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Portfolio Review Day at the National Media Museum

Portfolio Review Day
Saturday 25th October 2008: 11.00 - 5.00pm

In collaboration with Pavilion, the National Media Museum is hosting a photographers’ portfolio review day. The review day presents an opportunity to meet with indusrty professionals and gain professional advice and feedback on how to develop your practice. The line-up of reviewers includes artists from the current New Works: Pavilion Commissions 2008 exhibition, as well as staff members from Pavilion and National Media Museum.

The 20th Century: How it Looked and How it Felt

The 20th Century: How it Looked and How it Felt
Tate Liverpool
Until end April 2009

“The thing I don't understand about art is...”

The speaker, who stormed away taking the rest of his sentence with him, was just one of many audibly bemused visitors to The 20th Century. This hugely ambitious exploration of the whole of the century’s art - a period in which artistic practice became increasingly challenging for the public - contains a decent dollop of photography, underlining the medium's artistic importance.

Photographic Portrait Prize 2007

Photographic Portrait Prize 2007
The Lowry Centre, Salford
Until Sunday 12 October 2008

Almost 2,700 photographers entered the 2007 Prize, “some conventional, others more experimental”. However, the 60 or so photographs selected for this exhibition suggest the entries must have fallen almost exclusively into the “conventional” camp, ticking most or all of the following boxes: colour, posed, high production values, young, good looking subjects (or failing that, famous ones).

Quiescence: exhibtion of photographs by McCoy Wynne

Quiescence is an exhibition of photographs made during the last five years. It takes as its theme the concept of dormant spaces: spaces at rest, but about to undergo major change.

The spaces are held in tension between a past and future use. Traces of present occupation by birds and plants overlay evidence of previous activities.

Exhibition is at 11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. 7th October to 12th October and forms aart of Liverpool Independents Biennial. Check web site for map

LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION CALLS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMISSIONS

Photographers across the North West are being given a unique opportunity to showcase their work in an art sale supporting The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, to take place on Thursday 30th October.

For one day only, Manchester’s renowned Mr Thomas’s Chop House will be transformed into a gallery displaying a selection of work by the region’s emerging and established talent.

Redeye, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Market Buildings, Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU, UK
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