Last weekend of Herts Open Studio & Graham Greene Festival in Berkhamsted

Charlie contemplates his favourite piece and is looking forward to the last couple of days of visitors...

It is the last weekend of Herts Open Studio. I would like to thank all that have visited already and welcome those that plan to come this Saturday and Sunday (28-29).

As you may have read in an earlier blog, I have joined the pop-up culture and converted our garden shed into a gallery for the weekends between September 7th and 29th. I am showing selected work from Savoy | The Restoration (exhibition opening in Bologna October 3rd)  http://siobhandoranphotography/foto-industria-bologna-worlds-first_19.html ), Grand Hotel (St pancras), Missing, In the forest and One year in Ashridge along with portfolios, books and cards

Location; Pop-up Gallery in The Shed, Birchwood, George Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2EW Access from the canal or along the unmade part of George Street.
Opening times; September 7th to 29th Sun 11am – 4pm * Sat 10am – 5pm

If in the area or looking for ideas for something to do this weekend, why not plan a trip to Berkhamsted?  Along side Open Studios,  is the Grahame Greene Festival, a native of the town. There is a packed weekend of events including tours / talks / readings / screenings. See the full programme here

http://www.grahamgreenefestival.org/Pages/programme.php

I look forward to welcoming my last visitors over the course of the next 2 days. Have a great weekend.

www.siobhandoran.com

View at Battersea Power Station

Architectural photo library VIEW are putting on a one-off exhibition at Battersea Power Station during London Open House, 21 and 22 Sept. This is the first time the looming south London monument site has been opened to the public for Open House — and the last for some years, since building work has already started on the flats that they are fitting into the site.


Individual images from 28 photographers ( I am one of the 28) will be shown outdoors on the timber storage structures that sit in the new park that has been created on the riverside in front of the power station. The public will be queueing along the hoarding to get into the building, but the VIEW show can be seen by anyone without joining the queue: just go to the southern end of Chelsea Bridge to access the site.

http://www.photoarchivenews.com/go-see-view-at-battersea-power-station-one-off-exhibition/

Herts Open Studio 2013

I have joined the pop-up culture.. And converted our garden shed into a gallery for the weekends between September 7th and 29th.
Showing selected work from Savoy | The Restoration, Grand Hotel (St pancras), Missing, In the forest and One year in Ashridge along with portfolios, books and cards

Location; Pop-up Gallery in The Shed, Birchwood, George Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2EW Access from the canal or along the unmade part of George Street.
Opening times; September 7th to 29th Sun 11am – 4pm * Sat 10am – 5pm

If in the area or looking for ideas for something to do over the next couple of weekends please come to visit; refreshments and culture guaranteed! Check out http://www.hvaf.org.uk/ for details of other artist showing in the town too. Not too late to start that xmas shopping list either .  On the last weekend (28/29) it is the Grahame Greene festival in Berkhamsted so you could make a day of it. I will post GG festival itinerary next week.

www.siobhandoran.com

Foto Industria Bologna: the world's first forum exploring the relationship between photography and companies PRESS RELEASE

Foto Industria Bologna; Catalogue cover

I am honored to have been chosen by François Hébel to take part in Foto Industria Bologna. Equally honored to be exhibiting my project Savoy | The Restoration along side  works of Brian Griffin, Jacqueline Hassink, Harry Gruyaert, Gabriele Basilico, David Goldblatt, Massimo Siragusa, Mark Power, and Henri Cartier Bresson

For the first Foto Industria Bologna, an international event featuring around 15

exhibitions accompanied by a catalogue and lecture. 

Bologna's outstanding historic heritage hosts the shows, which include prints, books

and projections. The chance to explore its magnificent art and architecture is alone

worth the trip. The most important private and public institutions, including the

university—the world's oldest—are associated with the project.

