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.

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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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.