Photography Matters
Photography Matters is a one-day OCA conference to be held at CAST, Doncaster, South Yorkshire on Saturday 21 May 2016.
The conference will be chaired by Professor Mark Durden, academic, artist and author of many books including Photography Today.
It seeks to map out areas for discussion in photography’s relationship to the everyday lived experience, visual culture, evolving technology, archiving and history, news media, education at all levels and public perception.
Speakers at the conference include –
Les Monaghan, OCA tutor, on making art photography for public audiences
Keith Roberts, OCA tutor, on family portraits and the returned gaze
Derek Trillo, OCA tutor, on exploring notions of time through experimental photography
Dawn Woolley, OCA tutor, on selfies, consumer culture and identity
Rachel Smith, OCA tutor,on the materiality of the photograph
A pop-up exhibition of OCA tutor work will also be displayed in CAST during the conference.
Tickets are £40/£20 OCA students including lunch and tea or coffee. The ticket office is 01302 303959. Quote your OCA student number.The event will last from 10am – 4pm.
Doncaster is very well connected by train, it is 1hour and 40 minutes from London Kings Cross, 1 hour 25 minutes from Newcastle, and 1 hour 20 minutes from Manchester. By road it is served by the A1(M) and M18 motorways linking to the M62 and M1.
Image credit:Les Monaghan, ‘I want peace and harmony in the world’, from the series, The Desire Project, 2015-16.
And around 6 hrs from Aberdeen, 3-4 hrs from Edinburgh/Glasgow.
Hello Yiann,
Subject to agreement from the speakers the Photography Matters event will be filmed and made available to students who cannot attend. Similarly the recent talk by Chloe Dewe Mathews is now available on the student site. See it here http://www.oca-student.com/content/photographers-talking?page=2#comment-81285
Joanne
Excellent Joanne – Thanks. Please separate out each speaker if you can so we can watch in bite (byte) size bits (Sorry for that). I find these recordings extremely beneficial and useful. Tx
About 20 hours from here and GBP500 🙂
Brilliant, I was just going to ask if it would be recorded 🙂
Thanks for the link Joanne!
Looking forward to the conference’s film, invaluable for many, even those down the road.
That will be great! Although I’m only just down the road I have another event in Manchester that day, so it will be great to catch up on recordings afterwards.
Only up the road from me.
Really looking forward to the OCA’s first proper symposium – thank you very much particularly to Les for organising.
Clearly the OCA will never manage to cater for everyone’s geographic needs and it is great that videos are made available when possible. The centrality of Doncaster to the majority of our students, and the infrastructure here, is a credit to the organisation of the event.
Also, I hope that plenty of non-photographers will be interested in attending too…
Looking forward to it 🙂
maybe one day they will come to north devon!
South West OCA do and we had a study day in Barnstaple a couple of years ago!
… or even Exeter / Plymouth?
I am considering an MA course through OCA when the time is right – juggling my full time job at International school. How much would it cost to watch the video of this talk for a non-student? It sounds fab. The price for students is very reasonable. I am based in Asia, so could not attend. Thanks.
Hi Nicola, at the moment we don’t have a ‘pay per view’ facility for non-students, but thank you – this is an excellent idea! I would like to be able to get you access if this is possible, particularly if it gives you a sense of what the OCA community is like. There will no doubt be a post on this blog following the event summarising the day, before the videos are made available. If you would like to contact me at jessealexander@oca.ac.uk at that point I will see what might be possible.
It looks really interesting, and a huge step forward in OCA offerings. Going to work out the logistics and see whether I can make it. Any recommendations for hotels nearby, as I might have to stay before and after…which of course will impact on whether I can attend.
Regent Hotel is five minutes walk away from CAST, Earl of Doncaster is ten, Premier Inn is closer to the railway station across from the minster, other hotels and B&Bs available too.
Looks really interesting and depending on dog logistics I may try to get to it. Well done for organising too.
Under 2 hours from Kings Cross in London
Looking forward to this
That’s me booked then. 🙂
Great news and I’m so pleased to hear that the event will be filmed.
I’m booked on too, looking forwards to it and to catching up with fellow students
Please can you advise of the times for this? I would like to come but I’m 2hrs away and have to be back in the evening for a family event
We are aiming for 1000 – 1630 with a break for lunch, and probably another for a cuppa later
I’ll only be able to make a decision about attending at the last minute, but this sounds like it could be most interesting… (it’s around the time when all the MA work needs to be in, so might be a touch busy)
Brilliant! Looking forward to seeing the video (from Canada).
Coming!
Just to confirm that we have added OCA tutor, Rachel Smith to the line-up, she will be presenting a paper on the materiality of photography. http://www.oca.ac.uk/profile/rachel-smith/
Unfortunately Greg Hobson has had to pull out of speaking at Photography Matters. I’ll be blogging on the other speakers this week.