My work will be exhibited in the form of a projection and will take place at the Bastardini, which is an ancient orphanage. I have been working on a new piece of music to accompany the projection which sees the project evolve yet again...
This new event is dedicated to corporate and industrial photography. There are 17 admission-free exhibitions in 11 historical venues of the Bolognese city from October 3rd to 20th, 2013 - Bologna, Italy. 

If you are planning or in need of a break away this autumn; here is a fantastic cultural and historical location.

www.siobhandoran.com

Further reading below;

Press Release - The Event

Ever since photography was invented in the 19th century, companies have used it for

the purposes of production, transmission, identification and memory. Many

photographers have been commissioned to take pictures for brochures, exhibitions or

Internet sites with the aim of promoting a brand image, instilling employees with pride

or making the portrait of a chairman. Photography has also spurred changes in

production methods by showing the inhumanity of certain tasks.

Manufacturing, often already a visual spectacle, is especially photogenic, with its fire,

transformative processes, astonishing scales and, more recently, security and high

technology.

Services pose a greater challenge to photographers, the only things to see being

offices, phones, computers and extras in suits or uniforms, which is the same thing.

Many in-house or freelance photographers have had to surpass themselves in a

world of limitations in order to tell stories, stir emotions and show how methods or

mentalities have changed.

Industrial photography relies more on the photographer's eye, creativity and

perception of places and people than does advertising, where images are

conceptualised in advance. That is why great photographers have worked on specific

projects, prestigious brochures, the illustration of annual financial reports and all sorts

of in-house and external communication. They have often depended on these kinds

of commissions for additional income but seldom boast about it, afraid it would harm

the perception people might have of their personal work. And yet they summon up

and apply the same sensibility.

The Isabella Seràgnoli Foundation created the Foto Industria Bologna to stimulate

thought about the aesthetic and strategic uses companies make of photography and

collect quality images in connection with the photo gallery that Urs Stahel is setting

up at MAST, its "Arts, Experimentation and Technology" exhibition space.

Northern Italy is one of Europe's most heavily industrialised areas. The pride of Italy's

mechanical engineering industry is located around Bologna, making this project even

more relevant.

The number of photography events is steadily rising, yet this huge sector, funded by

real production budgets, has never been the focus of an event showing the most

noteworthy work.

For the first Foto Industria Bologna, an international event featuring around 15

exhibitions accompanied by a catalogue and lectures, we have selected

photographers who have done brilliant work for companies, making it a significant

part of their output; remarkable collections of photographs and publications; and two

photography outsiders with different areas of concentration: miners and places of

power.

Bologna's outstanding historic heritage hosts the shows, which include prints, books

and projections. The chance to explore its magnificent art and architecture is alone

worth the trip. The most important private and public institutions, including the

university—the world's oldest—are associated with the project.

Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles is delighted to contribute its festival

design and organisational know-how on a city-wide scale for the first Foto Industria

Bologna, an event that is bound to grow.

François Hébel

Artistic Director, Foto Industria Bologna

Director, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles

Exhibition venues:Free admission to all exhibitions.
Exhibition venues:
MAST GALLERY (starting on October 7th)
EX-OSPEDALE DEGLI INNOCENTI
FONDAZIONE DEL MONTE
MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO
MAMBO
PALAZZO PEPOLI
PINACOTECA
SANTA MARIA DELLA VITA
SEDE UNICREDIT
SPAZIO CARBONESI
UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Siobhan Doran Photography - 6 Year Anniversary and the beginning of Autumn

Autumnal preview from my 'One Year in Ashridge series'

Thanks to all my clients and customers for supporting my work. I look forward to sharing my upcoming exhibitions and events over the coming weeks . Thankfully the Autumnal feel is not here yet but some say September 1st is officially the change of season. Some more facts from Wiki... for your lunchtime read... www.siobhandoran.com


Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.^[8] There are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but it became common by the 16th century.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day (cf. German Herbst and Scots hairst). However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns (especially those who could read and write,^{[citation needed]} the only people whose use of language we now know), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.^[9][10]

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norsefall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".^[11]

During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.^{[citation needed]}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn}