#42: Offline Journal Newsletter : Oct '22

Hello again

Just a quick reminder from me that the latest issue #009 of Offline Journal became available this week and is now available to order online (less than a third of stock now remaining!)- or as part of 2-issue subscription, with or without supplements.

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Eamonn McCabe - photographer & picture editor

As The EYE Festival prepares to launch its 2022 event 7pm this evening (Friday) in Aberystwyth (tickets for individual speaker sessions are now available to buy), there will be many attending with fond memories of Eamonn McCabe who was a big supporter, guest speaker and moderator of the festival since its launch in 2012, and who sadly died suddenly earlier this week.

John Gilbey posted a lovely photo of Eamonn and fellow speakers at the first EYE festival in 2012 this morning on Twitter. Spot the faces.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/06/eamonn-mccabe-obituary

Emyr Young and I had the great pleasure of meeting Eamonn at the 2016 event when he was on duty and moderator and chief inquisitor of the guest speakers that year. He very kindly took time to record a conversation with us for the Ffoton website (it was also one of the few I filmed) - and is well worth watching on the Ffoton Youtube channel

Photography has lost a true gem of a gentleman, talented photographer and skilled picture editor (at The Guardian for thirteen years ) who was universally respected by those who worked with him on both sides of the camera.

The Guardian, where McCabe was previously picture editor, has paid tribute by creating an impressive ‘Life in Pictures’ page on their website.

Alien Resident - Stephen Clarke (part 2)

This is part 2 of my 2-part conversation with Stephen Clarke discussing his work made in San Diego. You can listen to Part 1 in a previous edition of this newsletter.

There can’t be many student projects requiring a journey of over 5000 miles to make a series of photographs over the span of a year.

But a young Stephen Clarke opted to do just that while studying Fine Art at Gwent College of Higher Education in Newport, South Wales in the early 1980s. The young artist was already using photography extensively in his work and was an admirer of the New Topographics aesthetic which had emerged a decade earlier in the USA, and decided (with no real plan) to head for San Diego with his 35mm camera.

A year later, he returned to the UK and developed a great many rolls of exposed film.

Listen below to part 2 of Offline Journal’s 2-part conversation with Stephen Clarke on his work made in San Diego.

Peter Finnemore - Looking for Signs exhibition

Ffotogallery hosted the opening of Peter Finnemore’s ‘Looking for Signs’ exhibition and book launch last night in Cardiff.

The pop-up exhibition features an impressive selection of prints from his new book of the same name - and which features in an interview/article written by Ellie Macdonald in the latest issue #009 of Offline Journal.

Looking for Signs runs 6 - 20 October 2022 in Ffotogallery.
Peter Finnemore and book designer Alejandro Acín will give at talk on the project at Ffotogallery’s Photo Book Fair on Saturday 15 October, where Offline Journal will also have a stall with the latest issue #009 and back issues.
www.ffotogallery.org

35 Summers at Oriel Colwyn

Following Malcolm Glover’s Llyn Peninsula exhibition, Oriel Colwyn will reopen the gallery on Saturday 15 October with an afternoon-long event to celebrate 35 Summers - a new exhibition by North Wales-based professional photographer Mark McNulty.

35 Summers is described as a mostly chronological timeline of McNulty’s music related work going back over 35 years.

One not to miss.

Y CAE / THE FIELD

Y CAE/THE FIELD is an ongoing series of exhibitions curated by Valley Ffocws art collective in collaboration with the Ynysybwl Regeneration Partnership (YRP) on the subject of the former Lady Windsor Colliery site. Each exhibitor will take over the six presentation boards located along the Ynysybwl branch of the Taff Trail for two months, host a shared community event and create a publication available from the YRP office.

The common focus is the site of the Lady Windsor Colliery and its future. Each contributor brings their own expertise, including photography, industrial archaeology, social history, illustration & storytelling, fine art, ecology and surveying. The aim is to both inform and stimulate given the backdrop of the site’s industrial life between 1886 and 1988 and provoke fresh ideas in the context of today’s challenges; in particular, climate emergency. 

‘It’s a Small World – Former Lady Windsor Colliery’ by Dr Steven Murray

Dr Steven Murray has been recording the Lady Windsor Colliery site for 14 years and finds a mosaic of biodiversity, an accidental haven for wildlife at a small scale. His macro photographic landscapes across this tapestry of habitats are displayed much enlarged, but the originals can still be spotted by the naked eye. Steven works as a Science Teacher in Beddau.

Talk/Publication: 6.45pm on 19 October in The Constitutional Club, Windsor Road, Ynysybwl CF37 3HR