Group Review this week of the project so far. Some students have shot a rehearsal, live gig and promo shots in the studio. Others are yet to do so. This is a brief catch up of where I am in the process of the submission for the year and the BIMM Brief.
Category: Photography
This week saw me attend a live gig for a band from BIMM Birmingham, only to catch the last three bars of their set, but I had fun stopping there to photograph the remaining bands that were playing in the Night Owl, Birmingham.
A symposium from the Royal Photographic Society’s Historical Group at the University of Wolverhampton on “the history and impact of photography.”
The third shoot in a collaboration between ourselves at University of Wolverhampton and BIMM University Birmingham. The band, Wooden Dog, were performing at The Spice Of Life in London’s Soho area, and I was there to take photos of them for my brief on Level 5 of the degree in Photography.
This Monday came around and Brian , my coursemate from the course at Wolverhampton University, had organised to meet Wooden Dog for a photo shoot at the BIMM Live Rooms.
A day out in early January to drive a Batmobile, visit Bisley Shooting centre and also Brunell Brutalist University.
The Exhibition is here, The Matter Of The Black Country, at Centrala. We still had to pick up the work, install it and prepare for the opening. This is a brief catch up on the evening of the opening and the work that leads up to it.
Day Two of the Matt Stuart Street Photography Workshop in London. Where we wander around the East End and then head over to the Barbican for a lovely fun feedback session.
Day One of a weekend of workshop with street photography legend, Matt Stuart. Find out which missions he sent us on and where wwe were shooting.
This week sees a scramble to get my freshly developed negatives of Dudley Zoo scanned in and then printed out in the darkroom. A session with Jim in the Print hub and a review of the project in the form of a presentation to the rest of the group.
With an assignment to submit, talk of the exhibition and steps left to complete before the set up. Then a quick chat with Euripides about non-standard film processing techniques.
Back to Dudley Zoo again to see if I can get some usable images out of a couple of rolls of Lomography Redscale 50-200. Featuring a YouTube video of som eof my journey around the zoo and how I chose to set up and take the images using my medium format camera.
Time for the conversation between photographers Richard Billingham and Tom Hicks, to discover more about the Black Country and its identity.
Today saw us have a day of production in advance of the Centrala exhibition in January. I concentrated on the rescale films that I’ve had back recently and spent some time printing in the dark room as well as some scanning in the basement.
This week was a bit of printing in the dark room, a presentation of the midway review and a trip to the art gallery.
After the lecturer doesn’t show it’s time to jump in the car and go and continue the project by visiting West Brom, one of the undisputable parts of the Black Country.