Lomography X London Alt Photo // Feature Series

The London Alternative Photography Collective is pleased to announce an online collaboration with Lomography Magazine.

Features

Cutting and Folding With Aliki Braine
Andrés Pardo from CuriosoLab
Dafna Talmor

Lichen Art Labs Walkshop

A workshop in connection with WHAT ON EARTH exhibition, currently on at The Koppel Project Exchange, Piccadilly.

Sat, 24 July 2021

13:00 – 14:30 UK BST

193 Piccadilly, St. James's, London W1J 9EU

Tickets: £5.80

London Alternative Photography Collective and The Koppel Project Exchange are excited to welcome Lucy Sabin for a workshop aiming to provide an introduction to urban lichens and recording techniques.

Activities will attune participants to the kinds of conditions to which lichens respond, particularly air pollution. In an artistic way, the workshop will draw upon citizen science resources from the OPAL Air Survey. First you will develop the art of noticing in Green Park, second conduct an artistic survey using creative techniques comparing lichen communities. Third, you will explore microcosms and experience with close-up recording techniques using magnifiers to produce intimate images.

The workshop commences at 1pm at The Koppel Project Exchange and will shortly be followed by a 7min walk to Green Park where the remaining workshop will take place.

All materials provided.
The cost of this workshop goes towards covering material costs.

Lucy Sabin is an artist–researcher whose work explores the interplay between media and environments, with a particular focus on themes of atmospheres and breathing. Her emerging practice has been featured by BBC Radio 4 and BBC Arts. Lucy has also been selected by Arts Council England as an awardee of Developing Your Creative Practice. Drawing upon an MRes in Communication Design from the Royal College of Art, Lucy is undertaking doctoral research in the UCL Department of Geography with support from the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

WHAT ON EARTH

WHAT ON EARTH
The Koppel Project Exchange
2 – 25 July 2021
PV 1 July 2021 | 6-9pm

Curated by Ellen Taylor in collaboration with Hannah Fletcher
Exhibiting artists: Victoria Ahrens | Katie Bret-Day | Alice Cazenave | Hannah Fletcher | Ramona Güntert | Melanie King | Liz K Miller | Diego Valente | Marina Vitaglione

WHAT ON EARTH brings together a selection of works exploring how the environmental and sustainability crisis we face today can be both encountered and addressed through non-representational and medium-forward forms. Most photographic responses to the climate crisis take the path of documentation, as there is indeed a lot to document. Photography as an art form, however, has always been more than documentarian, and has always had an impact that derives much of its force from factors other than the subject in the frame. WHAT ON EARTH aims to highlight the work of artists who explore this through non-representational and material forms.

‘The materiality of the photograph takes two broad and interrelated forms. First, it is the plasticity of the image itself, its chemistry, the paper it is printed on, the toning, the resulting surface variations. Such technical and physical choices in making photographs are seldom random (Edwards, E. and Hard, J. 2004).

There have been many theoretical debates regarding the photograph’s status as a three- dimensional object, and craft, as a result of advances in post-and-during-capture digital manipulation technology. Through the creation of ‘concrete photography’ this show aims to explore this whilst also demonstrating how the materiality of a photograph can, though the image making process, be both influenced by our culture’s environment and act as a visual representation. In the context of the environmental crisis we face in today’s society, these exhibiting artists use elements from our rapidly changing environment to inform their image making process, both physically and conceptually.

The artists featured in WHAT ON EARTH use a range of methods and materials derived from the traditional photographic process but developing it to a more tangible and materialistic one, investigating how a combination of visual, audio, tactile, olfactory stimuli can enhance our connection to our environment. This approach to working with materials, and the respect we gain for our environment through the process of touch, is a philosophy that should not be limited to the hand of the artist, but should be normalised within our culture. As it is through this tactility and engagement of the senses that we truly start to understand the earth that we live on and live with.

The Koppel Project Exchange

193 Piccadilly

London W1J 9EU

Unstable/Sustainable at FORMAT

Unstable/Sustainable is a re-invented exhibition. It was originally staged at Format Festival by the London Alternative Photography Collective in 2015. This earlier exhibition included a number of photographic works, which gradually changed chemically during the course of the exhibition.

