UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
CRUX PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH NETWORK
Photography as Activism New Practices
9th Jan 2025 - Online 7pm GMT
CRUX brings together creative individuals who believe in making work that matters about social and environmental topics and wish to use their practice to speak to wide audiences. In the first of our 2025 speaker series we are bringing together two amazing photographers, Greg Constantine and Nicola Tree, who will present collaborative, co-participatory projects that resonate with CRUX’s themes. Please join us.
Greg Constantine, our key speaker, will present Ek Khaale, a visual restoration project that uses historical materials and Constantine’s own work to create a visual portrait of the Rohingya community that most people have never seen. Ek Khaale, the Rohingya expression for “Once Upon a Time” challenges historical narratives and reconstructs what Burmese regimes and other communities have spent decades trying to destroy. In his talk, Constantine will present the history of the project, the use of research-based archival work in his practice as a visual storyteller, the significance of the project for the Rohingya community and share several of the most important discoveries over the past four years as well as the stories behind them. www.ekkhaale.org
Nicola Tree, our supporting speaker, will show work from her on-going Civil Disobedients project. In this talk she will present a series of portraits and text of members of the Just Stop Oil activist group who campaign against new gas and oil leases. She photographs them in their homes in front of an orange background that symbolizes their cause. Testimonials from various JSO members highlight their motivations, experiences, and the strong sense of community and support within the group.
Bios:
CRUX Associate Member, Greg Constantine, is an award winning documentary photojournalist and author. He has dedicated his career to long-term, independent projects that explore the intersection of human rights, inequality, injustice, citizenship, identity, belonging and the power of the state. His long term projects include: Nowhere People, Exiled To Nowhere and Seven Doors. He is the author of three award winning photography books and his work has been exhibited in over 40 cities around the world. Constantine has been documenting the persecution of the Rohingya community for the past 18 years. In 2021, a major exhibition of his work on the Rohingya genocide titled, Burma's Path To Genocide, opened at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. For the past four years he has been working with Rohingya on the project Ek Khaale. In early 2017, he received his PhD from Middlesex University in the UK and has since received Independent Scholar as well as Early Career Fellowships from the Independent Social Research Foundation and Queen Mary University in London. Most recently, he was a Hearst Visiting Fellow at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication.
Instagram: @grconstantine & @ekkhaale
Nicola Tree is a London-based photographer, specializing in both portraiture and product photography for both her commercial, editorial and personal projects. She prefers to work with participants over a long period, collaborating to create portraits that communicate their unique narratives and achievements. Her work is regularly published world wide in advertising and editorial markets.
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CRUX Photography Research Network
Immersive Strategies: New Documentary Practices
with
David Baker and Paul Wenham-Clarke, Pauline Ferrick-Squibb and Emma Shercliff,
Sarah Fretwell and Michael O. Snyder, B.A, Van Sise and Michelle Bogre
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When: Oct. 11th, 2024
When: 13:00 – 16:00 GMT
Where: On line and room A025 at Arts University Bournemouth
CRUX Photography Network is pleased to announce a hybrid event – online and in person at AUB – on October 11th, 2024 from 13:00 to 16:00 GMT. Continuing with our project theme, The Landscape of Inequality, our remarkable group of speakers will be showing projects that employ participatory methodologies to explore the inequities of menopause care; photographing and embedding in a local Welsh community suffering sectoral economic decline; warnings about climate change, and environmental defenders trying to save the Amazon rain forest in Peru.
We’re introducing a new format: 30 minute pieces, part presentation and part Q&A. The speakers will be open for questions from the audience at the end of the event.
Please join us.
Schedule:
13:00 to 13:30 Pauline Ferrick-Squibb on This is Menopause with Emma Sherciff
13:30 to 14:00 David Baker on Rhyl People: Real People, Real Lives with Paul Wenham-Clarke
Break
14:20 to 15:10 B.A. Van Sise on Warming/Warning with Michelle Bogre
15:15 to 15:45 Sarah Fretwell on Carbon, Cartels & Corruption with Michael O. Snyder
15:45 to 16:15 Questions from the audience
Bios:
David Baker suffered a brain injury from a cycling accident in 2016, leading him to pursue a new career. He earned a BA(Hons) in Commercial Photography in 2023 and is now working towards a Master's degree at the Arts University Bournemouth, focusing on documentary photography.
