Simon Hyde Photographer

A Letter to Saughall Parish Council Saughall resident Lex Greensill recently asked to speak at the Parish Council meeting Scheduled for Monday July 3rd, 2023 to further explain plans.

*A Mention by the Royal Photographic Society*
The Royal Photographic Society

A wonderfully written piece covering Open Eye Gallery LOOK! Photo Biennial 2022 : CLIMATE

I know! The RPS!! :-) It’s yet another rather surreal moment for me. I've written a small intro to it here:

Take a read - there's a link to the RPS after my short musings on the topic :-)

A Mention in Royal Photographic Society A wonderfully written piece covering Open Eye Gallery's LOOK! Photo Biennial 2022 : CLIMATE

Make, Mend and Sustain is on our Digital Window Gallery until 5PM tomorrow!

University of Chester fashion and photography students designed and photographed a sustainable fashion collection made from charity shop donations!

Check out this feature by The Royal Photographic Society:

rps.org/news/bristol/2022/august/make-mend-and-sustain/

📷 Simon Hyde

LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate’s closing weekend at OEG is fast approaching.

Take a look at our events programme including:

🦇 Thur 01 Sep / 7.30PM - Guided Walk: Bats of Sefton Park with B 4 Biodiversity

🌎 Fri 02 Sep / 6PM - The World Reimagined Inspire Session - Poetry Reading: Mother Africa

🌳 Sat 03 Sep /2PM - Cyanotype Workshop with Fiona Robinson

🌱 Sun 04 Sep / 3PM - Rooting for the Future with Andrea Ku, Hellen Songa, University of Salford Art Collection Gwen Riley Jones and Mariama Attah

🎟️ RSVP here: www.openeye.org.uk

📷 Hellen Songa

A lovely write up in the Chester Standard by Matthew Dogherty. This exhibition – the “LOOK! Photo Biennial 2022 – CLIMATE “ at Open Eye Gallery finishes on the 4th of September.

Honestly you'd be mad to miss see this; there is SO much stunning work being exhibited made by incredibly talented photographers and in collaboration with community groups across the North West. Once it’s down, it’s down! Get over there people! :-)

Chester photographer featured in Open Eye Gallery's latest exhibition 'Climate' A CHESTER photographer and mental health advocate has had his work featured in Liverpool-based Open Eye Gallery's LOOK! Photo Biennial 2022: Climate…

OEG's Mariama Attah has curated an exhibition over on Ukrainian. Photographies!

In Fleeting Photography, the artists illustrate events or ideas that don't exist, or exist for long, and draw attention to unusual details of life.

The exhibition features Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva, Sergey Melnitchenko, Viacheslav Poliakov and Elena Subach.

➡️ http://ukrainianphotographies.org/exhibitions/fleeting-photography

📷 Elena Subach

📖 THURS 25 AUG / 5 – 6PM

We’re looking forward to LOOKBOOK Club this Thursday!

We’ll explore the overlapping themes between LOOK Photo Biennial & Richard Powers’ book The Overstory.

Sign up via Eventbrite! You can also pick up a copy from News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop.

More info and free tickets:
https://bit.ly/3QumF5I

AI, Text and Data Mining and what it means for you.

Why should photographers and image-makers be concerned about the newly proposed Text and Data Mining exception?

- Up to this point, the UK’s copyright framework has arguably been amongst the most innovation-friendly and world-leading pieces of legislation protecting creators, with careful consideration for the significant and widespread creation of and investment in creative works, leading to an industry worth over 6% to the UK economy.
- This new proposed Text and Data Mining exception for commercial purposes by the UK government - noting a UK non-commercial TDM exception already exists - undermines this consideration by freely allowing the machine mining of all imagery published online for any use by anyone, including AI developers, with many creators being unaware of this activity taking place.
- With serious economic consequences for any creator, but most especially photographers with data-rich images, this proposal completely short-circuits the licensing process allowing AI developers and others free commercial access to content for which, under normal circumstances, they would have to license and pay for.

The UK government's next step is to introduce proposed legislation with an economic impact assessment soon.
We need to show evidence of the economic harm this could do to AOP members, to mitigate the risk to your businesses.
We will be issuing a simple survey soon for all members to respond to - please do take part so we can protect your interests.

Read our article in full here: http://ow.ly/lyF950KocGq

Stay tuned for our related survey coming soon!

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💥Board nominations are now closed for this years AGM 💥

Thank you to everyone who has applied, we have had some really strong applications and we look forward to welcoming our new board member in September!

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Tickets are still available to attend our Annual General Meeting. This is a great chance to talk through Redeye’s future plans, hear from a guest speaker and also have you say in electing our new board member.

We would love to see you there 🙌

🎟Tickets are free to book and open to Redeye members - follow the link in bio

If you’d like to become a Redeye member you can find out more via the link in bio 🔗

The AGM will be held online via zoom

🗓27th September 2022, 6pm - 8pm

🌳🌲 There's still time to book to join us for a guided walk in Friends of Childwall Woods and Fields with Brenda Cameron to explore the veteran trees! Saturday 27 August 1PM - 2.30PM!

Once the ornamental gardens of Childwall Hall, Childwall Woods now has many wonderful reminders of its glory days including rare variegated oaks and the largest collection of veteran trees in Merseyside dating back to the 17th century .

