On 14th March at Kings Place, London, Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism, reportage and the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan. The lecture starts at 7pm, tickets are available online for £9.50.

Earth’s Beauty Tourshas announced a new photographic workshop in the areas of Inverpolly & Assynt,Scotland. The Inverpolly National Nature Reserve is a vast area of heather and grass moorland dotted with lochs and rocky peaks in the north-west of Scotland. The workshop costs £850, including six nights full board accommodation on a non sharing basis and with no single supplement (those willing to share get a £70 discount). The course starts on 6 February 2012.

Cinematographer and Canon Explorer of Light, Gale Tattersall, has announced a new series of HD DSLR masterclasses. Tattersall’s earlier workshops have been touted as “the most hands on HD DSLR Workshops around,” and are regarded as having the highest student to instructor ratio, roughly three students to each instructor. Each of the three days included in the HD DSLR Workshops, students get hands-on time with the Canon 5D Mark II, as well as the chance to test and play with several different rigs from their sponsors Red-rock Micro, Glidecam, and Libec. Workshop dates include 13th, 20th and 27th February, 13th, 20th 27th March and 10th, 17th and 24th April. The location is 11517 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California; and the course fee is $1,200.

Website: HD DSLR Workshops

Landscape photographer Charlie Waite will be giving an exclusive evening seminar at Calumet’s Drummond Street store on Tuesday, 22nd February. Starting at 5pm, the seminar will cover two main topics - ‘Influences’, and ‘Small on Landscape’, a fully illustrated talk on photography using a compact camera. Tickets for the Calumet seminar are £20 and are now on sale at the website below.

Website: Light & Land

Pentax has announced it will be showcasing its latest array of products at this year’s Focus on Imaging show at the NEC in Birmingham. Products on display at stand D9 wil include the medium-format Pentax 645D camera (pictured) and lenses, a range of Pentax DSLRs and accessories as well as the company’s current line-up of digital compact cameras. The show will kick off on 6th March.

Leica has announced its Akademie workshop and training programme for Spring 2011. New to the Akademie, starting on 1 March 2011, is an Introduction to Digital Photography, a one-day workshop designed to provide budding photography enthusiasts with an understanding of the basics of digital photography. In addition, Leica has introduced Let’s Talk Leica, a series of individual one-hour advice sessions with a Leica M photographer and expert, while the Leica M9 Experience allows attendees to see the company’s full-frame digital rangefinder camera in the flesh. In addition, Leica Akademie offers a dozen other workshops on a variety of topics. The workshops will be held in the company’s London-based training facility at 34 Bruton Place.

A two-day photography workshop run by SF Photo School has just been announced with multi award-winning photographers Kevin Wilson, Martin Grahame-Dunn and Uzair Kharawala. Topics to be covered include posing, composition, lighting, off-camera flash, work flow, editing, simple post-processing and business/marketing concepts. Taking place in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the workshop costs £150+VAT per participant. Places are limited.

Website: Masters of Light

Practice for Everyday Life is a new exhibition presented by Calvert 22. Opening on 23 March and running until 22 May 2011, Practice for Everyday Life showcases new work from a selection of emerging artists from Russia, including Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Olga Bozhko, Alexander Ditmarov, Julia Ivashinka, Sergey Ogurtsov, Taus Makhacheva, Anna Titova and Arseniy Zhilyaev. The title for this exhibition is loosely derived from the seminal text by theorist, Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life. “As a way of framing this group of artists, it felt both an appropriate and playful reference point, with the double meaning evoked by the word ‘practice’ nicely conveying both a conviction of intention as well as a sense of ongoing experimentation and development,” the organisers say.

The official programme of the fifth Format international photography festival has been announced. Taking place at various venues in and around Derby, 4th March – 3rd April 2011, Format Festival will show curated exhibitions and new commissions by leading international artists within the practice of street photography. Outside in Derby Marketplace, Magnum Photos and Format will present “Take to the Streets” – a major outdoor survey show of 140 large-scale street photos by seven leading Magnum photographers working around the world. The premier exhibition strand also includes Mob Format - an international mass submission online project in association with Flickr. Submissions will be shown on the BBC Big Screen in Derby Market Place, and on mobile screens around Derby, while a Hype-style gallery in a central pop-up location will print and display the best submissions daily in a constantly-evolving exhibition. The full programme brochure will be available to download from the official Format Festival website from mid-February 2011.

