Funding Letter

Below you will find the funding letter that Jenny and me (Jens) have composed.
Please let us know what you think about this, suggestions on improvment are always welcome.
We can also email out the nice and shiny word doc at request.

‘Hackney in Focus’ Project – Funding Request


To Whom It May Concern,

We are 3rd year Digital Photography students at the London South Bank University and at present we are preparing to curate an exhibition from the 5th till 9th December’07. Our aim is to involve the local community of Hackney in taking photographs of their immediate environment. In order to encourage people to look at their surroundings differently we are promoting any possible photography medium. The collaborative work between students and community members will be the body of work displayed.

To date we have received significant support from:

Hackney Empire is an entertainment establishment in the heart of Hackney Central and they are happy to provide us the needed exhibition space at their venue.

London South Bank University has agreed to support our project by providing us with the necessary equipment, as well as some of the funds needed.

PhotoBox is our resource for printing images, courtesy of the company.

Low-tech is a local graphic design agent and enthusiastically offered us to take on the roll of designing and printing us 1000 flyers.

Our outstanding funding needs are mainly to be used for an exhibition catalogue, which will be produced soon after the exhibition. Further funding is required for the photo installation materials as well as the production of our website. To show our utmost gratitude of your financial support we will be including your name, details and logo in the catalogue, flyers and posters.

At this point we are of course very pleased to invite you to the exhibition. We would also like to thank you for your time and hope that we can welcome you on board.

Sincerely

examples of the photo mosaics sent to Jennie

ala

Agreement

I am not sure how to attach the word doc so just put it here.
Big hugs



Agreement

This is the issued agreement between the group “Hackney in Focus” and the “Marie Lloyd” bar on the 25/ 10/ 07

• 3-4th December Setup of the exhibition. Will have access before 12pm if required. If access is needed any other day before 12pm prior notice is needed.
• 5- 9th December Exhibition. Extension of dates allowed depends on success of the show.
• Rail will be provided as part of refurbishment to put up pictures.
• No damage or altercations to the walls.
• Upstairs flexible fixtures and fittings such as upholstery are moveable as long as put back in same condition.
• Upstairs lighting in control of exhibitors.
• Space will be provided for equipment for over night storage, secure in a safe or spirit store.
• Projector maybe added in the refurbishment but is preferred if our own is used.
• Interaction with customer is allowed.
• With all work health and safety should always be considered. i.e. secure cables.

Both parties agree to these demands and rules.

Signed

MEETING OCTOBER 31

Present: Pat, Jens, Sandra, Jennie, Ala, John, Peter, Zara and Patrick.

NEXT MEETING
12:00 in the 264 Cafe' in the London Road Building.

POSTCARD FUND RAISING
Everyone brings the money they have raised so far on the Monday meeting for Jens to collect and sum it up. Everyone makes an effort to get as many as possible sold by then.

FUND RAISING
Jens and Jenny has contacted some companies in Hackney about sponsorship but has not got any replies.
Jens will compose a letter describing our project and what we need the money for, that is to be used (by us all) when finding sponsors.
Jens, Jenny and Patrick contact people at the university to investigate if they can sponsor us in any way (to be started before Wednesday next week).
and IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE
Jens will make a list of local businesses and divide them between us and post on the blog before this Friday. What we all then need to do is to go to the ones given to us and ask for fundings. We can offer to have their logos on our promotional material.
DEADLINE FOR APPROACHING THEM IS BY FRIDAY 9th.

CHAIRPERSON
Jennie was elected chairperson of the meetings. I (Jennie) suggests that everyone downloads and reads this before next meeting if you haven't already.
Keep posting (on blog) issues we need to address and I'll add them to the meeting agenda. There will of course be some time left at the end for additional topics but in an attempt to keep meetings as efficient as possible, please try to be prepared with what you are supposed to present to the group.


MEETING WITH LO-TEC
Zara and Sandra goes to Marie Lloyds for a meeting with Lo-tec on Thursday to see what possibilities they have to support us.
Questions:
If they want to do the flyers how soon can they be finished?
What do they want in return?
Would they be interested in producing the catalogue with us?
Can they help us get in contact with other relevant businesses / organisations?

CONTRACT SIGNING
Sandra brings the revised (by John) contract for the venue manager to sign on Thursday (tomorrow).

INVITES
If you have suggestions on people/organisations we should invite forward details to Zara and Patrick. They are in charge of coordinating this.

INVITE LETTER
Patrick and Zara makes a draft for an invite letter for Monday.

CATALOGUE
Zara and Patrick in charge of this as well. What we agreed on is that the catalogue is going to be post-exhibition. Investigation needed on what we can afford which leads us to the task of figuring out how much money we can raise.

LOGO SUGGESTION
Ala makes a few versions of the mosaic image, Jennie adds font and send them to the blog by Thursday for the group to have a look at please add comments. This is our suggested design for both the invite cards and for the web-page header.

TECHNICAL ARRANGEMENTS IN VENUE
Sandra and John takes photos in the venue and comes up with some examples on how we can arrange it space-wise. There are issues surrounding where to put the projector etc. Brings examples for group meeting on Wednesday.

WEB PAGE
Peter and Jennie tries to get it as finished as possible for Monday. What will take more time to figure out is the Flickr-extracting code we want to use to display the Hackney in focus flickr-group photos on the front web page.

/Jennie

free flyer?

Hi Zara,
We do allsorts of work and graphics/ branding is one of the things we do so im sure we could sort out some flyers for you. The only really free time we have this week is on thursday night so if you can make it that would be cool - are you local? If so perhaps the marie lloyd is as good a place as any to meet.... Oli

Facebook networking

Hi everyone,

As some of you know i've setup a group in facebook for our exhibition. I received the following message today which could be of use to us...

Hi Zara,
My name is Oli Frape and im part of an independant design studio based in Hackney called Lo-tec and also founder of the Hackney Creative facebook group. Hackney In Focus sounds like a great event and we'd love to be involved in some way - especially since your venue is the Marie Lloyd as we live next door! We do a wide variety of creative work, including graphics and branding so if you need any of those services for the event and you'd like a Hackney studio involved then drop us a line.

Best Regards

Oli Frape
Lo-tec

Page content

Is this ok? It is a rough draft for the how to submit page under the header and the main buttons. When clicking the different boxes you will be able to read simple instructions on how to do it and possibly links. Will keep working on the text and its layout. If there is anything you feel needs to be in the text let me know as soon as possible.

/Jennie

Next Meeting

Meeting at 12 on Monday in the small Keyworth room we have had our Friday meetings in?
/Jennie
SORRY, LETS GO FOR ALA'S SUGGESTION INSTEAD:

Meeting on Monday 29/10

Hello everyone!!!

Lets meet on Monday the 29th before the lecture at 12 in London Road cafe 264(2nd floor). It is very important all of us can come!!!

Meeting with venue manager 25/10/07

Hi Guys!

The meeting went well. The offical paper work will be sign on Monday as we need to type and print it (more professional than hand writting). John will post the content details on the blog. In term of the wall, they will invest in u-rail track with cable display similar to what we have at uni and should be put in place when they do the refurbishment.

Sandra

from Zara

Hello everyone,

can't log into the exhibit blog for some reason so i'm
emailing you an idea for the flyer after the idea's
yesterday. Some imagination is needed as its a crude
version...esp the front cover...we're going for a
pixelated idea on it yes?

I don't have everyone's email so if someone could
forward it i'd be grateful...and possibly put in on
the blog if you think its worth putting up (no offence
taken if you don't!)

see you all soon.

Zara

Meetiong on Monday 29/10

Hello everyone!!!

Lets meet on Monday the 29th before the lecture at 12 in London Road cafe 264(2nd floor). It is very important all of us can come!!!(sorry that I wasn't in on Wednesdays meeting but I am sick... )

Jennie R have mentioned in her posting about using a software to create a photo mosaic, right now I am trying to download the one I used for my Identity project, the only difference is that 2 years ago it was free to download now they want 60 dollars or something...It's called ArcSoft Photomontage Ve. A downloaded another software which is doing the same effect called Andrea Mosaic but I need do figures it how does it work.

ala

Flickr groups working around Hackney

Flickr/Hackney

Shall we make friends?

S.Madiot

Signage Kit

During our meeting tomorrow, I d like to introduce this type of diplay to the manager of the bar. With the argument that it's a good compromise for the space. Therefore the Kit might remain there after the exhibition if we invest in it. I am putting the idea up for debate if anybody has other ideas let me know. Total cost (2m) 20£ cable displays .com
Sandra

Wednesday meeting

This is what we decided needs to be done...

