enews

As mentioned in our last enews the BMC recently launched our brand new jobs listing page on our website:

www.mediacentre.org/news/job_listings

This service is completely free to clients and is all part of our intention to make the media centre work for you.

We currently have a few jobs posted on the site from internal clients if you wish to check them out.

Streets for People is a free event to celebrate Car Free Day in Brighton & Hove. The Lanes, New Road, Jubilee Street and Jubilee Square will be transformed into pedestrian friendly spaces with live music, performances and activities for everyone to enjoy.

The event has been well publicised and aims to encourage people to shop, dine, listen to live music, visit a specially created 'forest' and a children's area and enjoy the city at it's best. There will be two live stages in the Lanes area, one on Little East Street and the other on Prince Albert Street/Meeting House Lane.

Brighton’s unique World Sacred Music Festival is going places this year – by bus.

The Festival has joined forces with Brighton & Hove bus company to bring great live music to passengers and brighten up their journeys with inspirational performances of sacred music, from Gospel singing to solo violin.

“We wanted to bring the Festival to people who otherwise might not get to see it,” says Kate Whyman, artistic director. “Brighton has a popular bus service, so this seemed like a great way to do it.” Performances are scheduled for Friday 9 and Sunday 11 October on a special double-decker “Routemaster” as it picks up passengers on the No 7 bus route from Hove to Brighton Marina.

This year’s Festival, which is on the theme ‘South’, features a feast of music and dance from Africa, India, South America and Southern Europe, with a strong thread of Gypsy, flamenco and indigenous traditions.

Highlights include: Catalan Gypsy band Tekameli from Perpignan; Indian sitar maestro Kartik Seshadri; kora virtuoso Seckou Keita with his international quintet; Zimbabwean ‘Queen of Mbira’ Stella Chiweshe; and Brazil’s Marlui Miranda, the world’s leading exponent of indigenous Amazonian music.

An exhibition of lens based art

September 16th - 30th
Private View @ 6pm Thursday 17th

It has never been so easy to take photographs or make beautiful images. The sophistication and cheap availability of current photographic technology makes it possible for all of us to pull out of the bag an occasional stunning image.

In such a context, ironically, developing a strong sense of what might constitute a photographic art practice is much more challenging.

How, from within what Kracauer called ‘the flood of photographs’, can we begin to define a serious, experimental interrogation of the medium, one that will aid us in confronting our passive subjection to the pleasures of the image?

How can we create a practice that will enable us to work around the determining influences of the technology and instead use that technology to reflect upon the ways in which photography makes meaning in the world?

The photographers in this exhibition, all part-time students on the MA Photography at the University of Brighton, are engaged in finding an answer to this set of questions.

Working across a range of related media and genres: video, photography, documentary, portraiture, high allegory, archival practice, conceptual art, they are each, in their different ways seeking a way of working with the relationship between the changing network of technologies that constitutes photography today and deeper, historically rooted questions about how we can make pictures that adequately reflect our experience of modernity, our relationship to place, our sense of what it is to be a person, and our ability to imaginatively reconstruct the world in a way that will allow us to reflect upon it.

Crane Kalman Brighton is very pleased to present the work of eight photographers producing very unique and unusual images which all explore the art of the hand-made print. Chiropoesis: Foundations of Photography is an exhibition curated by photographic publisher Paul Daskarolis and will run at Crane Kalman Brighton from 28th September to 11th October 2009.
               
It was from the laboratories of Talbot and Herschel in the 1830s and 40s that the foundations of photography were laid. The early methods of hand-coating paper with solutions of gold, silver and salt saw photography into the industrial revolution, where factory processes made photographic printing widely available.

As this chapter of history is closing, eclipsed by the ease and availability of digital printing, new research by Dr. Mike Ware - a leading chemist, photohistorian and exhibiting photographer - and hours of experimentation by many dedicated practitioners has re-established a new standard of photographic printing - chiropoesis - the art of the hand-made print.

Presented in this exhibition is the work of eight artists employing gold, platinum, silver, Prussian blue, flower petals, gum and casein to produce prints of exceptional quality using contemporary wet-processing methods. The gold and platinum prints rank amongst the most archival in the world, with the flower petal prints defining fleeting impermanence.

Darren Edwards - a UK-based artist with MA & BA degrees in Fine Art. Showing chrysotype prints forming part of the "Our Infinite Day-trip" installation, an Arts Council England funded project on Sonora Island in Canada.
           
Tom Hawkins - a US-based artist with an MA in Landscape Architecture. Showing platinotype prints from the "Salt Harvest: Bonaire" series produced on the Dutch Antilles, as well as the original chrysotypes published in "Gold in Photography: The History and Art of Chrysotype".

Martin Helmut Reis - Born Germany, working in Canada as a photojournalist and visual artist. Showing anthotype prints made from the natural dyes found in flower petals (using his own soon to be published formula).