12.00 – 17.00

Folio Fridays are our regular in-person portfolio review and networking sessions for photographers and artists working with photography.

These sessions are free for participating photographers and include two presentations by photography professionals, as well as time for a complimentary lunch and networking with participating photographers. As part of this session, each photographer will receive two, 15-minute one-to-one reviews by the two photography professionals and an opportunity to share work with other participating artists/photographers, as well as gallery visitors.

This sessions reviewers are our regular host Steve Macleod and artist photographer Eva Sajovic.

The session is 'closed' from noon to 14.00 for presentations, lunch and discussion. From 14.00 to 17.00, we open the door to gallery visitors. In this way, Folio Friday creates opportunities for the public to view and discuss work with presenting photographers and is included with exhibition entrance.

If you're a photographer or artist wanting feedback on your work or a recent project – either completed or in progress – Folio Fridays are there to support you. Please book one space per photographer and only book if you're ready to share your work. There will be more sessions in 2022.

Biographies:

Professor Steve Macleod is a polymath creative who dedicates unbounded enthusiasm for the arts and education. Director at Metro Imaging, one of Europe’s leading production houses; inventor of several photographic processes and master printer; Visiting Professor at University of Suffolk; current EA at RGU, Aberdeen; Trustee and Deputy Chair of QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust); commissioned artist with Hospital Rooms Mental Health Arts charity; educational mentor and represented artist with Black Box Projects in London.

Eva Sajovic is a socially engaged photographer. In her work she explores the drivers of global displacement such as regeneration, poverty, trafficking, culture and climate change. Her practice covers two strands: participatory social action projects; and photographic social portraiture – where she collaborates closely withthe subject to construct the photograph. Her work has been commissioned byTate, Whitechapel Gallery and National Archives, amongst others. She is a Lecturer at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London.

Folio Fridays are supported by The Fenton Arts Trust