North East Photography Book Fair and Portfolio Review Day

In April The North East Photography Network is having a Book Fair and a Portfolio Review Day on the 15th and 16th of April.

Portfolio Review Day

Saturday 16^th April, 9.30 – 4pm

Venue: Mining Institute, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle.

Our  Portfolio Review day provides photographers with an opportunity to discuss their practice and portfolio with leading professionals from photographic publishing, commissioning and exhibiting sectors.

The event is aimed at critically-engaged photographers who take a serious approach to their practice and an application process is in place.

Up to 25 photographic artists will be selected to participate in up to 3 reviews.
Applicants should send a CV, short statement about your practice (max. 250 words) and web links to your work, or a maximum of 5 images, which must not be larger than 75KB each, by email to Carol McKay:

carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk by 1^st April 2011.

There will be a charge for the reviews of £10 each or three for £25, which will be payable upon selection. Fees are non refundable and late-comers unfortunately can not be accommodated.

NEPN Development Bursaries

In conjunction with the Portfolio Reviews, four participating photographers will be awarded a small development bursary of £250 following nominations from our guest reviewers.  All participating photographers will automatically be considered for these awards.   The development bursaries can be used to fund research and development costs or seed publishing or production projects.

For Reviewers details, please follow the link here.

Book Fair – The Lit & Phil, Newcastle upon Tyne

Friday 15^th April & Saturday 16^th April

To coincide with the Photography Publishing Symposium, NEPN is organising a Book Fair to offer photographers the opportunity to show their hand-made, self-published and published books, magazines and other innovative publications.

The fair will be open for Symposium and Portfolio Review participants and reviewers and for the general public over the two days.

We are calling for contributions to the fair from regionally based photographic artists. If you would like to participate please send your publication(s) to: Amanda Ritson, North East Photography Network, University of Sunderland, Ashburne House, Ryhope Road, Sunderland, SR2 7EF by April 11th.  Any questions please emailamanda@northeastphoto.net.

Please note that submissions will need to be collected from University of Sunderland following the event, unless SAE with appropriate postage are included with submissions.  Unfortunately we can’t offer fees for submissions but hope the opportunity to exhibit will be beneficial to participants.   The Fair is a non-selling event.

Events

15th – 16th April 2011 NEPN Symposium and Portfolio Reviews @ Mining Institute, Newcastle

Friday April 15th: Photography Publishing and the Future of the Photo-Book:  1pm – 6.30pm

Symposium registration and admission: £5.00

To register for the symposium, please follow the link here: University of Sunderland (on-line  store)

To register for the Portfolio Review Day please follow the link here

image credit: Rob Hornstra/Arnold van Bruggen (2011) Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land 194 × 251 mm / 272pp / 93 Colour Photographs / Hardbound with photo-illustrated boards / Language: English / Design: Kummer & Herrman / Print run: 900 copies

Symposium Programme  15^th April 2011

Photography Publishing and the Future of the Photobook

We are all aware of large shifts in the contemporary publishing industry affecting both the production and consumption of magazines, journals, newspapers and books. From on-line publications to print on demand and DIY publishing: questions arise about what this means for photographers, writers and curators. This symposium on the future of photography publishing will ponder some of these questions: what is the future for the production and editing of photobooks, and what are the implications for how we access and view them? Given the recent demise ofPortfolio, what kinds of platforms are there for contemporary photography and how do we continue to foster critical writing and debate?  With the ongoing crisis in the editorial market, what future publishing strategies should photographers consider?

The NEPN is delighted to welcome our panel of invited speakers to debate these and other photo-publishing issues.   Join us for an afternoon of discussion and inspiration.

Heres the link to the website 

http://www.northeastphoto.net/

I'm hoping to go to both, I've bought my ticket for the publishing symposium, it should be a good day. I'm also contemplating putting my newest self published book into the book fair and I've emailed in about the portfolio review day. Well ... I haven't got anything better to do.

Sarah Louise 

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