Peacebuilding a shared Northern Irish society
A lexicon of conflict: Paul Seawright exhibition “Things Left Unsaid” by Allan Leonard 1 October 2015 On the surface, the images shown in Paul Seawright’s work, “Things Left Unsaid”, are just a series of American television news stations. And in a tour that the Belfast-based artist provided as part of Community Relations Week, Mr Seawright... Continue Reading →
The theme of this year’s Belfast Photo Festival is convergence – the act of artists mixing other forms of art, such as performance and sculpture, with photographic image making. A panel discussion, hosted at Belfast Exposed, explored these boundaries and overlaps, and mooted the way forward. Francis Hodgson, a photography critic for the Financial Times,... Continue Reading →
“Don’t see migrant community as ‘them and us’”: High Sheriff of Belfast by Allan LEONARD 6 March 2015 At a launch event for a photography exhibition at Belfast City Hall, the High Sheriff of Belfast, Councillor Gareth McKee, told the audience not to see the migrant community in Northern Ireland with a ‘them and us’... Continue Reading →
Recently my brother asked me where were my favourite photo locations. I don't know if "favourite" is the right word. Photography encompasses many genres, and photojournalists let their curiosity and ambitions take them wherever they're called, whether on assignments or self-motivated journeys. My photography journey started at home, in the rural village in northwest Ohio. I'd... Continue Reading →
Nothing like a competition to focus the mind. Urban Picnic Street Photography organises an annual competition, with entrants allowed to submit three of their finest. I don't fancy my chances, as I'm relatively new to this game. But if it generates any constructive criticism, then the £10 entry fee will have paid for itself. Here... Continue Reading →
Thanks to an article published in British Airways’ in-flight magazine, High Life, I learned of a photo exhibition of the work of Jacques Lowe, who was a personal and professional photographer for John F. Kennedy. On display at the Proud Gallery, King James’s Street (Sloan Square), are a series of prints of JFK and other... Continue Reading →
To mark its 30th anniversary, Belfast Exposed has organised an extensive exhibition of photographic work, displayed both at its premises on Donegall Street as well as at The MAC. The exhibition — Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography — "focuses on the growth of new, fine art documentary practices, more often produced for the gallery... Continue Reading →
Recently I took a one-day course on street photography, held at Belfast Exposed. My motivation was that while I learned how to use a camera 30 years ago (printing from black and white film shot in a Canon AE1 Program), I have been wanting to go beyond taking competent publicity shots and colourful tourist scenes.... Continue Reading →
As coincidence would have it, I was in Derry/Londonderry for a set of meetings and decided to stay on for an early evening launch event of the 2012 Foto Foyle programme of photo exhibitions. Inside The Playhouse was a display of a new body of work by Christof Pluemacher, "one of Germany's foremost photographic artists".... Continue Reading →
Belfast Exposed has on display an exhibition by Taryn Simon. Entitled Contraband, to view is a sampling of 1,075 photographs of items detained or seized from passengers (and express mail) entering the United States. The Belfast Exposed exhibition is in the main gallery, with a weekly lunchtime talk every Wednesday. I caught the last talk;... Continue Reading →
Troubled Images Exhibition 14 June 2010 - 11 September 2010 Location: Vertical Gallery Admission: Free Troubled Images Exhibition EXHIBITION All 70 political posters from our 'Troubled Images' exhibition, documenting the years of the Northern Ireland conflict, have been hung five storeys high in our Vertical Gallery. The exhibition has travelled throughout the world to inform... Continue Reading →
During 1975 and 1976, artist John Carson visited friends and family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and photographed them in their homes. The photographs were placed on a map of the area to create an artwork depicting a social network of connections and relationships that crossed geographical, religious and political divisions. Some 30 years later, Carson decided... Continue Reading →