Wednesday 24 November 2010

Liverpool Winters Art Fair

Hello - if you took away the flyer to buy work online, this is your blog post!

Please click below for the gallery and remember to use Passcode: liverpool2010 and the coupon lpoolart before checkout.

CLICK ON HERE FOR ONLINE GALLERY

For shipping - in order to keep costs as low as possible, use the option for the largest item if you are purchasing more than one print / canvas. It should work everything out ok but if you have any issues, please email me on joe@joekennedyphoto.co.uk

Also please be aware that some of the images would have to be cropped to produce some of the sizes offered - wherever necessary I will email a quick proof to you prior to printing to ensure you are satisfied if there has to be any changes.

Thank-you,
Joe

Thursday 18 November 2010

Cubeopen 2010 opening night

Just got back from the private view and couldn't be happier with the position and placement of my photographs. As you walk in, they are along the facing wall and as a set they look fantastic ( ok, I'm biased.... )
There's some great work in there and if you are in Manchester up til the end of January, it is well worth a look.
I produced 30 or so of these mini packs of a concertina image and a postcard from the Sandcastle series and one from After - life and within 15 minutes there were maybe 3 left. I'm back in again next week and will produce more of these to leave.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Liverpool Winters Art Fair

Had confirmation that I've got a stand at this. Looking forward to gauging reaction to the Red prints - I've produced them at around 600mm x 1m and mounted on to foamex panels. They look great and hopefully the feedback will be positive as I'm going to start pushing these next.
I also have been asked to be part of a new photo crit group setting up in Preston - if anyone else is interested, it seems fairly informal, let me know and I'll pass on the details. It starts next month.
I also took the kids in to the local library last Friday and after passing across a concertina of Off season prints to the ladies ( they always like to know whats going on after showing some of my work here a few years back ), they had put up the prints proud of place near the main desk. Very nice and a big thank-you to librarians of Fulwood!

Thursday 4 November 2010

Cubeopen 2010

I submitted six of the photographs from my Off season series to Cube in central Manchester for their annual Cubeopen exhibition. I have visited this show most years and always thought & hoped that my images would fit in with what they look for.
They picked all six and after printing and framing the shots went in and the exhibition opens on the 19th Nov 2010 for the public. It looks like it is going to be a fantastically broad church of differing art styles and multiple ways of producing work. I cant wait to go and see whats been picked.

The flyer is below and I'll post more when I get chance and it gets closer.


Tuesday 19 October 2010

Preston's closing PAD Gallery

As a new city Preston has the opportunity to reinvent itself as whatever it chooses to be. The slate is clean, the old industrial ways of the North fading away and newer possibilities could lie ahead.
Preston is a city full of students with the evergrowing UCLan campus sprawling across & through the centre - a centre that surely can create a vibrancy with more potential than 75p a pint happy hours and kebab shops. Humankind must be able aim a little higher than a new shopping complex and bus station. To create a legacy from this empty page and the limits of imagination can't be that imposing for a council, can it?
With all these students and all the permanent residents, with all the beautiful old buildings still dotted across the streets, and certainly with the fact that this is a CITY, the arts must be well taken care of in Preston mustn't they? Mustn't they?
Outside of the venerable Harris ( every town must have a museum... ), there was the one gallery. One gallery away from the upstairs of gift shops and framing places, one hall in the whole of Preston's city centre, one room funded by the city for the arts......
And on the 31st October 2010 it closes.
Blamed on the imminent cutbacks that will decimate the arts ( and most nonessential things in this country ), it is such a shame in hindsight that when times were good we didn't open more so that when the times got tough, the only one didn't have to close.

Sunday 17 October 2010

Alternatives

Had an operation on my ear - I was told I was deaf a few years ago by my local PCT but after buying a new phone and in-ear headphones, I thought I'd google to check I was ok popping the buds in.
I was ok but it was by chance I also found out what I had been diagnosed with ( otosclerosis ) is treatable.
I've had the op and all seems to be fine - I cant hear a sausage until the packing comes out of my lug but straight after when the surgeon speaks it was LOUD so fingers crossed.

While recuperating I've squeezed in the making of some images I've been working with for a while - I've been picking up stuff from Ebay in readiness.

The finished prints are a 1m x 660mm and mounted on foam board. If I may say so, as my friend Shabba Ranks would say, they look da bomb. I've applied for the Winter Arts Fair in Liverpool at the end of November so I'll be gauging interest then.



Saturday 25 September 2010

Dev Chart Iphone app

I'm probably preaching to the converting here but while on the subject of apps, I've always used the Massive Dev Chart online as it is a fantastic free resource.
As I pretty much only use Rodinal which comes with no times for my usual films of TriX 35mm and Neopan 100 or 400 120 its really helped out over the years when I keep forgetting.
With the Iphone app it not only has the times but also works doubles up as a timer counting down all the processes - you can even amend times as I need to with my DIY rotary setup.
Awesome and well worth coughing up for if you dev your own b/w films.