For the 2021 edition of Unstable at Format Festival, all exhibited works will be produced using sustainable photographic processes. Within the LAPC’s Sustainable Darkroom research project, we have been working with a number of ephemeral photography processes which are notoriously difficult to fix.

Photography has a fixation with permanence, which doesn’t exist to the same degree within other art forms. Now that photography is becoming more of an interdisciplinary field, is it always necessary to stabilise our images? In this new era of biodegradable materials, is it not more sensible to create work that can be recycled?

Dates for Online Exhibition: March 12, 2021 to March 23, 2023
Dates for Physical Exhibition: May 17, 2021 to June 13, 2021
Venue: The Small Print Company, Friary Villas 2-3 Friary Street Derby, DE1 1JF

Artists:

Noemi Filetti
Chloe Obermeyer
Hannah Fletcher
Melanie King
Diego Valente
Nettie Edwards
Ryan Moule 
Kim Conway

Collaboration and cross-disciplinary practices Talk

Thursday, 25 Feb 2021
18:30 – 20:00 GMT
Tickets.

The London Alternative Photography Collective invite you to a talk which discusses the relevance of collaborative and cross-disciplinary modes of working when thinking about a sustainable and conscious creative practice. Joined by Jemma Foster, Laura Copsey and Emily Rudge, a collaborative trio coming from different disciplines. They share knowledge and skills that cover - botany, astro-herbalism, photography, film, music and art therapy.

Laura, Emily and Jemma met in 2019 and share an interest in the alchemy of plants and their potential within creative processes. After taking part in LAPC’s 2020 Sustainable Darkroom, they since formed a collective, working out of the Wild Alchemy Lab and taking part in various workshops and residencies.

Their ongoing research into camera-less photography explores eco-developers and fixatives to “draw with light” made with organic plant-based eco developers, fixatives and natural inks to create bespoke artefact images. Their intention is to showcase alternative photosensitive ingredients - ie. rose-hip, sea buckthorn and seaweed - (used to replace traditional processing chemicals). They have a particular interest in creating sensory experiences using edible items that also have image making potential. Running workshops that involve experimental camera-less photography combined with taster menu's and bespoke drinks as an accompaniment made from the ingredients used to create visual responses that document the experience.

Their ingredients are often foraged and seasonal, taking inspiration from the alchemical elements, the tarot and the stars. They believe in the magical properties of plants and nature as their guide to navigating an uncertain future. They hope to inspire people to create art sustainably and in symbiosis with the natural world.

Donations welcome which go directly to the speakers.

wildalchemylab.com

Developments in Environmentally Conscious Experimental Cinema // Symposium

Sun, 31 January 2021
16:00 – 19:45 GMT
Tickets.

The London Alternative Photography Collective invite you to their 2021 Symposium which discusses environmental considerations and approaches to working with experimental cinema. We will explore developments in non-toxic photochemical processes, the use of celluloid in a sustainable filmmaking practice and the relationship between the garden and the darkroom. Throughout, discussing the aesthetic and visual implications of these techniques, processes and materials.

Panel of speakers:

General Treegan (aka Andrés Pardo)

Dagie Brundert

Joanna Mayes

Kim Knowles

Phillip Hoffman

Ricardo Leite

Chaired by Hannah Fletcher

General Treegan aka Andrés Pardo runs a film lab in Mexico called Curioso Lab. It is a space for photochemical exploration, specialising in cinematography. His research focuses on non-traditional development processes, most recently he has been working on an 100% home made film developer for black and white film. Based on clementine peels and potash, he has labeled it as ‘SIMPLE’ developer. He is in the process of studying the performance and possibilities of this developer of 16mm and 35mm film.

Dagie Brundert is an artist from Berlin, who has worked with super 8 film for almost half of her life – short films, experimental films – and for about a decade now she has developed her films using eco friendly materials.

Joanna Mayes is a film artist who explores the experience of being in a location at a particular time through the medium of film. Bringing her experience of musical improvisation into her practice, Joanna opens her work up to chance through hand processing and the use of organic materials, to create short film-poems that reverberate between abstraction and control. She represents place through a layering of approaches to materiality: analogue film responds to the light in that place and time, physical outcomes are often charged with atmosphere from the site through use of materials of the locality, such as seawater for processing and lichen & berries for tinting the film.

