Foto8 and Blurb Present Carousel - Slide Slam

THE MONTHLY OPEN-MIC SLIDE SLAM AT HOST
Following on the heels of our successful launch night in March, Foto8 and Blurb are pleased to invite photographers, broadcasters, designers and producers to take part in this special evening of moving visual narratives .

Perform your own six-minute short or photographic project or just sit back and enjoy the mix as Foto8's Jon Levy lines up our guest projectionists as they combine slide shows, film, music and live performance along with audience participation.

Sign up as a Projectionist

Click here to register online using our Carousel Registration Form.

Presentations must run no more than six minutes and should incorporate live element(s), interpreted loosely.  Your subject matter can be newly completed work, projects in progress, or previous productions that may now enjoy new relevance and potential within this forum. This is an opportunity to make an impact with your work and generate a response to a story that matters to you.

The team at Foto8, comprising editors Lauren Heinz, Max Houghton, Harry Hardie alongside founder Jon Levy and the Foto8 designers will consult with projectionists from each night to assist in making an edit that can form the basis for a Blurb book of their story. In addition Foto8 will collect the commentary and visual output from each event with a view to publishing these in a Blurb edition of its own at the conclusion of the Carousel series.

Jon Levy declares...
"Photography is communication, and the strength of images lies in the messages they can convey to their audience. Our Carousel evenings combine film, photography, typography, the spoken word, music and sound to create a truly multi-discipline, creative environment for experiencing new works by photographers, designers and the new generation of media producers. Using any means necessary to tell the story, Carousel will throw out the rulebook, open up the box, and provide a platform for documentary makers from all walks of life to share their most creative works and reach their audience."

Registration is now open for projectionists:

Click here to register online using our Carousel Registration Form.

To reserve your seat in the audience email us at: rsvp[@]foto8.com

For media information about Carousel by Foto8 and Blurb contact:

Jon Levy at Foto8 – jon.levy[at]foto8.com / 020 7253 8801
Alex Hardie at Blurb – ahardi[at]blurb.com / 020 3159 4321

Download the Launch Press realse pdf here

Carousel Evening: SLIDE SLAM!

Next Session: Monday 12 July

From 7-9 pm

HOST Gallery

1 Honduras St.

EC1Y 0TH

Admission is FREE but you must rsvp to attend.

Presentations shown at previous Slide Slam events:

Slide Slam 1 – 15 March

Tuvalu, Anna Stevens and Robin Hammond
Maybe Not, Wayne Liu
War is Personal, Eugene Richards
Obama Election, Carmel King
People’s Park, Kurt Tong (with live music performed by Alex Garcia)
Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment, Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill
Space Hoppers, Paul Treacy
Afghan Soldiers, Afghan Hound
Sleeping Soldiers, Tim Hetherington
Once Upon a Time in the West, Aaron Schuman
Star City, Maria Guzdiva

Slide Slam 2 – 12 April

Raw Materials, Liz Lock, Mishka Henner and Anna Stevens
Iranian Memoir, Paolo Pellegrin
Haiti, Ron Haviv
Muse, Joceyln Bain Hogg
House of Happiness, Rena Effendi
Spirit, John G Moore
Street Photography, Steve MacLaren
Flat of the Blade, Ewen Spencer
The Dear Leader, Chris Morris

Slide Slam 3 – 10 May

Copenhagen (COP15), Kristian Buus
Ghosts in the Hollow, Jim Lo Scalzo
Tidal, Tracey Tomtene
Re-entry in Los Angeles, Joseph Rodriguez
Bahati’s Story – Condition Critical, Duckrabbit
Interrupted Landscapes, Armando Ribeiro
Freetown, Kim Johansen
Monuments of Peru, Paolo Hare
Pinhole Photography, Justin Quinnell
Spacelands, Paul Freeman

Slide Slam 4 – 14 June

Brother, Alicja Dobnicka

Haiti, Louis Quail

Amy, Jocelyn Bain-Hogg

Rolling Stones, Michael Donald (with John Bellknap)

North Korea, Irena Kalahinikova

Dandies, Ed Thompson,

Bangkok Burning, Kosuke Okahara