Category Archives: Happenings

Call for Submissions!

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international photography competition, and the one opportunity for photographers to have their work seen by Aperture’s editors. The purpose of the prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and specific artists whom we can help by bringing them to a wider audience. We are looking for work [...]

Keir McDowall

Keir studies Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University, graduating summer 2011. In his work he often focusses on the landscape, but has a keen interest in fashion and portraiture. Keir’s portfolio can be viewed in full at keirmcdowall.co.uk and his blog, comprising part-diary and part-research, can be read at beautiescandie.tumblr.com

The Skinny reviews the 2010 degree show

The 2010 Edinburgh Napier Degree Show has been reviewed in arts and culture newspaper The Skinny. The article, which focusses mainly on the work produced by the Photography and Film course. gave the show 4 stars. Below is an extract. Read the full review by Rachel Bowles at theskinny.co.uk As part of Napier’s 2010 Degree Show, Tessa [...]

Source Graduate Photography 2010

Eleven Edinburgh Napier University photography graduates has been featured in Source Magazines’s Graduate Photography 2010 website. Visit www.source.ie/graduate/2010 to view the degree show work of Suzanne Boak, Elspeth Gunnery, Yoshi Kametani, Tessa Kerrs, Aleksandra Kocela, Sumieya Kouser, Rowan Lear, Kristina Milic Thompson, Matthew Nanson, Mateusz Noniewicz, Jonathan David Smyth, Mike Steven, Karen Taylor, and Chris [...]

this is what creates every adventure – a project by Rowan Lear

Rowan Lear recently completed the BA (hons) Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. Her major project developed into a process of collection, research and response which she titled this is what creates every adventure . The project investigates our relationships to photographs and memory. Rowan uses found photographs and treats them not simply as memory [...]

Artist Talk: The City and The Stars

Image: The City and The Stars, Installation image, Stills 2010 Artist Talk on The City and The Stars Tuesday 11 May 7.30pm Curator Louisa Adam in conversation with artists Rut Blees Luxemburg and Craig Mulholland on re-visioning the city.Exploring themes from the exhibition, there will also be an opportunity for open conversation; re-considering the context and [...]

At a Glance exhibition preview Friday 2 April 7-9pm

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Festival Photographer

Edinburgh International Festival are recruiting for a fixed contract Festival Photographer and would like to recruit from one of the photography courses in Edinburgh.

99 Hanover Projects – Photography Exhibition

99 Hanover is proud to announce that the second 99 Hanover Projects exhibition will launch on Thursday 11th of February at 8pm, showcasing an array of new photographic works by leading national talents. The selected Artists within this exhibition will display a diverse exploration of the medium, works that reference the contemporary tableaux vivant to [...]

The Photographer’s Gallery: Annual Graduates Exhibition

freshfacedandwildeyed is our annual exhibition open to recent visual arts graduates, representing the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK. Following an online submission process, up to 25 artists are chosen by a jury to exhibit online and at The Photographers’ Gallery. View the exhibition pages for the last two years: freshfacedandwildeyed08 freshfacedandwildeyed09 [...]

Polaroid Book by Sam Luntley

I have produced a short run of books with a grant that I was awarded from Edinburgh Napier University just before I graduated. They are available as a first edition of 20, signed and number, each one with a signed and number edition print of a Polaroid. See here for more details.

Stills – January Events

Calendar of Events: Experimental Music: Mathias Forge /Christine Sehnaoui /Olivier Toulemonde Trio + Guests Film Screening: The Magic Lantern Poetry Evening: Scottish Poets January’s Reading Group Experimental Music: Mathias Forge /Christine Sehnaoui /Olivier Toulemonde Trio + Guests Tuesday 12 January 7pm £4 donation Mathias Forge, Christine Sehnaoui and Olivier Toulemonde Trio met in 2006 to [...]

Stills f:ocus NEW FREE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP EVENT

Stills f:ocus NEW FREE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP EVENT THURSDAY 3 Dec 2009 6.30PM This exciting new programme will allow participants to showcase work in a supportive environment, sharing ideas and knowledge in a social setting. The evening will begin with informal artist talks and project presentations, followed by the opportunity to discuss your own work, share [...]

YCN’s annual collection of live creative briefs open to students and recent graduates

Call for Entries for this year’s YCN Student Awards has now been launched. All the Awards content can be accessed at http://student.aisforawards.org

Film Screening at Stills: Counter Images. GDR Underground Films 1983-1989 – Thursday 12 November 6.30pm FREE

For this special screening curator and filmmaker Claus Löser will present a selection of films which were made in the GDR between 1983 and 1989 by young artists, musicians and writers. At a time when art was subject to state control artists operated outside all official channels, their subversive actions watched closely by the Stasi [...]

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