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Photography magazines

Source

Magazine for contemporary photography

http://www.source.ie/index.php

Editor: John Duncan


British Journal of Photography

Established in 1854, British Journal of Photography is the world’s longest-running photography magazine. Published weekly from 1864, in March 2010 British Journal of Photography re-launched with a sleek new look and an injection of new editorial sections, returning to its original monthly roots. The new design plays to the strengths of print with premium-quality paper and improved reproduction techniques. More primacy is given to photographs as well as in-depth articles, with the focus shifting from news-driven content to the creative impetus of professional photography. Each issue features profiles of emerging talent alongside star names, a picture-led Portfolio section, business analysis and detailed technology reviews.

http://www.bjp-online.com/

Editor: John Tarrant, Simon Bainbridge


Pigeons and Peacocks

Launched in 2008 by the London College of Fashion, Pigeons and Peacocks is a unique magazine with an independent attitude and an individual style. We are a platform for the emerging talent, the new taste makers and future voices of the industry. This annual dose of P&P showcases the work and creativity of designers, stylists, artists, photographers and journalists and is getting bigger and better with each issue.

Pigeonsandpeacocks.com has been revived and redefined with exclusive features, interviews and photo shoots. While the magazine satisfies your appetite for print, the website quenches your thirst for the latest news, reviews and the new names in the industry.

So here’s to all the pigeons and the peacocks out there, and everything in between…

Pigeons & Peacocks

http://www.pigeonsandpeacocks.com/information/


I-D magazine

i-D has built its reputation on being a consistent source of inspiration in fashion culture. It began as a fanzine dedicated to the street style of punk-era London in 1980, and quickly earned its position at the vanguard of fashion and style, abiding by the premise of originate – don’t imitate. i-D has come a long way since its pre-digital, cut-and-paste days and has developed into a glossy magazine that documents fashion and contemporary culture, and has broken ground defining it too. Constantly reinventing itself, as with our website, i-D continues to encourage creativity, which is why after more than 30 years, its editorial content still manages to surprise and inspire.

why the wink?
The wink and smile on each front cover – a graphic representation of the
magazine’s logo – have become integral to the i-D identity. Over 300 of the world’s fashion elite, the great and the grounded, have given i-D a cheeky wink, from the likes of Madonna, Tom Ford, Chloë Sevigny, Björk, Tilda Swinton, Drew Barrymore, Lil’ Kim, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss.

who stars in i-d?
i-D features people in fashion, music, art, clubs, film and every other creative field, and has prided itself on being the first to scout talents such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Nick Knight, Dylan Jones, Juergen Teller, Caryn Franklin and Craig McDean, who all started their careers here. Madonna, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Kanye West, Helmut Lang, Franz Ferdinand, Chloë Sevigny, Raf Simons, Undercover, Veronique Branquinho, Lily Cole, Giles Deacon, Dizzee Rascal, Scarlett Johansson, Rick Owens and Tadanabu Asano are amongst those who appeared first in i-D.

http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/

Editor: Terry Jones

Vogue

The British edition of Vogue is a fashion magazine that has been published since the autumn of 1916. The magazine's current editor stated that, “Vogue’s power is universally acknowledged. It’s the place everybody wants to be if they want to be in the world of fashion" and 85% of the magazine’s readers agree that “Vogue is the Fashion Bible”. The magazine is considered to be one that links fashion to high society and class, teaching its readers how to ‘assume a distinctively chic and modern appearance’. As a branch-off of American Vogue, British Vogue is a magazine whose success is based upon its advertising rather than its sales revenue. In 2007, it ran 2,020 pages of advertising at an average of £16,000 a page. It is deemed to be more commercial than other editions of Vogue. British Vogue is the most profitable British magazine as well as the most profitable edition of Vogue besides the US edition.

