Major photography and digital art festival launches next month
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A major festival of photography and digital art celebrating the west coast will begin in Cumbria next month.
The West Coast Photo Festival aims to reveal and celebrate the unique identity of the coastline, often overshadowed by the fame of the neighbouring Lake District.
Organiser Signal Film and Media said it will explore the character of the area’s people, using photography and digital art to articulate local, national and international identities.
The festival was due to open in March 2020 but was cancelled due to coronavirus.
It will now be relaunched as an online summer showcase and outdoor photography installations in Whitehaven and Barrow-in-Furness from June 3 with an event on Zoom.
In advance of the Tate Modern galleries reopening (planned for May 17) in London,
Beuysâ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum.Â
The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate Modern. Entitled
Beuysâ Acorns, the project was started in 2007 by British artists Ackroyd & Harvey. Its latest display marks 100 years since the birth of Joseph Beuys (1921-86), the hugely influential artist and environmental activist.
Beuysâ Acorns is a living sculpture where visitors can reconnect with art after lockdown, rethink their relationship to nature, and reflect on art, activism and the climate emergency.Â
Satyajit Ray
“Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon,” observed Akira Kurosawa with regards to the Indian master who would have turned one hundred this May. Influenced by the poetic humanism of Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealist movement, Ray self-financed his landmark debut
Pather Panchali the first installment of his internationally celebrated
Apu Trilogy, a cycle of richly humane masterworks that traces its title character’s journey from boyhood to maturity. Over the course of a long, remarkably varied career that encompassed forays into a wide array of genres including period pieces, comedies, detective mysteries, and documentaries Ray applied his compassionate, lyrical vision to explorations of female liberation (
I thought I knew Prospect Park. Living in Brooklyn, I had visited many times. It was always nice there but I never thought much about it, nor was it so interesting to me photographically. Then, one early summer evening in 2011, a friend invited me to join her on a boat ride on the lake for her birthday. I had no idea there was a lake, and I remember being disoriented and getting lost trying to find it. Finally on that boat, floating slowly.