This week’s LPB Focus photo from D I C K S D A I L Y.

A chance photographs to have your photos exhibited in Habitat stores across the country. If you have a lovely home to share, then this may be of interest: the ‘this is my Habitat’ competition is inviting people across the UK to take their cameras and show them what makes their house a home.

Helena Christensen, who fronts Habitat’s ‘this is my Habitat’ campaign will choose the overall winner with a panel of judges. The competition has been designed to give fans of design and interiors a platform to share with others their own style and show the Great British public what inspires them. The public will vote for their favourite home via the campaign website www.thisismyhabitat.co.uk before Helena and the panel of judges vote.

The overall winner will become the next face of Habitat’s ‘this is my Habitat’ campaign. The prize includes a photo shoot in London, an overnight stay at a 5* star London hotel, plus £1,000 worth of Habitat vouchers. A selection of photographs will be exhibited in Habitat stores across the country next year, as well as online, until the winner is announced in February. There will also be £100 Habitat vouchers available for 34 runners up, one from each Habitat store in the UK.

All entrants need to do is upload a photograph of themselves in a room which best represents their sense of style and eye for interiors - accompanied by a short explanation of what makes that space so special.

Sunday 11th October 2009

A chance to capture the heart of Spitalfields in all its Sunday glory at the last official Shoot event of the year. Held in conjunction with photomonth, the largest UK photography festival, Shoot Experience heads back to its East London roots. The photographic treasure hunt will offer teams the opportunity to shoot the hustle and bustle of this cutting-edge area. Tried and tested through our annual Shoot London event at Tate Modern, the event is suitable for all ages and no experience in photography is necessary to enjoy the event - all that is required is creativity and enthusiasm. ‘The concept of the event is excellent, and it was really fun.’

Participants are invited to sign up to the event in teams of two to four members. At the start of the day, teams are given eight clues leading to different destinations in and around Spitalfields. The teams spend the day exploring the area, solving the given clues and constructing creative photos as their answers, capturing this unique and dynamic area as they go. Once they’ve completed all clues, teams return to Toynbee Studios to submit their photos, and then relax as a slideshow of the day’s images commences and the judging of entries gets underway. There is an awards ceremony to finish the day and prizes are given for a number of different categories such as Best Overall Photo and Most Creative Photo.

Date: Sunday 11th October
Venue: Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB
Time: 11.15am-6.30pm
Cost: £15 per person
BUY TICKETS ONLINE: http://www.shootexperience.com/tickets

1 October – 30 November 2009
PHOTOMONTH 09 is a photographic feast. Discover over 150 exhibitions and events in more than 85 galleries and spaces across East London and the City. Major artists exhibiting this year include Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Jenny Matthews, Nadav Kander, Terry O’Neill, Tom Hunter and Sophie Calle, with many exciting emerging artists who have chosen to show in a wide variety of interesting venues from the Crypt at Christ Church to Lennie’s Snack Bar.

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Not London specific, but this could be a fun project from the Museu Picasso. Below is the information sent from the Museum:

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A new web gallery that is worth checking out, and perhaps getting involved in: Photography & Mash. This web gallery is slightly different to most of them out there:

The Premise is that we ask culturally relevant people inside and outside of the industry to offer the community starting points for new projects. We then give the community 6 weeks to shoot the theme and then we display the shortlisted artists. This changes every 6 weeks.

We are sourcing briefs ( Themes ) as we speak from ethically aware people in hope that we are using photography to bring to the forefront, global issues.

It’s a new site, but it looks like quite a few new features are already in the works. Probably a good idea to keep your eye on this one. Great to see new sites, like these, being launched.

A very cool video, and song, by Luke Jackson:

I’ve found it fairly fitting considering I will be leaving the UK sometime next year (probably in July or so). It will be sad to leave, but I’m sure I will be back!

From June 21 - 22 Magnum photographers will be at The Photographers’ Gallery to review portfolios as part of First Impressions. The deadline for registration is this Friday, May 29th (and it is first come, first serve), so if you are keen to have your work reviewed by 3 Magnum photographers, get in there and good luck!

(Thanks to Billy Macrae for the heads-up on this).

It looks like this weekend is going to be quite miserable in terms of weather, so what better way to spend the day browsing for cameras and other interesting gear?
Photographica Fair is the United Kingdom’s largest photographic collectors fair and is organized by a separate sub-committee of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. Having grown from small beginnings a typical Photographica will have around 200 tables offering everything from daguerreotypes and images, to brass and mahogany field cameras and Leica, through to old and new photographic books, collectible photographic accessories and supplies and tools for restoration. Photographica is international in its stallholders and attendees.
It’s being held this Sunday in Victoria between 10am and 4.30pm. More information can be found on their website.