Kim Knowles lectures in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University in Wales and curates the Black Box experimental strand at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Her recent monograph Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) assesses the contemporary relevance of film in the digital era and draws on theories of new materialism, ecocriticism and posthumanism. She has published widely on contemporary and historical forms of avant-garde filmmaking, as well as crossovers with other arts such as photography, architecture, poetry and dance. She is co-editor (with Marion Schmid) of the forthcoming collection Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

Philip Hoffman has been the artistic director of the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) since 1994; a 1 week workshop in artisanal filmmaking in Mount Forest, Ontario. Currently Hoffman teaches in the Cinema and Media Arts Department at York University and his new film, vulture, uses several processing methods including flower/plant hand-processing. The film received the Kodak Cinematic Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019.

Ricardo Leite is a Portuguese film director, working mainly in Experimental and Documentary genres. Has been working in biodegradable and non toxic chemistry processes since 2012, and presented his hydrogen peroxide / citric acid bleach in reversal caffenol process in TIE Festival in colorado in 2013. The majority of his analog films are hand-developed in his laboratory.

Hannah Fletcher is a London based artist, working with cameraless photographic processes, Co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective and a facilitator of sustainability within the arts. She initiated The Sustainable Darkroom, an artist-run research, training and mutual learning programme, to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop an environmentally friendly photographic darkroom practice. Taking its form in publications, residencies, workshops, talks, symposiums and training sessions. She intends to lead a movement in challenging the environmental impact and sustainability of darkroom practices.

Header Image: General Treegan

Experiencing Landscape through Anthropology and Experimental Photography

Join the London Alternative Photography Collective to discuss the links between experimental photography and ecologies which are on the move

Sun, 22 November 2020
17:30 – 19:00 GMT
Tickets.

The London Alternative Photography Collective invite you to a talk which discusses how cultural conceptions of climate change can be understood through the lens of experimental photography. We will explore the relationships between the materiality of photography and landscape and discuss the ways in which in nature not only informs the visual content of photography, but becomes part of the process of image-making.

How can experimental photographic processes be used to understand cultural conceptions of climate change? How are climate change discourses received or rejected?

How can photography adapt to different spaces or exist as a form of camouflage? What are the narratives held within photography's materiality?

Speakers

Flora Mary Bartlett is a photographer and visual anthropologist based in Stockholm. She works with alternative photographic processes in her research on landscape, climate change, and place in Northern Sweden. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, where she also received her PhD in 2020.

Ramona Güntert, (b. 1989) is a German artist based in London. Her practice looks at forms and shapes within nature which are mimicked by bodies of human and animals. She uses the medium of photography, challenging its existence in print and exploring different material conditions. Her work is constantly transforming and adapting to different spaces, just like camouflage, which emphasises the relationship between the body and its environment but also attempts to question what lies in-between these spaces. These images appear in layers, becoming the skin of the space.

Her work was exhibited in group shows at COOP UNSEEN with London Alternative Photography Collective and as part of Parallel Platform she was exhibiting at Format Festival, Derby, Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg, Landskronafoto, and Organ Vida, Zagreb.

She worked in collaborations with other artists as part of Peckham 24 and Irruptive Chora at Chalton Gallery in London. Her work was featured in Der Greif, Tjejland, Skin and Blister, Photomonitor and nominated for the Magnum Graduate Award 2017 and part of the Fotomuseum Plattform, Winterthur 2019.

Alice Cazenave (b. 1990) is a photographer working in plant-based and experimental processes. She is undertaking a PhD in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths. Her research project explores how threatening and changing ecologies in Meghalaya, north-east India, are affecting cultural identity amongst the Khasi community. She works at the intersection of experimental photography and anthropology and investigates how both disciplines can inform each other. Her photographic experiments into pelargonium printing have been featured in The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian and as part of an artbook: PLANT: Exploring The Botanical World. She has also been published in the New York Times and has taken part in exhibitions in the UK and abroad.

Image courtesy of Dr Flora Bartlett

Cyanotypes on the shore with Antonia Beard // Brighton Photo Fringe 2020

As part of our programme for In & of the Land, exhibiting at this years Brighton Photo Fringe, we ran a series of workshops. On a beautiful autunm afternoon, exploring the natural and human habitats of Brighton's seafront, LAPC member, Antonia Beard lead a socially distanced workshop. Using the cyanotype process, recycled textiles and found materials, Antonia lead a collaborative exchange between the group, thier environment and material surroundings.

