21st January 2009 to 25th March 2009 Hello to all 2009 Big Snap entrants, As you may have seen in the Northern Echo at the end of last month, this year’s main prize-winners of the Big Snap competition were: 1st Prize Pete Roberts 2nd Prize Shane Dew 3rd Prize Diana Breeze The prizes were presented [...]
29th November 2008 to 24th January 2009 Our criminal justice system spends millions on institutions designed to both protect the public from juvenile crime. They claim to either reform or prepare these young people for the outside world one way or another. Phil Dixon has spent many years working in a Young Person’s Secure Facility. [...]
7th September 2008 – 22nd November 2008 Newsha Tavakolian’s vibrant images document the changing role of women in Iran. On display for the first time in the UK as part of the Tees Valley Museums’ Photography Festival, this Wideyed touring exhibition shows facets of Iranian life that rarely appear in our media. Newsha Tavakolian, 27, [...]
26th July 2008 – 24th September 2008 Since 1994 Sabine Bungert has been running a long-term photo project. She takes portraits ofCorinna (34) and her daughter Anna (13) in a strictly documentary style in front of a plain white background. This is to detach them from their social surroundings and focus entirely on mother and [...]
31st May 2008 – 19th July 2008 The project began in 1971, when Smith was sixteen years old and continued into the mid 1970s, developing into an extensive body of work documenting the communities that had grown up around the huge iron and steel works of the region. Among the pubs, clubs and streets Smith [...]
29th March 2008 to 24th May 2008 ‘In this intimate series of photographs I have tried to delve deeper into the life of boxer Francis ‘Fearless’ Jones from Darlington; a 25 year old light-middle weight as he battled for maximum fitness, and sustained a life outside the ring.’ The ceiling is low and the air [...]
Media Group chairman Phil Dixon said ‘the diversity and standard of this year’s entries has been vast, which is indicative of the visual culture within Darlington, representing all ages and abilities’ The Big Snap competition forms part of the ‘Best of Darlington Awards’ and the winning entries will be announced at the Awards ceremony on [...]
24th November 2007 to 19th January 2008 PHOTOGENUS is the first exhibition of work by members of the newly formed Photo Secessionist Group in Darlington. Following in the path of the early 20th century Photo-Secessionists, this group was founded to promote Fine Art Photography by way of exhibition and salon in the 21st Century. The [...]
29th September 2007 to 17th November 2007 European Publishers’ Award winner Dean Chapman opena an exhibition of new work from his seminal photography project “Burma” at Darlington’s Decisive Moment Gallery on 29th September. His in depth photographic investigation of the Karenni people of Burma, which began in 1990, was chosen as the recipient of [...]
26th May 2007 to July 28th 2007 As part of the 25th Anniversary celebrations of Darlington Community Carnival DMG have delved into their archives to produce 2 exhibitions. The first on show in the Decisive Moment Gallery in the Media Workshop is a look at the ‘Early years of Carnival from 1982 – 1994′. Using [...]