I have continued to work on my Bethnal Green project Private View… with further visits to the V&A Museum of Childhood and York Hall. Both of these venues have interesting histories. The Museum was originally constructed to provide a home for exhibits from the Great Exhibition in 1851. The “Brompton Boilers’ as it was affectionately known opened […]
January 26, 2017
It’s been a while since I posted to this blog…. But I have not been idle. I have been travelling a lot… I made some interesting images of a deserted dairy farm in Alexandra Bridge Western Australia – Coffey’s Dairy Farm. My trip to Hong Kong saw me making more urban night time images with […]
November 12, 2016
The opening for the Social Change in Tower Hamlets…100 Years since Charles Booth went very well. I was very pleased with how the final installation looked. On the night we had a guest speaker Tom Harper who is an art historian and map curator at the British Library. He gave a brief chat situating Booth’s poverty maps in […]
October 25, 2016
The date for the private view/artist talk for my forthcoming exhibition SOCIAL CHANGE IN TOWER HAMLETS…100 YEARS SINCE CHARLES BOOTH. It is planned for 10th November from 6.00 until 9.30 pm with the artist’s talk at 7.00. All are welcome so please pass on details. For my photographer colleagues its worth noting the the exhibition is part […]
October 21, 2016
Been very busy lately preparing for two exhibitions at once. Thankfully the installation of ‘[( 6 )] go to Oxford’ exhibition is being handled by RobTM and Tanya Ahmed. The exhibition opens today a few thousand miles away….very exciting all the same!! Closer to home, preparations for my exhibition ‘Social Change in Tower Hamlets…100 Years since Charles […]
October 6, 2016
I have just hear that the screening of the UPF Open finalists’ images will take place on Thursday, 3 November at Tate Modern during the UrbanPhotoFest official launch. The images will be screened in the foyer to the Starr Auditorium prior to the Artists’ Talk with Sirkka-Liisa Kinttinen, and again after the talk during the UPF […]
September 29, 2016
I have now completed the processing of image/text panels for the [( 6 )] go to Oxford Exhibition at the Riverside Gallery in Oxford Nova Scotia. By next week all the printing will be done and the prints will commence their journey across the Atlantic…all very exciting. PR has now started and Dewald (one of the [( […]
September 19, 2016
Back from Oxford now having completed the work on the idea I came up with a while ago see here. The mode of production has moved on somewhat since my first idea but the fundamental idea has remained constant. I have some more processing to do but the first image/text panels are off the production […]
September 5, 2016
After a fair amount of discussion with both Oxford House and New Policy Institute we have agreed to go ahead with the proposed exhibition. It will run at Oxford House from 10th November to 7th December 2016. We hope to organise a speaker event rather than a private view and are currently talking to prospective […]
August 1, 2016
I made a short visit (2 hours) to Oxford yesterday to visit George Street. My idea was to do a site recce to test out my idea for a project as per my previous post. I got there at 7.30 am and the streets were already busy! Tourists everywhere in Oxford. The light was also […]
July 13, 2016
For the last two days I have been at Oxford House in Bethnal Green working with a group based there. The idea was to shoot some video footage of members of the group talking about their views on the social issues raised by Charles Booth’s survey – but in the modern context. The final version […]
May 11, 2016
I visited John Ryan the CEO of Oxford House in Bethnal Green on Monday with a view to discussing the idea of a ‘vox pop’ video for the prospective exhibition in November. Following our discussion I produced the following brief for the work which has a working title of ‘The Photo Booth…’. There are several […]
November 5, 2015
I had the opportunity to present ‘Lifting the Curtain’ to a Study Group of OCA students on the final Saturday of the exhibition. Great experience. Here is group leader Rob’s report on WeareOCA: The East London Photography Festival, Photomonth is still going on. Lots more to see.
