BA Photography Derby

The Derby School of Photography invites you to the 2024 Graduate Show: Made It

• Launch event .derbyuni
• Friday June 7
• 6-8:30pm
• Speeches and Awards in the studio (ground floor, accessible from nearest corridor next to the lift by Reception)
• Entrance to building via the Brook on Markeaton Street or the rear entrance via Pybus Street
• On street parking locally or paid parking at Markeaton Park

Made It features the full portfolio of Degree Show outcomes by undergraduate students across at Markeaton Street, Britannia Mill, and Chandos Pole Street sites.

ALL WELCOME! No ticket needed ✨

Some of you might know that I visited Las Vegas for an extended study visit with the University of Derby - Arts, superbly organised by colleague Gemma Marmalade. My role/intention was to produce a work that responded, somehow, to the environment of Las Vegas, and the wider area of Nevada, including reference to the ongoing/impending crisis with water access. This is a video of the performance of the work at Dubrek Studios on the 24th April should anyone care to view/listen. If you were one of the select few who attended, many thanks for being there!

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📣 📷 This Thursday 11th April welcomes the brilliant for our final Ph Word of the semester. Not one to be missed!

When: 11th April at 10:00

Where: MS005 for BA (Hons) Photography students. Or a live stream on Teams (registration required, link on my profile). FREE & all welcome!

William Lakin is an artist and researcher working with photography, text and sculpture, his work has been exhibited and published internationally. He is currently undertaking a practice-centred PhD on the world-building practices of online conspiracy communities, focussing on the functions of, and motivations behind engaging with online disinformation.

Tomorrow (13th) we are really lucky to have Liz Wewiora join for our next iteration of the Ph Word. All welcome!

When: Tomorrow (13th) at 2pm

Where: Online (Teams). Registration required. Link in profile.

Liz is a photographic artist, curator-producer and educator, specialising over the past 12 years on socially engaged approaches to practice.

She makes and commissions work in this way as she is interested in projects which explore ethics of care and how collective, creative experiences can promote positive social health and change.

She has undertaken commissions with CCA glasgow, AA2A residencies, Tate Exchange and Museum of Liverpool but also many non-art partner commissions with organisations like Centre Point, NHS England, Allotments society UK & Age UK.

She is currently the head of social practice at Open eye gallery and programme leader for the socially engaged MA courses at University of Salford.

Ph Word 📣

This Wednesday 28th we welcome for an in-conversation with about art/curatorial practices. All welcome! Simply register your attendance following the Teams link in profile.

When: Wednesday @ 2pm.

Where: Online (via a FREE Teams live stream, link in profile).

This Wednesday 14th Feb we welcome the brilliant for our first Ph word of the semester.

When: Wednesday @ 10am.

Where: Online (via a FREE Teams live stream, link found on profile page, all welcome!) The in person talk is available for our BA Photography students (MS204).

David Severn is a Documentary Photographer based in Nottingham, UK. His photography deals with themes such as the effects of deindustrialization, working class culture and social life within British post-industrial communities. Drawn to subjects that echo his experiences growing up in a former Coal Mining town in the East Midlands, David’s photographs seek to capture a sense of place shaped by his memories and cultural background.
David’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2015 David was selected as a winner of Magnum Photos “30 under 30″, an international competition open to Documentary Photographers under 30 years of age covering social issues. He was nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award 2020.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day… 🌅

are still accepting applications for September 2024 to:

• BA Hons Photography
https://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate/photography-courses/photography-ba-hons/

• BA Hons Photography (Commercial)
https://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate/photography-courses/commercial-photography-ba-hons/

• Foundation entry to BA Hons Photography Programmes
https://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate/photography-courses/photography-ba-hons-foundation/

Questions? 🧐 Contact us for more information ℹ️💥

There’s student procrastination and then there’s this… 😉😆
wishes to thank our wonderful students, applicants, faculty, staff and community for an exciting autumn semester 2023!
Happy holidays one and all! We look forward to what 2024 brings! 🔔

Ph word announcement!

This Wednesday 6th we are really lucky to have Antony Hall join us for final Ph Word of the semester.

When: Wednesday @ 2pm

Where: Online (via a FREE Teams live stream, link found on profile page, all welcome!) The in person talk is available for our BA Photography students.

