Prof. Roshini Kempadoo and alumni Sunil Gupta are part of the group exhibition, The World that Belongs to Us opening on Thursday 24 November at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Birmingham. Curated by Aziz Sohail with Head of Exhibitions, Deborah Robinson, this exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian […]
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Fixed Images, Unfixed Meanings
‘Fixed Images, Unfixed Meanings’, an essay by David Campany, is out now in the book Photography – Real and Imagined, published by Thames & Hudson, Australia/New Zealand. Photography – Real and Imagined interrogates the proposition that photographs are either grounded in reality – a record, a document, a reflection of the world – or the product […]
Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery (2024)
Following the success of last year’s course, “Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery” returns in 2024. This is a course in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery developed and led by Dr Sara Dominici. Spanning eight weeks, “Inside Out” introduces and explores key themes concerning the photographic sector today. At a time of unprecedented public interest in the […]
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Pingyao International Photography Festival 2023
Professor David Bate participated in the Pingyao International Photography Festival, with an exhibition of his work SOT (Singapore-on-Thames), a docu-collage work about the ‘new developments’ in Battersea and Vauxhall area of London. He also curated an exhibition featuring work from University of Westminster photography graduates for the festival which featured some 40 exhibitions from across […]
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Robert Cumming – Very Pictorial Conceptual Art
David Campany has edited and written ‘Very Pictorial Conceptual Art’, the first posthumous book of the work of Robert Cumming, an American artist who defied easy classification. A painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker he is perhaps best known for his painstakingly constructed conceptual photographs. This new publication explores Cumming’s highly influential photographic works from the […]
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Photography and AI Conference at Royal Photographic Society
Dr. Paula Gortázar will be presenting her paper, Look me in the Eye!: Towards Full Ownership of Every AI-generated Photograph, at the conference Photography and AI organised by the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol between the 9th and 10th of October 2023. Paula’s study identifies alternative models for the production of AI-generated images to those currently used by mainstream AI […]
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Immersion: Gregory Halpern, Raymond Meeks, and Vasantha Yogananthan
Curated by David Campany, Immersion: Gregory Halpern, Raymond Meeks, and Vasantha Yogananthan is an exhibition at the International Center of Photography showcasing three projects created by the artists during their respective residencies—Halpern’s in Guadeloupe, Yogananthan’s in New Orleans, and Meeks’s on France’s borders. The projects are part of Immersion, a French-American Photography Commission created by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and presented in collaboration with ICP and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, […]
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Life is More Important Than Art
Mitra Tabrizian‘s ‘Film stills’ is part of the exhibition, Life is More Important than Art, at Whitechapel Gallery from 14th June until 3rd September. Film stills are often photographs of the main character(s) taken on or off the set to introduce/publicize the film. The main purpose of such publicity stills is to help promote the film and stars. […]
CFP: Photography in Virtual Culture
University of Westminster and The Photographers’ Gallery, London Deadline for Proposals: 18th September, 2023 Following the first successful Virtual Photography Symposium held at the University of Westminster, London in 2022, we are delighted to announce the call for contributions to a new International Conference Photography in Virtual Culture in May 2024. The conference is organised in collaboration with The […]
Landscape Trauma at British Centre for Photography
Roshini Kempadoo’s work features in the group exhibition, Landscape Trauma, opening at the Centre for British Photography on Thursday 8th June. Alongside Roshini Kempadoo, the exhibition features several artists who have been involved with CREAM/University of Westminster, including fellow Professor in Photography, mitra tabrizian, Ingrid Pollard (CREAM PhD alumni) and Victor Burgin. Landscape Trauma presents the […]
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