🎟️ Join us: https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/the-veteran-trees-of-childwall-woods-with-brenda-cameron-2/

📷 Brenda Cameron

A number of my images being used by Open Eye Gallery promoting the "LOOK! Biennial 2022 - Climate" together with some stunning images from Emily Johnson. Anna Carter and beutiful medium format film work by Charlie Harris.

Make, Mend and Sustain - University of Chester

⏰ It's the last few days to catch dot-art X OEG Analogue Photography Competition Exhibition on our Digital Window Gallery - on show until Thursday 28 July.

Featuring the following fantastic photographers:

Winner: Chun-Mei Wang

Finalists: Anna Jane Houghton, Anthony Curley, Darin Grozdev and Phoebe Winstanley

Submissions From: Angela Myroula Pavlou / Antony Mo / Beth-Thrasher Jackson / Chloe Lloyd / Craig Walsh / Don McDermott / Eleanor Szydlowska / Erin Tisdale / Geraint Duckfield / Graeme Watt / Greg Hodge / Laurasima Clinton / Luke Penny / Lydia Marley / Marc Gartland / Megan Bankier / Michela De Dominicis / Oscar Hedge / Owen Roberts / Sean Dagnall

Read more: https://dot-art.co.uk/2022/07/16/dot-art-x-oeg-analogue-photography-competition-exhibition-2022/

📷 dot-art

LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate at Open Eye Gallery is open all weekend!

Come and join us between 10AM - 5PM to see what we have on display!

Full details: https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/look-photo-biennial-2022-climate/

Portraiture from the shoot in Share Shop's warehouse in Mold...

Images part of “Make, Mend, Sustain @ Chester Charity Shops“ for “LOOK photo Biennial 2022 - Climate” - produced by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and exhibiting at Open Eye from 14 July — 4 September 2022⁣.

(More info in previous post:
https://www.facebook.com/100063119775757/posts/pfbid02NqGj7zd63LgMnzPmqPestAySmKJRPZfqc2wdNbkWD8ngi292RuoeqFYMh5ZcCMy8l/?d=n )

Website:
https://www.simonhyde.co.uk/.../LOOK-Photo-Biennial-2022...

Open Eye Gallery
ShareShop Chester
ShareShop Mold
Save the Children UK
Save the Children, Chester

AJ Wilkinson - https://www.alanjwilkinson.com
https://www.instagram.com/ajwilkinson27/
Photography:
Simon Hyde Photographer
Styling:
Lousie - https://www.instagram.com/l.j.mdesigns/
GCB Fashion
Saviour
Kat
Model:
https://www.instagram.com/bernice_mia/

The Association of Photographers Redeye - The Photography Network

“Make, Mend, Sustain @ Chester Charity Shops“

A few images from a fashion shoot at Share Shop’s Mold Warehouse in North Wales. The shoot being culmination of 3 months of work and collaboration bringing all this together. A belting day was had 😊

I had the privilege of having the brilliant photographer and educator AJ Wilkinson alongside me for the shoot; much credit goes AJ's way for the day going as well as it did.

All the outfits that our damned hard working model, Bernice, was wearing were made by the brilliantly creative minds of University of Chester Fashion students using cast aside garments and materials that they chose from two Chester charity shops - Share Shop and Save The Children.
Curtains, duvet covers, old shirts, left over fabric - you name it the fashion students set to work creating some amazing pieces of fashion. No idea how they do that ❤️. It’s brill! ❤️❤️

All this work is part of a much bigger project - the “LOOK photo Biennial 2022 - Climate” - produced by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and exhibiting at Open Eye from 14 July — 4 September 2022⁣. The exhibition is rammed full of superbly engaging work; vibrant and energetic imagery with profound and important messages, cleverly communicated with carefully curated images and with collaboration and community at its heart.

A selection of some the best images from Make, Mend, Sustain are being exhibiting at Share Shop, Chester and Save The Children, Chester until the start of August.

Well worth a look!

Open Eye Gallery
ShareShop Chester
ShareShop Mold
Save the Children UK
AJ Wilkinson - https://www.instagram.com/ajwilkinson27/
ajwilkinson27
Photography:
Simon Hyde Photographer
Styling:
Lousie - https://www.instagram.com/l.j.mdesigns/
GCB Fashion
Saviour
Kat
Model:
https://www.instagram.com/bernice_mia/

The Association of Photographers

OPEN EYE’s 2022 LOOK photo biennial - CLIMATE - Launch event tonight!
Tears in my eyes to see my work up in at Open Eye. Crikey!
So incredibly thrilled and privileged to be a part of this.
And (again) to have one of my images front and blooming centre 😊😊
Ace work by Louise (.j.mdesigns ) on creating the clothing and beautifully worn by Bernice on the day.
Now for the launch…
Open Eye Gallery

JakLash Cash

An impromptu Street Photo Shoot...

"Could we have a few photo's at all please mate?" was the request from JakLash Cat's Phil Blundell.

And so a rather speedy and Impromptu photo shoot ensued in Chester on July 1st 2022 for the exceptionally talented JakLash Cash.
(My daughter, Rosie, patiently waiting and taking a hard earned rest on the bench by the side of me whilst a fired off a few shots.)

It was proper good to be able to do this. And it provides an opportunity to have a playful approach to the edit with some alternative colour grading and post processing.

I hope you like them Phil ;-)

More images from the shoot here... https://www.simonhyde.co.uk/Community/JakLash-Cat/

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