Introducing photographer Christina Theisen

Christina is a portrait and social documentary photographer, currently based in Amsterdam. After seven years in London, she moved to Amsterdam for a short adventure looking for new experiences, clients, photographers and projects. Besides working on new personal photography projects, she is assisting other photographers and working for clients including Strawberry Earth, Noord-Zuidlijn, Time Out Amsterdam and London and BBC Worldwide's Lonely Planet Magazine.

Available for collaborations, commissions and other projects based in Amsterdam, London (and in between), Christina can be contacted on: ct@christinatheisen.com

http://www.christinatheisen.com/

Cockpit Arts - open studios

Project10 – June (graduate) edition

Steve Price (Plan-B Studio) has set himself a rather intriguing challenge; 10 projects in 10 months with 10 NFP/NGO organisations or projects that are 'fun'.

When he first began in January he thought Project10 would be ten projects for ten charities. But Project10 has become much more than trying to create ten projects in ten months. As ever it is about quality, not quantity. It’s also about something fundamentally more important; collaboration.

Rather than send out press releases to promote his endeavor, he had the bright idea of using the Newspaper Club to create a limited-edition mail-out to 100 industry leaders and press people. The content is contributed to by writers, designers, artists, illustrators and other generous people, who often team up and work collaboratively on the content itself.

Steve’s dedicating June’s issue to the newest graduates. Not all 16,000+ of them; Steve’s picking ten for a carefully created issue that celebrates the best of the design industries newbies.

Applicants will not just be selected on their work, though. Oh no. In order to get yourself and your work in to the paper you must (off your own back) source, organise and interview your design industry hero/heroine for the paper SPECIFICALLY about the notion of collaboration in today’s industry (N.B. Steve might be able to help you get the interviews).

Applicants need to contact Steve with their plan and then supply up to 500 words of interview, images to support the interview and/or examples of your own work. Deadline is Tuesday 8th June 2010.

For more information contact: project10@plan-bstudio.com

The shape of things to come

After five years working on his own, designer and photographer Andy Golpys has opened his own design studio in Manchester.

Consisting of (in his own words) four humans, Shape is a new adventure for this true red whose own clients include: BBC, Love Manchester, MTV and Salford University.

Shape offers design for print, motion and online services – all with a touch of Northern humour and style.

Now who said it was grim up North? Obviously not a Manchester United fan.

Dean Chalkley - The New Faces

We attended the private view for Dean Chalkley - The New Faces (by mistake) it was really inspiring to see this intriguing photography work along with the actual models at the event - in their respectable outfits. A quick game of spot the model was fun and the casual atmosphere made the event different from other private views. See more of Dean Chalkley's work at http://www.deanchalkley.com/.

New Soupa Member/Sheradon Dublin

We are pleased to anounce the addition of a new member to the Soupa Creative Network: Sheradon Dublin. Check out his stunning photography on his Soupa page and his portfolio site.

Rankin Live 2-4-1 with Dazed and Confused

Take advantage of this 2 for 1 for offer for the Rankin Live exhibition at Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, East London from Dazed Digital.

The museum-sized exhibition opened on 31st July with a bang - the private view saw 1000 people through the door, drinking champagne cocktails through the night, with Jefferson Hack on the decks. This first week has been an exciting one. Favourite features so far have been the UV 'Breeding' room, the old-skool photobooth, and the celebrity 'Shoot Me Rankin' videos.

The total is now upto 944 people who have been photographed for Rankinlive - Rankin has upped his goal total in the face of so many great applicants to 2000 people.

Drumming up interest

“Girls! Girls! Girls!” is fashion photographer Clare Shilland’s first solo exhibition. The images showcased reveal new themes and narratives to Clare’s work that contrast and compliment her existing portfolio.

Clare has been documenting girl drummers as a way of coming to terms with her life long urge to be a drummer herself; an ambition thwarted by her inability to play the drums. These images form part of an ongoing series of work that captures girls who can keep time, engaged in an activity that they love.

Alongside Girl Drummers is a series of nudes featuring friends of the photographer. These pictures are all about the beauty and bravado of girls, in all their natural glory.

The subject matter of these stories evidence two contrasting sides of Clare’s personality - the Tomboy and the Feminine Girl. Further contrasts can be found between the construction of the images and the qualities that they convey. Documentary opposes set up, visceral balances beautiful, and movement contradicts stillness, yet all the images share an intimacy and honesty that underpins Clare’s work.

Clare grew up in suburban south London, dreaming of the scummy inner city. Her dreams took her as far as Brixton where she still resides. After studying at Camberwell and the RCA, Clare began documenting the subjects that fascinated her - the people and places of those daydreams.

Clare has shot for i-D, Italian Rolling Stone, H&M, 10, Hardy Amies, Warner Music, Silas & Maria, Lula.

The exhibition is taking place at House of Propellers, 5 Back Hill, London, EC1R 5EN and runs from Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-4pm or by appointment.

To find out more, visit the site here

Welcome new member Tadas Kazakevicius

Check out Tadas Kazakevicius page for some amazing photography - more to come from this one!

Don't Panic + Vitamin Water unique design competition

Win £500 and Sunday Besitval tickets!

Would you like to see your work in print? how about printed at 10m by 13.5m on the front of cordy house, in the heart of Shoreditch, London? and not without some prizes either – £500 cash and 2 vip Bestival passes! not to mention, you’ll have your work printed on the don’t panic poster another 80,000 times.

Okay, so what do you need to do to win the brief? Glacéau vitaminwater is looking for your creative interpretation on the theme of ‘summer of Glacéau vitaminwater’. using their gorgeously stylish packs, create a vision of summer in colour (specifically, the six rainbow colours of the vitaminwater varieties - see entry guidelines)

Your creation can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, or any type of medium you can think of, as long as it can be printed up to a suitably large format.

Click here to find out more and to enter the competition.

Brighton Calling

Brighton Artists Open Houses

The seaside city of Brighton is currently hosting an Open House event, which finishes up this coming weekend (23-24 May). I visited the sunny town last weekend and was very impressed by the warm welcome and amazing standard of work. Some of my favourites were: Our House,  The Butterfly House and Ben Allen Open House. There are lots more to investigate which is why I am heading down again next weekend to seek out some more exciting finds. I think the most interesting part about this event apart from finding out new artists and illustrators is that you can see the works in context of the artist in their own house! Go check them out. http://www.aoh.org.uk/

Our House

Don't Panic Online

Root Ginger

So, redheads could be extinct within one hundred years. With no survival advantage to gingerism, it has been suggested that the gene may die out. Is that really the kind of evolutionary progress we want to see? Photographer Jenny Wicks has documented the increasingly elusive breed in a series called Root Ginger. Click here to read more.

Don't Panic Online

Jasper Goodall

Jasper Goodall is probably one of the best illustration artists in the UK right now. He's done work with mags including The Face, ID and Dazed & Confused, as well as commercial stuff for BMW, Nike, Gucci and a heap more, so you've almost certainly seen his art before. Click here to read more.

Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer Taylor's most recent sculptures depict chaotic messes of interlinking pipes, chains, and disposable objects coated in white paint and wax. Cancer cells, labyrinths and internal organs, are just some images that spring to mind when looking at these troubled objects. But who is Jennifer Taylor, how were these fantastic sculptures born and why? Click here to read more.

In A Dream

In a Dream is a family film. The director is Jeremiah Zagar. The main character is his father Isaiah Zagar, an eccentric artist who over the past four decades has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. The murals chronicle his love for his wife, Julia, and hint at the darker corners of an outlandish imagination. The film took Jeremiah about seven years to complete. Click here to read more.