A round table discussion with Clare Hewitt, Carolyn Morton, Danielle Phelps, and Emily Macaulay, led by Amak Mahmoodian on how artists and galleries can work with greater environmental care and consideration to rethink sustainable photobooks and exhibition production.
This is for everyone who shares an interest in photography, art, eco issues, sustainability and helping the environment.
The discussion will broach important questions such as how can we make photographs with neutral or positive environmental impact?
Booking recommended via Eventbrite, or call the gallery on 01274 737843
Free event, donations welcome, suggested £5.
Part of our Eco Events programme, presented in partnership with Creative Earth Eco Fest: Making change through photography and art.
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Everything in the forest is the forest is a photography exhibition with sustainability and environmental consciousness at its creative heart.
For the past five years, Clare Hewitt has worked at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research within a circle of twelve 180 year oak trees, which were acorns when photography was first invented.
The exhibition presents fourteen bodies of work, celebrating the trees’ remarkable ability to nurture and communicate. It offers valuable insights on how we can learn and gain from the unity, communities, and relationships found within the forest.
Much of the work has never been seen before and includes long exposure photographs captured over six months to four years within ‘birdbox’ pinhole cameras affixed to the oak trees; three hundred individual oak lumen prints made by exposure to the sun on the forest floor; videos created in subterranean root environments; and photography by workshops participants, working remotely with Hewitt, during the Covid lockdowns.
Image top: Blue Tit collecting spider webs for their nest © Clare Hewitt
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