Three Counties Photography Competition Winners 2009

Photographers from Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire have been praised for the excellent quality of their work submitted for the Keele University Art Gallery Three Counties Open Photography Competition, which is sponsored by architects and town planners, Hulme Upright Manning, of Stoke-on-Trent.
Photographers entered nearly 455 photographs for the Open Photography Exhibition, which provides a showcase for [...]

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Covering Conflict – photographic exhibition

Prints chronicling historic conflicts have gone on show at Keele University.
Covering Conflict is a touring exhibition of photos selected by BBC presenter Robin Lustig from collections by the Magnum photographic co-operative.
The show, commissioned by the BBC World Service, will run until February 22 at Keele University’s art gallery.
Arts development officer John Rhodes said: “The photographs [...]

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Three Counties Photographic Competition 2009

Photographers from Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire have been invited to submit entries for the Keele University Art Gallery’s Three Counties Open Photography Competition, which is sponsored by architects and town planners, Hulme Upright Manning, of Stoke-on-Trent.
Photographers may submit up to three photographs in total for the Open Photography Exhibition Awards and could win a first [...]

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Keele graduate Haleh Anvari in The Guardian

Keele graduate Haleh Anvari (1985 Philosophy/Politics) has been interviewed in The Guardian about her photography exhibition/performance Power of a Cliche, which was at The Barbican in London yesterday (http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=7634)
In The Guardian article she talks about “how her photographs of women in brightly coloured chadors attempt to redraw the image of Iran in the west”. Read the full article [...]

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New Art Exhibitions Open at Keele

Two new exhibitions have opened at the Art Gallery in the Chancellor’s Building at Keele University. The exhibitions, Alex Corina – Crushed Beyond Recognition and Ian Taylor – Recycling and Assembling, run until 8 November 2008.
Alex Corina’s work combines materials and adapts techniques from painting, collage and photography. In addition to portraiture, he explores the [...]

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