In & Of the Land - Brighton Photo Fringe

Venue: Phoenix Art Space, Brighton. Brighton Photo Fringe
Dates: 3-31 October 2020
Events: TBC

'In & Of the Land’ is an exhibition and series of public events focusing on photographic work created in a way that both represents and looks after the landscape. 

Exhibiting in the Phoenix Gallery during this years Photo Fringe, Bryony Good and Eileen White are showing work exploring their respective local landscapes of Brighton and Winchester. The works have been printed specifically for this exhibition using natural printing processes, ground pigments from the earth and plant based photographic developers. 

To coincide with this work, our online exhibition includes the work of Hannah Fletcher, Matt Slater, Melanie King and Nettie Edwards, who are contributing to the 'In & Of the Land' series of workshops and talks. 

'In & Of the Land' explores human narratives embedded in the natural world. It seeks to question our role as stewards of this earth and the way we represent the the land we stand on.

OFFO 2019 – Time, Dilated

Time, Dilated

Dates: 25-26 October 2019
Venue: The Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography Galeria "Ciasna", ul. Katowicka 17/25, 44-335 Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland 

London Alternative Photography Collective, featuring Anthony Carr, Melanie King, Ky Lewis, Nick Sayers, Olga Suchanova, Pauline Woolley, and Maciej Zapiór (with Łukasz Fajfrowski)

Image: Pauline Woolley

One of the basic lessons in photography is not to point your camera at the sun. This show brings together artists who have done just this, using handmade cameras to photograph the sun, moon and stars. With exposure times of several months – and cosmological subjects several million miles away – these images compress both time and space into single, fragile images. Including such alternative processes as pinhole solargraphy, lunar photography, motor controlled time-lapse and chemigrams, this exhibition reveals a fascination with the pristine world of outer space through the idiosyncratic lens of earthly existence.

Mini Photo Box Commission

The London Alternative Photography Collective offered mini-commissions for inventive ideas to re-use a silver gelatin photographic paper box using experimental photographic processes.

Commissioned Artists

Rachael Allain
Megan Bent
Sarah Garrod
Joanne Howell
Jackie Tunnicliffe
Kelly Wu

The London Alternative Photography Collective have been donated 7 silver gelatin photographic paper boxes from Sam at Solarcan.co.uk .  We asked artists to propose to recycle the photographic paper box in a creative way, using experimental photographic processes, via an open call. The results will be displayed on our website and promoted via our social media pages throughout November. 

object-ivity // London Alternative Photography Collective X Offshoot

Venue: Offshoot Art Space, 162 High Road, London, N2 9AS
Private View: Thursday 25th July, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: Friday 26th July - Sunday 04 August

The London Alternative Photography Collective and Offshoot present an exhibition exploring the relationship between experimental photographic processes and sculpture. Whilst curating this show, we were particularly interested in projects which question the “thingness” of the photograph

This exhibition takes inspiration from Mary Statzer’s “The Photographic Object 1970” published in 2016. This book looks at Peter C Bunnell’s exhibition “Photography into Sculpture”at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This exhibition was then restaged at Hauser & Wirth, New York and Cherry & Martin, Los Angeles between 2011 and 2014. This book looks at how the context of how the concept of the photographic object has changed within a primarily digital era.

The “object-ivity” exhibition focuses on how contemporary artists in the UK, use multi-disciplinary practice to explore the relationship between photography and other mediums. 

The exhibition has been curated by Melanie King (Founder, LAPC), Kim Conway (Director, The Darkroom Project, Margate) and Offshoot.

As the London Alternative Photography Collective was founded in July 2013, this exhibition will mark the collectives’ 6th birthday.

Artists:

Andrea G Arts
Neil Ayling
Laurie Baggett
Molly Behagg
Kim Conway
Chris Cornish
Michaela Davidova
Sandro Crisafi
Jacob Alexander Lange
Patrick Lears
Cameron Lings
Martin Robinson
Tina Rowe
Rebeka Sára Szigethy 
Sophie Lou
Plus an object from the collection of Melanie King.

Information about Offshoot

Founded by Hannah Woldu and Nick Scammell in January 2019, Offshoot is a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to provide high quality exhibition and studio space to emerging artists and curators.

