Matthew Murray wins Professional Book, Monograph at the International Photography Awards, 2018, in New York

Saddleworth: Responding To A Landscape has won the Professional Book, Monograph Category at the International Photography Awards in New York. The publication contains Essays by Martin Barnes Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A Museum, London, Richard Billingham & Maartje van den Heuvel (Special Collections Leiden) & designed by Pirate Amsterdam. The International Photography Awards attracts a huge number of entrants and across a number of categories, Professional and Amateur. There were over 12,000 entries from 115 countries from around the world and was judged by a number of Curators, Publishers, Art Critics including Bob Ahern, Director Of Archive Photography, Getty Images, Amy Salzman, Senior Art Producer, Saatchi & Saatchi NYC, Collier Brown, Photography Critic, Harvard University, David Clarke, Former Head Of Photography, Tate, Michael Pritchard Director, The Royal Photographic Society, Tiffany Sprague, Director Of Publications And Editorial Services, Yale University Art Gallery

Matthew Murray wins Professional Book, Monograph at the International Photography Awards, 2018, in New York

Saddleworth: Responding To A Landscape has won the Professional Book, Monograph Category at the International Photography Awards in New York. The publication contains Essays by Martin Barnes Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A Museum, London, Richard Billingham & Maartje van den Heuvel (Special Collections Leiden) & designed by Pirate Amsterdam. The International Photography Awards attracts a huge number of entrants and across a number of categories, Professional and Amateur. There were over 12,000 entries from 115 countries from around the world and was judged by a number of Curators, Publishers, Art Critics including Bob Ahern, Director Of Archive Photography, Getty Images, Amy Salzman, Senior Art Producer, Saatchi & Saatchi NYC, Collier Brown, Photography Critic, Harvard University, David Clarke, Former Head Of Photography, Tate, Michael Pritchard Director, The Royal Photographic Society, Tiffany Sprague, Director Of Publications And Editorial Services, Yale University Art Gallery

Responding to a landscape: Symposium at MAC in association with the Matthew Murray Exhibition

RESPONDING TO A LANDSCAPE 24th November 2017, 9.30am-5.30pm Matthew Murray Will be speaking at the Responding to A Landscape Symposium at mac - Birmingham. The symposium has been planned in conjunction with the exhibition Matthew Murray’s Saddleworth; Responding to a Landscape, premiered at mac Responding to a Landscape will explore, debate and review the evolving relationship between artists and photographers and the landscape. We will hear from a number of perspectives, from acclaimed practitioners for which landscape is a recurring subject, a social and environmental concern, a research and archive practice and an essential departure. What does landscape and our natural world look like and mean to photographers and artists today? The symposium has been planned in conjunction with the exhibition Matthew Murray’s Saddleworth; Responding to a Landscape, premiered at mac, Birmingham. Murray is interested in depicting the landscape based on what he feels rather than what he sees. His landscape work is a personal story and odyssey. His Saddleworth is the result of a five year creative and sensitive journey that captures the beauty of the moorland landscape. The symposium invites acclaimed and outstanding photographers, artists, writers and photography historians to talk about their work and relationship with the landscape. Those speaking alongside Murray include; Richard Billingham, Chrystel Lebas, Jem Southam, Camilla Brown. The practitioners will talk about how they have approached landscape and their unique relationship with it. Landscape photography has a long and significant history and today approaches have perhaps never been so broad with practitioner’s motivations and aesthetic concerns been varied. Some document, others work with more abstract concerns; Some work collaboratively, others in isolation; Some are working on environmental concerns and others more personal stories. During the Symposium we will hear from the perspective of the photographer, curator and academic. They are motivated by landscape for many different reasons. We will hear from and celebrate those that create self-initiated projects and commissioned bodies of work and see a range of photographic practices that are at the cutting edge of photography now. The project is supported by GRAIN Projects, Arts Council England, Gallery Vassie, mac Birmingham, Pirate Design and the University of Gloucestershire. http://grainphotographyhub.co.uk/portfolio-type/responding-to-a-landscape-2