* Alana, Sandra, John and Ala (?)
Meet with the manager for the venue about
-technical and venue related opportunities/restraints
-dates, our suggestion of an opening date is Thursday the 6th and keep it running to the 8th. If possible keep the exhibition on for few more days, if it's ok without our presence.
-makes a contract with venue manager

* Everyone needs to drift Hackney A.S.A.P and submit their photos to the Hackney in focus flickr group. We decided that the exhibition "logo" will be a mosaic of all our photos from the drift in the shape of something that is recognizable for Hackney (if you remember Ala's identity project you might get a better idea of it) and a text with the same font as the one in the header example below. This will also be in the header of the web page.

* We all have to contribute to fund-raising ideas. We really need money to different things and it's not a good thing to realize too late we don't have enough...

* Everyone gives Alana 6 postcards (different or the same) the next time they see her. We will make packages of 11 photos and sell them for £5.

As I have written before; if you feel like I have left something out or gotten something wrong, address this in another post.
/Jennie

Name

Ok the name is Hackney In Focus. Don't like it? Too late.

The Flickr group that participants will upload their pictures to is also called Hackney in Focus. Join it here.

Also the web address is purchased and ready. It is, yes, Hackney In Focus.

Drift

Ala mention this one too. What do you think guys?

My favorite favorite picture so far from the drifting in Hackney is from Jenie R. It has my vote for the invite and Web site template.
Sandra

Things we urgently need to get done:

* Name of exhibition
-Needs to be decided on Wednesday!
(feels like lots of our work from now on depends on it)

* Meeting with the venue manager
-Write contract
-Technical possibilities
-Exact dates

:so we can start promoting the exhibition and submitting of photos!
we do rely lots of whats gonna be exhibited on peoples submitting and
I think that can take some time to establish...

The blog group will be made on Wednesday when the name has been decided on.
For now just upload your drift-photos to your own Flickr.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday! Please keep posting your concerns/progressions here so we're all informed...

/Jennie

recording from the 2nd group meeting

recordings

interview:

Web page design?

Here is the web-page design suggestion. Unfortunately the flash piece can't be played here on the blog so I took a photo of the screen so you'll have to imagine...
The header is a flash movie that will play a distorted blurred image with text into more focus.

from this:

to this:


Here is the whole page. The text is just to fill the page... Pete and I are continuing to working on the pages content now. Hopefully we'll have more to show soon.



The buttons will be animated in flash and look something like this.



Everything is kind of temporary at the moment because we don't have a name yet or decided on what image/images we want to use. But please have a look at this and let us know what you think! Can we go with a page looking something like this? Small alterations is no problem. We will show you it in action on Wednesday. We want the photos submitted to the flickr group to play as a slideshow on perhaps the first page and Pete are looking into the possibilities of that.

/Jennie

Hackney Today's reply...

Hello Alana,

Hackney Today is a fortnightly, free newspaper published by Communications on behalf of Hackney Council.

To submit free listing for the What’s On page, please email details of your event/listing, including date, time, venue, contact info (for publication) with a brief description (no more than 50 words to whatson@hackney.gov.uk at least 10 days before the publication date. Attached is the rate card, which provides publication dates and deadline dates to the end of the year.

I hope this is useful.

Regards,

Gracia

Gracia Douglas
Media Assistant
Communications & Consultation
Hackney Council
020 8356 3736
www.hackney.gov.uk

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The newspaper is called Hackney Today and NOT Hackney Gazette - my bad! But personally, I think this newspaper is better than Gazette, as it is free to local residents and delivered to the door every fortnight which people are most likely to read.

I will bring a copy for everyone to see on our next meeting.

Here is a print screened copy of the deadlines and publications which was attached to the email.



I think we should either publish our advertisement in Issue 172 (deadline: Fri 9 Nov, Publication date: Monday 19 Nov) but it may be a little too early... or Issue 173 (deadline: Fri 23 Nov, Publication date: Monday 3 December) which may be a little too late? We'll discuss this further in our meeting.

Alana

INVITATION IDEA

This card was talked about on Wennsday in group and Pat said it was a good example of how we could add a description of what we are about and what we want to do, Aviv found it at the Photographers Gallery on his gallery visit.


IN my opinion it has a very good simple lay-out that we could incorporate and still keep a graphic design for one side of our card, but are we decided if we are going to use two types of cards - one hard type as a post card and another less - as a hand out?if opinions could be posted it would help with how i lay out the wording for invitatio0ns ;0





PATRICK ...

