What's On: Daniel Castro Garcia, Scarlett Hooft Graafland & BJP Breakthrough 2017

BJP's guide to the best photography events and opportunities around the world OPPORTUNITIES BJP Breakthrough Awards 2017 Deadline for entries: Monday 08 May 2017 BJP's Breakthrough Awards are back and we're looking for the world's best photography students and recent graduates. We'll be selecting four outstanding photographers to have their work presented in a group exhibition in east London, be published on BJP's print magazine, and on our online and digital platforms, and receive expert advice on launching a successful career in photography. More info: bjpbreakthrough.com Publishing and photo books – From editing and design to marketing and distribution Magnum Photos, London | Sat 29 & Sun 30 July 2017 Learn from the best publishers and photobook producers about the publishing market: covering how to approach publishers, modes of production, design, editing, and budgets. Apply here. ON SOON FOREIGNER - Panel discussion on migration and visual representation TJ Boulting, London | Mon 10 April 2017 - 7pm To conclude the exhibition Foreigner by BJP's International Photography Award winner, Daniel Castro Garcia, there will be a talk at TJ Boulting with the photographer and designer Thomas Saxby who helped produce the Foreigner book with Castro Garcia and Alexander Betts, Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, and Senior Research Fellow of Green-Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Book a place here. Close UP V: Instagram + The Changing Landscape of Photography Gallery Six, The Old Truman Brewery, London | Tues 11 April 2017 - 6.30pm Close Up V will focus on the photo sharing platform Instagram – from commercial to fine art and documentary. The talk will investigate how photographers perceive and approach the platform while also using it within their practice and not just as an online profile. Speakers range from photographers, influencers and agents and include Metro Imaging, London's premier photographic print and framing lab, Instagram Consultant and Photographer Jess Angell, and Anna-Maria Pfab, Founder & Director of Kiosk. ON NOW Scarlett Hooft Graafland - Discovery Flowers Gallery, London | Running until Sat 29 April 2017 Discovery draws together more than a decade of exploration, from the salt desert of Bolivia to the desolate Canadian Arctic, the island of Madagascar and the remote shores of Vanuatu, where Hooft Graafland's choreographed, site-specific sculptural interventions and performances reflect an exchange between the realm of nature and the relative confines of culture.  Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change ICP, New York | Running until Fri 21 April 2017 Perpetual Revolution explores the relation between the overwhelming image world that confronts us, and the volatile, provocative, and often-violent social world it mirrors. Presenting six of these critical issues transformed by visual culture: #BlackLivesMatter, gender fluidity, climate change, terrorist propaganda, the right-wing fringe and the 2016 election, and the refugee crisis. Organized by ICP curators Carol Squiers and Cynthia Young, assistant curators Susan Carlson and Claartje van Dijk, along with adjunct curators Joanna Lehan and Kalia Brooks with assistance from Akshay Bhoan and Quito Ziegler. CLOSING SOON Foreigner TJ Boulting, London | Running until Sat 8 April 2017 British Journal of Photography is proud to present Foreigner, the first solo exhibition by Daniel Castro Garcia, winner of our International Photography Award 2017. Foreigner was an award-winning self-published book last year, with a series depicting migrants caught up in the European refugee crisis. The exhibition also shows new work including filmed footage and interviews from the past few months.  Terrains of the Body Whitechapel Gallery, London | Running until Sun 16 Apr 2017 Taken from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the exhibition showcases photography and video work by seventeen contemporary artists from around the world. Turning the camera to women, or themselves, the artists celebrate femininity as a way for expression of identity and reflection of both individual and collective experience. Work includes Mariana Abramović, Nan Goldin, Rineke Dijkstra, and Daniela Rossell. LATEST ISSUE: FEMALE GAZE New perspectives from the selfie generation. Charlotte Jansen considers how a new generation of female photographers make women their subject. Zuza Krajewska goes inside a detention centre for young male offenders in Poland. Endia Beal addresses themes of race, gender and corporate culture. And Laia Abril uncovers secret histories in her wide-ranging examination of misogyny.  Order now from the BJP shop We're always on the look out for new photography-related events – if you have an exhibition, festival, talk, screening, portfolio review or workshop, email whatson@bjphoto.co.uk and let us know. © Apptitude Media Limited, publisher of British Journal of Photography, Zetland House, 5-25 Scrutton St, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4HJ. Apptitude Media is a company registered in England under registration number 8361351. If you have any questions or comments about this email please contact marketing@apptitudemedia.co.uk Click here to view our Privacy Policy Although we try our best to ensure that all information is correct as of going to press, the information in this email is reliant on other sources and could be subject to change.