#89: Offline Journal Newsletter: 12 Feb '25
Photography News bits for February
Hello again
Photography things are still a bit slow in ramping up around Wales but I’m busy bringing the next issue of Offline Journal together for publication in mid-April (several very interesting articles included).
Here are a few snippets of news and events you may find of interest for your diary in the meantime.
Brian
CLWB FFOTO presents exhibit #1
Well, that didn’t take long.
Following the item in the last Newsletter on the launch of Clwb Ffoto in Newport, cogs got turning and the first exhibition has now been arranged for the new gallery space, run by Marc Lewis and Justin Rossiter, in Newport Arcade on the city centre’s High Street.
Photographer and film maker Roger Tiley will show a selection of his work in an exhibition titled ‘Black Coal in the Valleys’, with the show opening scheduled for 6pm Saturday 1 March and running until 12 April 2025.
If you missed it first time around, here’s my interview/conversation with Marc and Justin at Clwb Ffoto where they outline their plans for the new gallery and darkroom…
BLACK COAL IN THE VALLEYS
Roger Tiley
1 March - 12 April 2025 (opens 6pm Saturday 1 March)
Clwb Ffoto, Newport Arcade, Newport NP20 1GD
@clwb_ffoto on Instagram
(website coming soon)
RAVE ON - Mark McNulty show
Following his various public portrait collaborations with Oriel Colwyn in 2024, north Wales-based Mark McNulty has a selection of his photographs on show at Open Eye Gallery in a new show titled Rave On, documenting rave culture in his hometown of Liverpool in the late 1980s and early 90s.
A selection of Mark’s music and arts photography featured in Offline Journal issue #012 (available for just £10)
RAVE ON
Featuring photography by Mark McNulty
7 February - 19 March 2025 (atrium space and external walls)
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool L3 1BP
openeye.org.uk
BOOK CHAMPIONS @ The Workers *TONIGHT* 6.45pm
As a follow-up event to the exhibition of prints and guest talk event with Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr in late 2024, The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir will be discussing the popular photozine of the ‘June Street, Salford 1973’ publshed by Café Royal Books.
Copies will be available at the event.
BOOK CHAMPIONS *TONIGHT*
Discusson on Photobooks and Graphic Novels
Featuring ‘June Street’ by Daniel Meadows & Martin Parr / Café Royal Books
6.45 - 8.45pm, Wednesday 12 February 2025
The Workers Gallery, Ynyshir CF39 0EN
www.workersgallery.co.uk
Self-publishing in photography
I’ll be sharing some news on self-published photography (and the next Signatures photobook discussion event) in issue #014 of Offline Journal coming to you mid-April.
If you are interested in photobooks, zines and self-publishing - you might be interested in issue #011 of Offline Journal - the ‘PUBLISH’ issue with 40 pages of articles and work on the topic. The few remaining copies are now available at just £10 per copy!
Released this Friday 14th Feb ❤️
To be released this Friday 14th February 2025, CRITICAL THINKING, the latest album by Manic Street Preachers features one of David Hurn’s photographs made in Arizona as the cover artwork.
Listen to David Hurn recount the story of the image below…
I have just two copies remaining of the limited edition A2-folded-to-A4 exhibition poster from 2021 featuring the Arizona highway image, signed by David Hurn, available for just £4.00 + £2.00 P&P.
These FOLIO posters were the forerunner to the current CATALOG series published by Offline Journal.
If you would like to order a poster, email me at offline.journal@gmail.com and I’ll forward a payment link.
CRITICAL THINKING is available to pre-order now from the Manics’ website (released Friday 14 February) with the choice of several formats, some of which include an ‘art card’ featuring Hurn’s image signed by the band members.
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