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25/09/2025
Hi all... we're back!
The SixBySix Social is back this October for a book launch and exhibition of Craig Easton's new work An Extremely Un-get-atable Place: George Orwell on Jura
Come and join us... 23rd October at Ropes & Twines in Liverpool.
Booking essential.
SixBySix is back for a very special evening: the book launch and premiere of Craig Easton’s new book a lyrical tribute to Orwell and Jura.
11/05/2025
We've been a bit quiet on SixBySix of late, but I'm excited to share news of my new book:
'An Extremely Un-get-atable Place: George Orwell on Jura'
The work re-imagines the time that Orwell lived at Barnhill, the remote cottage on the north end of the Isle of Jura where between 1946-1949 he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.
We're running a kickstarter campaign to offer some discounted pre-sales on books and prints.
Huge thanks to my SixbySix mate Colin McPherson for the lovely video film...
Have a wee look and please share if you can.
Many thanks
Craig
Re-imagination of the time George Orwell lived in a farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in the Hebrides, where he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.
16/01/2025
ATTENTION PHOTOGRAPHERS, FILMMAKERS AND OTHER CREATIVES!
The UK government has launched a consultation on ‘Copyright and Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) which ends on Feb 25th. They are proposing a new exception to copyright law, which would enable AI companies to train on your content for free unless your rights are proactively “reserved”.
Although you can proactively reserve your rights, such a system is unworkable in practice as it doesn’t work for images/video already scraped or for downstream copies licensed by and distributed to other platforms (where reservations can unavoidably become detached). It also unevenly weights the cost and administrative burden towards creators and their distributors, not on the companies scraping the copyright works.
The UK government suggests there is lack of legal clarity around the use of copyrighted works for AI training data. This is incorrect. UK copyright law is clear that the use of copyrighted content by AI companies for commercial purposes without a licence is illegal. Whilst we agree with the aims of the proposed reforms to stimulate licensing of copyright content where used to train AI, we believe current copyright law must be preserved, not weakened, in order to achieve these aims.
What can you do?
Take just two minutes NOW to protect your creative rights before the consultation ends on Feb 25th: Click below to join the letter writing campaign organized by the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, of which we’re a member:
https://creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
The link above enables you to send your MP a powerful pre‑written letter in just two clicks. If you can spare more time, you may wish to also personalize the letter, by adding in your own words how your livelihood will be affected if copyright protections are weakened. You can find additional background and resources to help you below.
I hope you can lend your voice to ours on this vital issue as I have. Thank you for your support. Don't hesitate to share this with your peers as well!
24/10/2024
The SixBySix Social is back for a Halloween night special with Margaret Mitchell's wonderful series 'The Guisers'.
Join us at Ropes & Twines in Liverpool next Thursday 31st October to hear Margaret talk about this project and her wider work.
Join us at Ropes & Twines on Thurs, 31st October (7-10pm) for an artist talk by Margaret Mitchell at the opening of The Guisers exhibition
23/05/2024
TONIGHT IN BIRKENHEAD
Join me at the Williamson for an evening of conversation about football and photography and help celebrate the launch of At The Match, the new photobook from When Saturday Comes – The Half Decent Football Magazine featuring my images from the last 20 years.
Next up on the SixBySix Social, our very own Colin McPherson will be presenting work from his brand new book 'At the Match' photographs taken over a period of nearly 30 years across all levels of football for the magazine When Saturday Comes.
The work is an extraordinary and fascinating look at football culture focussing mostly on the fans and all the peripheral things that go on 'at the match' besides the match itself.
Join us next Wednesday at Ropes & Twines in
Really looking forward to this one.
Details here:
Join us at Ropes & Twines for the launch of our latest exhibition which is based on At The Match, a book of contemporary football images.
13/05/2024
On 22nd May I'll be hosting one of our regular Sixbysix Socials at Ropes & Twines for a special exhibition and book launch of the new When Saturday Comes – The Half Decent Football Magazine publication At The Match.
Join us for an evening of photography chat in the centre of Liverpool.
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Six By Six's mission is to start conversations, spark debate and grow a network of people interested in photography. Our home is a venue that is not a traditional gallery; it's a place where we will stimulate informal discussions and display work. Lightbox Gallery at Ropes & Twines has a history of supporting photography. Its relaxed atmosphere will provide the ideal space to debate notions of contemporary photography.
WHAT DO WE SEE AND HOW DO WE SEE IT?
These are two of the fundamental questions a photographer must ask when engaging with the work they are making. The approach the individual takes towards the subject will define the scope of the work, the way it is captured and most crucially, the relationship between photographer and subject. In so many ways, the outcomes are determined not just by the skill, knowledge, and experience of the photographer, but by their attitude towards who and what they are photographing.
This is what marks the genre of documentary photography as different: it is dealing with real people and real life, exploring the kind of society we live in and documenting it to be examined now and by future generations. But the practice is by no means restricted to traditional photojournalism or news-gathering. Documentary photography now encompasses many approaches as it rises to the challenge of today’s visual culture that demands quick results and instant gratification from images.
We live in a world where photography is now everywhere – almost everyone carries a camera at all times. So what function do documentary photographers play today in a culture built on images? What makes them different? Why does it matter? What sets them apart from those with smartphones and SnapChat accounts?
The answers lie in ‘why’ we photograph, not simply ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘who’ or ‘where’ we photograph. We are interested in photography that moves beyond social utility into complex and multi-layered ways of picture making that may use the devices of documentary photography to explore different concepts.
With this as a backdrop, photographers Tadhg Devlin, Craig Easton, Adam Lee, Stephen McCoy, Colin McPherson and Stephanie Wynne with support from Lightbox Darkroom are embarking on mission to showcase small selections of the very best documentary photography from Merseyside and beyond in regular, short run, pop up exhibitions.
Some light hearted, some hard hitting but all, we hope, socially significant reflections of life, examining who we are and what kind of world we live in.
Each show will run for about six weeks and will act as a taster for a broader body of work to discover. There will be regular talks, presentations and discussion panels to examine the work and the wider importance of documentary photography.
We are interested in new ways of making documentary photography and examining whether they can coexist with traditional, long-form projects that have yielded some of the strongest and most complete works in the past.