Advertising in Hackney Gazette Newspaper

Just a quick update - I've been in contact with the Advertising Director (Lee Ray) from Hackney Gazette via email, and I was directed to another contact for us to run the ad for free in the, 'What's On' section under 'Arts and Entertainment'. Just awaiting for their reply how to go about placing our ad up.

Alana

Title ideas

I like the idea of picture your Hackney but use an anagram for picture=trice up

Trice up your Hackney or Trice up Hackney

unseen span = unseen snap

would go for:

Hackney Unseen in Ala's lis or an alternative 'picture the Unseen' (but sound familiar)

Sandra

name for venue

hackney unseen
my hackney
my town, my city my hackney
invisible beauty
invisible hackney
hackney in focus
visual image of hackney
hackney village-visual interpretation
discovering hackney
hackney through your lanse
capturing hackney
ala

Exhibition Names!!!!!

Please brainstorm your ideas here!! I know there are lots of other things urgently needed to be done but we can't proceed the promotion until we can decide on a name! Put every idea up here, maybe someone else gets an even greater idea from it:) Perhaps we should keep them as comments under one post so it will be easy to overview?
/Jennie

Drifting Hackney!

IMPORTANT!!!

Everyone needs to go drifting in Hackney before the end of the week coming up.
This is so we'll have material to work with for the promotion of the event.
Use different cameras when doing it, we're not after highest quality. We want to make it as close as possible to the contributions we will be asking for.
Upload it to your flickr accounts and submit the photos to the group, -which name will be announced during the week here on the blog.

/Jennie

Exhibition Name

Here's the dictionary description of Hackney

hackney |ˈhaknē|
noun ( pl. -neys) historical
a horse or pony of a light breed with a high-stepping trot, used in harness. • [usu. as adj. ] a horse-drawn vehicle kept for hire : a hackney coach. ORIGIN Middle English : probably from Hackney in East London, England, where horses were pastured. The term originally denoted an ordinary riding horse (as opposed to a warhorse or draft horse), esp. one available for hire: hence hackney carriage or coach, and the verb hackney meaning [use (a horse) for general purposes,] later [make commonplace by overuse] (see hackneyed ).


hackneyed |ˈhaknēd|
adjective
(of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite : hackneyed old sayings.

Perhaps that can be of any use thinking of a name for the exhibition.
/Jennie

Meeting at the Hackney Empire

12/10/2007 Hackney Empire

At the end of the meeting, that kind of turned into several small discussions, we concluded that:

Pete and Jennie make design/function drafts for the webpage and shows the group on Friday next week. The group decides which one to go for and make comments on other adjustments needed.

Pete and Jennie also sets up a Flickr group which is to function as our image library for the exhibition. People upload their photos on their own flickr:s and submit them to the group. That way we don't have to feel limited by the amount of photos one can upload.

Ala and Alana keeps in touch with the manager of the space for a dialogue about how we display the photos. Since the place will be newly refurbished we can't do any damage to the walls. Think of possible ways of display...

John and Aviv investigates the technical possibilities/limitations that comes with our use of the space. Display on plasma-screen, computer use etc.

Sandra documents (filming, sound recording) and collects documentation from everyone. When doing work apart from the group, please make a video-clip and take some images on your mobile-phone/cameras and send it over to Sandra. Also keep Sandra informed of meetings in the smaller groups so she has the possibility to document that as well.

Patrick takes help from Zara with the invitations and the research that needs to be done for that.

Jens and Jenny keeps checking the possibilities to get funds for the project and treasures the money that we raise.

New price suggested for the postcards is 50p. Can you sell them for £1 each (or even more) thats totally fine of course! Everyone brings their postcards on Monday so we can make packages we can sell for special prices.

Also there are a few things we all need to think of and contribute to:

Please post your suggestions for names of the exhibition!

Do we need to name the group? Think of a name for that as well!


Hope I did not forget anything, in that case you make a new post addressing it.

/Jennie

Patrick - Target Audience and Invitations

My first breakdown of the invitations will be the wording of the invites ,

Second is to look at how many and type of invite we will need , ( as we will be sending invites to certain people such as heads of departments , news papers, local businesses , and other more direct people , the invite will be of a postcard nature , but to the general public i think the invites should be of a lighter paper quality to allow us to be able to print lot more and circulate the invite /publicity further , plus it wont contain the words invitation , rather it will be more of a way of publicizing the event as well as inviting them to attend , so both the public and other invitation are the same in design, the public one will have to be altered slightly .


Third , i will compose an standard email to coincide with our invite to be sent to certain peoples and to be freely available to group members as a extra way of inviting those they may not be able to directly invite in person .