http://www.vogue.co.uk/

Editor: Alexandra Shulman

Dazed and Confused

FOR 20 YEARS, DAZED & CONFUSED MAGAZINE HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF YOUTH CULTURE. DEFINING THE TIMES, EACH ISSUE SHOWCASES AGENDA-SETTING EDITORIAL AND PIONEERING FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY. BASED IN LONDON BUT CREATED BY AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE OF WRITERS, IMAGE-MAKERS AND STYLISTS, DAZED AND ITS WEBSITE DAZEDDIGITAL.COM IS READ IN PRINT AND ONLINE BY OVER 500,000 STYLE LEADERS. IT IS QUITE SIMPLY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND SUCCESSFUL INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE TITLE ON THE PLANET.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/

Editor: Tim Noakes

Organisations supporting photography (UK)

The Association of Photographers

The AOP are a membership organisation based in London they comprised of Professional Photographers, Agents, Assistants and Students as well as Affiliated Colleges and Affiliated Companies.

http://home.the-aop.org/

Art opportunities and job listings

A_N

http://www.a-n.co.uk/

Arts Jobs Listings (Arts Council of England)

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/

Art/photography fairs and festivals

Art Basel

Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, the artworks on display and the parallel content programming produced in collaboration with the local institutions. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the globe, each show's singular exhibition sectors and artistic events spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas, new inspiration and new contacts in the artworld.

http://basel.artbasel.com/


Photography Oxford

The world's finest collection of photojournalism will be on display in the shape of the 2014 winners of the World Press Photo competition. Oxford Brookes University's new Glass Tank Gallery will be hosting the show. And at an open-air location in the heart of the city, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, creator of The Earth From The Air, the most popular collection of aerial photographs ever produced, will stage the UK premiere of his latest project Planet Ocean which looks from both above and below the waves at the environmental issues faced by our oceans.

http://www.photographyoxford.co.uk/index2.html


The Eye

Over one busy weekend leading UK and international photographers will gather in Aberystwyth for a jam packed programme of talks, discussions, interviews, portfolio reviews and exhibitions for The Eye International Photography Festival.

http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/festivals/eye-photography-festival-2014


Augusta Photo Festival

Photography has become the art of the people, a medium in which nearly all dabble and a few excel. In a city where arts has been the soul of our existence, as exemplified by James Brown, the Augusta Photo Festival can become a part of an ongoing effort to build on the image or our beautiful region and tap the ocean of skills of the people who live here. The festival is a chance to bring the beauty of Augusta to the surface, as well as to import the beauty of the world. The festival gives us a way of speaking beyond words, in the international language of visual arts, and to create a collaborative approach to developing our artistic community. We envision the festival as something that would reach out to make it a cultural event that not only provides images for us to see, but provides images that can help reshape our world.

http://www.augustaphotofestival.org/registration/


Grants, Residencies, Bursaries...

Art Council England

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/apply-for-funding/grants-for-the-arts/

Alas Autum Residency (August)

http://www.alasgallery.co.uk/

Cornerhouse Commission (August)

http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-news/artist-commission-opportunity


Agencies

Agence Vu’

Associated Press

Picture Editors (Newspapers)
The Guardian
Fiona Shields


The Times
Sara Evans

The Independent
Jon O'Donnell
Picture Editors (magazine)

Conde Nast Traveller
Caroline Metcalfe

Dazed & Confused
Sylvia Farago

Pigeons and Peacocks
John William

Vogue
Alexandra Shulman

i-D magazine
Holly Shackleton

London colleges/universities (recommended for MA, APhil & PhD study in photography
Royal College of Art

Postgraduate: Peter Kennard

Research: Yve Lomax

Funding routes for post-graduate study

AHRC

PGCE- Teacher training course

For information on teacher training please visit The Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR), who process applications for full-time and part-time postgraduate teaching training course at most universities and colleges of higher education and School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) consortia in England, Scotland and Wales

http://www.gttr.ac.uk/

Curators

Autograph (London)

Mark Sealy

Web resources

The Internet is an invaluable way to immerse oneself in contemporary visual practice. However it should be noted that trawling through websites and copying and pasting images and text into workbooks does not, in itself, represent an in-depth engagement with a particular issue, subject or practitioner.

