Dustin Newhouse Collaboration

Last weekend seven MAP6 photographers spent the weekend in Milton Keynes, working intensely on a new collaborative project. The work will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city and will be exhibited next month at the MK gallery. As part of our project we invited American photographer Dustin Newhouse along. Dustin is visiting from The East Coast of the United States and his work is largely theory-based, exploring the intersection of philosophy and photography. He is particularly interested in human rights and genocide studies, and uses cultural history to inform his photographic work. You can see more of his work on his website here. Dustin is the first collaborator we have invited along on a project, we enjoyed working with him immensely and plan to work with more photographers for future projects.

Richard Chivers Interview

Map6 Collective are delighted to announce that Brighton based photographer Richard Chivers has joined us. We look forward to joining our energies and skills, and sharing ideas together. Richard will be joining us on our new collaborative project in Milton Keynes for 2017.

So we welcome Richard Chivers on board Map6 I know were all looking forward to working with you!

Can we start with you telling us a bit about yourself and how you got started in photography?

One of my earliest memories as a child is venturing into the loft of our house to check out my dads black and white darkroom that he had up there. My dad is a keen photographer and i think that planted the seed at an early age. I always wanted to be a TV Cameraman when i was at school, being able to film football matches etc. It wasn’t until i went travelling in my late 20s that i decided photography was something that i really enjoyed and might be good at. So in 2003 i decided join the Editorial Photography course in Brighton and Graduated in 2006. 

Tell us about your most significant projects/moments in photography and your influences?

My first significant project evolved from a piece of work that i did at University and was called 'Textures of Time’. It was significant as i managed to get Arts Council funding to make and exhibit the project in a few different places and made a small publication in the form of a ‘Mapozine’. I was also one of the founders of a photography collective called Human Endeavour, and we were involved with several different exhibitions showcasing different work, the most significant piece of work that we produced was a collaborative project called Degeneration that was exhibited at the Brighton Photo Fringe, Format International photo festival and various other places. 

I really enjoy all sorts of photography, but i guess photographers that i often return to are landscape photographers such as John Davies and Jem Southam, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, artists like Robert Smithson and authors like JG Ballard. I earn a living from photographing Architecture and i think that has had some influence on my personal work, I enjoy quite graphical work such as Architectural photographer Helen Binet and i have recently been getting into the work of swedish photographer Gerry Johansson. The list could go on and on!

What first drew you to Map6?

I ve followed the work of MAP6 through your different exhibitions and seen some of them at the Brighton Photo Fringe, and really enjoyed the work, the ideas and projects that were produced were interesting and look like a lot of fun. I enjoy working in a collective as it adds something different to the way you work and is good to be able to bounce ideas around. MAP6 also have some diverse practitioners so it should be interesting to see how the work can be pulled together as one project. 

Whats coming up next for you?

My next main focus will be the project with MAP6 in Milton Keynes, but i have also been slowly making a few different other projects that i would like to really get towards finishing this year, one of them is called OFF-GRID, documenting different Gasometers in Britain before they disappear and the other is called ‘Views from the Grid’ that looks at Electricity Pylons.

MAP6 visit Milton Keynes

In 2017 Milton Keynes will be 50 years old. In March, MAP6 will set out to explore England's fastest growing, and most famous 'New Town'.

Richard Chivers joins MAP6

MAP6 welcomes Richard Chivers to the collective. More news coming soon.

Babochka at the Royal Academy 2016 Summer Exhibition

Laurie Griffiths and Jonty Tacon are delighted to be showing an image from their project Babochka at the Royal Academy of Arts 2016 Summer Exhibition. The exhibition is the largest open submission art show in the world. This year it has been curated by Richard Wilson RA and as always introduces an incredibly diverse, engaging and thought provoking selection of work.

The exhibition is open until the end of August.

Paul Walsh at Cork Photo 2016

Paul Walsh has been invited to exhibit at this years Cork Photo Festival. The festival launches on the 1st of July, where he will be showing his series Isolated Coastline. More Information will be coming soon on the Cork Photo website.

