BA - Hons Photography IADT

Final stop - RWA
Our final stop was at the RWA, where the Photo Open group show was being exhibited. This show was part of the Bristol Photo Festival and had been delayed due to Covid and it was great to see work by so many different practitioners including Robert Darch and Helen Sear. Another exhibition at the Academy was A Bend in the River by Jem Southam; a very quiet body of work to round off our trip.
Royal West of England Academy
Bristol Photo Festival
Robert Darch

4th stop on Bristol Trip - ARNOLFINI
We then paid a visit to the Arnolfini Gallery, where they were celebrating a lifetime of Garry Fabian Miller’s work. This major exhibition also included collaborative works with other artists, including photographer Nicholas J R White.

3rd stop on Bristol Trip - SPIKE ISLAND
On Saturday morning we went for a studio visit at Garry Laughlin’s space at Spike Island. This was a great opportunity to meet an IADT alumni and talk through his approach to work and research when embarking on a photographic project.
Spike Island

In Issue 110 of Source, we talk to V&A Curator Marta Weiss about the museum's newly-expanded Photography Centre.

She told us about the two new “Photography Now” galleries for contemporary practice, the “Inside the Camera” gallery, with its two-room camera obscure and its timeline of technology, along with an expanded reading area, “Photography and the Book” and new educational features, with films considering various photographic processes.

Weiss said of the restructuring, “The Photography team has expanded … which is appropriate to the momentum and to the fact that it’s such an exciting time for us and one key position is the new funded post, the Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography [held by Fiona Rogers].”

Image: Vera Lutter - Radio Telescope, Effelsberg, XV, September 12, 2013.

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2nd stop for Bristol trip - The

The Martin Parr Foundation brought us on a tour of their archive where we saw original prints by Cartier Bresson, the Bechers, Krass Clement among others. We saw original maps of the H Block Prison donated by Donovan Wylie along with prints of the work. Also saw the original dummy book of Steven Gill’s The Pillar. Part of this tour showed us where all Martin Parr’s negatives are stored and filed. We spent time in the Foundation’s gallery and library and were invited to look through the working prints from Martin’s recent Irish exhibition that is showing around the world. We were shown the prints from recent and upcoming shows and how the gallery works with photographers when printing their work for exhibition. Thanks to Isaac and Louis at the foundation for a great tour.
Martin Parr Foundation

Whirlwind trip to Bristol for our BA - Hons Photography IADT.

Stop 1 - The Royal Photographic Society Lecture with Programmes Director Dr. Michael Pritchard.
Saw their selection of vintage cameras, learned about the bursaries they offer to graduates and practicing photographers. We also learned about their extensive collection which is housed at the V&A. Upstairs, we saw the International Photography Exhibition (IPE) 164, the world’s longest run­ning pho­tog­ra­phic exhi­bi­tion, which included lots of alternative processes.
The Royal Photographic Society

Delighted to introduce Sarah Grethe, who will be the next artist in our series of Instagram Residencies.

Hello, this is Sarah Grethe – a photographer from Hamburg. The interest of my work is on the dependence of the past versus the present in the context of my personal environment. I am happy to share my project “Sometimes the sky above us is open” with you.

It seeks an examination on the concept of home. I accompany my mother’s return to the place where she grew up: a farm in southern Germany. In the confrontation of an idealizing view and the distance from the actual place today, tensions between familiarity and strangeness, constancy and change become visible. They clarify how home, and origin can both carry and constrict.

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A wonderful exhibition not to be missed!

One week remaining to see ‘The Light of Day’, a major retrospective exhibition by a master of Irish photography, Tony O’Shea, presented by Photo Museum Ireland. A legendary figure in documentary photography, O’Shea is regarded as one of Ireland’s most important contemporary photographic artists. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland, this retrospective exhibition brings together for the first time his seminal bodies of work - ‘The Hill’, ‘Dubliners’, ‘Bird Men’, ‘Turkey Markets’, ‘Kingdom of Hounds’, ‘Border Roads’, ‘Ways of the Cross’, ‘Italia 90’ and ‘Never Forget’. Until 18 February 2023 Free entry. All welcome. #supportingartists #thelightofday #tonyoshea #dublinireland #dublinstreets #irishartist #artsireland #documentaryphotography #discoverdublin #artphotography #exhibitionlaunch @tonyoshea1697 @artscouncilireland @dublincitycouncil

Big thanks to Ed Dunne at Inspirational Arts for the informative and tactile workshop on papers and printing techniques for our Year 3 students.

Fantastic work along presented from Year 1 & Year 2 in the IADT corridors.