Our friends at the William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné project have announced the news that Brian Liddy, formerly curator of collections access at the National Media Museum, Bradford, has been appointed the project's first research assistant.
BPH will bring news of former NMeM staff in due course.
Read more about Brian's appointment here: http://foxtalbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/blog/ and why not sign up for the weekly blog alert at the same time?
Two jobs are being advertised by the National Media Museum, Bradford. Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology, to manage, develop, research, interpret and present the collections of the National Media Museum, To work with a wide range of different partners – academics, enthusiasts, communities – to foster knowledge of the collections and their scientific, technological and cultural significance, and to inspire audience understanding of and engagement with these collections;
and Collections Project Manager,The National Media Museum is planning to transfer the Royal Photographic Society Collection to the V&A. This project will enable the V&A to invest in cataloguing and digitising the collection in order to provide greater public access. This role offers an opportunity to play a central role in ensuring the future one of the best photography collections in the country. You will be responsible for planning and co-ordinating efficient and effective delivery of the work packages to time and budget, in close collaboration with colleagues at NMeM and the V&A. You will bring together specialist teams and contractors, and liaise closely to consider and advise on opportunities, impacts, logistics and dependencies.
For full details see: https://vacancies.nmsi.ac.uk/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSearch=True&MenuID=6Dqy3cKIDOg=&VacancyID=1351 and https://vacancies.nmsi.ac.uk/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSearch=True&MenuID=6Dqy3cKIDOg=&VacancyID=1350
Autograph APB is to present the first major exhibition of photographs by Raphael Albert (1935-2009), cultural promoter and photographer of black beauty pageants in west London from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The exhibition runs from 8 July-24 September 2016 and admission is free.
For more than three decades, Albert documented hundreds of popular dance, music and community events while building up a special portfolio of portraits of aspiring models. His long and successful career as a promoter and chronicler of beauty pageants included the establishment of Miss Black and Beautiful, Miss West Indies in Great Britain, and Miss Grenada. Albert, who came to England from Grenada in 1953, also founded his own magazine Charisma in 1984, and associated modelling school. In response to contemporaneous mainstream fashion and lifestyle platforms where black women were largely absent or at best marginal, these competitions celebrated the global ‘Black is Beautiful’ aesthetic of the 1970s in a local context.
Together with the obligatory bathing costumes and high heels, contestants often sported large Afro hairstyles, inventing and reinventing themselves on stage while articulating a particular black femininity as part of a widely contested cultural performance. These pageants offered the opportunity to create a distinct space for Afro-Caribbean self-articulation, a wager against invisibility, and importantly, a site to challenge conventional notions of beauty implicated in the social, cultural, and political contexts of the time.
The exhibition's curator, Renée Mussai says: "This historical archive offers a unique and fascinating collection of rarely seen photographs that document the ambivalent cultural performance of gendered and raced identities at a particular historical conjuncture. Imbued with an exquisite, revolutionary sensuality and a certain joie de vivre, Raphael Albert’s photographs embody an aura of hedonistic confidence in a new generation of black women coming of age in Britain during the 1970s, fuelled by complex (body) politics of national identity, difference and desire."
After Albert’s death in 2009, Autograph ABP began working with two of the photographer’s daughters, Vikkie Albert and Susan Ibuanokpe, to preserve his extensive collection of negatives and prints - a dedicated portfolio is now represented as part of the Autograph ABP Archive & Research Centre.
The exhibition will showcase over 50 modern exclusive black and white fibre prints, colour and vintage photographs, as well as a selection of archive materials and ephemera. Many of these photographs are now shown for the first time as a curated selection, carefully selected and produced from original negatives.
Raphael Albert Raphael Albert (1935-2009) was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada. After moving to London in the 1950s, he studied photography at Ealing Technical College whilst working part-time at Lyons cake factory. Albert then became a freelance photographer working for black British newspapers such as West Indian World – for whom one of his first assignments was documenting Miss Jamaica. He also took pictures for The Gleaner, Caribbean Times and New World. In 1970 he established the local contest Miss Black and Beautiful, followed in 1974 by Miss Teenager of the West Indies in Great Britain and Miss West Indies in Great Britain. He organised and photographed numerous pageants celebrating black British beauty throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s and eventually founded his own modelling school. He remained committed to capturing the Caribbean communities in his London area throughout his life, often taking home-studio portrait photographs for local families, and avidly documenting weddings, christenings, and other social events. In 2007 Albert presented a Black History Month display of his work entitled Miss West Indies in Great Britain: Celebrating 30 Years of Beauty Pageants (1963-1993) at the Hammersmith and Fulham Information Centre.
