4 Gold Stars!!

I have just finished reading a review from Make Me Neon on the life.still exhibition. Jonathan Camp obviously enjoyed the stories that we told and gave us four stars!

Thanks Jonathan - we certainly enjoyed it too! Head on over to www.makemeneon.com to read the full review..

It's all over now for the physical exhibition and all of the photographs have been packed up and lovingly stored away. If you did miss it there will be a chance to see lots of the work displayed and certainly the open slideshow submissions on this website soon. If you want to know when the archive will be available just drop us an email at life.stillbristol@googlemail.com

Slideshows on duckrabbit blog

This week some of the slideshows from the life.still open slideshow night are featured on the duckrabbit blog. We're really excited they are getting some well deserved exposure. Click on their blog for more inspiring multimedia, it's well worth a look. Also for all those budding multimedia fans duckrabbit are running a one day seminar in collaboration with Rhubarb Rhubarb on Jun 19th - not to be missed and cheap at the price!

Centrespace...Second Look

There is a large variety of shows happening as part of the Bristol Festival of Photography and as a result it's hard to know what to go and see. Having exhibited in the space before I thought I would check out the offerings of Second Look Shoots It at the Centrespace gallery in the centre of town.

It's a great space and really suits showing photographs, light and airy and none of the damp that seems to frequent a lot of the spaces I have visited. Second Look is a photographic association set up by six local photographers and this exhibition was showing work from more than twenty.

I enjoyed Step into a world by Sarah Macfarlane (above) and found myself really wanting to know the story behind The things we left behind by Jamie Darling (below). This was a recurring theme in this and many of the other exhibits I have seen in the last week. Pictures on the wall...check. Price....Check....

....and that seems to be about it. I know some of these works won;t be a body of work but it is nice to read something about the photographer, the work, the ideas....just something. I can go and browse a stock library of nice photos with prices online......

This is just the beginning..

The life.still exhibition will draw to a close this evening in it's wonderful exhibition space but we hope to keep it alive here online. If you haven't seen the work that is on display get yourself into Bristol today as today is the last day of the exhibition. We will be archiving as much as we can online when we can to keep the wonderful work done by the exhibiting photographers and the other participating photographers who took part in the slideshow event so watch this space..

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In the meantime here are some photographs from the opening night made especially possible by howies, Butcombe, Tom, Bradley and Rachael..

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f.six

Women adore them, you can still get them polished in the street and the last President of the US had one thrown at him. That's right I'm talking shoes. Or a shoe - singular infact. It's the thing that stuck in my mind the most after I visited the F.Six collaborative show in Bristol's 2 Degrees Gallery on the quaint Picton Mews. Mike McCabe's photographs of shoe sawn into a cross section almost too perfectly - were surreal. At first I thought I was looking at a wall of shoes and couldn't really understand why until I lingered and realised. Nice idea - and well executed.

The show finishes today so if you have a shoe fetish go take a look - 2 Picton Mews just off of Stokes Croft.

Slowcoast and New York Shorts

life.still previews the 'Bicycle Portraits' slideshow at the Flashcube event - The Cube Cinema, Bristol

There were some gems at the Flashcube event. Firstly three slideshows and a talk by Nick Hand. Slowcoast is a journey Nick made on his bike from Bristol around the coast of Britain. Nick also documented artisans he met along the way using a combination of images with audio to produce short documentary films.

Bill the stick maker was particularly good, we all went away marvelling at such a great storyteller and decided we all really wanted one of Bill's beautifully crafted sticks - even though we didn't really need one. The images were wonderful and Bill was a great character, I highly recommend watching it and many of the other slideshows on his site.

Secondly New York Shorts by Naren Wilkes - the sounds and images were intense, really emphasising the high octane experience of New York.

Over the next few weeks of the Bristol Festival of Photography the team here at life.still will be doing our very best to blog about all the events we go to see, so stay tuned....