It is imperative for you to examine the information you are receiving, think about whether the site has an agenda, whether you can trust the opinion of the critic/blogger you are reading and most importantly consider where you stand in reference to the work presented. Be critical of the information that you are find; always question, explore and analyse.

The descriptions of the sites are copied and pasted from homepages - take them with a pinch of salt especially if they appear too self congratulatory.

This list is by no means meant to be exhaustive but may prove useful as a starting point. Also, please remember that there’s an immense amount of crossover between different genres of lens based media so don’t preclude the possibility that a site may have information relevant to your practice.

www.artrabbit.com

ArtRabbit is an online tool for everyone interested in the UK's vibrant contemporary art scene – connecting hundreds of venues with thousands of daily visitors and their opinions

NB If you subscribe to art rabbit they send you a weekly e-mail with all the shows that are opening nationally. It is worth noting that the PVs will be on the day before the official opening.

www.e-flux.com

Established in January 1999 in New York, e-flux is an international network which reaches more than 50,000 visual art professionals on a daily basis through its website, e-mail list and special projects.

NB If you subscribe to the e-flux newsletter you receive about 20 e-mails from them a day. It becomes about sifting information as you receive so much but it is often worth it.

www.guardian.co.uk/culture

The website showcases latest news, reviews and commentary on the art scene, including special reports, galleries and artists.

www.timeout.com/london/art/

www.newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art

Time out is a weekly publication that list events and comments on what’s on in London and New York.

Artist Resources

www.a-n.co.uk/

AN’s publications and programmes are designed to meet the professional needs of artists and the visual arts sector, identifying changing trends and new needs.

Magazines concentrating on wider art practice and theory

www.afterall.org

Online articles, interviews and reviews linked to Central Saint Martins college.

www.artforum.com

The online edition of Artforum International Magazine

Some other magazines that feature photography and are worth a look

www.adbusters.org

Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads

www.creativereview.co.uk/

Monthly publication covering the communication arts worldwide

New media: A taste

www.tank.tv

The online gallery for artist's moving image

www.trampoline.org.uk

Nottingham based platform for new media art.

www.youtube.com/

Youtube is great as it often has lectures by prominent philosophers, theorists, artists and institutions as well as installation shots of works or snippets of artists films that are really difficult to trace in other ways

Institutions and gallery spaces that specialise in photography

www.ffotogallery.org

Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales.

www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk

Four Corners is based in London

Images

These are just a few test shots of Sarah i did just to show how her body looks now. Even though she has an amazing body she still isn't happy with it and wants to change which again links in with the body image idea. (none have been edited). 

Ideas

One of my main ideas for the FMP is to take images of my friend Sarah. The reason being is that she is having surgery on her breasts in a week and i am going to photograph her journey. This is perfect for what i want to do and feel like it fits in well with my idea of body image as she is changing her own. From being a runner and a athlete she has decided that she wants a boob job to feel more feminine. But why now? if there wasn't so much in the media about things like this and if there wasn't models and celebrities showing off there bodies would she still compare herself and want to do this? These are questions i plan on trying to find out and take images throughout her journey. Even if i don't end up doing this for my project i think i will still do it as i find it a very interesting subject and it would be interesting to take images of.

Photographers

Shelia Pree Bright 


Shelia Pree Bright is one of the photographers i have decided to research into for this module. Particularly on one of her series of work which is called 'Plastic Bodies'. I have decided to research this particular series as it fits in very well with my ideas of body image. Her series is of dolls, like barbies and real women merged into one. I find this series really fascinating and love how her images look. They send across a really strong message and it just shows that we can't make ourselves as perfect as a barbie or any doll, no matter how much we do to ourselves, we should not compared ourselves to something we can't create ourselves to be no matter how much we try or how much money we spend changing ourselves. 

