Genesis Imaging: October 2015 News - Genesis Imaging

Featuring:

The Firecracker Grant,

Chloe Dewe Mathews ‘ Shot at Dawn’ at The Irish Museum of Modern Art

Jan McCullough on her Award-Winning Series ‘Home Instruction Manual’

‘Innovation at the Highest Quality’ in The British Journal of Photography

The Firecracker Grant 2015

Image © Lua Riberia, from the series 'Noises in the Blood' . Winner of the Firecracker Photographic Grant 2015. — Image © Lua Riberia, from the series ‘Noises in the Blood’ . Winner of the Firecracker Photographic Grant 2015.

The winner of the 2015 Firecracker Grant – that we are proud to support as a sponsor – has been announced as Lua Ribeira, who was awarded the grant for her striking series Noises in the Blood’; a documentation of dancehall culture.

The series explores the celebration of a ritual, embracing consciously the exotic stereotype towards a different culture looking at the immediate differences between photographer and the subject, opening a dialogue about the English Jamaican women and their manners within a shared context. Read more…

Chloe Dewe Mathews ‘Shot at Dawn’ at The Irish Museum of Modern Art

Image: Soldat Ahmed ben Mohammed el Yadjizy / Soldat Ali ben Ahmed ben Frej ben Khelil / Soldat Hassen ben Ali ben Guerra el Amolani/ Soldat Mohammed Ould Mohammed ben Ahmed 17:00 / 15.12.1914 / Verbranden-Molen, West-Vlaanderen. C-print, 120 x 150 cm © Chloe Dewe Mathews 2013

Shot at Dawn is a series by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews that focuses on the sites at which soldiers from the British, French and Belgian armies were executed for cowardice and desertion during the First World War.

We worked on C-type prints and Bespoke Frames for the series, which premiered at Tate Modern in London and Stills: Scotland’s Centre for Photography in Edinburgh in November 2014 and will be shown at The IMMA until 7 February. Following this, the exhibition will travel to Ivorypress in Madrid in 2016. Read more…

Jan McCullough on her Award-Winning Series ‘Home Instruction Manual’

Garden 5 © Jan McCullough, from the series 'Home Instruction Manual'. Winner of the Genesis Imaging Format Festival Bursary Award 2015. — Garden 5 © Jan McCullough, from the series ‘Home Instruction Manual’. Winner of the Genesis Imaging Format Festival Bursary Award 2015.

We recently caught up with photographer and recipient of the Genesis Imaging award at Format festival, Jan McCullough, to find out about her award-winning series Home Instruction Manual’; a series constructed from Internet forum user’s advice on how to make a house a home’ which questions our very identity. Read more..

Innovation at The Highest Quality – The British Journal of Photography

Genesis Imaging, 'Innovation at the Highest Quality'', 2008, The British Journal of Photography (November 2015). — Genesis Imaging, ‘Innovation at the Highest Quality”, 2008, The British Journal of Photography (November 2015).

This month in The British Journal of Photography”‹, we’re looking back to 2008…

Alongside some of the perhaps more obscure innovations of 2008 (sunscreen for plants?), Glass Face Mounting was introduced to our already extensive printing and finishing services. Alongside this completely unique service, Perspex Face Mounting was added, providing a more lightweight mounting option with the same flawless high-gloss finish.

Learn more and see some of our other innovations.

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