JANUARY 2023: Photographs from the Bellwether project have been selected as Editor’s Choice for the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2023 (see images below). The portraits chosen are drawn from two projects: Bellwether and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. Photographs selected as Editor’s Choice are featured in the LensCulture Portraits Awards 2023 Competition Gallery, a highly curated group of images showcasing the best of photographs from participating photographers.

JANUARY 2023: Photographs from Bellwether are published in Volume 9 of Docu-Magazine’s e-publication, released in January 2023 (see images below). The edition – The Best of Documentary and Street Photography – utilises images from two recent, ongoing projects: Bellwether and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. The feature also includes an interview revealing some of the approaches used in the making of the portraits for Bellwether.

OCTOBER 2022: Delighted to announce that photographs from the Bellwether series will be exhibited at the Millepiani Gallery in Rome, in December 2022. Two portraits of Great Harwood residents (below), were selected by a LoosenArt panel, from over 1,400 submissions, for inclusion in the Progress: Contemporary and Future Societies exhibition, running between 03-22 December.

SEPTEMBER 2022: Bellwether is featured on The Crit House, an online portfolio review programme presented by Jeff Larason. Renowned photographer, filmmaker, and educator Ed Kashi partners with Glenn Ruga, the founder of the Social Documentary Network, to discuss the Bellwether project – the discussion is thoughtful, challenging and has already become one of the most watched videos of The Crit House series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4veP7UA-NF0&t=1165s

 

NOVEMBER 2021: A selection of photography from the Bellweather series is published in Edge of Humanity magazine, alongside a written text by Robert J Maher:

British Towns

The full portfolio of Bellweather can be found here: https://john-harrison-photo.com/bellweather/

APRIL 2021: The SelfScapes 2021 exhibition launches at Dalby Forest:

https://selfscapes.wixsite.com/selfscapes/johnharrison

SEPTEMBER 2020: The publication for SelfScapes (2018-2019) is now available for viewing. Link: https://issuu.com/sperrynjones/docs/selfscapes

JUNE 2018: The exhibition for SelfScapes is launched at Dalby Forest.

MAY 2018: John delivers a talk as part of the National Festival of Making, May 2018. Alongside lecturers Richard Peregrine and Martyn Pearson, the speakers provided an overview of the archive, in consideration of the social, political and historical contexts of this landmark portfolio. Wally and Howard Talbot worked as newspaper photographers throughout Lancashire capturing key events such as visits from The Queen and Winston Churchill, and documenting Lancashire’s social, industrial and architectural history.

FEBRUARY 2018: In February 2018 accepted on the York St John research cluster SelfScapes. SelfScapes has received Catalyst funding from York St John University for a series of events in 2018, with an emphasis on exchanging and developing understanding and foregrounding approaches and research outputs that enhance artistic research. The aim of the research cluster is to investigate both the body and place as sites for interconnected experiences and how this might be mediated through a range of media.

JANUARY 2018: John delivered a paper at the Talbot Conference 2018, which John organised alongsdie lecturer Richard Peregrine and student Peter Graham (University Centre at Blackburn College). The 2-day conference was chaired by Professor Paul Hill MBE and provided a unique opportunity to explore the photographic collections of Howard and Wally Talbot (photographers in Blackburn from the 1930s to the 1990s). The paper focused on recent depictions of the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, in the televisual and news media in recent years, and a discussion of the types of imagery used for such publications and broadcasts.

More information at: http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/events/the-talbot-conference?overrideMobileRedirect=1

JULY 2017: A paper on Slow Photography was presented at the Northumbria-Sunderland CDT Art and Design Conference 2017 (July), with a panel that included Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths), Laura Sillers (Site Gallery) and Laurel Jay-Carpenter (Northumbria University):

APRIL 2017: A portfolio of photography and stories was presented at the PRISM Contemporary Gallery in Blackburn, April-May 2017:

https://www.facebook.com/PRISM-contemporary-320312358371648/