
10.30am - 4.30 pm
Venue:
The Box, QUAD Market Place Cathedral Quarter Derby DE1 3AS UK
Tel:
0121 663 0101
Email:
info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Web:
www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Price:
£45.00 for the day, please click 'pay' below to book
Speakers:
Benjamin Chesterton and David White from DuckRabbit
Please Note: We regret to inform you that David White will not be speaking at the seminar, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond his control. He apologises deeply and will be replaced by Ciara Leeming - http://www.ciaraleeming.co.uk/
It may be one of the toughest times ever to be a photographer but it's also one of the most creatively exciting. The web has offered a multitude of exciting possibilities for getting photography out to new and ever increasing audiences but many photographers in the UK remain in the dark.
Creating a digital voice for your work might not be the magic bullet for your career but without one the decline could be terminal. Advertising agencies, galleries, newspapers, broadcasters are all thinking about one thing. How do we reach more people in deeper and more powerful ways? Photographers who want to thrive need to be asking the same question and coming up with some of the answers.
Photography Still Moving will explore just how still photographers from all disciplines can make the leap to digital storytelling. We'll show you the tools you need, as well as sharing how you can make money from multimedia.
NOTES
Benjamin Chesterton and David White
duckrabbit are an award winning UK based production and training company. Their work spans both advertising and journalism and they are the first company in the UK to have been commissioned to make photo led bi-media documentaries for the BBC. They have been twice nominated for the Amnesty International Media Award, as well as picking up awards from POYI and BOP.
FORMAT International Photography Festival
'Right Here Right Now, Exposures from the Public Realm, 4th March-3rd April 2011, Derby UK. go here for more details about the festival programme:
Rhubarb-Rhubarb
internationally renowned West Midlands-based Development Agency for photographic artists working with traditional and new technologies
Title:
The Crossing : WM1
Date:
26th March 2011
Time:
11am - 6pm
Venue:
The Theatre , The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham . B9 4AA
Tel:
0121 663 0101
Email:
info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Web:
www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Price:
please click 'pay' below to book : £10 per ticket for West Midlands participants and £20 for non West Midlands participants.
Speakers:
- Cashing In… Not Selling Out -
DAVID BIRKITT: A London based agent who talks about new markets and how to capitalise on your contacts.
CHRISTIAN PAYNE: A mobile media maker who tells dramatic tales of travel and technology and how they have enabled him to pay the bills.
- Shifting Terrain -
ED CLARK: A photographer with a reputation for combining ideas with an ability to work in sensitive situations. Ed will talk about how he has made his documentary practice into a fine art success.
MICHAEL DONALD: In 2010, he conceived of the idea and co-directed "I Scored a Goal in the FIFA World Cup Final", a series of short films and a one hour documentary. He will discuss how he translated the idea and exploited the value of IPR.
- Photography Still Moving -
BENJAMIN CHESTERTON & DAVID WHITE: DuckRabbit, UK based production and training company, will talk about the benefits of making your work into a multimedia platform and how making your stills into films could open up a whole new market.
Brought to you with the support of Arts Council England and The Custard Factory
Rhubarb brings this highly successful event to the West Midlands which was first delivered in London last October to great acclaim. The Crossing:WM builds on the feedback from the previous event, considers the issues facing regional artists and offers a stream lined one day seminar, with special deals for West Midlands based images makers.
The Crossing looks at the skills and awareness necessary to fulfill the creative aspirations and goals of artists working with photography and digital imaging. This is a unique and time sensitive opportunity, fuelled by the effects of the economic recession and the cuts to arts.
With concerns such as the future of funding and commissioning; the impact of social engagement on the print market; the overlaps between commercial, documentary and fine art; the demise of the white wall gallery and the
rise of the virtual showcase, stills becoming moving... and income generation becoming increasingly necessary.
The Crossing asks one question of photographers –
Are you going to stay where you are, live in the past, or cross
over into the new world offered to you through technology, tenacity and a mind shift around money, dependency, what is possible and how it can be achieved?
Held at Birmingham creative hub, the Custard Factory the event is designed to engage with participants from arts and digitally influenced practices. Cutting edge informers and creative business agents will deliver the latest thinking in where the image worlds are shifting to, and how photographers/interested others can be part of the new territories, from both a creative and economic viewpoint.
Please bring your portfolios along, for peer to peer discussions about your work.
Biogs:
David Birkitt
David has managed the careers of some of the world’s leading image-makers. Working internationally he has amassed over a decade of experience at the highest level of the visual industry working with artist that include Martin Parr, Nadav Kander, Mitch Epstein and Larry Sultan His latest venture is DMB Media, a company which offers a fresh perspective on worldwide project and personal career management for individuals and companies across the creative industries.
Christian Payne
Is a freelance mobile media maker who also specialises in Social Media & photography. An experienced journalist that has published in all the major British papers and many more overseas. Christian maintains and hosts blogs and podcasts with reader/listeners in over sixty countries.
Edmund Clark
Edmund Clark is best known for his imagery exploring the consequences of control and incarceration. Monographs include Baby Fathers: New Images of Teenage Fatherhood (2002), Still Life Killing Time (2007) and Guantanamo: If the light goes out (2010).His work has been acquired for national and international collections, including The National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Michael Donald
While much of Michael’s current work is for design studios he also shoots commissions for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer and The Guardian Weekend Magazines. His photographs have appeared in magazines the world over. He has contributed to several books. His own book, “The Regulars: Made in Belfast”, was published in 2004, to much acclaim.
In 2010 Michael conceived of the idea, and co-directed, I Scored a Goal in the FIFA World Cup Final, a series of short films and a one hour documentary, produced by Passion Pictures and broadcast world-wide on ESPN. His portraits form the series were published and exhibited world-wide.
Benjamin Chesterton and David White
duckrabbit are an award winning UK based production and training company. Their work spans both advertising and journalism and they are the first company in the UK to have been commissioned to make photo led bi-media documentaries for the BBC. They have been twice nominated for the Amnesty International Media Award, as well as picking up awards from POYI and BOP.