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This December Stills has teamed up with Beyond Words to bring you a fantastic range of photography books. Whether you are looking for a perfect Christmas present, or treating yourself, come in and have a browse.

The diverse selection will cater to every taste whether you are after a rare, signed edition of John Blakemore's first major retrospective, the first publication of newly discovered street photography by Vivian Maier or a beautiful hardback showcasing largely unseen early colour photography by Joel Sternfeld. For those who are indecisive why not pick one of each from the pocket sized PHOTOFILE collection?

Opening Hours

1 Dec  - 18 Dec 11am - 6pm (8pm Late night shopping on Thursday 1 Dec and Thurs 8 Dec)
19 Dec - 23 Dec 11am - 7pm

Focus Space Richard Williams: United States
Saturday 12 November 2011 – Sunday 18 March 2012
Launch Event: Friday 25 November, 6.30pm

For Stills’ Focus Space Richard Williams will exhibit a series of photographs and artefacts that examine the past, present and future of the once glamorous ship, the SS United States. The last, and fastest, ocean liner built by the US, its decaying 990-foot structure is now moored opposite an IKEA store at Pier 82 in the great port of Philadelphia, a place full of ruins of the industrial age.

Image United States 3 (2011) Richard Williams

Monday 31 October 7pm Free

Please join us for a fascinating insight into the practice of two of Italy's most successful photographers.

Edoardo Agresti is a partner of Nikon Professional Service and teaches for Nikon School Travel as well as exhibiting internationally and has published in several international magazines and travel guides.

Gianluca Capri studied in Paris in 1998 and has since exhibited internationally including Artisti in Campo (2008), Gallery Park Palace, Monte Carlo (2009) and has received awards such as Venice International Photo Contest (2007).

The two photographers have presented exhibitions of recent works at The English Speaking Union and The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh to raise funds for Oxfam's 'Light Gives Life' initiative.

http://www.edoardoagresti.it/    http://www.gianlucacapri.it/

Refreshments will be served

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The Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh presents the photography of Edoardo Agresti and Gianluca Capri.

All works are for sale and proceeds will contribute to the work of OXFAM.

Please join us for the Exhibition closing event at The English Speaking Union
Friday 28 October 6pm. All welcome.
Refreshments will be served

Exhibition venues:
The Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicholson Street, Edinburgh

English Speaking Union Scotland, 23 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh

Image, 'Light Gives Life', Edoardo Agresti, 2011

Thursday 20 October 6.30pm

Free

Skewing the context of Private Eye magazine's once yearly literary review feature, Stephen Sutcliffe and a selected cast give the first of a series of presentations, using video, audio and live readings of texts all culled from the artists personal archive.

Taking place within the space of Sutcliffe's exhibition Runaway, Success, this event deploys a methodology of live collage to continue and extend the exhibition's investigation of self-doubt, awkwardness and the construction of the idea of culture.

Limited spaces available, to book a place please email programme@stills.org or call 0131 622 6200

Specially commissioned poster Runaway, Success includes an interview between the artist Stephen Sutcliffe and curator Lisa Le Feuvre and is available to purchase at the event and via Stills' shop.

Thursday 25 August 6 - 8pm 

A regular and popular feature of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Art Late is a specially programme night of late openings at galleries across the city.  

Join us for exhibition tours of Runaway, Success every 20 minutes throughout the evening.  

Refreshments will be served.

Further information on the Art Late Programme can be viewed here http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/events/2011/2011-08-25

Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 August (11 – 7 pm)

A year ago, Edinburgh lost its specialist photographic bookshop, Beyond Words. But Beyond Words continues to thrive as an online mail-order business and runs stalls at photographic events.

For five days during the Festival, we are delighted to host a ‘pop-up’ Beyond Words shop in our meeting room located on the lower level.

