Peter Walker Exhibits at Gallery Oldham

Primrose Bank – Past, Present and Future
Gallery Oldham
Exhibition fro 15th May to 6th June

Peter Walker completed an MA in photography in 2008 at Bolton University and has further developed a keen interest in social documentary photography

In 2009 Peter was jointly commissioned by Oldham Council’s ‘Gateways to Oldham’ team and the Housing Market Renewal pathfinder project to create a photographic record of the environment, history and community of the Primrose Bank estate.

Working with residents and community groups, Peter has created images that bear witness to the cultural and social diversity of a changing community.

The photographs taken over the course of a year portray the changing face of the estate and the changing community - from a stark 1960s concrete council housing estate, towards a twenty first century place to live. Peter has recorded surprising images that are both beautiful and powerful, and these are complimented by a vision of the latest proposals to regenerate the estate.

Landscapes In Brass' premieres at Holmfirth Picturedrome

Photo MA graduate Andy Boag exhibition Landscapes In Brass' premieres at Holmfirth Picturedrome. The Debut performance of the National Lottery Funded commission of music and images will be on Sunday June 6th as part of Holmfirth Art Week. The piece is in three movements; the landscape & culture, The Black death in Hepworth and The bursting of Bilberry Reservoir in 1852 resulting in 81 dead. Photographs will form a slideshow to illustrate the musical passages. The band will perform the piece and various locations throughout the country.

http://www.andyboag.com/gallery_338819.html

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Today Sun Peng published his graduates in China project on the China Daily website where he now works. See it HERE...

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The Magenta Foundation has announced the awards for this years E,erging photographers and for the third year in a row, Bolton Photo MA graduates are amongst the winners. Adam Dean (graduate 2006) and Dave Wyatt (graduate 2008) are on the list, more at

Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2010

Student Winners interviewed in Times

Work by Photo MA graduates Becky Matthews and Clare Struthers that will appear in the Photographer's Gallery, Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, exhibition in London featured as the highlight in the Times review of the exhibit. More online at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incoming/article7118428.ece

Dave Wyatt Publishes Thames Town Project in Portfolio Magazine

In the latest edition of Portfolio Magazine, Photo MA Graduate Dave Wyatt in published alongside Nadav Kander, Edward Burtynsky, Ed Kashi in this exclusive photography publication.

MA Graduates Cover the QInghai Earthquake

Once again many of the Photo MA graduates went to the latest earthquake to record the scenes for their respective organisations.

Below is the video from recent graduate Jerry Leo who was working for UNICEF.

North South Divide: photography symposium

Saturday 15^th May 10am- 4pm
£15 including refreshments, lunch and a tour of the exhibition
To book contact
Gallery Oldham Cultural Quarter Greaves Street Oldham Ol1 1AL
T: 0161 770 4653 E: gallery Oldham@ Oldham.gov.uk www.galleryoldham.org.uk

An event for anyone who has an interest in the history and tradition of social documentary photography in England.

Chaired by Ian Beesley who has created this exhibition

Speakers include

Shirley Baker
Born in Kersal, North Salford, and moved to Manchester at the age of two.
Her photography began in the early sixties with a compulsion to record “the face of a people at a time when their homes were being demolished and they were being uprooted due to a huge 'slum' clearance programme.”
She has worked as an industrial photographer, a freelance writer and photographer on various magazines, books and newspapers, and as a lecturer at Salford College of Art and Manchester Polytechnic. Her work on Salford “Streets & Spaces Urban photography was published in 2000 by the Lowry Press.

Ian Beesley
Born Bradford West Yorkshire.
Began photographing in the 1970s the demise of the textile trade, this has developed into a longitudinal socio-political study of the demise of industry and its effects on society. He is the course leader for the MA in photography at the University of Bolton. Nominated for the Fellow in Photography at the National Media Museum in 2008, he is currently working with the poet Ian McMillan on a number of projects including “The Drift” an exhibition and book about one of the last coal mines in the Yorkshire coalfield.

Paul Reas
Born Bradford West Yorkshire
is a senior lecturer in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport. He has, for the last twenty years, had a deliberately varied photographic career. He has exhibited widely, both Nationally and Internationally, and his work has been included in many major survey exhibitions of British Photography, the most recent being ‘How We Are’ photographing Britain, at Tate Britain in 2007. He has published two books, I Can Help’ and ‘Flogging A Dead Horse’. Both Cornerhouse Books publications.

Martin Wainwright

Born in Leeds
is Northern editor of the Guardian. His latest book True North rather than dwell on a Bennett-esque, Billy Liar and Satanic Mills pastiche of northern England he aims to provide a more balanced view of the region.

Subtitled In Praise of England's Better Half, it's a personal analysis of a corner of the country which boasts breathtaking countryside, dynamic industry, high culture, community spirit and a very real multi-cultural, cosmopolitan lifestyle.