The work was commissioned by Arts Council England West Midlands and is an exploration of North Staffordshire, a territory rich in cultural and artistic heritage seeking to forge a new identity in a post-industrial era. On entering the 21st century, much emphasis is placed on the need for northern towns and cities to develop aspirational […]

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Tonight the BBC have featured a documentary on Annie Leibovitz’s life in work “Life Through a Lens” in the Imagine series of programmes on BBC2. It is also available on the iPlayer until 17 June.
However if you are in Paris or London you will be able to see her retrospective for yourself…
“Annie Leibovitz: […]

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David Hoffman spent most of the last century recording people’s protests. He has now put together a short slideshow movie as his response to the Tate Gallery’s recent “How we are” exhibition, which Hoffman sees as ’smug’ and writing out certain parts of recent history.
You have a few days left to see for yourselves…. until […]

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See all the winners in the 2007 SUN Awards
link: shotupnorth.co.uk 

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2 November 07 - 19 January 08
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, presents the most substantial UK exhibition of John Stezaker’s work in many years. Stezaker’s collages breathe new life into photographs salvaged from forgotten film archives and old magazines, transforming them into otherworldly, uncanny objects.
Artist talk: John Stezaker
Friday 2 November, 2pm
John Stezaker will talk about his […]

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Thought I’d bring to you a piece from coolhunting.com about the recent project by the filmmaker David Lynch and the shoe designer Christian Louboutin, both absolute masters of their medium. “Fetish” was at Design Art London where these extraordinary shoes by Louboutin and their erotic photographic counterparts by Lynch were on show at the Pierre […]

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Occasionally we veer off the digital path just so we can bring you some great photography. And this is one of those occasions.

Eugene de Salignac was born in Boston in 1861 and descended from French nobility, he married, fathered two children and, after separating from his wife in 1903, started working for the City of […]

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