So come along and find out about the services Beyond Words can offer and catch up with some of the finest photo books published in the last year. Highlights include a range of signed titles from Nazraeli Press, hard-to-find books from Japan – among them limited editions from new publisher Superlabo and Sugimoto’s Nature of Light, and a brand-new limited edition from Stephen Shore.

Beyond Words is delighted to announce that our pop up shop at Stills will culminate in two book signings on Saturday 13 August.

Paul Hill at 4 pm

Paul Hill is one of Britain’s most revered photographers and photographic educators. In the 1970s he was head of the ground-breaking Trent/Derby Creative Photography course – the forerunner of every art photography degree now available. In 1976, he and his late wife, Angela, established The Photographer’s Place, the first residential photography workshop in the UK, and a centre which influenced a generation of British photographers.

His book White Peak, Dark Peak is a classic work of landscape/documentary photography. Approaching Photography remains a hugely influential exploration of the creative process of photography.

Paul Hill will be signing copies of his latest book, Corridor of Uncertainty

 “The book is an instinctive response to the uncertain and new world I entered without my best friend and constant companion of 42 years who died in 2006.” (Paul Hill)

Corridor of Uncertainty is a metaphorical meditation on loss and pain, despair and hope, beauty and banality, and seeming to be in a foreign country without a map, where reactions range from pity to incredulity. Although a very personal journey, it has resonances for a wide audience.

Stephen McLaren at 5 pm

Stephen McLaren is a renowned street photographer and co-author of Street Photography Now, the bestselling compilation of the work of 46 contemporary image-makers noted for their candid depictions of everyday life in our streets.

Stephen is a Scottish freelance photographer, workshop leader and writer currently based in London. He will be signing copies of the newly published paperback edition of Street Photography Now.

For further information on the ‘pop-up’ shop and these signings, please contact Neil on 01620 895985 or 07530 217288 or info@beyondwords.co.uk Please also contact Neil if you cannot attend but would like to reserve a signed copy of one or both books.

Beyond Words

Sweaty suits, privates on parade and merry highlanders...

Join us at Edinburgh's Live Site, BBC Big Screen , Festival Square for a special film programme and a one-off public dance performance curated by Stills' Film Lounge, presented as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend programme.

Screening times,
BBC Big Screen, Live Site, Festival Square, Edinburgh
Saturday 23 July 1pm - 2.30pm
Sunday 24 July 2pm - 3.30pm

Performance accompanying screening
Sunday 24 July at 3pm (15 minute performance)

Square Dance After Party

Sunday 24 July 5 - 7 pm at Stills

Join us after the performance for some square dancing of our own with DJ David Stinton kicking off the festival fun times!

Free and open to everyone

Supported by Tiger Beer

FREE TICKETED EVENT

A special screening of Anarcadia and short film Capital by Ruth Maclennan at Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh.

Capital is set in Kazakhstan's new capital Astanta. A woman traveller, a stranger, addressed the founder-ruler of a city under construction, one that promises a glossy but oppressive future by erasing the past. Anarcadia is shot in the steppe of South-Eastern Kazakhstan. Into this shifting, elemental landscape, two iconic figures - an archaeologist and prospector - seek to uncover its buried meanings and future possibilities. Overlaying rival trajectories and competing incentives, Maclennan's overlapping, often contradictory stories echo the fundamental indeterminacy and unpredictability of the desert landscape itself.

Presented in collaboration with Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Tickets are available in person at Filmhouse or Festivalhouse@teviot or by calling 0131 623 8030.

Co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, in association with Stills, Edinburgh, Ffotogallery, Cardiff and Castefield, Manchester. Funded by Arts Council England, and with the generous support of the British Council. Additional support from the Henry Moore Foundation

Slide show: 

Congratulations to Kat McKean, Fereuse MacDonald, Lauren Stewart, Chris Fernandez and Katrina Alexander, chosen from 15 students in this years HND Professional Photography at Edinburgh's Telford College to have a private Critique with freelance artists and photographers at Stills.