PhotoVoice Newsletter August 2008
PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2008
Tuesday 4th November 2008, 7pm
Reuters Building, Canary Wharf
Now in its 6th year, the PhotoVoice Auction has gained a reputation for bringing together prints from some of the most talented photographers in the world. This year’s collection not only includes prints by legends such as Herb Ritts, Barry Lategan, Lee Miller and George Rodger, but showcases some of the industry’s most up and coming photographers such as Ivor Prickett and Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Tickets and an online catalogue will be available on the PhotoVoice website late September.
Click here for more details.
PHOTOVOICE LECTURE SERIES
China: Portrait of a Country
In association with TASCHEN
Tuesday 23rd September, 7pm
Royal Geographical Society, London.
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Liu Heung Shing will be discussing his work and the way in which Chinese photographers have documented life in China since 1949.
Tickets - £10 pre booked / £15 on the door / £6 Friends of PhotoVoice
Click here for information or to buy tickets
PhotoVoice at The Affordable Art Fair 2008
Charity Private View: Wednesday 22nd October, 5.30 - 9.30pm
Battersea Park, London
As beneficiaries of The Affordable Art Fair Autumn 2008, PhotoVoice will be exhibiting and selling special edition prints by photographers trained through our PhotoVoice projects, as well as selling tickets to the AAF Charity Private View. All proceeds from these tickets will go to support PhotoVoice's work, so do join us for a drink, a preview of the Fair and be the first to snap up a fantastic PhotoVoice print!
Tickets will go on sale in late September – please keep checking our website for further details.
Change the Picture Exhibition
PhotoVoice held the Change the Picture opening night at the Baltic Resturant in July. Over 80 people attended the event, including MP representatives, press and funders. The exhibition was a culmination of 10 months of workshops and included images, poetry and stories written by vulnerable women and sex workers attending the U Turn Women's Centre in Bethnal Green.
The exhibition is still on display at Baltic, 74 Blackfriars Road, SW1.
Visit the website for more details, an image gallery and photographs of the opening night.
PhotoVoice Network Relaunch
PhotoVoice is delighted to announce the relaunch of its network for practitioners of participatory photography. With a new and sophisticated online web2.0 forum supplied by web content management experts Ektron going live in September, the PhotoVoice Network will provide a centralised area for all those involved in using photography as a tool for development to share resources and information, discuss issues and develop clear best-practice guidelines to maximise the potential of this growing and versatile medium. Network members will also be able to showcase their projects on the PhotoVoice website, so that at last there is a central hub for information about all the varied work being done in this exciting and vibrant field.
For more information and to apply for membership click here
Beyond... Beyond Sight!
With all roads leading to China currently, PhotoVoice is delighted to announce a new phase of its project working with blind and partially-sighted people. With the aid of a generous Discretionary Donation from Schroders plc, PhotoVoice, working in partnership with Sight of Emotion, will train up six facilitators in London (three of whom will be blind or visually impaired) before starting in-country workshops with participants in China. Subject to funding PhotoVoice hopes to undertake further workshops in selected countries in Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
Working with local partners, PhotoVoice and Sight of Emotion will then carry out a range of awareness-raising activities focused on blind and disability rights and increasing awareness of Vision 2020 - a global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness launched by the World Health Organisation and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
For more information email april@photovoice.org
Corners
By Bill Waltier
New PhotoVoice Projects Online
Visit the PhotoVoice website to view information and photo galleries showcasing fantastic work from the following recent projects:
Change the Picture: Photography by vulnerable women and sex workers
Photolife: Photography by participants in Charlton Athletic Race Equality Partnership
Young Parents: Photo-essays by young parents in London
Co-Founder steps back to pursue studies
Anna Blackman, co-founder of PhotoVoice, has been awarded a scholarship from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship to study for a one-year MBA at the University of Oxford's Said Business School from October 2008. Anna will be leaving her current staff position at PhotoVoice to undertake this course of study but will remain closely linked to PhotoVoice, as a founder and in a new advisory capacity as President Emeritus.
After many years of hard work devoted to advancing PhotoVoice and making it the successful and reputable organisation it is today, Anna is looking forward to gaining fresh skills and having the chance to explore new challenges. Everyone at PhotoVoice wishes her all the very best for this next stage of her life.
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