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2513979/Sheila-Pree-Brights-Plastic-Bodies-images-ethnic-women-digitally-merged-Barbie-dolls.html

She has digitally merged images of real women and dolls together. 

Timetable

This is my timetable i created for the FMP module. This will help me keep on track with everything i have to do and help me with my time management. I found doing this very helpful and i'm going to stick to it as i feel like its a good timescale.

Plastic Surgery

The next thing i decided to research was plastic surgery. This is going to be a big part of my research as it is connected to one of the ideas i have for my FMP. 

Plastic surgery is now a very common thing around the world and people are getting younger and younger who are having procedures done. And there are now so many different things that you can have done. Most of these were never even heard of years ago. 

The reason i feel plastic surgery has become such a big deal is because of the media and celebrities getting procedures done to themselves and it being shown in magazines, on the internet and on TV. People see these celebrities or models or just general people having changes made to their bodies and want to copy them and look as good as they do. Which can sometimes come at a price. Some people even go to the extremes and make themselves unrecognizable. An example of this is a man and woman who have spent thousands and thousands of dollars to make themselves look like a real life barbie and ken. 

Looking at them both, they don't look like real people they do look plastic and like dolls. Which is really unusual to look at and makes them look extremely fake. I personally don't understand why someone would want to do this to themselves and make them look completely different so you didn't even recognise them, unless of course this was their aim.  

Body Image

Body image is a subject i enjoy researching about and that i find very interesting, so i think this will help as i want to use this subject for my FMP.

There are different things i am going to research into, to begin with before i decide on a final idea. There are a lot of things connected with body image but there is only a few that i am going to look at because i feel like they will relate to the next module and what i want my project to be about.

I watched something recently on TV that i felt would be good to put into my research with was a program on channel 4 called 'Secrets of the living Dolls', I felt like this would be really helpful with my research.. this is a few paragraphs off the website of what the program was about..

"This eye-opening documentary delves into the secretive world of 'female masking', where men transform themselves into dolls by squeezing into a second skin.

Female maskers, also known as 'dolls', are a hidden community of ordinary family men who lead extraordinary double lives, dressing up in elaborate rubber suits as they strive to become their own ideal fantasy woman. There are thousands of female maskers all over the world, but most have kept their secret behind closed doors.

This documentary enters this private world, meeting the men coming to terms with what has, for many, become an all-consuming hobby, spending thousands of hours and hundreds of pounds creating their alter-egos.

Seventy-year-old Robert lives in a suburban mansion in California. After ten years of marriage, he was recently divorced. He now shares his house with his teenage daughter and keeps his hobby private.

For six years, Robert has spent every spare moment becoming 'Sherry'. Having spent years doing this in private, Robert has made a big decision: soon he will take Sherry into the big wide world for the first time, when he attends a secret gathering of female maskers in Minneapolis, Rubberdoll Rendezvous.

The organiser of the Rubberdoll Rendezvous is Jon, aka 'Jennifer', a forklift operator and father of six.

British bartender Joel and his girlfriend Mel are moving in together for the first time. Until now, Joel has hidden his 15 years of female masking from his parents, but with his newfound freedom he intends to make up for lost time. His first challenge is to reveal his alter ego, 'Jessie', to his closest friends. But their emotional reaction isn't quite what he expected.

The film also meets the manufacturers, Femskin, a family-run firm in America's Bible Belt who developed an ultra-light wearable female body-suit and who are struggling to keep up with demand.

SERIES SYNOPSIS

A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at a hidden sub-culture: the secretive world of female masking where men transform themselves into dolls by squeezing into elaborate rubber second skins."


