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SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Socially Engaged Photography Ne
 twork North West meet up & Belly Button launch with Eda Emirdag
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 8 March 2025 / 2 – 3.30 pm / Open Eye Gallery / RSV
 P \n\nArtist talk and in conversation with Eda Emirdag (Artist and Creati
 ve Producer)\, Liz Wewiora (Open Eye Gallery\, Head of Social Practice/ Pr
 ogramme Leader for MA Art and Design\, University of Salford)\, and Dr Hel
 en McGhie (Senior Lecturer in Photography at the School of Digital Arts\, 
 Manchester Metropolitan University).\n\nEda Emirdag is a photographic arti
 st and curator-producer from Istanbul\, Turkey. Eda is undertaking an arti
 st residency between Open Eye Gallery and University of Salford\, and Isli
 ngton Mill and Manchester Metropolitan University\, to explore the interna
 tional dialogue and practice of socially engaged photography.\n\nFor her r
 esidency here in the North West of England\, she will be further developin
 g an on-going body of work\, Belly Button\, an artistic research project t
 hat she conducted in Turkey between 2021 and 2024. In this project\, the a
 rtist examines the effects of the beauty industry on the female body. She 
 wants to discuss the effects of plastic surgery and the beauty industry on
  body politics. The visual material for the artwork continues to be collec
 ted and analysed in depth and will continue to be developed further in col
 laboration with students at University of Salford and Manchester Metropoli
 tan University and young people from Open Eye Gallery’s socially engaged
  programme in Sefton\, through a series of zine\, game and collage worksho
 ps.\n\nOpen Eye Gallery is hosting a launch of the final zine and a digit
 al window exhibition of a video essay produced by Eda and an artist talk 
 as part of the Social Engaged Photography Network (SEPN) on Saturday 8th M
 arch.\n\nIn this event\, Dr. Helen McGhie (MMU)\, Liz Wewiora (Open Eye Ga
 llery / University of Salford) and Eda Emirdağ will come together for a c
 onversation about the project and the residency’s wider aims of sharing 
 international definitions around both socially engaged and 3rd sector coll
 aborative photographic practice.\n\nThis programme is supported by British
  Council Turkey\, and the SAHA foundation
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