The Photography Pages

If you missed yesterday’s fascinating tribute to Murray Martin at the Side Cinema and Gallery, the last film he made is currently being completed by Ellin Hare, his wife and lifelong collaborator. The clip above is from Shooting Magpies, made in 2005.

Pursuit of Happiness is full of clips that anyone who knows the north east will recognise as scenes once familiar, but now long gone. Gathering seacoal, racing gigs at Appleby, familiar and not forgotten. The launch of ships from the Walker shipyards and from the Wear were magnificent sights: the whole community would gather on the riverbanks to see the result of many months of gruelling labour, and Amber was there.

The ITV documentary Captured in Amber about the collective and its work is being repeated on Thursday 4th September at 11pm. Set your video contraptions, alarm clocks, stopwatches for that.

And this post is in part to remind Graeme Rigby and me to get in touch with each other, and so we will!

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“Most of the time they’ll do anything they can to prevent you from taking photos like this.”

NSFW!

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Experimenting with a cloud creator for a new project or two. Revealing: there’s more website building, and real bricks-and-mortar building than actual photography going on of late, and time seems to be quite a factor. Another one made for the nascent Artemis Foundation:

The idea is to use these as inspiration, to link concepts and ideas from brainstorm sessions or collections of suggestions to see where they take us. A way of showing what’s important to a group of people, perhaps. An aid to decision making.

They’d also make interesting visual artist statements.

Where do the squirrels come in? They collect things, useful store cupboard and nesting materials, and stash them somewhere they’ll definitely be unearthed and made useful at a later date. We’re thinking of all that darkroom equipment that’s been stored up these past few years. It’s being dusted down, brushed off, found a shiny new home.

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Ms Moll and the source of her tee shirt. Intriguing action there.

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Remember this? Okay. Things have moved on apace. If you replied there, you’ll have received an email inviting you to participate. The key points are:

What we will definitely be doing:

- Private Views and Gallery Space
- Darkrooms wet & digital
- Portfolio Reviews, Editing and Critique sessions
- Websites for Photographers (and artists) sessions
- more things that people suggest

Urgently Engaging With:
Very interested photographers and artists to get involved. People to be
on the management group, people who want to use the space for
exhibiting, learning, enjoying. Possibly a residency, workshops, all
that. If you can teach or speak, yeay. Most people can teach something,
oh yes.

TODAY and ALL NEXT WEEK
Urgently need cleaning, painting, decorating. Please bring old clothes.
Tea and coffee provided, local shops do sarnies but we can also make
‘em. Warm, clean overnight accommodation possible for the keenest.

There will be a preliminary meeting tomorrow, Sunday 3rd August, with another on Sunday 10th. The plan is to open the first Private View on the first weekend of September. You will be approached if we want you, but please email via the contact form if you’re interested in exhibiting.

Obviously priority will go to photographers who are involved, especially if they help with the repairs and painting. This is what the place looks like now, so there is a lot to do in four weeks.

Help!

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