See more here: http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/miss-black-and-beautiful
Image: Raphael Albert, Miss Black & Beautiful Sybil McLean with fellow contestants, Hammersmith Palais, London, 1972. From the portfolio 'Black Beauty Pageants'. Courtesy of © Raphael Albert/Autograph ABP
A petition, which will be presented to the mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône has been launched to support musée Nicéphore Niépce. Nearly 5000 people have already signed. The highly regarded museum has suffered 60 per cent budget cuts over the past two years and the petition asks the mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône to guarantee the financial resources necessary for the operation of the museum.
The public service mission and activities of the museum are being challenged by budgetary restrictions imposed by the municipality: including a nearly 60 per cent budget cut and an acquisition budget cut from €43,000 in 2015 to €14 000 in 2016. The cuts will have serious consequences on the collection, exhibitions and cultural mediation.
The collection was conceived and developed since 1974, and has nearly 3 million images, objects and books. It is one of the richest devoted to photography in France and Europe. The active acquisition policy, focusing on contemporary photography, provides institutional and international recognition to photographers.Temporary exhibitions support a highly regarded cultural public service mission and foster public discussion.
See and sign the petition here.
See the museum's English website here to read more: http://en.museeniepce.com/
The advent of photography in 1839 catapulted Victorian society into a new age of science, art and leisure. Previously only the wealthy could possess a painted portrait, but photography was cheaper and democratised the privilege of owning a likeness. A variety of forms soon emerged including the carte-de-visite, the daguerreotype, albumen prints, family photograph albums and stereoscopes.
This exhibition explores some of the ways that early photography was enjoyed by a society that quickly become obsessed with the new technology. See how the industry boomed and the culture of celebrity was born.
Close Up & Personal: Victorians & Their Photographs is a new interactive exhibition of photography and photographic items from the Watts Gallery Collection, with loans from the London Stereoscopic Company. See images of Victorian celebrities, and discover the rise of photography as art through the images of Julia Margaret Cameron and Henry Holiday. Interact with stereoscopic viewers (the first 3D photographic technique), and take a Victorian-style selfie.
Events
24 June: Watts at Dusk: Camera Obscura
16 July: Watts Academy Workshop: Pinhole Cameras
25 July: Study Day: Victorian Stereoscopes with Denis Pellerin
29 July: Watts at Dusk: Light & Shadow
4, 11, 18, 25 August: Free Family Drop-in: Photography Studio
19 August: One Day Workshop: Photography
25 August: Curator Breakfast Tour
12, 19, 26 Sept, 3, 10 October: Five Week History of Art & Design Course: Photography in the Victorian Age with Colin Ford CBE Hon FRPS, Bronwen Colquhoun, Denis Pellerin, Rhian Addison and Hilary Underwood
12 October: Evening Talk: The Dawn of Photography - From the Camera Obscura to the Kodak Brownie with Rob Dickins
See more at: http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/en-gb/whats-on/close-personal-victorians-their-photographs/
Watts Gallery Artists' Village, Down Lane, Compton, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 1DQ
The Moscow Multimedia Art Museum has announced the launch of a new portal, History of Russia in Photographs, which exhibits around 80,000 photos dating from 1860 to 2000. The museum's director, Olga Sviblovo, said the portal's goal was to unite all museum and private photo collections in order to create a 'visual Wikipedia on Russian history in photos.'
Sliders allow a user to select and see photographs from a particular period or images can be search by name or keyword. 'We're now developing the site's English version and perfecting the auto translator because searching on the site is done through tags'. explained Sviblova. Google's auto translate facility provides a workable site, although tags are in Cyrillic at the moment.
The project brings together photographic material from all of Moscow's museums and the state archive, as well as with regional museums and the heirs of well-known Russian photographers. Users can also post their own photos, enhance the images and act as curators by creating their own exhibitions with accompanying texts and comments.
See: https://russiainphoto.ru/
Image: Stallion Lyudmil, c.1860-1870s. From the collection of the Grand Duke Nicholas. Source: MAMM / MDF.
While St Andrews is world-renowned as the home of golf, BPH readers will know the important role the town has played nationally and internationally in photography from the 1840s to today. A new photography festival, which launches in August, will celebrate the role and importance of St Andrews in the world of photography and engage with those who live, work in and visit the town.
