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Christian Lloyd, Paul Stickley & James Pyman - Brian O'Caroll, Harry Kidd & Lina Homer from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Wendy McMurdo - Li Ma from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

20160531 OCA Les Monaghan from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Street View: you never know the city around you from Bank Street Arts on Vimeo.

In January 2016, Bank Street Arts staged 'Beyond Street View', an exhibition featuring photographs taken by clients of the the Archer Project, a Sheffield-based charity providing support for the homeless and vulnerable. The exhibition was developed as a companion to the earlier 'Street View', which ran as part of the annual Off the Shelf festival of words and was initiated and delivered by the Open College of the Arts and Bank Street Arts resident Mark Harvey.

The Street View exhibition, which took place at Sheffield's Winter Garden before moving to Edge Hill University in Feb 2016, consisted of 20 images, but the scale of the project meant that a huge number of photographs – well over 1000 – were produced. For Beyond Street View, Archer’s clients were asked to revisit the archive and create and sequence a new selection that offered an alternative interpretation of the project.

Although photography was at the centre of both Street View and Beyond Street View, it became apparent fairly quickly that the participants' words were too important to overlook, and this video- featuring some of their verbatim observations- was produced as an accompaniment to their images.

For further information see:

bankstreetarts.com/carousel/beyond-street-view/ and bankstreetarts.com/people/residencies/mark-harvey/

Shades of New York- Tanya Ahmed from Bank Street Arts on Vimeo.

In June 2012 Bank Street Arts showcased the photographs of Open College of the Arts student and New York photographer Tanya Ahmed in I Call This Place Home, an exhibition of photographs of the neighbourhood in which Tanya lives with her family – East 100th Street – made famous in the book by Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson in the late 1960s.

For follow-up exhibition Shades of New York, Bank Street Arts reinterpreted Tanya’s entire NYC OCA portfolio by showing work from her East 100th Street shoots on screens, projections and in the windows of the gallery, to offer an interpretation of the work which differed enormously in mood and tone from Tanya’s original selection.

By taking the same body of work, staged in two completely different ways, the exhibition deliberately set out to highlight shades of difference in the way work is interpreted – from the point of view of the originator of that work and that of a neutral outsider. In doing so, we also took up the challenge that Tanya originally set herself in her East 100th Street photos – that of highlighting her own ‘insider’ viewpoint in comparison to Davidson’s ‘outsider’ stance.

Student work uncovered - Elizabeth Hannan from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

OCA tutor and assessor Judy Brown looks at the work of illustration student Elizabeth Hannan

Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Sketchcrawl 24/10/2015 from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Peter Bradley on Street View and James Tyrell from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Street View - Andrew Conroy from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Welcome to OCA from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Music Credits:

Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400054 Artist: incompetech.com/

Student work uncovered - Maurice Timmermans from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

OCA tutor and assessor Les Monaghan looks at the work of 'Photography 1 - People & Place' student Maurice Timmermans.

creative writing from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

vis comms from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Work from who you are from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Photographer Johanna Ward talks about her work

20150212 OCA CLloyd Graphics from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Barbara Henderson | This Little Piggy Reading from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

Barbara Henderson reads from her book, This Little Piggy.

Small Gestures from Cristina Álvarez López on Vimeo.

An audiovisual essay on 'Le silence de la mer' (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949), by Cristina Álvarez López. Read accompanying text: mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/09/14/idea-concept FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY

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