Birmingham Trip

The Photography Collective – Orchestra of Disorientation

• Based in Birmingham – street photography and documentation made into film: https://vimeo.com/20236127

• photographer Derek Fairbrother took a series of images from the same spot in Birmingham’s Chamberlain square between 1963 and 1986.

Video:• http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/10/fairbrother-time-lapse-sequence/

• Worked for the Bournville Village Trust between 1939-1943. Commissioned to document the utopian ideal’s of life at Bournville.

• Book: Homes fit for Heroes.

Beat Strueli - New Street

See more in the online gallery here: http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/gallery/673/new_street/

• Aladdin Houses, commission for an exhibition alongside Bill Brandt’s work. .

• http://www.stuartwhipps.com/index.php?/project/the-aladdin-houses/

“I wanted the buildings to look like models, and to photograph them from above on sunny days so there was a sense of a singular light source” – Tom Merilion

Aerial photographs of Birmingham. Merilion achieved this by photographing from a small aircraft flying low over the city centre. He used an architectural lens the wrong way round, with a selective focus and a polarizing filter to emphasize the colours of sky and foliage.

Series of work: metropoli project 2000 – 2003. Includes images on Birmingham and other major UK cities.

http://www.johndavies.uk.com/

Matt Murtagh

• www.jaskirtdhaliwal.co.uk