Two of the UK’s most popular photographers, Andy Rouse and Joe Cornish, will be teaming up to unveil a new exhibition entitled ‘Outer Visions’ - at January’s Outdoors Show in London. Between them, Andy and Joe will be exhibiting a range of their best work, in a variety of formats which will include canvas and framed art prints. All images have been handpicked for the exhibition, to both compliment each other’s work and to inspire all who love the natural world. The exhibition will be located at Stand OU609 within the show, which will take place from 12-15 January 2012. For talk times and full details of the exhibition, visit the website below.

East London gallery and professional photographic printing lab theprintspace has just announced the NME Music Photography Awards Exhibition. Hosted by NME and Nikon, the exhibition will feature music photography from both amateur and professional photographers who won the 2011 competition. Photographers competed in categories including Live, Portrait, Reportage, Festivals, and Under-18s. On show from 6-11 January 2012 at theprintspace gallery on 74 Kingsland Road, the NME Music Photography Awards Exhibition is free for all to enter

Light & Land has announced a new workshop, “Filmmaking for Photographers”. Presented by remote location cameraman Phil Coates, the workshop will help clients demystify the process of shooting video on their DSLR or compact camera. It will also explore both the technical and craft based skills required when shooting video and storytelling, through the medium of moving image. Taking place on 31 March and 1 April 2012 at the Four Pillars Hotel, Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester , the “Filmmaking for Photographers” workshop is £349 per person including a light lunch, refreshments and tuition from Phil. For more information and to book your place, visit the website below.

Shaped by War is the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, Don McCullin. On show at IWM London until 15 April 2012, the exhibition brings together McCullin’s frontline work from conflicts all over the world including the confrontation between East and West Berlin, Vietnam and Cambodia, the conflicts of the Middle East and the intense human suffering in Biafra and Bangladesh. These are displayed alongside McCullin’s photographs of more recent conflicts such as the Gulf War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Don McCullin: Shaped by War, published by Jonathan Cape in association with IWM. The 208-page hardback has an RRP of £25.

The Photo Imaging Council (PIC) has announced that its members have pledged £100,000 in sponsorship to support National Photography Month, a major new initiative to be held across the UK in June 2012.  The first such initiative of its kind in the UK, National Photography Month aims to encourage the nation both to get more involved in photography and to explore new ways to ‘capture and keep’ life’s most important moments. Organised by the PIC and Photo Marketing Association, the initiative is supported by organisations from the photographic community including the Royal Photographic Society and National Geographic.

A new exhibition from photographer Nick Danziger documenting the lives of people living in some of the world’s poorest countries is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. In 2000, the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals were agreed, aiming to eliminate poverty, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality and to improve maternal health, by 2015. In ‘Revisited’ Nick presents photographs from these countries – Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Honduras, India, Niger, northern Uganda, and Zambia - which tell stories about real lives, through which he examines whether these goals are succeeding or are simply unfeasible targets with impossible aims. Free to enter, ‘Revisted’ is on show at the Pavilion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, until 11 January 2012 (closed 24 December – 2 January).

Light & Land has announced the addition of professional landscape and architectural photographer, David Clapp, to its team of photography tutors. David has several years’ experience of running his own workshops and he is a regular contributor to the UK photography press as well as having a strong following for his social media commentary. His addition to the Light & Land team also sees the launch of a brand new range of photographic city breaks – including Valencia, Düsseldorf and Berlin. These 3-day long weekend tours allow for shooting architecture and cityscapes at dawn, dusk and even at night. For more information on David Clapp’s spring & summer 2012 tours, visit the website below.

As part of its What Photo Buyers Want series, PhotoShelter will be hosting a live interview tomorrow at 4 pm EST with Sports Illustrated Director of Photography, Steve Fine. The interview is open to the public and will be conducted by PhotoShelter Co-Founder, Grover Sanschargrin. Topics covered include insights about shooting for Sports Illustrated, how to assemble your best portfolio and avoid common mistakes, top skills and traits that Steve looks for when hiring new photographers, and more. You can register for free at the website below.

Epson has teamed up once again with Bayeux, one of London’s leading photographic and imaging companies, to sponsor and support the prestigious ‘Take a view’ Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 Competition. A free exhibition at London’s National Theatre from 5th December 2011 to 28th January 2011 will showcase all the winners - including the overall winner, “Winter Field, Stirlingshire, Scotland” by Robert Fulton, above - together with other selected finalists. For the exhibition, Bayeux produced limited-edition Digigraphie prints on Traditional Photo Paper, one of Epson’s range of art media, with the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 large format printer. For more information, visit the website below.

February 2012 will see London’s Jewish Museum host its first contemporary black & white photography show since reopening in 2010. “No Place Like Home is a beautifully crafted narration of Passow’s journey through Jewish communities in England,” the organisers say. The 98 images by four-time World Press Photo award winner Judah Passow - which will become part of the Jewish Museum’s permanent photographic collection - explore issues surrounding themes of community, charity, social action, humour, faith and identity.