Fourth i am in the process of compiling a list of email addresses of people i think that we should be inviting, and i want to hear from anyone, who thinks that they know someone that should be included

Session week 3

Proposal Collaboration Project

Working Title

Venue: Hackney Empire

Date: 07.12.2007 - 14.12.2007

Theme:

• Drifting
• Digital
• Community
• Local Residents
• Local Interaction
• Progressive over time
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• Intervening Event

An interactive exhibition involving people who live and work in Hackney. Students will co-collaborate with locals to construct a picture of Hackney that will progress throughout the exhibition.

1. Drift in Hackney
2. Processing images for display
3. Encourage locals to add images to the exhibition

Pete/Jennie – Website
Jens/Jenny – Treasurer
Alana – Hackney Gazette
John – Technical budget
Patrick - Target Audience and Invitations

place for the exhibition confirmed

So yes, we have the space!uff
we can use it for two weeks( between 1-14 December), we have all the meeting recorded, so I will try to post it soon.
there are things we should do regarding the place:
- upstairs area is very dark, so we will have to get some spot lights
- we have to decide how many prints do we want, what size and in which frame( I will have to talk to Photobox about frames, they just have black and silver frames, the biggest size is 20in x 30in)
- Shiek(guy how is managing the place) said that probably there will be a big plasma TV, so if we want to have some slide shows running on it it won't be a problem(but that's not confirmed)
More or less that's it, we have to start working!!

Ala

Venue has been confirmed :)

Ala joined me for the meeting today with Shiek (man responsible for the exhibition space at Marie Lloyd Bar) and his colleague. It has been confirmed, the exhibition space will be ours from the beginning of December for 2 weeks (yay!) enough time for us to prepare. I handed in the proposal which I had rearranged from the Heygate proposal and included our Photographic Culture blog address (http://photocultures.wordpress.com/briefs) for them to view. Ala also brought in samples of the work produced previously for the Elephant & Castle project to show them - they really like our ideas and would love for us to use their exhibition space upstairs. Ala will update you guys further on what had been discussed during the meeting. Ciao.

Alana

Just a quick suggestion, what does everyone think about setting up a jumbo sale to raise some quick money for our project?!

LSBU Exhibition07 2de meeting

 video lsbu exhibition07 2de meeting

Friday Meeting

Just a few lines of what was said on Friday 5/10/2007:

*Alana has been in contact with person responsible for exhibition space in Hackney,
the venue is availible when we need to use it. Alana and Ala prepare a proposal (theme: community) for a meeting with them on Monday.

*Peter and Jennie have made a proposal to use the Heygate Estate. Peter posted it on the blogger. The community is the focus in what our work will be about. This proposal can be used for other venues with some alterations.

*Patrick was abscent but Jennie put forward what he had to say about the Heygate Estate. He had been in contact with someone he knows in Southwark Council. It seems there are a lot of issues surrounding the use of a flat but possibilities for use of other spaces. More info from Patrick on Monday.

*Ala and Jenny - Postcards. Everyone give their photos to Ala who will print them over the weekend. Suggested price selling them for is £1.

* John - Mobile exhibition. There are problems with sending flash to mobile phones because different phones have different size formats on their screens. This problem would mean us having to investigate which phones are the most common etc. John keeps on investigating the possibilities. Is there a way of getting around this problem?

* Ala - Promotional prints and posters. There is a deadline for when we need to get the prints done because of a greater demand on prints closer to christmas. We need to get them done in November at least two weeks before we need them.

*Everyone! Come up with ideas of how to raise money.

Add or change if you think I have left something out or gotten it wrong. Just writing this down and posting it to be able to see what we are doing and what needs to be done.

/Jennie

Hackney venue photos

Here are some of the photos of the venue I took today after our meeting - sorry they're not very clear but it'll give you an idea of the exhibition space inside the venue. Their exhibition space is currently available upstairs, but I was told hopefully after the refurbishment (end of October), downstairs will be available for photo exhibitions too :)

Another thing worth mentioning about this venue, they offer Free Wi-Fi wireless internet access for customers too, so if we do decide to go ahead with the 'cyberspace exhibition' as well, this would be a huge advantage.

Outside Marie Lloyd


Inside...




Upstairs...







