Genuinely a massive thank you to everyone who sent in their contributions last month, this was a really tough one to choose. Congratulations goes to Andrew Whyte, John Neil and Cheryl Williams. Their photo’s will be used in the February section of the Strong Island 2013 Calendar.
To find out how you can get involved click here.
Jon Neil – Jon’s Flickr
Cheryl Williams – Cheryl’s Flickr and Tumblr
Andrew Whyte – Andrew’s Flickr and Twitter
Hopefully you’ve seen the previous posts about the Strong Island 2013 calendar? If you haven’t then just to recap, at the beginning of every month I’m going to be asking for your submissions for the 2013 calendar.
We are now accepting your contributions for the March 2013 page. There is no theme for this month, the ONLY rule is that there must be a link to Portsmouth and Southsea. It’d be good to see some photo’s you’ve taken over the easter bank holiday?
You can send your images to calendar@strongisland.co.uk. This email has been working however some have said they’ve received messages saying their email has bounced back, just to be sure CC your email to stuart@strong-island.co.uk. I look forward to receiving your contributions!
The February winners will be announced later in the week.
Tuesday 3rd to Friday 6th April, 11.00am – 4.30pm
Students currently on the first year of the BTEC Level 3 Art and Design course at South Downs College, Portsmouth are showing some of their recent work in The Round Tower, Old Portsmouth. For the last six weeks the students have been working very hard to develop and produce work while working with a range of disciplines. The exhibition titled “Art of the Sea” is in an ideal location due to its theme and will show around 50 pieces that include photography, textiles, mixed media paintings and 3D work, some examples of work below.
For further information about the work please contact tjackson@southdowns.ac.uk.
The PRIMARY Strong Island phoneography competition and exhibition is picking up real momentum, including being featured in today’s issue of The News with a two page article. As well as getting the word out to as many people in the city as possible the article also features a selection of some of the great submissions we have already received, be sure to pick up a copy and check if one of yours made it to print.
If you still haven’t submitted your photos yet there is still a little over a month, get involved HERE.
This year we are be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 10 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot. Please note that all submitted photos will be cropped square in order to be displayed. This is mainly due to the number of Phoneography photos that are already in square format.
The call for entires has begun and the deadline is the 4th of May 2012 with the exhibition being held shorty after at Bonzo Studios on Albert Road who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space.
We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but we’ve got to say that this will be one of the best prize hauls we have ever offered.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
You can download the posters HERE and HERE and it would be great if you could help promote not only our exhibition but your exhibition by putting them up locally.
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
The Royal Marines Museum on Eastney Street will host a multimedia exhibition ‘Shoulder2Shoulder, Delivering the Offer’ from Monday 2nd April to Friday 20th April 2012. The exhibition showcases over one hundred photos and artwork from frontline photographers, journalists and renowned war artist Andrew Miller, who worked alongside the Royal Marines in Afghanistan in 2011.
This will be the first time that the photographs and artwork have been exhibited to the public in Hampshire. The Royal Marines Museum is open 7 days a week, from 10am to 5pm and entry to the exhibition is included in the Museum ticket price.
Andrew Whyte from the Portsmouth At Night Flickr group has arranged a photo walk for thursday night at 19:45. It’s a free event and sounds like great fun for photography enthusiasts of all abilities. I’d be there myself but I’m taking part in a netball match at work to raise money for BBC Sports Relief, next time!
Here’s a bit more from Andy himself, We’ll be starting from Albert Road’s newest venue, The Garage Lounge, we’ll head out into the city to discover Portsmouth at Night.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to low-light photography and want some help with getting the most from your camera; or if you’re an experienced night shooter who’s looking for a bit of moral support to get out after dark. An informal wander about town with a few like-mindeds gives folk the opportunity to get started.
Choice of subject is up to you but whatever you choose there’ll be someone on hand to help you get the most from your shot. Don’t forget the theme for this months Calendar contributions is ‘Portsmouth At Night‘.
There is a Facebook event which you can access here.
Photo by Andrew Whyte – Southsea seafront and passing cars
You may have noticed that we have increased the promotion of our PRIMARY phonography exhibition and competition in the last few weeks with the a page in the new Southsea Skatepark zine and with one side of the new Bonzo courses flyer. If you haven’t yet submitted any photos yet there is still plenty of time, grab a flyer for all the info or check HERE for info and to see some of the submissions we have already had. We’re hoping to spread the word across the city even more in the next few weeks so if you could help by popping up a poster in your window, letting your friends know, Tweeting, Facebook, etc we would really appreciate it…we hope that the whole city can be a part of the PRIMARY exhibition.
We are still accepting contributions for the Strong Island 2013 Calendar. The theme for the February 2013 contributions must be ‘Portsmouth at night’.
You can send your images to calendar@strongisland.co.uk. This email has been working however some folks have said they’ve received messages saying their email hasn’t delivered. Just to be sure can you CC your email to me at stuart@strong-island.co.uk.
Please keep an eye on Strong Island for more information about how you can play a part in creating the calendar.
I look forward to receiving your contributions!
University of Portsmouth BSc Digital Media student Jamie Clowes has recently started a new project looking at the relationship between photography and sound. Much of his work has been set in London but last week he decided to shoot around Portsmouth.
Video below
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
Follow Us