Printed Matters: Photobook Symposium

Sunday 26 February / 11 — 4.45

Chapter / Tickets SOLD OUT

Ffotogallery, Chapter & Third Floor Gallery present this exciting event focusing on all aspects of current photography publishing, with a lively programme of presentations and panel discussions by a range of invited publishers, photographers, artists and other industry specialists.

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Book Arts Fayre 6

Saturday 25 February / 11 — 5

Turner House / FREE

We welcome back our sixth Book Arts Fayre, celebrating the ‘artists book’ in all its forms, from hand printed zines to hardback monographs. This lively gallery event offers the chance to explore and engage in self-publishing and a wealth of contemporary book arts practice from Wales and beyond.

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Helen Sear, Beyond The View, 2009 — 10

COMING SOON

Inside the View brings together for the first time key bodies of work produced by Helen Sear over the last thirty years, reflecting the artist’s exploration of the relationship between colour and form, figure and ground, the visible and the unseen.

Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a fine art background in performance, film and installation work in the 1980s and she continues to explore ideas of vision, touch and the representation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens-based media and digital technologies.

Sear’s work challenges the dominant view of photography as a documentary medium, questioning its indexical relationship with the world. Photography, whether in its analogue or digital form, may enable us to view in close up the surface detail of objects, but in doing so our perceptual experience of them becomes more ambiguous and fragmented, belying their unity and coherence.

Includes essays by David Chandler and Sharon Morris.

Size: 230 x 280 mm

Illustration: 70 colour

Binding: Hardback 144 pages

Text: English (essays also in Welsh)

Publication date: February 2012

ISBN: 978 1 872771 88 5

Price: £30

Distributor: Cornerhouse Publications

Available to buy online soon

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13 March + 24 April + 22 May 2012

Turner House / FREE / Drop-in / 11am — 4pm

On the first Tuesday of each exhibition, gallery staff will be on hand throughout the day to guide you through the artists work. Drop in at any point and there will be tea and cake provided as you learn more about the exhibition at your own pace.

Fifteen Minutes 1 from The Business of Living, c-print, 2010 © Daniel Blaufuks

14 January - 25 February 2012 / Turner House / FREE / 15–19 years

During the Daniel Blaufuks’ Works On Memory exhibition, you will be able to visit the gallery and pick up an interpretative print collection pack. These packs, developed by the Education Team, can be used to prompt creative dialogue and debate about the work of Blaufuks and the relationship between photography and memory.

They can be used by visitors, schools or college groups in the classroom -  or book now for an in depth gallery talk and discussion tailored for the specific needs or your group.

Photo by Rowan Lear

December 2011 — Tuesday 31st January 2012

At Turner House

Our bumper winter sale on Ffotogallery books continues at Turner House, with 15% off newer titles and 50% off a wide range of older titles. It’s the perfect time to treat yourself in the new year!

Booksale only open during exhibition opening hours:

Works on Memory

Sunday 26 February 2012, 11.00am – 4.15pm

CHAPTER, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE

Tickets: SOLD OUT

Book now online or by phone from Chapter box office (0)29 2030 4400

This exciting one-day event focuses on all aspects of current photography publishing with a lively programme of presentations and panel discussions by a range of invited publishers, photographers, artists and other industry specialists. Confirmed speakers include Johanna Neurath (Thames & Hudson), Anna Pfab (Schilt Publishing), Diane Smyth (British Journal of Photography), Stuart Smith (Smith Design), Matt Stuart (photographer and photobook collector), Ken Grant (photographer and academic), Donald Weber (photographer), Zhao Renhui (artist) and Seba Kurtis (artist).

Printed Matters will open up creative dialogue and enquiry into the industry of documentary and art photography publishing today. Topics that will be discussed include the practicalities and implications of large scale production verses the intimacy of self published work; considering the photobook as an aesthetic and fetishised object and the challenges and opportunities that organisations, presses and larger publishers are faced with in a changing technological and economic market. A screening of the documentary How To Make a Book with Steidl will conclude the event (included in ticket price).

This event has been organised through a partnership between Ffotogallery, Third Floor Gallery and Chapter as part of a wider weekend of events in Cardiff focusing on photography and publishing:

Thurs 23 Feb — Ffotogallery & WARP self publishing FORUM

Fri 24 Feb — Third Floor Gallery opening of ‘Touching Strangers’ by Richard Renaldi

Sat 25 Feb — Ffotogallery Book Arts Fayre

Sat 25 Feb — Ffotogallery Book Launch for Helen Sear — Inside the View

Helen Sear, Beyond the View, 2009 — 10

Saturday 25 February 2012 / 6.30pm

FREE — please RSVP to info@ffotogallery.org

10 Feet Tall (Upstairs), 12 Church Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BG

Join artist Helen Sear to celebrate the launch of Ffotogallery’s new limited edition publication Inside the View, which brings together for the first time key bodies of work produced by Sear over the last thirty years.

Signed copies will be available to purchase at the event for a specially discounted price of £25.

See more about Inside the View

Saturday 25 February / 11 — 5 / Turner House / FREE

Book Arts Fayre celebrates the ‘artists book’ in all its forms, from hand printed zines to hardback monographs, giving everyone from artists to students, graduates and families the chance to explore and engage in self-publishing and a wealth of contemporary book arts practice from Wales and beyond.

Bringing together an eclectic mix of contributors from both invitation and our open submissions, the gallery will be full to the brim with stalls showcasing works for browsing and for buying, as well as other hand made arty ephemera, tea and cakes!

We are pleased to announce over 60 contributors taking part in BAF6, including Cardiff-based artists Heloise Godfrey and Jorge Lizalde; independent publishers SOURCE Photographic Review from Northern Ireland, Wales’s TANT magazine and Editions FP&CF from Paris; collectives such as Plymouth photography students We Are All Friends Here, Brighton’s PhotoBookShow and students from the University of Wales, Newport. Creative writer, Briony Goffin will also be hosting the Precious Things project – a writing and making workshop for all the family.

For a full list of BAF6 stallholders, news, features and an archive of previous Fayres, please see our blog

For more information please call (029) 2070 8870 or email helen@ffotogallery.org

BAF After-party! 

From 8pm / 10 Feet Tall  (Upstairs), 12 Church Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BG

FREE (until 10pm) - please RSVP to info@ffotogallery.org

Put your dancing shoes on and join us at 10 Feet Tall bar later on to celebrate with Book Arts Fayre DJs! Limited capacity, please RSVP.

Thursday 23 February / 6.30pm / Turner House / FREE

This month we will be a ‘Self-Publishing’ special.

FORUM is an informal, monthly event for early career artists, students and graduates, organised by WARP & Ffotogallery. It is a platform for practitioners from various disciplines to exchange ideas, experience and opinions on visual culture.

FORUM is diverse in its nature and has no fixed form. Each FORUM event has its own theme which provides a catalyst for discussion on a range of issues in the context of contemporary arts practice. See the FORUM BLOG for more info, posts about opportunities and an archive of FORUM’s activity.

Also every month FORUM members will have an opportunity to show or discuss new or unfinished works in an informal setting, for feedback and discussion. Bring along work on the night.

Click here for more info.