We are pleased to announce that Lancashire Monochrome member Helen Burrow is moving part of her Brontë Reader exhibition to the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth. This is part of a larger Patrick Brontë exhibition that has been put on by the Parsonage and will run until the end of October. The exhibition opening is on 4th July, please RSVP as per the invite.
We are pleased to announce a new members exhibition at our gallery space in the Mercure Bolton Georgian House. Dave Wilkinson‘s exhibition contains a selection of his landscape photographs from north Norfolk and Scotland. The 18 prints are:
Anchor points Burnham Overy Staithe
Boat house Burnham Overy Staithe
Lone boat Burnham Overy Staithe
Moored up Thornham V
Stuck in the mud Brancaster Staithe V
Ready for launch Sherringham V
Low tide Thornham V
Boat in the reeds Brancaster Staithe
Thornham stumps Thornham
Three Sisters tree Glencoe
Glencoe Lochan Glencoe
Stream side lodge Glencoe
Lagangarbh cottage Glencoe
Black rock cottage Glencoe
Water fall Buachaille Etive Mor Glencoe
Strontian wreck CN217 Ardnamurchan peninsula
Polnish Chapel Ardnamurchan peninsula
Camas nan Gael (“Bay of the Strangers”) Ardnamurchan peninsula
The gallery is situated in the main bar area of the hotel and is open 7 days a week. The exhibition will run until mid-September.
More of Dave’s work can be seen on his website https://davewilkinson.co.uk/
We are pleased to announce that our next keynote speaker will be Mik Critchlow on November 17th 2019.
Mik is a social documentary photographer from the North East of England. He has worked on long-term community based projects for over forty years. His book ‘Coal Town’ will be published by Blue Coat Press in Spring / Summer 2019 and showcases his photographs of Ashington from the 80’s and 90’s.
Mik’s work has featured in the BJP, Amateur Photographer, Creative Camera, The Independent and The Guardian.
This new documentary film has been doing the rounds at a number of photo festivals and is now available on Youtube to watch for free.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU
Cafe Royal Books have produced a book of photographs By Bill Jay to accompany the film: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/bill-jay-british-photographers-photographed?rq=bill%20jay
Our thanks to Craig Atkinson from Cafe Royal Books who made the short trip over from Southport to give his excellent talk to Lancashire Monochrome on the 17th March 2019. Craig has been publishing books for over 10 years and produces around 1 a week. To date he has published 580 books of which 400 are in the photo series – by his own estimation there are probably over 100000 books in circulation!
This massive body of work is centred around British documentary photography and has featured the work of both unknown photographers to the very well known. The books are in both private collections and public collections such as the V&A, and fill in some important gaps in the chronology of British documentary.
Craig studied art and was a pcraticing artist and used the A5 zine format to publish his own work as an artist / illustrator/ photographer / collector before starting to publish the work of others. He’s also a lecturer at UCLan in Preston. All that, and he’s a thoroughly decent chap as well!
Follow Craig on Twitter @craigatkinson and Cafe Royal @caferoyalbooks as well as on Instagram and Facebook.
https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/
We are pleased to announce that the latest exhibition in our gallery space at the Mercure Georgian House Hotel in Bolton features the work of Chris McGinley. Chris is an accomplished street photographer whose work is well observed and often humorous. A member of both Lancashire Monochrome and Yorkshire Monochrome, Chris has two galleries of work on our website here and here.
The work is on display in the main bar area of the hotel and will run until the end of May.
Our annual exhibition is now open at South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre in Leyland. The exhibition was opened, as always, by the Mayor of the borough this years incumbent being Cllr John Rainsbury. The exhibition runs until Saturday 2 March 2019 and the museum is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 until 16:00; Thursdays 13:00 until 16:00; Fridays 10:00 until 16:00; and Saturdays 10:00 until 13:00.
A portfolio of Dave Lewis’s photographs has been added. Unfortunately these are quite small scans taken from the old website as we’ve no way of scanning Dave’s larger wet darkroom prints, but that should not spoil your enjoyment of the work of a master black and white photographer and printer.
We are pleased to announce that the latest exhibition in our gallery space at the Mercure Georgian House in Bolton is from Lancashire Monochrome member Ray Parkin.
The exhibition is titled ‘Patterns In The Sand’ and Ray’s artists statement describes it thus:
A beach serves many purposes: it is a playground, a place of rest, somewhere for a gentle stroll or strenuous run, and much else. For me, on this visit to Embleton Bay in Northumberland, it was an opportunity to reflect on the effect that the sea and its tide has on this particular environment. The tide had recently receded leaving these irregular patterns in the wet sand, arbitrarily depositing pebbles and larger stones, shells and seaweed. To all this, footprints had already been added. I found that the taking, processing and printing of these images was an enjoyable and rewarding process. These images are all on the same theme and, therefore, they do not have their own titles. They are not images of places or people, but of abstract patterns formed in the sand by the sea and therefore are more about my experience of the beach than the time and place.
Patterns In The Sand will be on display until the end of February 2019.
