It's all go

I'm off to my sisters wedding in Cornwall and not taking the pictures, duckrabbit workshop happening in a week and The Hinterlands featured in Hungry Eye Magazine today. All we need now is a bit of sun again.

Free place for The Hinterlands photofilm workshop with duckrabbit

Not long now until this year's Hinterlands photofilm workshop with duckrabbit and we are pleased to announce a scholarship place for the 5 day residential training week in Devon. The lucky recipient will attend the workshop, stay on site at the yurts and be fed and watered for free.

We want to help out someone who'd like to come, but can't quite scrape together the beans in this tough economic climate so head to www.thehinterlands.co.uk and click on the workshop button to read more. The closing date is Wednesday 16th May 2012 at 09.00 hrs.


You may end up feeling a bit like Tessa Bunney :-)

Filth and the art of grime

I recently photographed the very nice graffiti artist Moose with his artwork outside The Island in Bristol, (formerly Bridewell Police Station). Moose creates his art by cleaning dirt and grime off surfaces. He made some very beautiful birds and I helped sew my friend Elise's knitted creations on to the pillars in front of the building as she was too pregnant to go up a ladder! I got to ride my bike to the job and it was a nice day out - sometimes it all works out.

The new Hinterlands website is now up and running.

After a lot of hard work, countless conversations and some very late nights, the new Hinterlands website is now up and running. Take a look if you're interested in finding out more about duckrabbit's photofilm workshop, or a photographic immersion workshop with Brenda Ann Kenneally. All the dates and prices are on the site, but feel free to get in touch with any questions via email at rebecca@thehinterlands if you think theres something we've missed.

The Hinterlands - Brenda Ann Kenneally workshop

The Hinterlands Brenda Ann Kenneally workshop will run from Sunday 24th - Friday 29th June and will cost £850.00 including all food and accommodation. It will be an intimate workshop with only 10 places available and will be held at the beautiful site of Blackdown Yurts in Devon. We are working hard to finish the new website and all the details will be available very soon. In the meantime if you want to get in touch or reserve a place email rebecca@thehinterlands.co.uk or follow us on twitter @the_hinterlands.

Brenda Ann Kenneally at The Hinterlands in June

Coming soon in June 2012 - Brenda Ann Kenneally's first UK workshop!

I'm very excited to announce The Hinterlands will be hosting acclaimed American photographer and visual journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally for a new inspiring workshop this summer. The details haven't been finalised yet but expect to be bowled over by Brenda's enthusiasm, tenacity and immersive style of working - and if Brenda has anything to do with it lots of strong cups of coffee.

For more details follow @the_hinterlands

Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother, activist, and visual journalist who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues that intersect where the personal is political. Brenda's own involvement in the criminal justice system when she was a child has given her an insight and commitment to projects that reveal the human cost of misguided public policies in The United States.

The result of a decade of reporting, Kenneally’s book and web publication MONEY, POWER, RESPECT; Pictures of My Neighborhood have received numerous awards: The W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship, The Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, and The International Prize for Photojournalism in Gijon Spain. Kenneally was among the earliest to embrace multi -platform media. Her independent collective pioneered in making and distributing serialized reporting via the web. In 2006 the multimedia component of Money, Power, Respect, won the Best of Photojournalism Award for overall Best Use of the Web by the National Press Photographers Association. Kenneally is working to push the boundaries of the social document, using the web as a tool to expand and contextualize her Gonzo-immersion style of reporting.

In this spirit Kenneally and independent producer Laura Lo Forti founded The Raw File, a digital theatre dedicated to providing a space for provocative open-ended media.

In 2004, Kenneally began reporting on the lives of an extended family of teenagers who would come of age in the iconic post- industrial City of Troy, New York. The ongoing project Upstate Girls; Unraveling Collar City aims deep into the emotional and psychological cycle of poverty from a women’s eye view. The project has been supported to date, by a Nikon Sabbatical Grant, The Alicia Patterson Foundation, and The Cannon Female Photojournalism Grant. Getty Grant for Editorial Photography and an Open Society Distribution Grant, A New York State Council for The Arts Individual Artist Grant and a print acquisition form The United States Library of Congress. The project was awarded The Pictures of The Year International Community Awareness Award and First Place for Daily Life Stories at World Press International. The project is ongoing and has been exhibited through out the United States, Europe and Latin America.

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