Some info about Antony:

Antony is an artist, educator and researcher working between the fields of science and art. His practice is often collaborative and distributed across many mediums, including workshops, drawing, sculpture, installation, and sound art. Projects often take scientific experiments and concepts as a starting point; these are then re-created and re-invented, outside of their scientific context. This process leads to new lines of enquiry and experiments, which become the basis for new artworks and workshops. The work often incorporates live processes: generative sound, self-contained ecosystems, or illusory perceptions. He is a member of several artist collectives, including, Proximity, para-lab, and Owl Project.

Some final highlights of todays critique featuring .lightowler and everyone! Congratulations! 👏

Day two of our 2nd year critiques for ‘Expanded Media’: the ‘sandpit’ of play and experimentation of year two to loosen up the creative muscles, open possibilities of concepts and making to create enlightenment and innovation of practice. This leads ahead to a major study to mid point degree exhibition in May 2024.
Another great day of enthusiastic students and exciting work in development. All carefully and superbly led by
Image featuring Emma Bailey’s ‘laughing peppers’ and crit team in process.

It’s the first round of 2nd year critiques today! Super positive morning and loads of great student dialogue… featuring fabulous in full swing with and featuring a slice of work from

Ph word announcement 📣!!

This Wednesday we are really lucky to have join us for our 4th guest lecture this semester.

When: Wednesday @ 2pm

Where: Online (via a FREE Teams live stream, link found on profile page, all welcome!) The in person talk is available for our BA Photography students.

Some info about Victoria:

Victoria Lucas (b.1982, UK) is an artist and researcher based in the North of England. Recent projects include the curation of PostNatures at Graves Gallery, Sheffield, which explores the connections that exist between the histories of women’s bodies and natural landscapes as colonised subjects, and questions how they might be reclaimed in a post-natural context. She is one third of the art collective Heavy Water, alongside Maud Haya-Baviera and Joanna Whittle, a project that draws from archives and collections to create artworks that reclaim narratives in a contemporary context. She has recently exhibited her work with Site Gallery, Sheffield (2021), Freelands Foundation, London (2022), and The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield (2021). She is 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire and part-time PhD Candidate in the Art, Design and Media Research Centre at the Sheffield Hallam University.

Our wonderful 1st year Photography student Josh was working with .derbyuni this Saturday for the open day at Markeaton Street to introduce our visitors to the fantastic contemporary art exhibition (including photography) titled thanks to currently featured at Markeaton Street Gallery for Black History Month+ 2023
Thank you, Josh, for all your enthusiasm and knowledge! Do take the time to see this incredible show until 13th Dec.

For our 3rd iteration of The Ph Word this semester, we’re really pleased to welcome Eva Vermandel.

When: Wednesday 22nd at 2pm

Where: The in-person talk is aimed at all our BA (Hons) Photography students (MS108) with a live Teams stream available for a public audience. Please find the Teams link on the profile page.

Come along! All welcome!

Through her distilled and often surreal works, Eva Vermandel (°1974) explores how we perceive the world, drawing attention to the mundane by suspending its ‘normality’. Her work is in the collections of the V&A, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. She published her first monograph ‘Splinter’ in 2013 with Hatje Cantz.

Concurrently with her artistic practice, Vermandel undertakes commissions as an editorial portrait photographer and has collaborated on long-term international projects, most notably with the Icelandic band Sigur Rós and the Sydney Festival. Belgian born, she has been based in London since 1996.

Derby BA (Hons) guest lecture series, the Ph Word, continues on Wednesday 15th at 2pm with Ben McDonnell:

Ben’s work uses photography, sound and sculpture to raise questions around stability, support and structure. He draws inspiration from sound, music and the built environment.

The in-person talk is for students with an online Teams stream available for a public audience. Please find the link on the profile and register your place.

All welcome!

Derby’s BA (Hons) Photography guest lecture series, The Ph Word, officially kicks off on Wednesday 8th November with artist Lingfei Ren:

The in person talk will take place for Derby’s photography students with a live stream available for a public audience.

Please find a Teams link on the homepage for a FREE live stream (registration required). All welcome!

Thank you for facilitating and inviting 🙏

A sneak peek of the installation of Hidden Histories: The Wingfield Project 🦋
Tomorrow, the subtle but compelling work of and opens at one of the world’s oldest train stations in Derbyshire, England, now delicately renovated to its former glory.
It has been a delight for to work with and these photography students from

Congratulations, everyone! 🚂 🚆 🌳

Hidden Histories: The Wingfield Project 🦋

Over the last year, University of Derby Photography students have been repeatedly visiting the Wingfield Station Project in the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, to document its transformation.
Orisunayo Akinniran, Nina Erminio and Carla Collinson have each quietly observed developments at the historic Wingfield Station site, collecting an archive of its evolution now gifted to the project.
Hidden Histories is an exhibition of images and ephemera selected from this archive which integrate into their surroundings rather than demand attention. Each piece is selected to provide a unique visual relationship with its location, remarking upon the intangibility of time, memory, and trace.