BID Chairman, Alistair Lang, explains: “We are one of the most photographed and filmed towns in the world, yet few realise much of the technology we enjoy the benefits of today began with the work of a collection of photographic pioneers who lived and worked in St Andrews in the 1800s.”
Dr John Adamson is perhaps the most celebrated – a blue plaque adorns the wall of his former home in the town on South St, now The Adamson Restaurant. But many other names are to be celebrated for the role they played, including Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Thomas Rodger and Sir David Brewster.
The first six-week-long festival – from August 1 to 11 September - will see events and exhibitions focus on the earliest days of photography in St Andrews as well as Scottish documentary photography over the last 175 years and contemporary photography.
The festival will put some of the photographic highlights of the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections on show as well as creating a showcase for contemporary Scottish photography.
Up to 15 local businesses will be involved, including cafés and restaurants, hosting small-scale exhibitions. There will also be tours, seminars, workshops and talks including guest photographers as well as workshops to demonstrate a variety of photographic processes including calotype and collodion - two of the earliest and those used by the town’s renowned pioneers of the art.
The exhibitions will include:
There will also be a number of events, including a ‘Become a Street Photographer’ youth workshop, a Victorian Tintype Studio, a photographic tour of St Andrews and talks by photographers including Hamish Brown on his travels in Morocco.
Alistair adds: “Today’s technology ensures we can all be photographers and we’re inviting everyone to be a part of this unique festival which we hope will become a regular fixture in the town’s calendar.”
“This event is about participation – engaging with people who live and work in the town as well as those visiting during the festival. We’ll also be using the event to reach out to those who like, follow and otherwise engage with us on digital and social media channels worldwide…using photographs.”
“The festival includes indoor and outdoor venues – making use of the town’s stunning setting and landscape to showcase work and engage with photographers of all ages. It will also provide an opportunity for businesses across the town to get involved and interact with customers in new ways.”
The St Andrews Photography Festival will run from 1 August to 11 September 2016.
For details as they’re revealed, go to the Festival Facebook page at www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest/
On 30 June there is a party to celebrate Studies in Photography the journal of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography SSHoP) at the Scottosh National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. From the relaunch of the journal will appear as a twice yearly publication with this Anniversary Edition that takes as its inspiration the 1996 edition which featured the work of several photographers who exhibited in the seminal exhibition Light From the Dark Room at the National Galleries of Scotland in 1995.
International Photography Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Anne Lyden, will welcome guests followed by distinguished photographic artist Alexander Hamilton, Chair of SSHoP (Scottish Society for the History of Photography), who will introduce us to the work of the society and its journal, which is now for the first time available to the general public.
Edinburgh based photographic artist and co-editor of SSHoP’s biannual publication, Robin Gillanders, will announce forthcoming events and lectures.
Members of SSHoP committee will be present along with a number of renowned photographers featured in the journal to meet attendees, sign books and discuss their work, including Patricia Macdonald, Catriona Grant, David Williams, Calum Colvin, Owen Logan, Ron O’Donnell, Ian Stewart and Thomas Joshua Cooper.
Enjoy an evening of live jazz, drinks and receive a 15% off* purchases made on the night, including Studies in Photography and publications by key photographers from the Society.
The SNPG Gallery will be open for viewing during the event until 7pm.
Two more titles have appeared in the RAI Anthropology and Photography on-line pamphlet series. Catherine de Lorenzo and Juno Gemes, From Resistance Towards Invisibility and Shireen Walton, Photographic Truth in Motion: The Case of Iranian Photoblogs.
Both are available without charge to download at: https://www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-and-photography
At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Demachy (1859-1936) was one of the most famous photographers in the world. As the leader of the French school of pictorial photography, he fought tirelessly for the recognition of photography as a means of artistic creation. Demachy remains particularly important for his masterly use of pigment processes which enabled pictorial photographers to deeply modify the print for the sake of 'interpretation', then considered as the ultimate way to give a photograph its artistic value.
Robert Demachy’s work is far from being limited to these very impressive achievements.This exhibition gathers a hundred photographs, most hitherto unseen which show the breadth of his photography.
Normandy was a haven, as much as a source of inspiration, for Demachy, an aesthete who, although belonging to the Parisian upper class, dreamt of a simple life in the country. He was very fond of the Côte Fleurie where he spent each summer and which became the setting of many of his landscapes, portraits and snapshots.
