Photomobile

Oldham’s Grange School visual Arts&language college

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:20:33 +0000

A week long booking at Oldhams Grange School, large groups of the school where engaged in projects both in the class room and on the Photomobile giving pupils a broad and enjoyable photographic experience linked to current project work and we were also visited by primary schools who had come to Grange for a taster day.

Derby Quad Format 09

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:41:26 +0000

Photomobile gave a great visual presence to Derby Quad’s Format 09 photography festival and was glad to be a part of this prestegious arts event. Our place in the square outside of Quad engaged passing members of the public engaging them with the festival along with visits by art groups from Quad and the wider community.

Connexions, Northwich Salt Museum&Heritage Lottery Fund

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:14:08 +0000

A community project spanning two weekends at the Northwich Salt Museum, run by connexions&supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund engaging the youth of Northwich with older members of the community in this documentary project.

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Leeds Museum and Libraries

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:42:37 +0000

The second half of this booking took place at Seacroft library in Leeds where we continued to work with schools and community groups including young offenders. Helen Langford of Leeds City Museum quotes ‘The Photomobile was a huge success for us and acted as a spring board to get the people of Leeds interested in their own civic identity and in turn the photography exhibition that we hosted. The unique facilities of the Photomobile allowed us to reach far beyond the walls of the museum and engage a wide range of people in the art of photography.’

Leeds Museum with Little London Arts

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:32:14 +0000

This was part one of a fantastic two week booking in association with Leeds Museum and Little London Arts community group. The whole project was initiated to compliment the museums exhibition of documentary photographer Marc Riboud who photographed Leeds and it’s people in the 60’s. The project engaged the community of Little London and the wider Leeds community and through it managed to find some of the people photographed by Marc Riboud almost 50 years earlier.

Burnley Sketch

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:57:01 +0000

Photomobile joins Burnley’s ‘arts in the park’ Sketch Festival. Drop in workshops with the public, digital camera’s explained and photograms in the darkroom.

Council lead initiative in Ellesmere port

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:48:11 +0000

On this council lead initiative, Photomobile engaged both school; public and community groups throughout the day. Our camera obscura went down a treat as the unit took pride of place in Ellesmere Port’s memorial gardens (below is a digital shot of our camera obscura, turned upside down, or is it the right way…)

Back to Rotherham

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:37:00 +0000

Another school has taken advantage of what photomobile has to offer in the way of learning outside the class room and helping both pupils and teachers in achieving their goals.

Composition at Wingfield

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:33:23 +0000

Another school booking at Wingfield, it’s getting to be a busy summer and word of photomobile is spreading fast.

Photoshop in Rotherham

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:27:39 +0000

More schools in Rotherham with a visit to St Bernards. Composition and photoshop, working with towards a school design project.