Michelle Bogre is an educator, copyright lawyer, documentary photographer and author of four books, Photography As Activism: Images for Social Change, second edition (coming out November, 2024); Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century; Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice; and The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century. She currently holds the title of Professor Emerita from Parsons School of Design, after a 25-year career that included being Chair of the Photo department, and teaching almost every type of photography class. She teaches photography workshops and regularly lectures, both nationally and internationally, about copyright and photography.
Pauline Ferrick-Squibb, a Senior Lecturer at the Arts University Bournemouth is a documentary photographer whose work explores issues of women’s health care, the stigma of mental illness, communities and home life. Her work has been frequently exhibited throughout the UK, including in group shows at the National Portrait Gallery, the Photographer’s Gallery and The Royal Photographic Society.
Sarah Fretwell is an award winning photographer, filmmaker and author whose work explores the lives of everyday people with extraordinary stories and creates the human connection that engages people on a personal level. Her work offers individuals a voice for justice, insight for solutions, and the human connection needed for international engagement. Her project, The Truth Told Project amplified the voices of women, girls and men in the Democratic Republic of Congo who have been silenced by the war, their government, and corruption. The project premiered at SXSW Interactive, was the subject of Fretwell’s TEDx talk, and was featured in key national publications.
Emma Shercliff Dr. Emma Shercliff is Associate Professor of Textiles and Participatory Making. With over 20 years’ experience devising, participating in and leading creative, community-based textile-making activities with various participants she has developed a focus on creative participatory research methodologies and participatory approaches to design, making and cultural engagement applicable to wider cross- and interdisciplinary research, knowledge exchange and consultancy settings. She leads the Creative Participatory research group at AUB, co-edits the Journal of Arts and Communities and co-founded the AHRC funded Stitching Together research network. Her current research investigates evaluation frameworks and impact assessment tools for creative participatory research that takes into account the multidimensional and multisensory experiences of participants in research activities.
Michael O. Snyder is an Assistant Professor in Visual Communications at Syracuse University; and a photographer and filmmaker documenting the climate crisis and related social-environmental issues. In addition to creating visual stories, he is deeply interested in how our narratives can help drive social impact. Through his production company, Interdependent Pictures, he has directed films in the Arctic, the Amazon, the Himalaya, and East Africa. His photojournalism work has been featured by outlets such as National Geographic, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. He is a Portrait of Humanity Award Winner, a Society of Environmental Journalists Member, a Bertha Investigative Journalism Fellow, a Pulitzer Grantee, and a recent delegate to the United Nations Climate Conference. He holds an MSc in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a BSc in Geology from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
B.A.Van Sise is an author and award-winning photographic artist with three monographs: the visual poetry anthology Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry with Mary-Louise Parker; Invited to Life: After the Holocaust with Neil Gaiman, Mayim Bialik, and Sabrina Orah Mark; and On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues with DeLanna Studi, Philip Metres, Crisosto Apache, James Aronhióta's Stevens, Lehua Taitano, and dg opkik. His photographs have been featured in solo exhibitions throughout the United States and a number of his portraits of poets hang in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Paul Wenham-Clarke is a Professor of Photography and the MA Photography Course Leader at Arts University Bournemouth UK. He is a multi-award-winning photographer and his work has been covered by the BBC on several occasions including the BBC2 Culture Show. His work has been widely exhibited over the last 16 years including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, OXO Gallery, Somerset House and St Martin-in-the Fields Gallery Trafalgar Square. His work is driven by a passion for addressing social and environmental issues, such as road casualties, homelessness, and cultural identity. Through his photography, he encourages reflection on personal lifestyle choices and societal challenges.
ZOOM LINK:
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Meeting ID: 850 1343 1486
Passcode: CRUX11
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New Photographic Practices: Awareness to Impact
In its inaugural event at the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the CRUX Photography Research Network, supported by Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), will host a day-long event of impact-based presentations and discussions by activist photographers.
