Conclusion

This blog has been a new take on working but I feel it is really good for keeping your work out there and relevant, its also great for self promotion whether that be just talking about your work or posting other links and references to other sites. I feel its very useful for keeping up to date with whats going on in the creative industry and is also create for looking at other photographers and other art practices and then being able to re blog their work. I will be continuing to use blogger for my own personal work and to keep up to date with other professional and up and coming photographers and exhibitions. I have enjoyed keeping a blog its almost as if when you post your helping other people out also by informing them about exhibitions with dates and even reviews, which allows them to see which are unmissable. Although it can be some times time consuming its a great way to keep a track of your work and its great to be able to look back on what you have seen and produced and then review yourself and your work and see how much more you know and how much you have learnt and achieved since then.

Duffy Collection

Brian Duffy’s highly anticipated exhibition The Duffy Collection comes to White Cloth Gallery

• Duffy Archive presents David Bowie through a unique collection of photographs
• Never before seen behind the scenes images will feature in the exhibition

"The Duffy Collection comprises of images taken during five photographic sessions with iconic musician David
Bowie, released to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘David Bowie is’ exhibition.
The Duffy Collection, has been taken from the Duffy archives and it will be at White Cloth Gallery until 15th July.

The exhibition includes shots from three album covers and documents Duffy’s special relationship with the artist over a period of nearly ten
years.

Duffy’s work spans from Ziggy Stardust (1972) through to The Lodger (1979) and also includes additional photographs from the set
of Nick Roeg’s film ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ (1976). As well as documenting Bowie’s extraordinary career and pioneering
reinvention, the collection features portraits of those close to the star such as David’s first wife Angie Bowie and Pierre
LaRoche (Aladdin Sane make-up artist), plus some never before seen, behind the scenes photographs."

http://www.whiteclothgallery.co.uk/duffy-collection-exhibition/

Rena Effendi

Liquid Land: Legacies of Oil and Power

Rena Effendi

26th Apr - 22nd Jun 2013

Opening on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Liquid Land: Legacies of Oil and Power reveals the struggles and resilience of people living in some of the world's most polluted areas in the former Soviet Union.

This is the first UK showing of this new exhibition by award-winning Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi, and brings together two related bodies of work made over the last ten years.Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone is a moving portrait of the lives of elderly women in the Ukraine's notorious Zone, the restricted area around Reactor 4 which exploded on 26 April 1986. In the aftermath of nuclear catastrophe, these women returned to reclaim their homes from an inhospitable world where most of the food they produce still contains dangerous levels of radiation.

Liquid Land depicts communities and refugees of war living amongst the oil spills and industrial ruin of the petroleum-rich Absheron peninsula in Azerbaijan, near to the capital Baku where Effendi was born and grew up. These landscapes and portraits are paired with images that pay tribute to Effendi's late father, a dissident scientist and entomologist who devoted his life to studying and collecting butterflies in the Soviet Union. The only remaining visual evidence of his life's work is a collection of photographs of endangered butterflies for a manuscript he never published.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition transcends geographical borders to become a collective portrait of people who have survived isolation, devastating pollution and political chaos. Amidst decay, life goes on: families decorate their crumbling homes with peacock feathers; a boy plays his drum on a heap of construction waste; and iridescent butterflies wings shine in the fresh mountain air.

A touring exhibition from INSTITUTE / Courtesy of Rena Effendi and the Prince Claus Fund

All images © Rena Effendi/Prince Claus Fund/INSTITUTE

Rena Effendi (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1977) is a social documentary photographer based in Cairo. Her first job, at the age of 19, was as a translator for the Azerbaijan International Oil Company, a consortium of some of the world's largest oil producers. Having gained an inside perspective, Effendi began to take photographs in 2001, focusing on the oil industry's effects on ordinary people's lives. Her work on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was published as the book Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives Along the Pipeline by Schilt Publishing in 2009.

Effendi's international awards include the Fifty Crows Documentary award, the Getty Images Editorial Grant, and National Geographic's All Roads Photography Award. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Visa Pour L'Image Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan; the 52nd Venice Biennale; and the Istanbul Biennial. Her work has been published inNewsweek, Time, The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Marie Claire, Le Monde, National Geographic, and others. Rena Effendi is represented by INSTITUTE for Artist Management worldwide and by Grinberg Gallery in Russia. 
www.refendi.com

http://www.impressions-gallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition.php?id=55

This has been one of my favourite exhibition that I have seen in a while, I felt the content of the images has been captured beautifully all composition, lighting and framing was great. I loved how Rena had presented her 6x6 work. I felt that by her putting the images that her dad took of the butterflies next to the portraits she had done really portray almost the life and freedom in the spirit of the people she photographed. The work was truly inspirational, defiantly worth going to view really moving imagery that need to be seen.

Bradford

National Media Museum -

Tom Wood: Photographs 1973 - 2013
Gallery One: 8 March 2013 - 16 June 2013

"Tom Wood has taken photographs almost every day for the last 40 years. The resulting, remarkable bodies of work now form the basis of this new retrospective exhibition, his first in the UK.

Most of Wood's work has been taken in Liverpool and on Merseyside, where he has lived for much of the last four decades. He has photographed on the streets, in pubs, clubs and markets, workplaces, parks and outside football grounds.

Wood's photographs are not organised in series, where one project has a start and end date. Instead, he works daily on an unfolding, diary-like recording of his observations and encounters. He will spend many years returning to particular places and studying them in an attempt to refine and distil the essence of them in his photographs. The result is a constantly evolving celebration of the pleasures of photography and its potential to transform its subjects.

Tom Wood: Photographs 1973 - 2013 is a collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery London and has been curated by Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at this Museum, and Stefanie Braun, Senior Curator at The Photographers' Gallery."

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/TomWood/Introduction.aspx

I thought the exhibition was great, the images were all striking and gave you an incline in to life in the 70s. I also really liked the drawing and notes he had made on his work, i found this really interesting and felt it made the exhibition a lot more personal. 

Reviewing others blogs

I felt that this was a good task to see what either you are missing within your own blog or to help the other person by giving constructive criticism to help them progress. Some people within the group had done lots of blogs and kept very p to date even adding their own post of photographers, gallery visits and personal work which was very interesting to see. Yet others felt the blog didn't really work that well and felt they didn't enjoy update and blogger different things as they felt it more of a hassle they hadn't even finish the compulsory tasks. I feel the blogs are a good idea as it keeps you sharing you knowledge and images and also helps you to be more aware of what is going on in the media with creative subjects as every time you see something interesting if you re-blog it you are then able to view it with ease as much as you like.

Behance

Behance is a great website that can be used to follow photographers work and upcoming exhibitions. It can also be used to follower others designers and creative art roll models. That enables you gain inspiration from a range of creative fields it also keep you up to date as to what is going on through the creative industry.

Self Promotion

http://cargocollective.com/abigaylelibberton