The exhibition Robert Demachy. Impressions de Normandie was conceived as a journey. A journey through the Calvados region for one, but more importantly a journey into the creation of a photographic work from the creation of the negative to the public exhibition of a personal interpretation of the initial subject. Eighty years after his death in a small country house on the heights of Hennequeville (near Trouville), the Musée Villa Montebello has decided to pay tribute to Robert Demachy, a true artist and lover of Normandy who had elected, as a means of expression, not the brush, the pencil or the chisel, but the camera.
Curated by Julien Faure-Conorton, this exhibition is part of the 'Normandie Impressionniste' Festival. A catalogue (in French) is published in conjunction with the exhibition (Cahiers du Temps Editions, 120 pages).
See more here: http://www.cahiersdutemps.fr/robert-demachy-impressions-de-normandie-f218028.html
Robert Demachy. Impressions de Normandie. Photographies du Calvados 1880-1920
June 18, 2016 – September 25, 2016
Open: Wednesday to Sunday – 10am to noon and 2pm to 5.30pm
Musée Villa Montebello
64, rue Général Leclerc - Trouville-sur-Mer, France
www.museevillamontebello.com
Image: Robert Demachy, Trouville Harbour, 1911-1914, oil transfer print, private collection.
Philippe Garner, who held the first photography auction in the United Kingdom in 1971 at Sotheby's and then moved, via Phillips, to Christie's in 2004, retired from the auction world on 31 May 2016.
Garner joined Sotheby's training scheme in 1970. In March 1971, he took charge of the fledgling department devoted to Art Nouveau and Art Deco and was also asked to coordinate the first specialist auction of photographs in the United Kingdom, scheduled for December 21st that year. Photographs were one of the new fields in the innovative programme of Sotheby’s Belgravia, a satellite auction project devoted to overlooked areas of the 19th and 20th centuries. After thirty-one years with Sotheby’s, Garner joined Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg in September 2002 and moved to Christie's in 2004 as their International Head of Photographs and of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design.
Garner has built an international reputation for the breadth and depth of his knowledge. Among the highlights of his auction career were the historic dispersals in 1999 and 2002 of photographs from the celebrated collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes.
Garner has been a trustee of the Photographers' Gallery, London and he currently sits on the Advisory Board of the National Media Museum and on the Board of the Helmut Newton Foundation. Among his particular interests is the story of fashion and its related areas of photography and he has published widely on this field, producing monographs on Cecil Beaton and 60s photographer John Cowan and essays on numerous photographers including Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, and Irving Penn. Garner has also curated a number of exhibitions including ‘A Seaside Album – photographs and memory’ in 2003, drawn from his own collection of the history of photography in the town of Brighton, and ‘Antonioni’s Blow-Up’ in 2006, exploring photography within this cult film. Garner was contributed texts to publications for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Albertina, Vienna, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Garner received The Royal Photographic Society's Award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2011.
He has been a key figure in the development of photography’s place in the art market as well as supporting photography more widely during his career. A video of Garner talking about the market for photography and his role can be watched here.
See also: http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2016/06/01/article/15990788
Image: Philippe Garner / © Christie's
This post was updated on 29 August 2016 with additional information supplied by Philippe Garmer.
A workshop co sponsored by The Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Law, LSE.
The history of photography and the legal presentation of documentary proof enjoyed a complex relationship from the nineteenth century onwards, which was variously fuelled by pragmatism and suspicion. This workshop aims to examine the ways in which photographic technologies have contributed, both practically and symbolically, to the construction of particular legal, evidential and affective modes of vision. Criminal mugshots, passport photographs and other forms of official and domestic styles of photographing the face will be considered in their historical and geographical contexts and in relation to forms of gendered colonial and post-colonial identity. The workshop will be informal and structured around 30-minute papers, with generous time for discussion amongst the audience.
To see the programme and to book tickets click here.
The British Journal of Photography, the world’s second longest continuously running photography magazine, has announced that it is raising funds using a thoroughly new method: by offering shares to its readers and followers via crowdfunding website CrowdCube. Due to unprecedented demand the campaign has reached its initial funding goal within hours of going live, with up to 28 days still left for investors to get involved.