Alana

Odeo

I ve tried to post the audio from the last meeting but cant get around the Odeo.com program, Ala & Jenny HELP!
Sandra

Possibly another good news... Hackney venue

Regarding the venue, Marie Lloyd in Hackney, I just got off the phone to 'Shiek', the guy in charge of the exhibitions/function rooms. I explained to him briefly over the phone who we are (Photography Students) and what we're intending to do (Community based project). I told him ideally we would like to exhibit our work say... few days before our deadline (Fri 14th Dec)? And luckily he told me the exhibition area is available in that week! :) Was told to come in on Monday 8th and show some of the work we would like to exhibit, but as this is an early stage for us, we can only present him with our ideas/proposal. It's free to exhibit too so that's a bonus ;) The downfall is at the end of this month (October), the venue will be closed for refurbishment, but hopefully that shouldn't affect the project as Shiek told me the venue should be ready by our opening date. I will take some photos tomorrow of the venue hopefully before our meeting to show you guys, if not I will post them up here as soon as I can!

Alana

good news

Today at 10 20 am I spoke to Wynne Pitchard, Production Manager in Photobox, regarding printing for our exhibition.
He agreed that Photobox will do the printing for us in return their logo will go on the promotion flyers.The one thing he wants to know is the quantity of the postcards(and we will have to do them quite early as the end on November and all the December is the most busy period in company),also we should think about size in which we want to print our posters so we can let him now. More technical stuff.
Anyway thats done.

Ala

Nine Clarendon Cross Gallery

Special consideration is given to applications from Art Schools and Colleges in order to encourage the work of young artists.
Website
Sandra

photos for postcards

Just a quick reminder
please bring me up to 4 images(300dpi jpeg, on a cd or memory stick) on this Friday coming(5th October) so I can print them as a postcard.

Ala

I felt our session today was really useful. We had a very interesting and informative talk from Richard Grayson on 'putting shows together.' Richard seemed shocked at how little time we had and said 'he'd be looking for the back door' if he had to do this! Afterwards we discussed our exhibition further. I think we agreed on quite a lot, I will try to sum it up below, if I forgot anything please add it!

• We need not have an exhibition space, we would like one, but if after a few weeks we find we haven't got one we must move on with other ways to present our work (see below)

• We will continue to push for spaces with a flat in the Heygate, a building near the Tate Modern, a gallery in Angel and a pub/gallery in Hackney as our most likely options at the moment.

• Ala is collecting digital images from each of us to print as postcards we can sell to raise funds. We need more ideas in this area.

• We would like to use images taken by the public as part of the exhibition in keeping with the theme of community. We have talked about using mobile multimedia messages, Bluetooth and a Flickr group to allow people to upload their pictures.
  

• These pictures can then be presented in the gallery space and online. We are also keen to allow the public especially those that contributed to receive slideshows of the images, perhaps as video podcasts or even on mobile phones.

• At Richard's suggestion we are going to document the development of the exhibition on video. This will be posted on this blog so keep checking back.

Peter Darch

Draft proposal for using a Heygate flat for our gallery

This is a group project as part of the third year Digital Photography course at London South Bank University. Our brief is to develop and realise a photographic exhibition. The group has previously worked on site-specific community based photography focused on Elephant and Castle. We are keen to continue developing this work into an exhibition, the general theme of which being ‘community.’ We intend to encourage local people to contribute to the photography on display as well as work by ourselves. We would like to connect the concept of the community’s involvement with the exhibition and the physical space it is displayed in. We therefore ask for your endorsement for us to use one of the vacant flats in the Heygate Estate to hold the exhibition in.

While we understand this may be an irregular use for the flats but we feel that the exhibition could have a positive impact on the community and its representation in this period of change.

We would like to use the flat for at least a week in early December. This will give us time to prepare the exhibition and for it to be open to the public for several days.

We thank you for kind consideration in this matter,

Yours faithfully,



Jennie Rosberg, LSBU third year exhibition committee.

Introduction

This blog will provide the means to record the process of curating a photographic exhibition. This is an assignment set as part of our third year of the Digital Photography degree at London South Bank University (LSBU).

We students must work together to produce a photographic exhibition in just eleven weeks. We must...
1) Find a venue
2) Raise funds
3) Organise promotion of the event
4) Decide exactly what to exhibit
5) Almost certainly many other things we have not thought of yet

Currently our efforts are primarily being targeted at finding a location. The question of what work to exhibit and how it is best to exhibit is also high on our list of priorities. Soon we must also allocate task to people.

Our efforts in producing this exhibition will be discussed in this blog over the next few months by those taking part in the assignment.