Watching this program was really helpful to my research it was basically about body image and how these people view themselves. There life's all revolve around how they see themselves and how they want to look and want others to see them. Although they change themselves and what they look like (like being two people) this isn't permanent which leads me onto my next part of research which is plastic surgery which is a more permanent change.   

Research

Books:

-Body Image: Sarah Grogran, 1999
-Eating disorders, body image and the media: BMA, 2000
-The body, culture and society, an introduction: 2000
-Womansize, the tyranny of slenderness: Kim Chernin, 1983
-The body in society an introduction: Alexandra Howson, 2004
-Eating disorders and magical control of the body: Mary Levens, 1995
-Body consciousness: Seymour Fisher, 1973
-The psychology of appearance: Nichola Rumsey, 2005
-Am I thin enough yet? The cult of thinness and the commercialization of identity: Sharlene Hesse-Biber, 1996
-Culture, society and the media: 1988
-Career opportunities in the fashion industry: Peter Vogt, 2002
-Media and everyday life in modern society: Shaun Moores, 2000

All these books link in with body image and the media and how people view themselves and their body. They also look at how people in society deal with the media and weight loss due to modelling in magazines etc. I feel like all these books are a good starting point for research for my FMP and all have something useful included in them for what I want my FMP to be about.

Magazines:

- i-D magazine
- Pigeons and peacocks
- Vogue

I am using these magazines to look at the models in them and how they are airbrushed and portrayed in the magazines themselves also to look at what kind of models they use and how much editing is done to the images.

Internet:

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/excerpt.asp?id=2

http://www.cmch.tv/mentors_parents/bodyimage.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/teenage-pressures-media-and-body-image/5497.html

http://www.urbanette.com/obsessed-with-thin-media-gone-too-far/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122177/Meet-real-life-Barbies-Internet-craze-sees-teenagers-turn-freakish-living-dolls.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/769290.stm


All these websites also help with my research showing about body image, models, airbrushing eating disorders and the media. All these things link into what my FMP will be about and is all important research for my subject.

Proposal

Keywords:  Portraits
                     Outside
                     Self Portraits
                     Fashion
                     Meanings
                     Unusual
                     Narrative
                     Art
                     Studio
                     Body
                     Shadow
                     Age
                     Changes
                     Skin
                     Body image
                     Feelings

            
                    

Overview/Interests:  

When looking at what my interests are one of the things I enjoy doing is taking portraits whether that is self-portraits or portraits of other people. I haven’t had chance to do this a lot and most of the time had other ideas that didn’t involve people but this is something that I enjoy doing I would like to do a lot more of. Another project I am doing at this time is on images of people and I am really enjoying doing it and feel like I would like to do a lot more with portrait photography. My main interest is looking at the idea of body image and peoples different views on their own body image and others. 

Intro/ Research Question:

Because of my interest in doing portraits my starting point is going to be to research into different kinds of portraits eg. Self-portraits, fashion, documentary and from this I am going to have more of an idea of the direction I would like to go in. My main idea for this project is to look at body image either different people’s views on body image or to stick to one main idea and question about body image. One of my ideas was to focus on my friend Sarah, sticking to the idea of body image still. She is undergoing a breast enlargement on the 14^th January and I thought this would fit in perfectly with my project. Or research for what I will be focusing on. I have already took before images of her and plan to take images throughout her journey, even if I don’t use this idea for this project it will be good research for my blog and on the idea of body image. I am going to start researching into the body and body image also portraits of people to see if these ideas will fit in with my project.

Research Question:

To create a body of work that involves portraits around the idea of body image.

Aims and Objectives:

- To research more into portraits.
- To research photographers who have done projects on portraits.
- To research social media in relation to portraits.
- To find visual references in relation to the topic I have chosen.
- To choose a final theme for what I want my images to be.
- To show my skills in what I am trying to achieve and to show what I have learnt here at university.
- To decide how I would like my work to be shown.
- To create a body of work that fits in with the brief and my developed research.
- To research body image.
- To research plastic surgery.
- To research media and body image.
- To take visual test shoots for my ideas.
- To decide what my final project idea will be.

