Agenda

Important Britsh Library photographic exhibition opens

The first major photographic exhibition ever held at the British Library opens today and runs until 7 March 2010. Points of View: Capturing the 19^th Century in Photographs draws from the Library’s rarely displayed collection of over 300,000 historic images. The exhibition is free and full details – including information on a series of accompanying talks and events – can be found on the British Library website by clicking here. Above is Coming Home from the Marshes by Peter Henry Emerson c. 1886, just one of the 250 exhibits on display.

Mark Edwards Hard Rain project presentation

We featured the powerful Hard Rain project, instigated by Mark Edwards of Still Pictures and inspired by the famouse Bob Dylan song, in Ag44 (click). Now anyone within striking distance of Trafalgar Square can see a presentation of it at St Martin-in-the-Fields on the evening of 16 November, 7.00-8.30pm, admission free. Click here for the project's website.

Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta available

Adobe has today released a Public Beta version of Photoshop Lightroom 3, available for download at its website. Try it for free and give the company your feedback. Click here for the download page.

World Press Photo 2010 dates announced

World Press Photo has announced that 14 January 2010 is the dealine for entries to next year's competition. Entries must be made online and to do so participants must register by 8 January 2010. The members of the various specialist juries have also been announced and full details and registration can be found by clicking here.

Impressions Gallery portfolio reviews

Impressions Gallery in York is offering free 20-minute portfolio review sessions with gallery staff on Sunday 25 October. Booking is essential and there is a £10 refundable deposit to make sure you turn up. For more details and to book click here.

Ag57 in the shops now

As usual, Ag57 features a unique mix of inspiration and information. The work of Thomas Joshua Cooper is discussed by Gerry Badger and AD Coleman provides an incisive view of one of photography’s major figures, Edward Steichen. Master printer Keith Taylor describes photogravure printing and Paul Gallagher continues his series on b&w landscape. Chris Steele-Perkins brings a portfolio from his career retrospective, assessed by David Lee, and Lee Frost explains how he exploits RAW format for HDR portraiture. Plus an unusual series from photojournalist Jerry Berndt, and colour landscapes from Sami Nabeel – and plenty of more new work in Scene Around, plus the best new photobooks. Click here for more details.

Another use for an iPhone

Someone has dug through Virgin Media's cable cutting us off, literally, from the world. But I'm still able to check that no-one has sent an email in the last couple of minutes. Life is sweet.

Blurb BookSmart v2.5 released

Online book printing and publishing service Blurb has today released an improved version of its book creation software. BookSmart, which is a free dowload from the company's website. Blurb has also introduced a flat rate shipping fee for orders of between 1 and 5 books, which means the vast majority of orders should now be cheaper. Full details at Blurb.com.

Impressions calls for photobooks

We received this information too late for the next issue of Ag which is at the printers, so here it is online. Impressions Gallery in York is calling for independently published photobooks to be offered for sale during its Photography Book Fair Weekend, 24-25 October 2009. You have until 6 October to apply, so hurry up. For full details click here.