Manchester Weekender- Manchester Hour

The Manchester Weekender was last weekend, I took part in a photography workshop some of the pictures have been entered into a competition please take a look and like them!

 We went around the Northern Quarter in Manchester to find portraits of people that reflected life in Manchester. There were loads of different approaches taken on the day and you can see all the groups’ pictures here.

We then went into Piccadilly garden with a chosen picture and showed our pictures of to the public.  Randomly the person’s picture I chose passed us by so another picture was taken of us together. 

 I’ve entered the picture into hOURs Manchester competition along with a couple of others including some couples, a broken finger and a late night drunken crashed car!

 

The Manchester Weekender photography workshop was run by artist Len Grant, a wonderful artist who draws attention to the excluded and vulnerable. He’s created books which covers different people life stories he shared a couple with us including a drug addict, alyssum seeker and homeless person.  Please check out his work and buy his book! Or a least follow him @Len_Grant

Won an iPod touch!

 

There was a competition at University of Manchester for the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons building. I’ve been told I was a runner-up and will get a iPod touch! You can see a film of all the entries in a short video here (they even used a quote from me!). 

Anyone could enter within the University, the image was supposed to reflect something of Uni life at Manchester. All my experiences at University have been because of the people I have interacted and learnt from. I wanted to combine something from the people I’ve been working with to produce an image of our shared experiences.

I asked everyone on my course to send me an image of their eye. I figured it’s something we all shared in common, we all have been looking and learning together and I knew I could merge the colours from our iris’ to make something interesting.

So from the images people gave me I chose parts which could go together to form a final image. Everyone gave me something different; some were really good quality, close up images, others were pretty blurred, cast in shadow or just really tiny. I was however, able to use snippets of everyone’s eye and if anything the variety of images just added to the final outcome.

This is a separate picture that shows where each person’s eye is within the image I submitted. We’re going to donate the iPod touch to the course we’re on so students can use the iPodtouch for interviews and taking pictures, it’s a nice little legacy of us while we are on the course. There will be an event later in the year to accept the prize- v. exciting!