Peckham 24, part of the London Photo Festival

Forthcoming MAP6 exhibition at the Peckham 24, part of the London Photo Festival - May 19th PV - exhibition on until 22nd May - showing a range of MAP6 work - hope you can join us ...

The Collective Grows

November 23, 2015 in News

New Members

MAP6 are proud to welcome Barry Falk, Jonty Tacon and Toby Coulson as the newest members of the MAP6 photography collective. MAP6 was formed in late 2011 and after lots of discussion about our exciting and ambitious journey ahead, we felt it was time to add to our membership and are thrilled to have found three extremely talented photographers to join the collective. 

Focusing on the peripheral views of the city, Barry portrays such spaces with a stillness and beauty. ‘Barry Falk’s photographs effectively convey the edginess and grubbiness and visual intrigue of ordinary spaces. He demonstrates how seeming emptiness can be evocative, and can have character and feeling.’ – Louise Marlborough: Brighton Fringe Open Text 2011
BARRY FALK


Jonty’s passion for cycling has lead him high into the mountains of Europe tracing the routes of the most iconic of professional cycling events. Equally fascinating has been his long term project documenting the local race scene in and around Brighton, UK – where the passion or the organisers, officials, volunteers and cyclists show a true nature of sport, hardship, joy and pain.
JONTY TACON


“I’m drawn to the unexpected, to seeing new places and meeting new people, this is what interests me about personal projects.” Toby, twice shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait prize, creates stunning portraits that seem to be able to communicate with the viewer in subtle and direct ways, suspended in a state of grace. 
TOBY COULSON

Toby, Barry, Jonty – welcome to MAP6!

MAP6 Mitch in Ålvik, Norway

 

Following on from her long term project in East Tilbury celebrating the Bata community, Mitch has been invited to the company town of Ålvik, Norway to document the last days of part of the site, closing after close to 100 years in production.

Mitch Karunaratne’s work features in ‘Of People & Places

 

The work of 10 international landscape photographers is on show at Oxford House, London  (Private View Feb 5th 6-9pm) including Mitch Karunaratne’s work, taken within the confines of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonaut Training Centre.

 

 

Mitch Karunaratne - Exhibition opens in Norway

Mitch is currently showing a selection of an ongoing project - Lanslag - at the Babel Gallery in Trondheim. This work was made in 2013, around the northern shores of Iceland. 

 

 

Map 6 Publication available at Photo Publishers’ Market

Were very excited to be part of the Photo Publishers’ Market with our “Moscow Project” publication. Come down and have a browse….

Sat/Sun October 18th and 19th

The Phoenix Brighton   

10–14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB

During the weekend of October 18 - 19 Brighton will see a new exciting event- Photo Publishers’ Market - organised by Brighton Photo Fringe,Photoworks, Brighton Photo Biennial and Miniclick. The event will take place at Phoenix Brighton.
 
The Photo Publishers’ Market will be a prominent feature of both Brighton Photo Biennial’s and Brighton Fringe’s public events programme and the exhibitors will include a stimulating mix of established imprints, emerging houses and self-publishers too. Miniclick will hold a series of related talks during the weekend.

MAP6 COLLECTIVE - BPF 14 EXHIBITION At Vantage Point: Collectives Hub

 

Everyone in Map6 are very excited to have been selected for the Collective exhibition for BPF14!

BPF14 are excited to announce that for this year’s festival we will be showcasing fourteen UK photography collectives selected from open submission. The BPF14 Collectives’ Hub will be on the 7th floor of Vantage Point, near Preston Circus, a large open plan office space just ten minutes walk from Brighton Station. Twelve collectives will be showing here, with two more, Wideyed Collective and Format Video and Photography Network, showing at Phoenix Brighton.

http://www.photofringe.org/bpf14

MITCH KARUNARATNE - Star City Feature on Daily Mail Online

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2729652/A-rare-glimpse-Russias-secret-space-centre-Retro-Star-City-cosmonauts-trained-50-years-far-cry-Nasa.html