Have you recently graduated university and are perhaps feeling a little daunted by the next steps to launch your photography career? Look no further, Redeye’s Graduate Mentoring Scheme is back for another year running, to carefully pair graduates with relevant industry professionals based on their interests, supporting the leap from leaving university to working in the real world.
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Graduate Mentoring Scheme: find out how taking part progressed Holly Houlton’s career
Posted 8 August 2023
Photography Workshops with Chester Visual Arts and Photoworks at the Simon Roberts' Exhibition
Posted 20 June 2023
Redeye recently ran a series of workshops in partnerhsip with Chester Visual Arts and Photoworks, as part of Simon Roberts' exhibition How did we get here? / Where do we go now?
Rebecca Burns, Programme Coordinator, shares her thoughts on how the workshops went.
Exhibitions to visit this month - June 2023
Posted 20 June 2023
We have been spoilt lately with an excellent range of photography exhibitions in the North of England. Here are Redeye staff's top picks of exhibitions to visit this Summer.
Lightbox: what is it like to take part?
Posted 2 May 2023
Photo Credit: Installation documentation of FORM Collective exhibition in Brighton 2018. Featuring work by June Cadogan, Joanne Coates, Rachael Burns, Kevin Casey, Becky Warnock, Cath Stanley and Liz Tobin.
Applications for Lightbox 2023: a creative collaborative course have just opened. If you're considering applying for the professional development course and want to know what it's like to take part and what impact it can have on your career. Why not read some of the testimonials from past participants here.
‘The Power of Place’ - Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022
Posted 27 September 2022
Inspiring visual arts exchange between UK and Hong Kong
26th September – 9th October 2022
Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022 is a programme designed to encourage meaningful cultural exchange and to forge enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors.
Nathan McGill discusses power in photography and his approach to participatory arts practice
Posted 11 August 2022
Alberto, Cannon Hill Park. 'The Photographer is Me' - participatory arts photography project with Nathan McGill, 2021
Ukraininan. Photographies: an interview
Posted 13 July 2022
Redeye is pleased to be a promoting partner for a new venture, Ukraininan. Photographies (U.P), which supports the Ukrainian photography community and shows the work of a wide range of photographers in Ukraine, especially those affected by the war. We talked to U.P’s founders, Max Gorbatskyi and Viktoria Bavykina, about the background and purpose of the organisation.
Maya Sharp - Photography and Storytelling
Posted 15 June 2022
Images by Maya Sharp: Untitled 2020, Untitled 2022
Maya Sharp is a recent graduate photographer and fiction writer; with specific interests in the gothic, storytelling and in place. Focusing much of her practice on the Yorkshire moors where she grew up, Maya brings a contemporary edge to romantic literacy and photographic tradition. Since graduating, she has found work as a photographer's assistant, learning more and more about photography every day.
‘A picture is worth 1000 words.’
Photography graduate Degree Shows 2022
Posted 2 June 2022
Photographic work by Matty Hopley, exhibited at Salford University degree show 2022
Buying Photography: Where to start and how to build a collection?
Posted 24 May 2022
At Redeye we are always keen to encourage people to buy photographic prints - it’s a good investment, it helps support new and established talent, and it’s enjoyable and rewarding. With a season of art and photography fairs under way, we asked art advisor, founder of www.theartpa.com, and former Redeye staff member Petra van den Houten to reflect on how to start and how to build a photography collection.