Today, activist and socially concerned photographers know that raising awareness alone does not effect change. New photographic practitioners seek to merge theory and practice and implement impact-based strategies in their work, ranging from participatory photography to public engagement and partnering with NGOs, non-profits, and even governmental agencies.
The thematic presentations will include the power of participatory photography, the value of personal work with a broad reach, and two different approaches to environmental activism. The stellar line-up of presenters includes Anthony Luvera, Paul Wenham-Clarke, Kerstin Hacker, Matthew Finn, Lauren Forster, Richard Lloyd Lewis and Michael O. Snyder with Michelle Bogre as our keynote speaker.
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ZED NELSON, JAYNE JACKSON & AMEENA ROJEE
CRUX co-founders Paul Wenham-Clarke and Michelle Bogre will moderate the event
When: 1:30 - 16.30pm GMT
Where: Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London
Admission Free – book on Eventbrite
CRUX brings together creative individuals who believe in making work that matters about social and environmental topics and wish to use their practice to speak to wide audiences. In the first in our new year-long speaker series we are bringing together three photographers whose work resonates with CRUX’s themes.
Zed Nelson our Key Speaker is a renowned multi award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, particularly known for his impactful photo-books Gun Nation, Love Me and A Portrait of Hackney. Nelson will be talking about a variety of projects including his newest project and upcoming book, The Anthroprocene Illusion which is currently featured in the British Journal of Photography. In this new work, Nelson examines the fractured relationship that humans have with the natural world, revealing not only our collective self-delusion, but also a craving for a connection to a world we have turned our backs on.
We have two supporting speakers Jayne Jackson and Ameena Rojee who are rising stars in the field of photography. Jayne is a feminist social action photographer who uses social media to generate participatory action. Drawing on research from her PhD, she will be discussing how documentary/constructed photography can be used to combat discrimination and empower participants as part of the process of ethical, collaborative creation. Ameena Rojee is a photographer and writer who tells stories about our relationship with the natural world, adventure and the outdoors. A recent project, Crocus Valley, published by RRB Photobooks, is a love letter to Croyden, London’s most southern borough. She gives us an unexpected and romantic view of its beauty and wilder lands, views of Croyden seldom seen in the media.
The CRUX Photography Research Network comprises an international roster of photographic artists, researchers, educators, and theorists from a wide range of genres and backgrounds who address contemporary environmental, political and social issues. Unconstrained by specific genres, CRUX encourages experimental methods and emerging technologies as well as traditional approaches to image making with the goal of generating mass public engagement.
CRUX is based at Arts University Bournemouth (UK) and run by a core team of AUB staff, led by Professor Paul Wenham-Clarke, working with Michelle Bogre, Professor Emerita, Parsons School of Design, NY (US).
Speaker Bios:
Zed Nelson is a London-based, award-winning, internationally recognized documentary photographer and filmmaker. He’s known for long-term projects that explore contemporary society, and has been recognised by numerous photography awards, including the Visa d’Or (France), First Prize in the World Press Photo Competition (Netherlands), and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award (USA). Nelson’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Tate Britain, the ICA and the National Portrait Gallery. He has also published three books, Gun Nation, Love Me and A Portrait of Hackney.
Jayne Jackson is an award-winning commercial, theatrical, and empowerment photographer and activist. She is interested in using photography to drive social change through work that promotes health, equality and gender issues. Her most well-known project, Asking for It, raised awareness about victim blaming and consent in cases of sexual violence domestic abuse. Her documentary photography work on issues such as community, feminist issues and representations of male ballet has been widely exhibited and featured by the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Positive News, Simple Things, Women’s Own and Yahoo, to name a few.
Ameena Rojee is an educator, photographer and writer who tell stories about adventure, the outdoors, and the natural world. Her project, Crocus Valley, a love letter to Croydon, published by RRB Photobooks, was launched as part of Croydon's turn as the London Borough of Culture, featuring poetry by Croydon poet laureate Shaniqua Benjamin and cover artwork by local artist Bev Jones. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and she was included in Then There Was Us AND 2023, an annual worldwide selection of some of the best up and coming documentary and portrait photographers.
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