Dear One & All,
Amber Film & Photography Collective has been documenting working class and marginalised communities in North East England since 1968. In connection with our retrospective exhibition, For Ever Amber, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle University is organising a two day conference, Future Presence, Friday 10th to Saturday 11th July. It looks back to the 70s and 80s and forward from 2015, exploring documentary practices and possibilities and there's a great line-up:
John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul of Black Audio Collective / Smoking Dogs - from Handsworth Songs (1987) to The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
Verso Images (Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko, Anna Shpakova) the Russian photography & filmmaking collective who produced Grozny: Nine Cities (2014)
Ian Macdonald, photographer - Greatham Creek (1975), Quoits (1980), Tees Estuary (1982), Blast Furnace (1987)
Keith Pattison, photographer - Easington, August 1984
Ian McDonald, filmmaker - Algorithms (2013)
Graeme Rigby & Ellin Hare of Amber Film & Photography Collective
John Vail & Robert Hollands of Newcastle University Sociology Dept, who have been developing ESRC-funded research into Amber's 47 year collective documentary practice
Panel of the Documented - Heather Wood, Barrie Gough, Joe Armstrong, who have had their lives / communities documented by Amber and others
As well as the presentations and discussions, there will be screenings and a guided tour of the exhibition, For Ever Amber.
£30 (£25 students) including lunch. For more info and bookings (up until 3rd July): http://goo.gl/MjM5OA
Best wishes,
Graeme
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