Hill on Photography

'If a camera could capture poetry, this might well be what it would look like' -
The Guardian.

Photography Walk ‘n Talk in the Peak

26th May, 2013

2.00pm - 8.00pm

Landscape Photography Workshop

in aid of Friends of the Peak (CPRE) 

 Meet at Visitors Centre, Castleton

An introduction to landscape photography and photographic seeing for the novice and the more experienced hobbyist. Acclaimed professional photographers Paul Hill MBE and Maria Falconer FRPS give a practical guide to camera handling and composition on location in a beautiful spot of the Peak District.  The workshop takes in the afternoon and early evening to hopefully capture how the light can transform the landscape as the sun sets. You’ll need to be able to walk at least two miles across sometimes uneven or wet terrain. Please bring your own camera (and tripod if you’ve got one), a packed lunch, waterproofs and appropriate footwear.

Cost: £50 non members; £40 Friends of the Peak District members

To book a place or for more information contact Andy Tickle andy@cprepeakandyorks.org or ring 0114 279 2655.

paul@hillonphotography.co.uk

Tel 01335 390392 or 07977700274


May Photoforum

Can Photography Change the World?

28th May, 2013  

 The Box, QUAD, Derby 

                                                                                                              

Martin Shakeshaft 

Since its inception, photography has been used by numerous practitioners to affect social and political change, whilst others have sought to establish it as a stand-alone art form.

Throughout his career, photojournalist and documentary photographer, Martin Shakeshaft, has, whenever possible, used the medium for political ends in order to help create a fairer society.  In the 1980s he photographed the miners’ strike producing one of the most extensive archives of that seminal event in British politics. A graduate of the renowned documentary photography course at the University of Wales, Newport, he has worked for the BBC, Newsweek, The Daily Mirror, and The Independent, amongst others. He is now course leader of the MA in Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at De Montfort University.

In conversation with Paul Hill, he will examine the role of photography in politics, and show his coverage of anti-establishment protests in this country and abroad, including the recent riots in Greece. If you have any photographic work that relates to the issues this forum raises, please bring it in for comment by Martin and Paul and other members of the forum.

To book:

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/regular-event/format-photoforum

Tel. 01332 290606

 

 

Dialogue hits Moscow!

Our book of interviews Dialogue with Photography is now available in Russian, which is nice…. Also available in Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish versions, as well as American, of course.

Photoforum April 30th

PHOTOFORUM

30th April, 2013                                                                              6.30 – 8.30             

The Box, Derby QUAD                                                                                   £ 3

Alchemy – is it the alternative?

In the last 40 years there has been a renewal of interest in ‘hands-on’ 19th and early 20th century photographic processes as photographers sought to extend the creative possibilities of the medium.

One of the outstanding exponents of this alternative approach is Richard Freestone, a Derby-based prizewinning photographer, who has exhibited his work in this country and abroad. In recent years he has also specialised in platinum, palladium and salt printing for other photographers, like Martin Sundstrom and Paul Kenny, as well as for the illustrious Magnum Photos. In addition to this, he has a thriving commercial practice and is an associate lecturer at the University of Derby.

As well talking with Paul Hill about his own practice – from analogue to digital, and back again - Richard will look at photographers, like Irving Penn, who have explored platinum printing and explain the aesthetic and technical aspects that make him such an enthusiastic, and original user of ‘alternative’ processes.

If you have ‘handmade’ non-silver prints, do bring them along and share your adventures with alchemy with Richard, Paul and other members of the forum.

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/regular-event/format-photoforum

Tel. 01332 290606

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Image: Richard Freestone

gonzaloecheverriaphotography asked: hello mr Hill, are there any references you can suggest that refer to or discuss urban landscape photography as a genre?

I write about this in my book Approaching Photography. Also look up Luminous Lint website.

Paul

Tired and Emotional at FORMAT 13

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Brian Griffin (left) and Andreas Meichsner (right)

I was so pleased that we gave my award to Andreas Meichsner’s TUV:to the acid test  exhibition at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery which was alongside that of my old mate, Brian Griffin’s Still Waters .

FORMAT 13 must be the biggest event in the city since Bonnie Prince Charlie’s retreat! It was great to see so many old friends, and new ones, like Andreas, too. Not everything worked as it should, but everyone rightly concentrated on the positives, of which there were so many. And it will be even better in 2015!

http://www.formatfestival.com

March Photoforum at FORMAT 13

Past Work Revisited 

28th March                 6.30 - 8.30                

Fat Cat Cafe Bar, Friargate, Derby

Revisiting past work is the theme of two FORMAT 13 exhibitions at the Chocolate Factory by Huw Davies and David Moore, so we invite you to share some of your photographic ‘archives’ when the past was the present.
Huw and David will discuss their projects with Paul Hill and comment on the photographs you bring in to our festival Photoforum venue - the Fat Cat Cafe Bar. Come and enjoy a great evening!
 
In 1986 Davies was appointed as Artist in Residence at Derbyshire College of Higher Education, the forerunner of the University of Derby. The post was created as part of Industry Year, a government supported initiative, which aimed to promote the value of manufacture and commerce at a time when the UK was at the bottom of every major industrial league.
 
Over a 12-month period Davies photographed at over thirty companies, documenting the workforce from the shop floor to the boardroom. In the mid 1980s Moore knocked on the doors of working class homes of his home town of Derby, photographing the effects of poverty in a decade of Thatcherism and obsession with material gain. Huw is now Dean of Art,Design and Technology, University of Derby and David is MA Photography Course Leader at St Martins College of Art, London.
The Fat Cat Cafe offer:
Two for one cocktail’s all evening & house wine £10 a bottle.  
And if people would like to eat before or after the forum they can book in advance the menu is for £11.95 for two courses & including a cocktail on arrival!  http://www.fatcatcafebars.co.uk/venues/derby/the-venue/ 

Our Photoforum on 30th April will be “Alchemy- is it the alternative?” with Richard Freestone and on 28th May it is on photography and politics with Martin Shakeshaft. So book now! 

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/regular-event/format-photoforum

Tel. 01332 290606

Approaching Photography

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars MasterClass, 15 Aug 2010
By 
Colin Wilks - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Approaching Photography (Hardcover)

This book is a gem. The observations on Metaphors and Symbols, for example, focus the mind’s eye beyond the surface qualities of a print and into deeper currents - particularly for those (like me) who gave the subject scant attention. The book is complete: it informs. It keeps to essentials. It is practical. Complex topics are explained without jargon or fuss.The reproduced images are a delight. I put this book at the top of my list. I wish I had discovered it earlier.