Information about Kim Conway
Kim Conway is the co founder and director of The Darkroom Project at Resort Studios in Margate. She specialises in historic and alternative photography processes and is currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Fine Art at the university for the Creative Arts in Canterbury.

LAPC x Belfast Photo Festival.

Venue: Belfast Photo Festival, Golden Thread Gallery 84- 94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast BT1 2LU
Dates: 8-30 June 2019

For Belfast Photo Festival, the London Alternative Photography Collective will be showing works from Almudena Romero, Dafna Talmor,  Edouard Taufenbach, Hannah Fletcher, Melanie King, Oliver Raymond-Barker and Simone Mudde. There will also be a series of talks and workshops by Nettie Edwards, Almudena Romero and Dafna Talmor. Accessibility and experimentation are at the heart of this collective, providing a forum for anyone interested in contemporary photographic methods and alternative photography ideas and processes.

Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund this exhibition included a series of workshop on the Victorian techniques of anthotype printing and the chlorophyll printing process.

Time, Dilated An exhibition curated by Anthony Carr and Nick Sayers

Venue: Brighton Photo Fringe, Pheonix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
Dates: 29 September to 28 October 2018.
Exhibition Opening Party, 7-9pm Saturday 29th September.

Artists:
Daniel P Berrange, Anthony Carr, Dovile Dagiene, Melanie King, Ky Lewis, Nick Sayers, Olga Suchanova, Pauline Woolley and Kristian Saks.

One of the basic “don’t” lessons in photography is pointing your camera at the sun. This show brings together artists who have done just this, using handmade cameras to photograph the sun, moon and stars. With exposure times of several months - and cosmological subjects several thousand miles away - these images compress both time and space into single, fragile images. Including such alternative processes as pinhole solargraphy, lunar photography, motor controlled time-lapse and chemograms, this exhibition reveals a fascination with the pristine world of outer space through the idiosyncratic lens of earthly existence.

PIC London

Venue: The Tea Building, 6 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JJ
Dates: 29 September to 28 October 2018, 11:00 - 20:00.

LAPC Artists:
Oliver Raymond-Barker, Hannah Fletcher, Melanie King, Simone Mudde, Almudena Romero, Diego Valente

Other Participating Artists: Stella Baraklianou, David Blackmore, Aliki Braine, Zak R. Dimitrov, Francisco Ibanez, Seungwon Jung, Minna Kantonen, Aleksei Kazantsev, Tom Lovelace, Nigel Maynard, Andrea C Morley, Ida Nissen, Sophy Rickett, Sayako Sugawara, Dafna Talmor, Gökhan Tanrıöver, Camberwell Photography

PIC London prints is an exhibition and social marketplace where people can discover and meet the most exciting artists and buy art directly from them. The market is a destination for art lovers to collect limited edition pieces that embody the fascinating ways artists work with photography.

LAPC at Unseen Amsterdam

Unseen Amsterdam

From the 21st to the 23rd of September 2018, artists from the London Alternative Photography Collective will be exhibiting at the Unseen Photography Fair CO-OP in Amsterdam. The exhibiting artists will be Melanie King, Almudena Romero, Diego Valente, Hannah Fletcher, Simone Mudde, Ramona Guntert, Dafna Talmor and Oliver Raymond-Barker. The theme drawing together works from each artist is a certain strangeness which is encountered in the natural world, with some artists using natural materials to create photographic prints.

To promote the accessibility of alternative and analogue photographic processes, artists Dafna Talmor and Oliver Raymond Barker will create hands-on workshops throughout the duration of the fair. Diego Valente will create a performance especially for Unseen.

You can find out how to support our project via Crowdfunder here.

Almudena Romero

Almudena Romero will show a series of chlorophyll prints, which uses this organic printing process and found archive images to reflect on the archive as a medium for identity construction, but also a mean to produce artwork, and on the environmental impact of deregulation of goods and capitals. By altering the photosynthesis process of a plant, Almudena creates image objects that reflect on the increasing restrictions of movement for persons and the reduction of regulatory barriers for goods and capitals. The artist will be presenting pot plants that are originally from Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands and still widely available on a daily basis markets in London.