Established in 1854, BJP has changed dramatically since its early Victorian roots as a weekly gentleman's journal discussing the science of photography. It now encompasses a high-quality, recently redesigned monthly print magazine, award-winning apps for iPad and iPhone, and an expanding series of events and social media channels that reach more than a million people. Combining an artistic, contemporary focus with a technological savvy, BJP sits in a unique space in the industry.
Against declining sales for print magazines globally, BJP is part of the recent boom in independent publishing, and has increased its international subscription base by 70% over three years while building a wider international readership via its apps and online.
BJP is seeking fresh investment to bring its archive - which spans over 160 years of content - to the public via the web. Over 180,000 pages, encompassing all of photographic history, have already been scanned and digitised.
It also plans to expand its online editorial coverage globally, to grow its programme of live events, and to enable photographers to sell their images to its international audience.
With one of the oldest photography magazines in the world embracing a thoroughly modern investment model, equity crowdfunding allows BJP’s dedicated readership an opportunity to share in the future of a photographic institution.
Marc Hartog, CEO & Founder: “We have over 650,000 people who follow us on social media because they love what we do. We want to give them the chance to be a part of our future plans by offering them a share of the company. Crowdfunding has become mainstream in the short three years since starting our business, and this interesting new platform has created an opportunity for us to give our readers and followers the chance to invest in our profitable and growing business, and to own a piece of photographic history from as little as £10."
To register your interest or find out more visit: bjp.photo/invest
The BJP pitch page is now live at www.crowdcube.com/bjp
Contact: Marc Hartog / marc@apptitudemedia.co.uk
Established in 1854, British Journal of Photography is the world’s second longest, continually published, and most influential photography magazine, defining the future of contemporary photography. It is available as a premium-quality monthly print magazine, as well as online, iPad, and iPhone publications. BJP has a combined audience of more than a million creatives worldwide.
Anthropology & Photography is a new open-access publication series edited by the RAI Photography Committee. Emerging from the international conference of the same name organized by the RAI at the British Museum in 2014, the series will highlight and make available to the widest possible audience the best new work in the field.
The second in the RAI Anthropology and Photography on-line pamphlet series has been published and is available for free via download. It is titled: Emilie Le Febvre, A Shaykh's Portrait: Images and Tribal History amongst Bedouin in the Negev
See more and download here: https://www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-and-photography
This one-day international symposium, held at the V&A, London, will explore Paul Strand’s breakthrough pictures, his experiments with film in the 20’s and 40’s beside significant place projects conceived as books from Ghana to the Hebrides. Speakers include Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Writer and Journalist, Sean O’Hagan, Academics, Barnaby Haran and Fraser MacDonald, Artists Paul Duke and Nii Obodai and Curator Osei Bonsu.
Booking details below and the programme can be seen here: https://shop.vam.ac.uk/whatson/index/view/id/1246/event/Reframing-Paul-Strand/dt/2016-06-03/eType/1/free/2
Digitisation is strategically valuable for collections on multiple levels; opening up access to records for an international audience, providing a crucial revenue stream and fulfilling the duty of preservation.
The National Archives’ experience in imaging collections has progressed since microfilming in the 1960s to digitising microfilm collections in the early noughties; developing into our current mass digitisation programme where we produce both digital surrogates from our physical collections and digitised accessions, all created to an industry standard.
Conservation is a crucial part of the digitisation process, therefore should be considered in the project planning phase. This webinar will discuss how The National Archives undertake conservation in a digitisation project. Topics of discussions will include the difference between conservation for digitisation versus other kinds of conservation; encompassing the personnel, judgement and techniques required to prepare collections for digitisation. There will also be information about the kind of document formats we digitise, managing the workflow and document handling training for digitisation operators.
This 45 minute webinar will be presented by Catt Baum, Senior Conservation Manager in our Digitisation Services division. There will be an opportunity for questions in our ‘Ask the Expert’ session at the end.
Free; Thursday, 21 July 2016 from 14:00 to 15:00 (BST)
A new website looking at early Norfolk photography has been launched by John Benjafield. The site aims to provide reference material and place the region's photography into a wider context.
Mirjam Brusius, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bodleian Libraries and the History Faculty, has been awarded the prestigious Aby Warburg Prize, which is awarded every four years to early career researchers. The prize - awarded by the City of Hamburg, Germany - is named after the Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the most influential thinkers in art history and cultural studies in the 20th century.
