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Research & Connect

Notes on my plans and progress for research and connection
PEOPLE - Partners
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Adam Murray, Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
North Devon Open Photography Competition
Curating a Documentary Photography Exhibition
Displaying photography - galleries and installations
Collaboration - Links to Collections & Community

Claire Ayres - Beaford, Devon
Developing partnerships with artists/creative practitioners
​Education programme
Inspiration from and use of Ravilious archive
Multi art forms
Natural environment, arts and culture, communities
Collaboration - Links to photographic archive & environment

Laura Porter and Richard Gregory - Studio Kind, Braunton, Devon
Exhibition - Curation & Hanging
Studio space for experimentation with large spaces, installations
Workshops

Amy Berry, Mark Joslin, Mark Rostock, Amy Slaney - Fremington Youth Football Club (Girls)
Project - Grassroots Girls Football

Fiona Fraser-Smith - freelance arts producer
​Working with a producer

Richie Norvill - Exposure Photography in Bideford
Print for exhibition, collaborations, exhibition opportunity

Michael White - Libraries Unlimited, Arts Producer
Social documentary projects, opportunities with LU/Evolve, tips on curation/exhibition, outdoor exhibits?

Ian Danby - Burton Art Gallery
Potential for projects

DAISI

TTVS

Libraries Unlimited - Barnstaple Library

Emma Case

Brian Griffin

Suzie Larke

Charlie Phillips

Jack Lowe

Craig Easton

Colin McPherson

​Paul Sampson - Oriel Colwyn
PEOPLE - Photographers/Projects
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​Stuart Roy Clarke - Homes of Football
Christian Doyle - Against the Tide
Chris Hoare - Growing Spaces
Rebecca Lupton - The Mothers
Carolyn Mendelsohn - Being Inbetween, Living with Dementia
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EVENTS, GALLERIES & FESTIVALS

Studio Kind, Braunton, Devon
​29 July 2021
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Bristol Photography Festival - http://www.bristolphotofestival.org/
18/19 August 2021

James Barnor: Ghanaian Modernist
Beyond the Frame - Heather Agyepong - Jessa Fairbrother - Lua Ribeira
Lips Touched with Blood: Sarah Waiswa
Island Life: photographs from the Martin Parr Foundation
In Progress - Laia Abril - Hoda Afshar - Widline Cadet - Adama Jalloh - Alba Zari . Curated by Aaron Schuman
Thames Log: Chloe Dewe Mathews
The Floating Harbour: Jem Southam
Growing Spaces: Chris Hoare
Grey Areas: Jessie Edwards-Thomas
The Imaginary Living Room​ 
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Outdoor exhibits: Jem Southam, Chris Hoare - printed to metal
Interpretation: varying levels of detail from long scripts (RPS) to nothing (gallery pictures at Museum/Art Gallery), QR Codes, Accessibility
Multi media - RPS - video, audio, abstract video
Themes - most important for context of exhibition
Framing, hanging - mostly wooden frames with glass, outdoors printed to metal, some hanging prints (paper only - like posters) Thames Log Chloe Dewe Mathews


Online events:
Open Eye Gallery - Ciara Leeming and Marge Bradshaw talking to Emma Case about their micro commissions.  Really helpful in relating to approaching a commission, what is the "why?", sharing feelings about approaching and involving people.  Valuable identifying with how they work and what they do and the process/product of a project.  Identifying with others gives me confidence in my work and future.
8/9/21 Open Rooms - Common Ground

Bristol Museums
9//9/21 In conversation with Ken Grant

London 14/15/16 September 2021
Photographers Gallery
Wellcome Collection
Observatory Gallery
British Library - zines
Kings Cross (outdoor exhibits) Granary Square
V&A (closed)
South Bank Centre - Charlie Phillips

Bristol Museums online
6/10/2021
Whose Gaze?
Representation in photography, class, gender, race
Tracy Marshall-Grant (Director of Bristol Photo Fest)

Sian Davey (Martha)
Clementine Schneidermann (ffasiwn)
Katy Barron (Senior Director at Michael Hoppen Gallery, Chair of Board of Trustees at Photofusion)

Jessa Fairbrother (Conversations with my Mother)
Dr Clare Johnson (Associate Professor UWE Art & Design)

14/10/21
BPF - BPS Webinar
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​Lebohang Kganye (commissioned to create moving image work at Georgian House in Bristol)
Sarah Waiswa (New African Identity)
Dr Shawn Sobers (Co-programme leader MA photography UWE)

WOPHA Congress: Women, Photography, and Feminisms taking place
November 18-19, 2021 at Pérez Art Museum Miami. 