The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has announced it will hold the CP+ 2012 Camera & Imaging Show from 9-12 February 2012, at the Pacifico Yokohama, Japan. The history of CP+ stretches back more than 50 years, tracing its origins to the first Japan Camera Show. This year marks the third year since the venue moved to Yokohama, an international port city and one of the largest cities in Japan. The year 2012 also marks the 150th anniversary of Yokohama as the birthplace of commercial photography in Japan, where in 1862 Renjo Shimooka founded a photography studio. Click through / read on for a detailed list of events that will be taking place at CP+ 2012.

On 5th December, professional photography consultant Selena Maitreya is offering a one-hour free telesmeinar, entitled ‘Selling From The Heart: Make 2012 Your Best Year’. Highlights include determining the best use of your time, learning how to use portfolio tests as marketing tools, discovering how you can access your own personal spiritual tools and learning how to determine which parts of your photography business need your immediate attention. Note that this training has limited phone lines - you are advised to pre-register at the website below.

SF Photo School has launched a new webinar series entitled “Portraits for Profits”. Presented by Uzair Kharawala, this series covers topics including how to set up a business, what camera & lens to start with, how to use off-camera flash, edit and post-process your photos, how to set your prices, what promotions and products to offer, how to implement offline and online marketing strategies, how to use websites, blogs, social media and more. Each webinar is scheduled for 1 hour, and the series runs from 11 January 2012 to 1 February 2012. The cost of the series is £125 + VAT and comes with bonuses worth £180. To reserve your place, visit the website below.

The World Photo, London and Sony World Photography Awards exhibitions will be held at Somerset House in London in April – May 2012. The opening weekend of World Photo, London will be held at Somerset House from 27 - 30 April with selected festival events and the Sony World Photography Awards winners exhibitions, continuing through to 20 May 2012.  The annual Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala dinner will take place on 26 April at the Hilton Hotel inLondon’s Park Lane. The Festival will include a wide-ranging programme of events, talks, seminars, workshops and exhibitions. Click through / scroll down for a detailed list of festival programme highlights.

Tamron U.S.A. has announced a series of complimentary photo seminars entitled, “Simple Secrets to Better Pictures”.  Any customer that purchases a DSLR kit of any brand from one of 26 select retailers between tomorrow and the end of the year is invited to attend at no charge a Tamron “Secrets to Better Pictures” Seminar during the first half of 2012. The topics discussed during the seminar include understanding light, point of view, composition, and knowing your lens. Instructors include Jeff Allen, Jillian Bell, Andre Constantini, Ken Hubbard, Rob Moody and John van Steenberg..Click through / read on for a list of participating camera dealers.

Over seventy winning and highly commended images from CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2011 competition will go on display at a free exhibition held from 6-17 December at London’s SW1 Gallery. Selected from over 10,000 images, The Environmental Photographer of the Year is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography.  The competition honours amateur and professional photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. The SW1 Gallery is located at 12 Cardinal Walk, Roof Garden Level, Cardinal Place, London.

X-Rite has announced a number of free webinars for the month of November. The first online seminar, starting tomorrow at 2pm EST and hosted by Winifred Whitfield, is entitled “Take your images to WOW!”. In this webinar, Winifred will demonstrate how precise colour management and Nik Software give her the competitive edge to produce her stylized images. Other topics for November include “Stop Guessing - Start Knowing! Accurate Monitor Colour with X-Rite”, “Beyond Monitor Calibration - Get Prints That Match Your Display!” and “Improve your Colour Management Skills”. Click through / read on for the exact webinar dates and times.

Re-framing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians is a new exhibition currently showing at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Featuring 28 historical portraits of disabled people held within the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) collections, set next to the images and voices of disabled people discussing the portraits and their identities today, the exhibition tackles largely unchartered territory in combining both historical and contemporary analyses of the historical portraits. The modern, photographic portraits were created by disabled photographer Lynn Weddle. Re-framing disability will be at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester until January 2012 and is presented in accessible formats including an audio description, audio points, and tactile images with Braille.

As part of its Imagine More Factory Roadshow, Manfrotto will be setting up an interactive pop-up photo lab in Covent Garden, London. From 18-20 November, visitors to the Lab can put their artistic talent to the test by using Manfrotto photographic kit and being photographed on professional photography sets. The London event, opening at 11am on 18th November, follows in the creative footsteps of labs in Beijing, Berlin and Hong Kong. The pictures taken over the course of the three-day installation will be uploaded to the Manfrotto Imagine More Facebook page to allow all those who have participated to share and comment on their own photos.

“One Hundred & Forty Characters” is a project initiated by award-winning photographer Chris Floyd. Inspired by Floyd’s interaction with the photographers, editors and other individuals he follows on Twitter, One Hundred & Forty Characters bridges the gap between traditional relationships and those increasingly formed through online communications. “The project essentially puts faces to 140 of the online names I have become familiar with and I wanted to show a mixture of around 100 portraits comprising both individual and group shots,” said Floyd, who looked to HP to reproduce his images as large-format prints. Floyd worked with the HP Bracknell-based team who used both the HP Designjet L25500 Printer and the HP Designjet Z6200 Photo Printer to output the portraits. The exhibition “One Hundred & Forty Characters” is currently on display at Host Gallery, London.