A Day of Sharing Knowledge and Experience at APHE Mid Year Gathering, the theme(s) for the day are:

"The Photobook as a teaching tool – concept, design, making and marketing”

For our APHE mid-year Gathering, we have put together these talks and opportunities for discussion to get us thinking and sharing photography. Organised jointly with Sheffiled Hallam University.

The Schedule is as follows:

12:00 - Annual General Meeting over light lunch (Members only)

13:00 - Afternoon talks commence (free and open to all)

Mimi Mollica - special guest speaker

Mimi will be speaking about his long-term project Terra Nostra. He will guide us through a selection of the work including a short multimedia piece, and provide us with first-hand insights from the idea conception through to the production of the final book.

He will also talk specifically on the crowdfunding campaign and the balance between doing everything yourself, whilst simultaneoulsy having the backing of my publisher and enjoying the support of many people, friends and colleagues.

He sees the talk as an open discussion with the audience. So as well as answering the questions after the talk, he encourages people to interrupt and engage actively during the actual presentation.

Biography

Documentary photographer Mimi Mollica has covered assignments across the world for major outlets, magazines and organisations.

Mimi researches and develops long-term personal projects, most of which have gained international recognition with awards, reviews and exhibitions. His work is featured in numerous prestigious books and magazines and is part of various permanent private and public collections such as The Museum of London and The Photographic Museum of Humanity.

Some of the most recent highlights include, The Lens Culture Portrait Award 2014, The Syngenta Award 2013, The Renaissance Photography Prize 2012 and the Observer Hodge Award 2005.

In 2015 Mimi founded the Offspring Photo Meet, a yearly event dedicated to celebrate photography and it industry with a series of talks, projections, presentations and high-end portfolio reviews.

Matt Johnston - Guest Speaker - Matt works to promote and enable discussion around the physical photobook, launching the 'Photobook Club' in 2010. The project, which encourages groups and communities to form around the photobook currently has more than 50 active branches from Auckland to Bangalore. Matt is a photographer, educator and researcher based in the UK. His pioneering work at Coventry University co-developing several 'world leading' open photography classes has received numerous plaudits from photography and education based peers around the world. Alongside this,

Andrew Robinson – Introduction - The Photobook and Self Publishing in Photo Education: Whilst the photobook has long played an important role in both the practice and teaching of photography recent developments have placed the bookwork center stage in contemporary practice, this talk explores the multi-layered and multi-skilled learning that photobook production promotes and considers the opportunities this presents to both teacher and learner.

James Corazzo - The Photobook Multiple: This talk will explore the idea that making a photobook is not the making of one book, but many books. It is the artist’s photobook, the publisher’s photobook, the designer’s photobook, perhaps even the editor’s photobook and the printer’s photobook. Creating a photobook is not the making of one photobook, but the making of many photobooks – the photobook multiple

Theo Simpson – Print Based Strategies and Methodologies: Theo’s talk will consider the diverse methodologies and strategies used to realise his project work in printed form along with the potential of the resulting outputs in both establishing and developing a professional arts practice.

5pm - Close

Come and join us - share, network, contribute!

Directions to the SHU Institute of Education, Charles Street Building, 133 Charles Street, Sheffield, S1 2ND.

Arriving by Train
Leaving the station by the main entrance, bear slightly to the left and walk up the slope/steps to the pedestrian crossing keeping the stainless steel water wall to your right. Cross the main road (A61) and a smaller road (Paternoster Road) with the Showroom Cinema to your left and the Howard Pub to your right continuing straight ahead up the pedestrianised Howard Street.

At the Globe Public House turn left onto Arundel Street. Continue along Arundel Street for 50m and turn right onto Charles Street opposite ‘Wellies’ Café. Continue up Charles Street passing ‘The Red Lion’ Public House on your right and onto the pedestrianised area. The entrance to the SHU Institute of Education, Charles Street building is on your left.

Charles Street Building - https://goo.gl/maps/UmomPfB1vdG2

Arriving by Car
The M1 motorway (junction 33) gives direct access to the city from north and south. Access from the west is via the A57 and from the east via the M18/M1.

The University is best accessed from Eyre Street and Arundel Gate. There are lots of car parks local to the university however you can obtain a discounted rate of £3.50 a day at the APCOA car park on Eyre Street, Sheffield, S1 4QW only 5 mins walk from the campus.

Follow the inner ring road around the city to the Branhall Lane roundabout (Bramhall Lane / St Mary’s Gate / A61) close to the Staples and Decathalon superstores to the west of the city centre. Leave the roundabout heading for the City Centre towards the Decathalon store along Eyre Street (signposted Sheffield Hallam University). After passing Decathalon and the Fire Station on the right turn into the APCOA Car Park on the left (a stainless steel cladded car park immediately after the Moor Market on the left. Note – first floor parking is for market customers only.

On foot you will exit the building onto a back street (Earl Way) - turn right walk along this street taking the first right (by the PLUG nightclub) to rejoin Eyre Street. Turn left and cross the roundabout.

The Charles Street Building is approximately 100m along on the right opposite the Roebuck pub

To claim your parking discount just zap your blue chip at the readers available at the reception desks at the entrance to any university building.

Car Park - https://goo.gl/maps/ChFq4LHsJwJ2

Charles Street Building - https://goo.gl/maps/UmomPfB1vdG2