October 21, 2015
My portrait of Gill Golding from the series Landscape Portraits has been selected for the Photofusion Salon15. It is really great that I am able to show some work from this series. It would be even better if showing this single portrait at Photofusion leads to more opportunities to show the work. I would still like to […]
May 4, 2015
John Umney, Penny Watson, myself and Artspace curator Tom Cox completed the installation of the Memory Exhibition at the Oxford Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital on Saturday. The hospital is new and the gallery space is large and well set up with integrated hanging system….this made life a lot easier. John Umney took on the role of […]
May 1, 2015
30 out of the limited edition of 40 signed and numbered copies of my ‘Lifting the Curtain’ book are now sold. £25 with all the money going to East London charity Toynbee Hall. They are going fast so if you want a copy email me on keith.greenough@btinternet.com You can preview the book here https://photo-graph.org/umbra-summus/ The work […]
April 27, 2015
Next week the Memory Exhibition will open at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital Oxford. Seven of my image/text diptychs are on show along with work from six other OCA level three students. The exhibition is fully supported by the Open College of the Arts and my thanks to Gareth Dent and his team for their help and […]
April 15, 2015
I had some really good news this week. Town House Gallery in Fournier Street, Spitalfields has agreed to stage an exhibition of my Lifting the Curtain work. The event will run from 15th-24th October and will be part of the 2015 East London International Photography Festival.The venue is fantastic. It is a standalone gallery space set in […]
March 23, 2015
With the Memories exhibition in Oxford fast approaching I thought I would re-post details of my work to be shown. Memories is a OCA level 3 student exhibition being curated by John Umney and Penny Watson. I am showing seven image/text panels from Lifting the Curtain along with an artist’s statement. The statement, which I have revised since my last post is as […]
February 9, 2015
I heard from John Umney and Penny Watson that they have decided to include some work from Lifting the Curtain in their forthcoming exhibition to take place in Oxford in May/June of this year. This is great news and my thanks to them both for their generosity. As I am away a lot over the coming […]
December 19, 2014
Now in its fifth year, I was delighted to announce the winners of the Hotshoe Photofusion Award 2014 at the gallery last week (11 December) with a short comment on the work, which I have reproduced below. The winners are: Lucia Pizzani for her Impronta series 2013 of ink-jet prints derived from the wet-plate collodion…
November 7, 2014
Last night was the opening of the PhotoMonth Open. I spent a couple of hours their, looking at the work and looking and talking with people looking at my work. The image/text panels were all printed by the organisers. This was the same for everyone and created a level playing field for all exhibitors. It helped […]
October 31, 2014
I am really pleased that one of my photographs has been selected to be shown in the print show at Photofusion Salon/14. The exhibition will run from 12 December 2014 – 30 January 2015, with the Private View taking place on Thursday 11 December, 18.30 – 21.00. I was lucky enough last year to have my […]
October 28, 2014
Four of my image/text panels have been selected for the print show at the PHOTOMONTH EAST LONDON International Photography Festival 2014. Here’s the announcement of the event: These are the four images: The organisers are handling the printing….a bit nervous about that as not sure how the prints will turn out. I am expecting relatively […]
September 1, 2014
Three of my image/text pairings from ‘Lifting the Curtain’ have just been published in Hashtag Photography Magazine – an online photographic magazine. I found the publication when I noticed that RobTM a fellow OCA student had some photographs from his ‘A Forest’ series published in the last edition of the magazine. Rob was a fellow […]
August 27, 2014
This post is a catch up to document some publicity I received for the [(6)] exhibition. First of all, I had an article about my Ironman Family series published on the blog of the main UK bases triathlon magazine. It can be viewed here: http://www.220triathlon.com/news/photographer-takes-an-unusual-look-at-ironman-athletes/8993.html Second, the OCA released a video of the exhibition featuring […]
July 20, 2014
I have continued to work on my East London project now called ‘Lifting the Curtain’. I am pretty well advanced and have reached a stage where I have decided to open a dialogue with Toynbee Hall in East London about the possibility of staging an exhibition in conjunction with them (preferably on their premises). The […]
July 19, 2014
I have managed to gain some publicity for the [(6)] exhibition. So far this has included: Big Issue of the North photo and mention of the exhibition: The Photofusion Blog: Printspace Blog: I am also hoping for an article to be published on the blog of 220 Triathlon magazine….watch this space.
July 6, 2014
We spent a full day yesterday in Sheffield installing the [(6)] exhibition. I’ve learned a lot from this experience about setting up an exhibition (methods of fixing photographs and their relative cost and ease of installation), laying out an exhibition space (no substitute for visiting the location, aligning the midpoints of the pictures – 157 cm […]
July 4, 2014
Don’t forget to come along to the [(6)] exhibition in Sheffield, if you can. The exhibition is now running from 9th July until 1st August 2014. My I am an Ironman and Ironman Family photographs will be on show along with excellent work from five other photographers.
May 13, 2014
I had some time to kill yesterday on my way to the Photographers Gallery so I popped into Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road. It has a great selection of photographic books, including some very small run publications. I came across a number of books by a publishing house called the velvet cell. I bought a couple […]
April 2, 2014
Things have progressed on the exhibition at Bank Street Arts and it looks like it is going to go ahead from the 9th – 19th July 2014 (and possibly longer until the end of July). We have a name for the exhibition [(6)] and a website – click on photo below to visit. We […]
February 11, 2014
I have joined a group of level 3 students at the OCA who are planning to stage an exhibition in June this year at the Bank Street Arts Gallery in Sheffield. At this stage the venue is not confirmed but as I am going to be tied up for a few weeks I thought I […]
November 6, 2013
I entered a few photographs from my portrait work for the Photofusion members Salon 2013. I am a member there as I use the darkrooms and scanner. One of my entries has been selected and will be on show there from mid-December for a month along with work by around 90 other photographers. Interestingly the […]
April 20, 2017
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