Diego Valente

Diego Valente will be exhibiting a new series of prints of plants photographed at night, using a unique solarisation process which brings out the metallic properties of the silver. This series of prints will also be accompanied by a unique performance.

Ramona Guntert

Ramona will be presenting works that challenge the medium of photography and its existence as prints. Ramona creates spaces with images, shapes and abstraction, collaging, layering, different materials. These collages will expand through the booth creating a dialogue between the artist and the audience. Taking fragments from nature and connecting them in new ways, building a language that the artist calls her own taxidermy. Ramona gets inspired everyday by graffiti, wall textures and patterns in nature. These organic shapes inform her practice. How things overgrow or disappear and how this shapes the walls of the city and its architecture. She uses different materials, to create a feeling (ideas of becoming, transforming, subject object relation) without revealing what we are looking at.

Hannah Fletcher

Hannah will explore the relationship between the photographic surface and organic matter. The work is a flow between processes and materials, between research and exploration, between the poetic and political. Entwining organic matter into the photographic medium, working with uprooted plants, she will apply photographic and non-photographic chemicals directly to exposed black and white silver gelatin paper. She will then incorporate an uprooted and water starved plant to the print as it develops and dries. The resulting images will contain the marks of absorption or osmosis; the uptake by plant roots. The discarded salts on the paper will crystallise as the water is absorbed by the plant or evaporates. Where the roots have been in contact with the paper, salt crystallisation will map out their structureSimone Mudde

Simone Mudde’s latest work in progress takes colour separation photography as its subject matter. Three monochrome images are exposed using coloured filters and subsequently layered in the darkroom (or via digital editing) to constitute a colour image. Developed in the early 20th century as a means for making colour images, the process was traditionally followed with a meticulous attention to detail. In order for an accurate colour image to be produced, the three separations demanded perfect composition and accurate exposure. Any failure to do so could result in alignment issues as well as glitches of colour. In the case of Mudde, failure is taken as a narrative and basis for the work to be built on. Errors are used to identify the passing of time, the latency of movement, and furthermore to break down the colours that are perceived within the images.

Melanie KingMelanie will exhibit a new 16mm film, which draws attention to an oft forgotten element of our landscape, the Moon - an illuminated lantern which seems to make a journey through through the sky. Caught up in the busy tumult of life, we forget that Earth too is moving, spinning on its axis at 1040 miles per hour.

Dafna Talmor, Constructed Landscapes – Constructed Worlds WorkshopIn this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found vintage slides and are invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering with the materiality of the surface by collaging, drawing, scratching or layering fragments of the reconfigured transparencies, participants will re-project the slides and photograph them digitally. Using Selphy printers, these digital files can be printed immediately (and manipulated further beyond the workshop). Participants will get to keep their one-off collaged slides, prints as well as digital files of the projected images they produce. In dialogue with historical as well as contemporary processes that engage with the materiality of film - from Pictorialism, Modernism and current photographic practice - the workshop presents the opportunity to combine analogue and digital processes, experiment with different materials and enables participants to produce work in a short space of time that reflects the medium’s malleability and versatility in a playful way. As well as running a workshop, Dafna will be showing work that has not been exhibited previously.

Oliver Raymond-Barker, The Latent Image Workshop

In this alchemical workshop visitors will discover the latent potential of the photographic image. Working with the Chemigram process they will use pre-exposed black & white paper combined with photographic chemicals to create unique prints. Unlike conventional photographic techniques, Chemigrams are made under normal lighting conditions making it an accessible activity. Using a range of simple masking techniques - such as electrical tape and sticky back plastic - will allow participants to explore the dynamic between geometric form and the unpredictable, organic results generated by the Chemigram process. The technique combines elements of painting and printmaking as well as photography, thereby initiating dialogue around the nature of the photographic medium and it’s relationship to other art forms.
Oliver will also be exhibiting chemigrams within the exhibition.

Making It Real at Ugly Duck

Venue: Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner St, London SE1 3PL

Date: Friday 6th October - Sunday 8 October, 2017

The London Alternative Photography Collective presents “Making It Real” an festival showcasing artists who are working at the intersection of analogue and digital technologies. This exhibition explores the combined creative possibilities when analogue technologies and digital technologies are used together.

This exhibition considers the following questions:

– How do analogue processes help us to understand their digital counterparts?

