Group Critique Sessions

pic.london will be running Group Critiques on Sunday, October 29th at Ambika P3. The concept of the Group Critique is to create an open forum where participants are invited to share their work (in progress) in a group and to comment on and inspire each other’s work.

The conversation will be facilitated by a ‘tutor’. Each with an area of expertise, they will lead the discussion and give constructive feedback. There will be maximum 5 places in one group.

We thoughtfully invited the following ‘tutors’:

1. David Blackmore  - photographer, practising artist and lecturer

David Blackmore has exhibited internationally including solo shows at Gallery Vassie (Amsterdam), Draíocht (Dublin), Central European House of Photography (Bratislava), Schwartz Gallery (London) and SITEATION (Dublin). During this period, David’s practice has moved away from photography and now encompasses a wide range of mediums including sculpture, intervention, installation, performance, walking and utilising appropriated objects.
David is an Honorary Research Associateship with the Slade School of Fine Art /UCL Art Museum and a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster.

2. Anthony Luvera - artist and writer

Anthony is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals, including the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, and Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie.
His writing appears regularly in a wide range of publications including Photoworks, Source and Photographies.
Anthony is Principal Lecturer and Course Director of MA Photography and Collaboration at Coventry University.

3. Katja Mayer - fashion photographer and lecturer

Katja is a German-born fashion photographer, artist and lecturer based in London.
Her editorial work has been published widely and she is a regular contributor to French Numero. Commercial clients include Alexander Wang, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection of the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

4. Bindi Vora - photographic artist and lecturer

Bindi Vora is a Curatorial Assistant at the Hayward Gallery, a photographic artist and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Prior to the Hayward Gallery, she worked at The Photographers’ Gallery curating their off-site commissions.
As a contemporary photographic artist, her practice utilises various analogue processes, often taking inspiration from her everyday surroundings, which include her personal archive. Her work teases out subtle marks and pigments within the materials she uses, such as negatives and photographic paper; the results often create vast spaces of colour, light and subtle detail that contemplate ideas of perception and representation of the photographic print.She has participated in a number of exhibitions across Europe; in 2014, she published her first photographic book In the blue light we failed. which was recently acquired MoMA; The Women’s Art Library and others.  

To make sure that everyone will benefit from the session, there will be an application process. 

Application steps:

1. Purchase the Group Critique ticket via Eventbrite with your full name and email address registered.


2. Please send the following documents to talks@piclondon.org by the end of Monday 23 October. 

     a. Between 5 and 10 images of your work (max 1000 pix length, 72 dpi)

     b. Project description between 150-300 words

     c. Top two choices of ‘tutors’

     d. Screenshot of the payment confirmed


3. The final participants will be informed via email as soon as a decision is made, by Tuesday 24 October the latest.


4. The applicants that are not selected will receive a full refund of the ticket price.