Thursday 23 September 2010

Hipstamatic

I know I'm neither the first nor will I be the last to swear by this little app for the Iphone.
The Iphone 4 has a much better camera I'm sure and doesnt need any of this trickery, but doing away with the necessity of quality and approaching Iphonography from the same standpoint of the Holga or another toy camera adds so much to the pleasure.
Instead of their being gripes about quality, there is only unique moments of smudged clarity.
As the great Holga Bible so perfectly puts it - don't ever be disappointed by what comes out of the camera......be amazed that anything came out!





Monday 13 September 2010

Liverpool Arts Fair 2010 - Online Image Gallery

Hello - if you took away the flyer to buy work online, this is your blog post!

Please click below for the gallery and remember to use Passcode: liverpool2010 and the coupon lpoolart before checkout.

CLICK ON HERE FOR ONLINE GALLERY

For shipping - in order to keep costs as low as possible, use the option for the largest item if you are purchasing more than one print / canvas. It should work everything out ok but if you have any issues, please email me on joe@joekennedyphoto.co.uk

Also please be aware that some of the images would have to be cropped to produce some of the sizes offered - wherever necessary I will email a quick proof to you prior to printing to ensure you are satisfied if there has to be any changes.

Thank-you,
Joe

Coastal cubes

I've had a number of these made up - they're around 8" x 6", wooden and look incredibly cool with the seaside images inset.
They'll be for sale at the upcoming Liverpool Arts Fair and also online through here after this weekends event.
I can almost smell the fish and chips.....

Saturday 11 September 2010

Liverpool Arts Fair 2010

Submitted to and got the acceptance email back so had a week of putting together large fabric stretched prints and also these little picture wooden cuboid type frames.
I've also had two images mounted on to exhibition grade foamex panels and laminated - looking forward to seeing these.
I'll post more as I finish them.....


Sunday 22 August 2010

Mono at the Liverpool Maritime Museum

If I can't be bothered carrying digital, I have a number of 1970s rangefinders that I always take out especially when on the street. They're small and very quick to use and I've always been mucho happy with quality.
I have four Yashica Electro 35s - a couple of GS's, a GT and a lovely GTN. These were with the GT. Kodak Tri X 400 - Rodinal and used the Dev Chart app for the first time - fantastic idea and if you dev your own film and you've got an Iphone, well worth the £5.




Thursday 19 August 2010

Wednesday 2 June 2010

Off Season 3

Another day, another forage through Lancashire's coastal towns.

Tuesday 1 June 2010

Switcheasy Nude Iphone case

Haven't seen much about this case on the net as far as reviews go and the case seemed to be garnering interest at pre-order level, so thought as I got one a day or so ago, I could at least put a couple of pictures up.


Switcheasy Nude

I've been using the Switcheasy Vulcan for a while and was expecting something similar but thinner. When it arrived I was a little surprised to find its more like a hard case than a silicon sleeve - not a million miles away from the ones on Ebay for a pound or so - except it is very thin and fits perfectly around the bottom dock, camera, power and phone socket and also around the bezel.
The Vulcan went over the bezel which in doing so protected the glass a little as it couldn't be scraped face down, this case sits just below the bezel so doesn't overlap the edge.
I have to say I think it looks well and if like me all you need is something to stop the back getting scratched and you aren't looking to be phone juggling any time soon, its the thinnest choice I could find. Protection from drops - not much - but a definitely neat well fitted case to prevent scuffs.







Monday 5 April 2010

Off Season 2

More from the coast.



Friday 2 April 2010

After - life

Coming to the end now of this blog - After - life - in order to write what I needed for my book and also get all the information out, I collected my thoughts there as I put together the images.

It was interesting to go back over some of the info and re-read the reports.

There was also a documentary on a night or so ago about John Darwin - Canoe Man - which was although not completist by any stretch, still an interesting bit of TV.

Friday 19 March 2010

Off season

Part of a new series which is slowly taking shape.

I live close to the coast of North West England and along the water's edge lie a number of seaside resorts that once fluorished from tourism.
Now with an influx of immigrants - ethnic and social - filling the hotels and the promise of investment these areas are slowly changing shape and purpose.
Even with the so-called staycationers remaining in the locale or travelling here and with pockets of the places creeping back in to vogue with a lick of paint, there remains an almost otherworldly appeal to these places.

Framing the sights in my 6x7 Pentax over these early months before the dogwalkers and street cleaners arrive in their low numbers and with the still-winter sun scraping through, there is something here which, although slightly stained around the edges, compels a person to look closer.




Monday 1 March 2010

As Annie Lennox once sang.....

here comes the rain again......


Thursday 18 February 2010

Changes and ranges

Quite busy at the minute - I've built another website showcasing galleries for print reproduction, I'll post a link once finalised; started to write some copy to go with the After - life images, something I need to complete and sort out what to do next asap; building a further site / concept / brand for a photo idea I'm also working on......
and also trying to get out as much as possible to photograph a new theme looking at first Blackpool and then poss moving along the coast.
We have a lot of wonderful spots along the waters edge throughout Lancashire that are looking decidedly grimy now from certain angles.....