LIVE PROJECTS

Date

Photographer

Brief Description

Website

20.06.11

Tom Fairclough

Local photographer Tom Fairclough presents images from his two Look2011exhibitions, Collateral, a local reminder of the human impact from the earlyday of mass, remote killing and also Urban Strawberry Lunch (USL), a local arts group who define stolen concepts like the big society but are facing extinction due to arts council funding cuts. USL were also a major contributor to the recorded archive of memories which helped create Collateral.

21.06.11

David J. Colbran

As public sector service cuts take place and plans about changes to the higher education system come into effect, there has been an uprising in street protest in the UK

http://www.djcdesign.co.uk

22.06.11

Flickr Photographers

Images from selected photograhers’ responses to the Look11 Flickr themes

23.06.11

Salford University 1^st Year Students

BA(Hons) Photography

An eclectic mix of photographic works produced by 1st year student’s form the BA (Hons) Photography programme at Salford University, which launched in September 2010. The BA (Honours) Photography programme at Salford is a broad based course, which aims to provide students with the opportunity, skills and knowledge to become flexible, creative contemporary lens based communicators. The resultant works are both diverse and engaging and showcase student’s creative, technical and personal approaches towards the practice of photography Final works themselves cross various genres of photography including, reportage, fine art, fashion, documentary and landscape therefore highlighting the varied nature of the discipline and that of the programme and its remit.

24.06.11

George Allen and

Peter Taylor

George Allen: Numb

A body of work inspired by mass media communication and information overload.

A series of photographs of seemingly disparate and unconnected broadcasted images captured over time. Images range from movies, gambling channels, rolling news broadcasts, obscure documentaries all combine to create a visual snapshot of our information age.

“Arriving home late from work, body tired but mind still awake, I turn on the television… movies, gambling channels, rolling news broadcasts, obscure documentaries, Americans selling perfect abs.

Any of them, all of them; they’ll do, they’ll work. Time passes….”

Peter Taylor: Unknown Stories:

Many crimes are never reported appropriately.­­­

More and more newspapers contain stories that the publishers believe will entice people to buy the paper, which has seen an increase in stories about the life and gossip of celebrities and politicians and less about local issues.

‘Unknown Stories’, is a collection of crime stories from Levenshulme and Gorton in Greater Manchester collated over the past 5 years.

These articles are often placed in the corners or beside larger stories where people tend not to notice them.

25.06.11

Lawrence George

Giles

There exists an almost ubiquitous prevalence of signs, signage and information graphics throughout our society, whether this be information signage, such as a notice that instructs, advises, informs, warns or commercial signage which is designed to cause recognition, familiarity and affiliation with the viewer.

The way in which we receive, digest and understand these has become almost second nature, resulting in these signs becoming almost ‘invisible’ to us within our daily landscape and everyday experience.

‘INVISIBLE SIGNS’ attempts to address this whilst additionally questioning the nature and use of these everyday structures within the environment.

Focus here relates to the physical and metaphysical ‘support’ for such mechanisms / devices and the impact that these have viscally when this is removed, raising questions as to their use, function, interpretation and meaning as part of our everyday experience.