Facilitated by Dr. Gemma Marmalade











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With thanks to .m.harris

We are DELIGHTED to welcome our new 2023 first years to the programme! 🪄✨

The Derby School of Photography invites you to the 2023 Graduate Show

•Launch event .derbyuni
• Friday June 9
• 6-8pm
• Speeches and Awards 6.45pm in the Studio (ground floor, accessible from nearest corridor next to the lift by Reception)
• Entrance to building via the Brook on Markeaton Street or the rear entrance via Pybus Street
• on street parking locally or paid parking at Markeaton Park

UNLOCKED features the full portfolio of Degree Show outcomes by undergraduate students across at both Markeaton Street, Britannia Mill, and Chandos Pole Street sites.

All welcome! Complimentary drink for early birds and hospitality available throughout proceedings.

ALL WELCOME! No ticket needed ✨

Two of our brilliant first year trio hard at work at one of the world’s rarest and pioneering rural railway stations, in opened in 1840

With - students were competitively selected to document the restoration of this building, part of an important world heritage site around the Amber Valley. The work by these excellent photographers will result in an exhibition at the site in October to celebrate the vital preservation work undertaken here.

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I’m delighted to announce that TODAY is ‘s first day on site at the historic Wingfield Station in Derbyshire, one of the oldest train stations in the world!
Three first year students were selected from a pool of applicants to be responsible for creatively documenting the restoration of this building by Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust. Three phased visits will result in an exhibition of their work at the station late 2023.
Congratulations Nina Erminio, Orisunayo Akinniran and Carla Collinson for being the selected photographers! 🚂 📸
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I’m delighted to have been in contact with 2023 applicants to today!

If you are one of them, please check your emails and don’t hesitate to respond! 💻 📞

Still in the application process? Or still considering university? Get in touch!

We’re still finalising the perfect cohort from a mix of experience, skills, ages, backgrounds, and approaches to help build another award-winning year of ! 📸 🎓

Programme Leader:
Dr. Gemma Marmalade 🍊

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WE 🤍 IMAGE • RESEARCH • DEVELOPMENT • STUDIO • EXPERIMENTAL • LOOKING • SPACE • SEEING • FLOW • INNOVATION • PLAY • FORM • CHALLENGE • CURIOSITY • EXPANSION

Images of experiments and work in progress on the walls in our dedicated studio working space, owned and operated by our students.

FORMAT23 Conference: Bookings Open⁠! 🎟️
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📍QUAD, Derby⁠, UK 🇬🇧
📅 Friday 17 March 2023⁠
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FORMAT , QUAD QUAD-Derby] and the University of Derby University of Derby] are delighted to present the conference for FORMAT23.⁠
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The conference is organised by Dr. Gemma Marmalade and Dr. Philip Harris .m.harris from the University of Derby and will be hosted at Derby QUAD. The conference will draw on the festival theme What Photography Can Be. This broad but evocative statement has allowed for a critical examination into a wide range of practices and themes, drawing upon the work of image makers and curators contributing to the wider FORMAT exhibition programme.⁠
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Keynote speakers, Oliver Frank Chanarin (UK), and Dr. Erika Abad (Nevada State College, USA ) will set the scope for the morning and afternoon sessions respectively, with further contributions that examine photography’s role and identity during a time of challenging conditions, relationships, and identities, for nations as well as individuals.⁠

Speakers include:
Angela M. Brommel (USA)
Prof. B. D. Delaire (EU)
Hefar Gotoph (EU)
Prof. Susan Hogan (UK)
Dr. Rebecca Howard (UK)
William Lakin (UK)
Dr. Casey Orr (UK)
James Stanford (USA)
Dr. Lucy Soutter (UK)
Maryam Wahid (UK)

The FORMAT23 conference will be held in person at QUAD, Derby as well as live-streamed for online access.⁠
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Conference 9:30am - 5:30pm⁠ GMT
Evening Exhibition Launch 6:00pm – 8:00pm⁠ GMT
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Check the 🔗link in bio for full programme, booking and travel information⁠.
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Image: Chris Seddon⁠
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