First Light Spotlight: Parallel Histories
Tuesday 11 May / 6PM / Zoom / BOOK HERE
In his photocollage series ‘The Gay Times’, BA Photography graduate (University of Central Lancashire) Nathan Johnson uses fictional storytelling and real archival imagery to highlight the discrimination of sexuality in 1970’s Britain. However, the power dynamics are flipped; in these newspaper headlines, it’s the heterosexuals who are under attack… Tonight’s Spotlight panel discusses photography’s power to change perspectives and tell previously unconsidered or unheard histories. Hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson, she’ll be joined by Nathan and his tutor, BA Photography Lecturer and MA Course Leader, artist Brian Morrison, plus BA Creative Writing graduate (Liverpool John Moores University), Jack Ryder, who’ll be reading a new text in response to Nathan’s work.
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Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image: Nathan Johnston
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be emailed to all attendees.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
Tuesday 11 May / 6PM / Zoom / BOOK HERE
In his photocollage series ‘The Gay Times’, BA Photography graduate (University of Central Lancashire) Nathan Johnson uses fictional storytelling and real archival imagery to highlight the discrimination of sexuality in 1970’s Britain. However, the power dynamics are flipped; in these newspaper headlines, it’s the heterosexuals who are under attack… Tonight’s Spotlight panel discusses photography’s power to change perspectives and tell previously unconsidered or unheard histories. Hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson, she’ll be joined by Nathan and his tutor, BA Photography Lecturer and MA Course Leader, artist Brian Morrison, plus BA Creative Writing graduate (Liverpool John Moores University), Jack Ryder, who’ll be reading a new text in response to Nathan’s work.
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Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image: Nathan Johnston
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be emailed to all attendees.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
