Photography

Portrait challenge

A very simple challenge we have done a few times now is to randomly assign pairs in the group. Then each pair have to take phots of one another to bring back to the group. This time round there were 5 pairs and people brought results to show at the July meeting. Below is one photo from each but lots more were shown. We await one pair to show their results next month which we'll add here. The meeting was rich as other photos were also shown, a zine of mannequins in Iraq, another photo book and Fabrizio brought along photos from his recent exhibition. 

Fran

Fran by Mel

Mel

Mel by Fran

Frankie

Frankie by Jonny

Jonny

Jonny by Frankie

Chris

Chris by Robert

Robert

Robert by Chris

Sean

Sean by Sarah

Sarah

Sarah by Sean

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Arun by Angelika

Arun

Angelika by Arun


People

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[Claudio Carvalhaes by Jonny Baker]

We spent May's meeting sharing photos of people. This inevitably led to a discussion of what makes a portrait as opposed to a photograph of a person. I'm not sure we concluded much but this has inspired another group photo challenge where people have been randomly paired to take photographs of one another and bring back results to the group in a couple of months. 

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[Vagabond Girl by Chris Bellinger]

It was amazing to see the range of styles of photographs of people and contexts in which they were taken.

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[Photograph by Angelika Berndt]


Launch night and Ealing BEAT weekends

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September's meeting was the opening of the Blondin exhibition. It was a lovely evening on a gorgeous late summer's day cataching up over a drink, bathing in the satisfying aftermath of the exhibtion going up, chatting with friends. It looks great and will get so much footfall by virtue of its location. To add a bit of fun to the evening Nick had brought along his slackline which was set low to the ground for anyone to have a go. 

BEAT is also in full flow now and weekend one has just drawn to a close. Hopefully visitors to Blondin enjoyed their visit as part of the local art trail.

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Blondin - group exhibition in Blondin Park

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Blondin is an outdoor exhibition of photographs illustrating the life of Blondin Park. It is this year's Ealing LIP group exhibition. We have discovered parts of the park and activities that have caught our imagination.  They are on display on boards outdoors so you can view them at any time. 

The exhibition will feature as part of this year's BEAT (Borough of Ealing Art Trail) which runs over the weekends of 9-10 Sept and 16-17 Sept, but will remain up for several months. 

It is live now. So do visit! Do join us for an official opening launch on Sept 6 at 7pm in the park by the boards.

The group currently have two outdoor exhibitions in ealing as Unlocked is still on display on the putside of Ealing Police Station.


Living in London

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At the August group meeting the theme was Living In London. Angelika Berndt gave a presentation on a project she has been working on. She says this about it...

Living in London
In temporary accommodation

The project was developed in 2022 as a lived-in self-experiment.

Over several months Angelika Berndt lived in different types of temporary accommodation in different parts of London. Accommodation types ranged from a room in a flat share, to a hostel, a fully furnished attic apartment and a sublet in a family home.

The experiment became as much a trial to find out how it feels to live in these different types of accommodation as it gave insights into the neighbourhoods themselves, their people, the supply chain and transport facilities.

Having lived in Ealing for many years, Angelika soon was to learn what social support; good access to supplies and transport was all about.

This photo research was first presented at Ealing LIP and is now available as a digital book.

Angelika Berndt

And here are some pages from the book


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Park life and portraits

A review of our submissions for this year's BEAT project was the main subject of July's meeting. The group has been busy spending time in Blondin Park, a local open space that also has a pavilion for community activities, to create a collection of reflections on the life of the park. 
 
It's been a great opportunity for us to represent the range of styles and interests within the group and engage with our local neighbourhood. We plan to exhibit our work in an outdoors gallery in the park and it will be an interesting companion to our Ealing Unlocked project on the facade of Ealing police station, created for BEAT two years ago which is still on show!
 
We always make time for members to share their work in our meetings and this month we had a fascinating range of work.
 
We started with some of Aasem's latest images and a wonderful drone view of Tower Bridge. Ray then showed work in progress on his family portraits plus prints of two new triptychs, Inspirational as always. 
 
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[Image by Ray Higginbottom]

 
Jonny shared some great natural portraits of two women, Mariza and Maria, who work in an ethical cleaning company called Clean For Good set up to pay cleaners the London Living Wage.
 
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[Images by Jonny Baker]

 

Frankie shared some more triptychs...

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...and an experiment with six images too.

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[Images by Frankie McAllister]

 
Brigitte is also developing ideas using this technique, taking a documentary approach in work from Brighton and Rome. Another fascinating development.
 
 
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[Images by Brigitte Flock]
 
 
We concluded with a review of meeting topics for the rest of the year. It's looking really promising with a book launch and AI on the agenda too!
 

Road

 

Following Robert's theatre photography presentation last month Jonny got an opportunity to put that into practice with a shoot of Road by Synergy Theatre Project. He showed the results at the June meeting. Here are three .