Merry Xmas (E-card)

The Photography department Winter E-card, distributed to a long list of contacts. Thanks Emily (Wise), great image! Visit the interactive card here

Occupation: Call For Student Submissions

Occupation:

Free Art Space – Free Education

Deadline 18 December

To highlight the importance of their influence on our city, Bank Street Arts is offering free access to our Project Spaces for students to create, exhibit or otherwise occupy. We invite proposals for the creative use of the spaces from anyone currently studying, in any field, in any institution, at any level.

While thousands of students and educators march, occupy and resist on the streets of London, Leeds, Sheffield and nearly every other University town, the ConDem Coalition pushes forward its regressive education agenda. Educators say that arts courses are likely to suffer heavily from the fee hike, with many poorer young people unlikely to take the financial risk. A large proportion of the artistic community in Sheffield is made up of students and graduates from our Universities and Colleges. The cultural face of our city is at risk.

To highlight the importance of their influence on our city, Bank Street Arts is offering free space for the first three months of 2011 specifically to students. The three Project Spaces, usually offered to our Artists In Residence, will be offered for approximately a week per proposal (although we will consider other periods), for a period of three months, as part of an open residency for students. All proposals will be considered no matter how large or small in scale and ambition, political or pedestrian. Illustration, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, moving image, sound, graphic and even non art based practices. Proposals can be from individuals or groups.

To submit a proposal, send by e-mail to: media@bankstreetarts.com

The deadline for submission is the 18th December 2010.

Initial submissions should include a short written proposal of what you intend to do with the space. You may send up to four images as examples of your proposed project or of relevant previous work (please include a website reference if you have one). Please also include the your full contact details and any other information that you feel may be important. Please also send the name and e-mail address of a tutor at your institution so we can verify the status of the proposal.

Work exhibited at Bank Street Arts is subject to our exhibitions policy, available by request at info@bankstreetarts.com.

What is England

What is England is a project initiated by photographer and curator Stuart Pilkington. Not only does it offer a vast collection of images and a fantastic insight into different parts of England, but offers a great depository of photographers so you can learn about, their specialism, how/why they picked up photography, etc.

"The photographers have complete freedom as to how they respond to the [ above-mentioned] assignments. And hopefully by the end of 2010 the 300 images submitted over the course of the year will help to answer the brief 'What is England?'."

In Transit 12

In Transit 12

Unlike the traditional 'photomontage' technique of overlaying printed images to form a unified picture – which everyone from me to David Hockney has had a go at (why not just use a wide angle lens?) – Kuffer's creations suggest what is and isn't there in any given stretch of time. Almost like a still image of a whole film, if that were possible.

After experimenting with the medium, Kuffer explains on his website, he became frustrated at only being able to capture "instants".

"So, I decided to hack photography," he writes, "[taking] the technique behind movie making and applying it to my photos. Photographing the same instant several times, slicing and dicing the results and mixing it all together chronologically. This way I was able to capture a moment, not showing what exactly happened, but at least showing that a moment happened."

Photographer Website, Text taken from Creative Review Blog

InCamera: Exhibition

InCamera: Nation

Bank St Arts, Sheffield 07/12/2010 - 18/12/2010

There is a fantastic eclectic collection of exhibitions showing at Bank St arts at the moment - well worth seeing! But the one I suspect you will be most interested in is the one above; some great photography by local photographers, and interestingly the show is viewed via a television screen.

Graduate Photographers: Charlotte Cotton Selection

Charlotte Cotton is the Director of the Media Museum in London and important author on Photography. Charlotte makes her selection of the most inspiring graduates this year on the source website...

Photo Dept E-card

Photo Dept E-card

We are looking for an image to grace the front of the photo dept e-card, distributed to a large number of contacts, including photo suppliers, universities, galleries, etc.

Can you provide one image that offers an imaginative response to this wonderful winter weather?

Open to Year ONE & TWO and submission must be via google docs (yeah!)

The chosen image may be printed and mounted.

Closing date December 10.