Rationale:

 To start off with I am going to have to research a lot of areas to figure out what my final idea will be, all based around body image. I plan on starting my research with my first few ideas I had for the project. That being self-portraits, body image, portraits in general and portraits and body image in social media. I feel like this will be a good starting point because at this moment in time I have no fixed idea. I am going to research all this through the internet, books, and magazines and looking at other photographers work. I have now decided that I will be defiantly doing my project based around body image but I have not yet decided on a final idea that I will be using. 


General Methodology:

I’m going to research into body image and people’s views on it. Also body image within the media. I feel like this will be a good starting point for me to look into and is a subject that really interests me which will help me keep more focused on my research. I am going to research plastic surgery and also airbrushing and how the media is very involved in how people look at body image. I’m also going to research about magazines and fashion photographers and images and how photographs have changed in magazines over the years. I might also do a survey asking people about their own body image and how they feel about it and how they feel about airbrushing etc. Overall I think I have quite a lot of research to do but I feel like I know how I am going to start it and I have an overall idea about where I am going with this project and where I’m going to start with my research.


Data Collection and Analysis:

To collect my research I am going to use mainly the internet and books from the library I’m also going to look at magazines as I think they will be a vital point in my research. I am also going to research photographers who do work that influence my own. Another big part of my research will be looking at interviews with models and videos talking about body image and the media also about the pressures of looking a certain way and why people would want to change how they look, whether it is through plastic surgery or other non-permanent ways.


Qualifications and Restrictions:

The restrictions I think I might have while doing this project is finding models to take images of and getting them into the studio. Although I am not too worried about this as I already have a few in mind that I know will be able to help me by modelling for this project.



Specialist Needs- Equipment access, workshops, training etc.:

For this project I am going to need equipment access as I will be using the studio for my images which means I will have to book out the studio and also use the lighting for the studio etc. I have included a weekly timetable for this module so I can keep on top of what
am doing and no when certain things need to be done by and what week to do them. This has already been done as I will need it to keep a good timescale for throughout the project.

Initial Bibliography:

Books:

-Body Image: Sarah Grogran, 1999
-Eating disorders, body image and the media: BMA, 2000
-The body, culture and society, an introduction: 2000
-Womansize, the tyranny of slenderness: Kim Chernin, 1983
-The body in society an introduction: Alexandra Howson, 2004
-Eating disorders and magical control of the body: Mary Levens, 1995
-Body consciousness: Seymour Fisher, 1973
-The psychology of appearance: Nichola Rumsey, 2005
-Am I thin enough yet? The cult of thinness and the commercialization of identity: Sharlene Hesse-Biber, 1996
-Culture, society and the media: 1988
-Career opportunities in the fashion industry: Peter Vogt, 2002
-Media and everyday life in modern society: Shaun Moores, 2000

All these books link in with body image and the media and how people view themselves and their body. They also look at how people in society deal with the media and weight loss due to modelling in magazines etc. I feel like all these books are a good starting point for research for my FMP and all have something useful included in them for what I want my FMP to be about.

Magazines:

- i-D magazine
- Pigeons and peacocks
- Vogue

I am using these magazines to look at the models in them and how they are airbrushed and portrayed in the magazines themselves also to look at what kind of models they use and how much editing is done to the images.

Internet:

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/excerpt.asp?id=2

http://www.cmch.tv/mentors_parents/bodyimage.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/teenage-pressures-media-and-body-image/5497.html

http://www.urbanette.com/obsessed-with-thin-media-gone-too-far/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122177/Meet-real-life-Barbies-Internet-craze-sees-teenagers-turn-freakish-living-dolls.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/769290.stm


All these websites also help with my research showing about body image, models, airbrushing eating disorders and the media. All these things link into what my FMP will be about and is all important research for my subject.