Calum
Hi everyone, Calum Heywood here for the last time this week. For the last post of my takeover I wanted to share something a little different with portraits of myself that other people had taken from a social distance. This almost brings the project full circle and shows the behind the camera. This acts as…
Kenny Brown: The Lockdown life of a Photographer
As Greater Manchester heads towards Tier 3 of the Governments new set of lockdown restriction, I find myself asking how much worse 2020 can get. I’ve also started looking forward to 2021, albeit with the same level of trepidation as a first time skydiving student, who finds themselves in that ‘arse-twitching’ moment between pulling the…
Hebden Bridge Photowalk
These images are a collection from a photo walk around Hebden Bridge with Naomi Lee Voss. We planned the walk as a way to connect with other creatives. I set myself the goal of approaching people and asking to take their portraits from a social distance as a lot of the people I had shot…
The Photo Walk Project: Naomi Lee Voss on Photo Walks as a method of creative inspiration
Images above taken by Naomi Lee Voss, Burnley July 2019 There was a time when I once thought failure was creativity’s kryptonite, but over the years I’ve come to understand that doubt is the secret supervillain that framed failure. Doubt often blames failure (or the thought of potential failure) for lack of progress, when in…
Lisa Oldroyd: Mother, Wife, PhD Candidate and Practitioner.
The lockdown and the random waffling’s of a multitasking mother; I think that like most life-changing events, you always remember where you were. For me I was sat watching a live bulletin on BBC on the days leading up to lockdown making sure I was up to speed on what to expect! Well, so I…
Nicola Lewis-Dixon: Limited Focus, a Documentary of Family Life in Lockdown
What it seems the family album does is to tell the story from the adults’ point of view, particularly from a patriarchal point of view… it’s telling the story in that way, all the highlights and ideal parts, that creates a whole set of gaps and absences, that you can’t fill the rest in.’ Jo Spence…
Nathan
I had been planning to shoot Nathan’s portrait since the start of the project but I was unable to till a couple of weeks ago because he was still studying in Middlesbrough. Similar to the style I shot with Daniel I wanted to be more creative and test out new ways to take portraits. The…
Home Is Where the Heart Is – Daniel Oyegade
‘Home is where the heart is’ explores the efficacy of the pursuit of the ownership of land, specifically homes. The project asks why we seem so preoccupied with private land at the cost of community. Whereas, earlier humans lived communally and shared recourses, it seems as though people are retreating more and more into their…
Educational Lockdown; Photography Teaching during a Pandemic with Emma Spencer
The year was going exceptionally well, students preparing for their end of year shows; the feeling of accomplishment after two years of hard work coming to an end. Students began to create their final pieces and talk about their parents seeing what they have achieved over the past couple of years and their excitement for…
Daniel
I shot Daniels portrait on a photo walk we took together around Manchester after the end of the first lockdown.I was being more experimental at this point in the project and trying to work more with scenery and experimental techniques. Rather than the more natural style I was using in the beginning.Both images are shot…
Teacher and Student: Nathan Cox on Education during Lockdown
We asked Nathan Cox to go through what it has been like for him juggling being a teacher and an Masters student; On the eve of what looks like another full lockdown I’ve been asked to write about my experiences of the first lockdown, although I know my situation wasn’t completely unique it wasn’t the…
Limiting the Frame, the Landscape through the Window
Like many other creatives the national lockdown which began in March affected me greatly; As a photographer that studies the landscape, works on projects hundreds of miles from home and commutes over an hour to study at University, this brought my whole world to a sudden and abrupt end. At the time of the lockdown…
Orrin
I shot Orrin a bit further into the project when I was more comfortable moving around under the lockdown restrictions as I could cycle to shoot people from a social distance and class it as daily exercise. Orrin is also to thank for developing most of the film for the project in his home darkroom…
Equidistant Exile Schedule
We have a week full of discussion and new creative work in-store from a variety of creative practitioners from Two Forty Four and beyond… Here is what you can expect! (More articles are being added to our line up all the time so be sure to keep an eye on the blog and our instagram…
Socially Distanced Portraiture, an Introduction
To begin, this project started as a study of landscape development and local gentrification through exploration of how the UK was moving forward with power and energy, with the rise of green energy and subsequent decrease and removal of traditional power stations. The aim was to explore the effects this was having on a local…
Introducing: Equidistant Exile
A week of original visual content and discussion exploring creativity in lockdown to better prepare for a potential second wave this winter. 19th – 24th October 2020 — TwoFortyFour.org Two Forty Four is proud to present; Equidistant Exile, a week of visual content and creative discussion to better prepare for a second wave this winter.…
Independent Publishing from the Highlands of Scotland
Iain Sarjeant and his press are busy producing high quality yet affordable photobooks around the theme of space and landscape. From the high peaks of the Scottish Highlands Iain Sarjeant, a photographer specialising in work that explores both natural and human environments, has built a small but fascinating independent publisher and press. Another Place Press…
BJP International Photography Award 2019
Jack Latham and his series A Parliament of Owls is this year’s winner of the prestigious British Journal of Photography International Photography Award. “The idea of a context vacuum is a fascinating one,” says Jack Latham of his BJP IPA winning series Parliament of Owls. “I think it’s only natural that we would want to…
Where have we been?
Welcome to the new Two Forty Four! We’ve spent a bit of time away but we’re finally ready to show ourselves! This is your new Two Forty Four Network: NETWORKSUPPORTPORTFOLIOADVICECAREERSBLOGEVENTS This new incarnation of Two Forty Four looks something like this: Two Forty Four is here to provide you with everything you need to forward…
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