– How can digital processes be made to seem more tangible using analogue technologies?

– How is our understanding of “reality” influenced by the use of analogue and digital techniques?

– How can traditional analogue photography, film and sound making techniques be creatively disrupted to create unique artworks and productions?

– How can digital processes be enhanced by analogue input?

Exhibiting Artists:

Alex Cassetti // Alexandra Gribaudi and Theodore Plytas // Ana Escobar // Anne Erhard // Andrew Graves Johnston // Cameron Williamson// Caroline Jane Harris // Christina Shirlinger // Dafne Salis // Daniel Berrange // David Pereira // Deborah Humm // E Gabriel Edvy // Emma Backlund // Harry Crown // Isabella Streffen // Jacqui Taylor // Jo Gane // Johnny Goddard //Katarzyna Bojko-Szymczewska // Katia Ganfield // Kerimcan Goren // Lewis Bush // Liz Blum // Luca Damiani // Luke Harby // Mal Troon // Mark Tamer // Marta Wlusek // Martha Gray // Myrto Amorgianou // Natalie Keymist // Nettie Edwards // Rachel Allain // Ramona Güntert  // Renata Neon // Samuel Partal // Sayako Sugawara // Susu Laroche // Thom Bridge // Thomas Tyler // Victoria Ahrens // Victoria Doyle // Zanny Mellor

Open Door: The Photographers’ Gallery

When: Friday 2 June - Sunday 4 June 2017
Where: Eranda Studio, The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
Image Credits: Nilu Izadi

A series of events at The Photographers’ Gallery for a series of events surrounding the idea of “making a photograph”.

Programme:

Ongoing Fri 2 June - Sunday 4 June 2017, LAPC Exhibition

This exhibition is based on the concept of making images. It includes works in which the process of making is self-evident. It opens on the evening of Friday 2 June and is open during gallery hours over the weekend of ¾ June. The exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to look, learn, experience and reflect on photographic process in a very broad sense. Artists include: Ackroyd and Harvey, Edouard Taufenbach, Simone Mudde, Diego Valente, Molly Behagg, Alfonso Borragan, Hannah Fletcher, William Britten, Melanie king, John Whapham and Almudena Romero.

Friday 2nd June 2017, 6.30 - 7.30pm, Artist Talk by Matt Collishaw

Mat Collishaw (b. 1966) is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2015), In Camera, Library of Birmingham (2015), Black Mirror, Galleria Borghese, Rome (2014), This Is Not An Exit, Blain|Southern, London (2013), Bass Museum of Art, Florida (2013); Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Bari (2013); Mat Collishaw: Afterimage, Arter, Istanbul (2013) and Magic Lantern at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2010).

Friday 2nd June 2017 7.30pm, Alternative Photography Artist Talks 
With Molly Behagg, Hannah Fletcher, Melanie King and Almudena Romero.

Saturday 03 June 2017, 10.00am - 12.01pm, Emulsion Lifts and Transparencies with IMPOSSIBLE

The Impossible Team demonstrate the creative possibilities of their magic instant film. They’ll show you how to dissect instant pictures to produce emulsion lifts and transparencies. Emulsion lifts enable you to transfer your instant pictures onto many different surfaces and thereby extend the creative potential of your images to a higher level.  You will be able to make one or more emulsion lifts and transparencies during this hands-on workshop. Experts from the Impossible Project will guide you through the whole creative process in depth and will provide you with interesting bits of background and history of their company and products. All materials provided. 

Saturday 03 June, 2pm - 5pm, Pinhole Camera Workshop

Workshop participants will be able to construct their own pinhole camera from a container of their choice, we will provide containers if you don’t have one. Participants will also learn how to load their pinhole cameras with photographic paper and calculate the right exposure times. They will leave the workshop with a unique paper negative.

Saturday 03 June 2017, 2pm - 5pm, Cyanotype Printing On Wood with Almudena Romero

Discovered in 1842, the cyanotype process works by contact printing and it is only UV light sensitive. It gets developed and fixed in water and it is totally safe to use with children. The cyanotype process has mainly been used for documenting purposes such as botanical specimens in the nineteenth century and architectural or engineering designs (blueprints). This process is very tolerant to experimentation and it can be applied on cotton, wool, wood, and even non porous surfaces such as glass or acrylics.  In this workshop you will be given a 9cm round wood cut to coat, expose, develop and take home your own cyanotype print.

