Friday 27 November 7pm. 5 photographers discuss their work
We conclude our series of talks on 27 November with LIP Chronicles: Life Under Lockdown’s esteemed Selectors: Anthony Luvera, Carole Evans, D Wiafe, Steve Macleod and LIP Honorary Life-Time Member, Paul Hill.
How?
What?
Where?
Why?
When?
Who?
Each of these questions is asked when developing a photographic project. This evening’s 5 panelists will share their Lockdown projects.
The presentation will be followed by Q&A from the viewing audience.
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Bios
Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals, including the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival, and Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie. His writing appears regularly in a wide range of publications including Photoworks, Source and Photographies. Anthony is Principal Lecturer and Course Director of MA Photography and Collaboration at Coventry University. He has designed education and mentorship programmes, facilitated workshops, and given lectures for the public education departments of the National Portrait Gallery, Magnum, Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Photofusion, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography projects across the UK. www.luvera.com
Carole Evans is a photographic artist interested in human stories, both past and present. Through extensive research, and collaborating with communities, she creates immersive installations which (re-)present events to current audiences. She has a keen interest in the craft of photography, using alternative photographic processes and analogue methods in order to contribute to the narrative.
Carole has been teaching for 15 years; she is currently Associate Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies at Ravensbourne University London, and is Dissertation Supervisor for the Photography BA (hons) at University of the Creative Arts Farnham, where she also contributes to the Theory Lecture programme. She is visiting lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge).
In 2011, she co-founded Portrait Salon, a salon de refusés of images which have been rejected from the Taylor Wessing Prize organised by the National Portrait Gallery. In 2013 she devised and curated the Altrincham Arts Festival, a pop-up arts festival turning empty shops into temporary art galleries. www.caroleevans.co.uk
D. Wiafe is a collaborative artist and associate lecturer at the London College of Communication, Coventry, Hertfordshire and De Montfort Universities. His work has taken him from creating staged tableaux with grime’s early pioneers, to acting as lead photographic mentor on the award-winning youth platform ‘The Cut’. Combined, his projects have allowed young people to collaborate on commissions with Nike and Adidas as well as exhibit with The Royal Photographic Society, Photofusion, Sixteen and The Southbank Centre. In 2019, he worked with UAL Insights and Autograph ABP as project lead and curator on Album, a youth-led project twice exhibited at Rivington Place and featured in The Guardian and BBC News Online. He was one of Photofusion’s artists in residence 2016-18, creating “4PM in the Endz”, a multi-media exploration of the stigma of gang affiliation in Pollards Hill, South London. The work was exhibited at Photofusion (2018), StreetLevel Photoworks, Peckham 24 (2019) and featured in Photomonitor.
After the residency, in 2019 he was appointed Community Programme Manager at Photofusion where he continues to champion the work of young makers and formed the youth collective S2AU (Sorry To Annoy You). d.wiafe@photofusion.org
Paul Hill is a photographer, journalist, author, lecturer and teacher. He began a career as a newspaper reporter before becoming a freelance photographer. He has exhibited regularly since the early 70’s; his work is held in art collections around the world. Paul was the first art photographer to receive an MBE for services to photography and the first professor of photographic practice in a British university.
Paul created the first residential photography workshop in Britain, called The Photographer’s Place. These workshops were instrumental in inspiring Virginia Khuri and Janet Hall in the creation of LIP in 1987. Paul continues to offer workshops with Maria Falconer and information can be found on his website.
Paul’s ongoing Covid project is Talking Heads, it features TV interviewees and their domestic interiors. https://rps.org/news/groups/contemporary/2020/august/talking-heads/. His book Approaching Photography will be available 17th December, from publisher Routledge and on Amazon. www.hillonphotography.co.uk
Steve Macleod is a photographic artist, educator, lecturer and speaker as well as a respected industry professional. He is a Visiting Professor at UOS East Anglia, a Trustee of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust; a member of the Patrons Board at the NPG, London; a lifetime member of Frontline Club, London. He also runs a mentorship programme for emerging artists.
Steve is a landscape photographer often utilising chiaroscuro elements of light. He utilises the natural environment to share the conceptual impact and influence it can have on our emotions; our health and our imagination. He shoots on large format and is represented by Black Box Projects in the UK. He regularly exhibits and his work in held in both private and public collections.