Dr Brusius received the award for her research, which uses the interdisciplinary ‘Warburgian’ approach to study the work of photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, whose personal archive is held in the Bodleian Libraries. Warburg used large collections of photographs to compare different images to one another and draw broader conclusions about the visual, art history and antiquity. Dr Brusius’ research examines how Talbot used a similar approach decades earlier, and how he used photographs to classify objects and make sense of them in the context of scholarship and museums. She has published a monograph, a co-edited volume and several articles on this topic and continues to study questions of cultural transmission and the cultural significance of antiquity in European museums.
The Aby Warburg Prize is given to both eminent established scholars and junior researchers in the scholarly field of arts, culture and the humanities. Dr Brusius won the junior award, which includes a cash prize of 10,000 Euros, and she will receive the award at a ceremony in Hamburg in November 2016.
You can read more about Mirjam here: https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/mirjam-brusius/
The BFI has announced progress towards realising its ambition to build a new International Centre for Film, TV and the Moving Image, with an offer of support of up to £87m towards the £130m total project cost, subject to a tender process beginning. The BFI hopes to open the new building to the public in 2022.
The BFI is at the heart of film in the UK with a network of partners and alliances, filmmakers and audiences that together create an environment where film, TV and the moving image as a cultural art-form and economic driver can flourish. The major new cultural venue on London’s South Bank (on the existing Hungerford Car Park site) will be a flagship national home for this most diverse, influential and rapidly evolving art-form.
The new Centre will be the final piece in the development of London’s South Bank Cultural Quarter reflecting the UK’s worldwide reputation for creativity and achievement in film, TV and moving image. It will fuel the imagination of both the public and industry; giving visitors - from school children to award-winning creatives - new experiences in film whilst providing a hub for filmmakers, artists and industry professionals to meet, exchange ideas, showcase their work and develop skills.
Highlights include:
The BFI is currently working closely with the other key landowners (Southbank Centre, Braeburn Estates, Jubilee Gardens Trust and Lambeth Council) and the local community to ensure that the development will be sensitively designed to complement an expanded Jubilee Gardens. The new Centre will occupy a riverside position on London’s South Bank and as part of this development Braeburn Estates will also create c.6,500 sqm of new green parkland on Jubilee Gardens, dramatically extending the current space between The London Eye and Hungerford Bridge.
One of the ambitions for the Centre is to work with the BFI’s existing partners to share content digitally across the UK through a network of nationwide venues that can also host touring exhibitions and programmes and develop pioneering in-venue film education programmes. This builds on the success of the BFI’s UK-wide strategy, including its VOD platform BFI Player, the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) and a national film education programme through Into Film.
The new Centre has been welcomed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Leader of Lambeth Council Lib Peck and has been embraced by industry figures including Lord Puttnam, Idris Elba, Helen Mirren, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Hiddleston, amongst others. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “London is home to some of the world’s finest arts and cultural organisations, one of which is undoubtedly the BFI, an internationally renowned centre for independent cinema. These plans for a new state-of-the-art building offer a fantastic opportunity for the capital’s moving image artists. As well as strengthening London’s position as a global leader for the creative industries, the centre will create a new generation of TV and film lovers and give Londoners of all ages the chance to experience film and its amazing heritage in the UK.”
Amanda Nevill, BFI CEO said: “British film and British filmmakers deserve a home now more than ever, a building that will express our optimism, our confidence and our excitement about Britain’s leading role in the future of film, television and the moving image at home and internationally. It will be a place where filmmakers and audiences will come together to be inspired by our creative legacy and to be part of this most fast moving, dynamic and popular art-form.”
Lord David Puttnam said: “British film and TV is the envy of the world. We combine being at the forefront of the latest innovations in technology with a legacy of over 100 years of filmmaking driven by an extraordinary and seemingly endless pool of talent and creativity. Why then do we still not have a 'home' that reflects this? Tate Modern, The Royal Opera House, The National Theatre, The British Museum – every other major art-form have buildings to be proud of and which support their role in delivering culture to the world. This is what British film and TV have long needed and deserved – it’s also the initiative I've waited my whole life to celebrate!”
See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/international-centre-for-film-tv-and-the-moving-image
The Institute for Photography in Scotland is a newly formed association between The National Galleries of Scotland, The University of Glasgow, The University of St Andrews, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, and Stills, Edinburgh.
It aims to enable awareness of and engagement with Scotland’s photography, both nationally and internationally, and to promote collaboration amongst member bodies.One of its objectives is to carry details of photography events taking place in Scotland.