Saturday 03 June 2017, 5pm - 7pm, Show & Tell for Artists to present work

This is London Alternative Photography Collective’s fourth ‘show and tell’, open call event. The session provides an opportunity for practitioners using alternative photography processes to share their work with a community of peers. Artists using alternative processes can both give and receive feedback on current projects, share technical tips and provide advice. It’s a popular event and we expect to receive a large amount of submissions. Each participant will have 3 minutes to present their work. Participants must show physical work/prints. Free to participating photographers, please book ahead Please note: Show & Tell is for first-timers only. If you’ve taken part in a LAPC Show & Tell before, please leave the place for another practitioner. PLACES OPEN WEDNESDAY 3 MAY

Sunday 04 June 2017, 11am - 2pm, Photographic Emulsion Workshop with Diego Valente

Photographic emulsion is probably the most versatile of the alternative photographic processes. You can coat photographic emulsion onto a wide variety of materials including paper, fabric, metal, rubber, wood, plastic, ceramic, glass, stones, shells and many others. In this workshop you will learn how to prepare a variety of different surfaces and objects, and create your own photographic artwork on paper.

Sunday 04 June 2017, 3pm - 6pm, Chemigram Workshop with Melanie King

Invented in the 1950s, chemigrams are cameraless photographic images made by exposing photographic paper to light and a variety of simple household items and darkroom chemistry. This process provides opportunities to experiment and to explore creative and simple photographic processes. Workshop participants will be able to take home several chemigrams made during the workshop.

London Pinhole Festival 2017

Image Credit: Diego Valente

MAIN EXHIBITION
Venue: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN
Private View: Wednesday 26th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm  
Exhibition Continues: Thurs 27th April - Sunday 30 April 2017.

Private View: Wednesday 26th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: Thurs 27th April - Sunday 30 April
Pinhole Photography Workshop with Ky Lewis, Sunday 30 April 12:00 - 15:00pm (see below for details)  

The London Alternative Photography Collective will be hosting London Pinhole Festival 2017 at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green. 

ARTISTS // William Bock / Oliver Raymond-Barker / Dariusz Adamek / Florentin Boddendijk / Tomasz Kowalczyk / Michalina Hendrys / Allessandra Rinaudo / Felix Xifel / Bálint Pfliegel / Almudena Romero / Diego Valente / Marko Umicevic / Camilla Mangueria / Olga Suchanova / Daniel Berrange / Katrine Skovsgard / Ewa Nowakowska / Lucy Williams / Stanislaw Chomicki / Nigel Breadman / Pauline Woolley / Elizabeth Ransom / Ben Bradish / Ky Lewis / Michaela Davidova / Tomasz Chowaniec

Pinhole Photography Workshop // Ky Lewis
For World Wide Pinhole Day, come along and learn how to make a pinhole camera from a cyindrical container. You will learn how to use it and process the photographic paper in a darkroom using traditional wet processes. Fun, creative and unusual images will be made and you should leave with the ability and confidence to make youur own pinholes at home.
Information sheet will be supplied, please bring your own notebooks.

Pinhole & The Art of Invention Exhibition
Venue: Monty’s Gallery, Basement @ Barber Streisand, 45 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QL
Private View: Friday 28th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm  
Exhibition Continues: 29th April to 20th May 2017, Mon-Fri 11-8, Sat 11-6, Sun 11-5 
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Curated by Anthony Carr

Since its discovery, photography has aided scientific breakthroughs and allowed us to see things well beyond our human capabilities. From the microscopic to the distant, the magnetic to the negatively charged, photography has made visible, the invisible. And behind all these breakthroughs is a passion for invention and developments in technology and apparatus.

This pinhole-focussed photography exhibition celebrates this art of invention and the inventiveness of artists by including photographers who build homemade cameras and mechanisms to serve a specific purpose. These innovative apparatuses will take centre stage and be given the limelight their ingeniousness deserves. Pinhole and the Art of Invention is thus an exhibition championing the cameras behind the images.

Participating exhibition collaborators are Daniel Berrange, Anthony Carr, Andrew Chisholm, Nicholas Middleton, Howard Moiser and Emma Simpson.