18/10/2021
Exposure Photography Gallery/Shop Bideford - potential collab projects workshops

​18/10/2021
Ravilious exhibition at Burton Bideford
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19/10/2021
Daisi interactive event online - connect, research
Engaging Young People with the Climate Crisis through the Arts
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​Northern Eye - https://www.northerneyefestival.co.uk/
Saturday
10.00am – 11.00am - CRAIG EASTON
1.30am – 12.30pm - SUZIE LARKE
(1.30pm – 2.30pm LOTTIE DAVIES - QUINN exhibition Walking Tour.)
3.30pm – 4.30pm - CHARLIE PHILLIPS
4.30pm - 4.45pm - Q&A
5.00pm – 6.00pm - PECHAKUCHA 
Sunday
10.00am – 11.00am - JACK LOWE 
11.30am – 12.30pm - EMMA CASE 
2.00pm – 3.00pm - BRIAN GRIFFIN
3.30pm – 4.30pm - ALYS TOMLINSON

Personal projects become funded projects.  Often work alongside commercial work.  Exhibiting - posters for Lifeboat project, wooden frames outdoors for Lottie Davies, Library windows for Carolyn Mendelsohn, billboard posters in empty shop windows, projected onto frosted glass lining in shop window.

TV/Films
BBC - Great British Photography Challenge
BBC - Britain in Focus (Eamonn McCabe)
BBC - On Camera: Photographers at the BBC
BBC - What do Artists Do All Day? Dougie Wallace
BBC - Shooting the Darkness
Amazon Prime - See Know Evil (Davide Sorrenti)
Netflix - Vivian Maier
​Netflix - The B-side, Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Facebook - 1854 & British Journal of Photography: 1854 Presents
Youtube - Royal Photographic Society
Youtube - Photographers' Gallery
BOOKS
Ang, Tom - Photography
Beard, Peter H - Peter Beard
​Bernard, Bruce - One Hundred Photographs
​Bright, Susan - Face of Fashion
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Bown, Jane - Pillars of the Church
Brandt, Bill - Homes Fit for Heroes
​Buckland, Gail - Reality Recorded

Carroll, Henry - Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places
Cotton, Charlotte - The Photograph as Contemporary Art
Crippa, Luca - The Auschwitz Photographer
Ewing, William A - Face
Laing, Gordon - In Camera
Leibovitz, Annie - A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005
McCurry, Steve - Portraits
McCurry, Steve - Untold, the Stories Behind the Photographs
Magnum Photos - A Year in Photography
​Parr, Martin - The Non-Conformists
Plater, Sarah - Mastering Portrait Photography
​Read, Shirley - Exhibiting Photography
Schilling, Annegien - Imagine, Shoot, Create
Smith, Rachelle - Speaking Out
Steichen, Edward - The Family of Man
Wells, Liz - Photography : a critical introduction ​
WEBSITES
​Older people: ​https://www.weh.ox.ac.uk/engagement/indoors-exhibition
A social practice - http://www.asocialpractice.com/
Socially Engaged Photographers - Emma Case http://www.emmacasephoto.com/
Where's Your Head at (Burton at Bideford project) https://wyhatheburton.wordpress.com/
​Beaford Archive - https://beaford.org/archive
Guide to portrait photography: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-portrait-photography-guide?utm_campaign=portrait-guide-sharing&utm_content=PA&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fb-social&utm_term=portrait-guide-sharing
​The therapeutic potential of photography: https://www.1854.photography/2021/04/the-therapeutic-potential-of-photography/?utm_campaign=bsi833%7Efacebook_organic%7Econtent_promo%7E9_dec_2021%7Ebjp_online_editorial%7Ebsi833&utm_content=190450749&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-40055265495
PROJECT IDEAS
The Gardener - relationship between elderly people and their gardener, loneliness, connection, earth
Girls Grassroots Football - Fremington Youth Girls, celebrate, promote and inspire
Men's Sheds - retirement, skills, age

Online Research

EXHIBITING
Youtube - aows - How to prepare for a photography exhibition
  • Physical portfolio, prints in sleeved portfolio.  For physical meetings with curators and at exhibition spaces e.g. non gallery places
  • Curate work into different sized sets of pictures - small, medium and large exhibition spaces
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TESTIMONIALS
​I had the pleasure of working with Mandi on a museum resilience project in 2021. I was impressed with her work as the lead creative practitioner. In my role as evaluator for the project I appreciated Mandi’s deeply thoughtful approach to deliver the best value for the client and the community it serves within the context of ever-changing COVID circumstances. Mandi was a dedicated and enthusiastic member of the project team who gave 120% and was hugely flexible when directions and deadlines needed to change. She is skilful at her many crafts, inspiring, generous and fun to work with.
Melinda Humphrey, Freelance Evaluator

Mandi is a Creative Practitioner who has both breadth and depth of skills and experience. Mandi's practice is developing and she is very interested in engaging with the community and heritage. She has recently worked on the 'Stay Curious' project at Ilfracombe Museum as artist-in-residence, responding to the Natural History Collection and producing activities and events with a family focus. Mandi never fails to surprise me with her ability to draw on a variety of practice - including photography, film-making, design, animation - and also her ability to respond to the project in hand to make it as successful as possible bringing her energy, ideas and enthusiasm.
Sadie Green, Creative Producer

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