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PHoto España - The last day so soon...

Written by Lauren Heinz \| 08 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
Our first stop of our final day, Saturday, was Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, to see Buried Memories: The Photographs of Henryk Ross....
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Photo España Day 3: From Abattoirs to Goya

Written by Lauren Heinz \| 07 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
Day three dawned sunny at last (did we mention the rain?) and we set off to see Robert Smithson...
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Next Foto8 / flickr competition

06 Jun 2008 | Blogs

After the overwhelming response to our recent Holga competion on Flickr... we decided to make it a regular feature. So here's the next topic:

Summer is about to begin and we want to see the sun. It's cold and wet in London so send us your pictures that feature the sun prominently.
Please note: We are not responsible for damage to your equipment and please do not stare at the sun!

How to enter:
Join us on flickr here: www.flickr.com/groups/foto_8/
Add your pictures to the Foto8 group pool (making sure you tag them "sunshine")
This time you only have 2 weeks! Deadline 20 June. The winner will receive a back issue of 8 Magazine.

From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo España day 2.

Written by Max Houghton \| 06 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
First show of the day yesterday found us at another impressive location, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, to see German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen’s mostly sin titulo work...
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2 down 67 to go...: Foto8 at Photo España in Madrid

Written by Lauren Heinz \| 05 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
Apart from the Eugene Smith show, we managed to make it to one other yesterday. Turns out that a lot of the shows have not even opened yet and we were turned away from a few gallery doors.
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Eugene Smith's Spanish Village

Written by Max Houghton \| 04 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
Eugene Smith’s seminal photo essay Spanish Village was the setting for our first Photo Espana experience.
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Holga Competition Winners Announced!

Written by Rosie French | 03 Jun 2008 | Blogs

Heloisa de Melo is the lucky winner of our Holga competition. We had over 300 entries on our Flickr site and it was so hard to choose just one. We loved the colour, composition and atmosphere of this shot so a year's subscription to foto8 is on its way to Heloisa in Brazil.

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Alternative processes as media critique (f295 cont'd)

Written by Leo Hsu \| 01 Jun 2008 \| Blogs
While the focus of the f295 symposium was on the relationship between techniques and execution, there was also a powerful thread of critique in much of the work that was presented. Speakers Robert Hirsch, Jill Enfield, and Jerry Spagnoli all have produced work that speak to the limitations of media conventions, and suggest that there are risks and consequences to accepting conventional media language at face value.
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Praise for the all new 8 Magazine

29 May 2008 | Blogs

"I think the magazine looks fantastic and I was very impressed with the amount of interesting reading content and most of all the sense of respect for such a variety of photography Very difficult combination! Bravo to the whole team. Looking forward to next issue."
Ayperi Karabuda Ecer
Thomson Reuters

"I have the latest issue and it looks terrific. I’ve been buying 8 magazine ever since the first stapled issue quite a few years back. I think the magazine is going from strength to strength; in my opinion it has become THE reference magazine for documentary and photojournalism. And I’m sure that’s not going to change with the new format."
Jose Navarro
Photographer

"a towering achievement"
Donovan Wylie
Photographer

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Toy cameras and tintypes: the f295 symposium

Written by Leo Hsu \| 29 May 2008 \| Blogs
The f295 symposium and workshops taking place in Pittsburgh this week have brought together quite a few very different kinds of photography. There is lensless photography (photograms), pinhole photography, and traditional or historical chemical processes that are now thought of as nontraditional or "alternative" including various wet plate processes and printing techniques; there is also some attention to the reconstructed aesthetics of toy cameras such as the Diana+ and Holga.
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