Sample 11 is the fourth annual group show of theprintspace clients’ work. London’s theprintspace was launched in October 2007 in Shoreditch, and has quickly become a favourite with London-based commercial photographers, artists & students. The staff at theprintspace are in a unique position to oversee an extraordinary number of images produced for portfolios and exhibitions all around the UK and they now invite you to view a little glimpse of the talent that they see week after week. Presented by Exhibit X, Sample 11 has an emphasis on portrait photography and the various styles it encompasses. The exhibition runs from 10th to 28th February at theprintspace gallery, 74 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DL. Admission is free.

Canon will debut a collaborative film, entitled “The Story Beyond The Still,” on 23th January, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “The Story Beyond the Still” began as a year-long contest, launched in January 2010 on Vimeo that allowed photographers and videographers to showcase their creativity in a new style of filmmaking that blended still and video images into a continuous cinematic piece begun by Canon Explorer of Light, Vincent Laforet.  The complete short film, including the final chapter starring The Breakfast Club star, Judd Nelson, will be viewed in its entirety at this private event during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It will then publicly première on 7th February on the Sundance Channel and Vimeo.

Kubota Image Tools has announced details for its exclusive Secret Italy 2011 workshop, which will take attendees to several picturesque locations throughout Italy’s famed northern lakes region. Taking place from 2-8 October 2011, this workshop will be headquartered in one of the central historic villages that define the lakes region from which Kubota will guide daily photo excursions, hold classroom sessions and photo critiques. The tuition for photographers interested in registering for the workshop is $2,995.

Website: Secret Italy 2011

Held in The Viewfinder Photography Gallery in Brixton, Constructs, Spectacle and Self is a group exhibition by London-based photographers Kerry Clark, Kelly Brown and Catlin Harrison. Running until 13 February, the exhibition features new work by the trio, including Harrison’s self-portraits created using a flatbed scanner, Clark’s photographs made using Victorian photographic processes, and Brown’s images of herself posing “as a range of real and imagined historical ancestors”. The Viewfinder Gallery is located inside Brixton Village Market, 52 Brixton Village, London.

Nik Software has released its webinar schedule for the first quarter of the year. The schedule includes more than 50 online trainings in English and German, which cover the whole range of the software developer’s plug-ins, such as HDR Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. Each webinar has space for up to 500 participants, who do not need more than one hour of their time and a computer with a stable Internet connection and audio function to follow the training and ask their questions. The webinars are usually held on weekdays at 6pm and 8pm (CET) and participation is completely free.

Aurora Expeditions are reminding interested photographers that there are limited places left on their specialist photography expedition to Antarctica. Accompanied by two professional photographers, David Burren and Martin Bailey. this 25-day trip begins on 20th March in Ushuaia at the Southern tip of Argentina and cruises south over the Drake Passage to spend a week on the Antarctic Peninsula. Prices start from $9350 USD and include ship accommodation, all meals on board, all shore excursions, lectures, medical services, port charges and taxes.

On 19 January, Mick Rock will be hosting a live portrait master class at the Idea Generation Gallery in London. Celebrated as ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s’, Mick Rock launched his career in 1972 with his portrait of an unknown David Bowie and spent the next four decades capturing the most fascinating and exciting characters in rock music. His portrait master class will start at 6.30pm, with Rock showing attendees the tricks of the trade while shooting the portrait of one lucky winner (if you’d like to be the model, email your name to [email protected] for a chance to win). After the portrait shoot, a live auction will allow the highest bidder to get hold of a unique piece of Mick memorabilia as Mick auctions off 10 of his favourite prints. The Idea Generation Gallery is located at 11 Chance Street, London.

Blurb is attending FORMAT 11, the UK’s top international contemporary photography festival ,and is looking for 20 contemporary photography Blurb books to exhibit at the event. If you want to be considered, email [email protected] with a link to your Blurb book. The deadline for submissions is January 31st 2011.

Greece: Images of an Enchanted Land is the first UK exhibition of photographer Robert McCabe, who captured Greece in black and white during his travels in the 1950s and 1960s.  His images -  made with a Rolleiflex and Plus-X film - go beyond the documentary to create a series of highly memorable, iconic images of a “a once exotic Greece”. The exhibition will be held from 7-16th February in The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street , London.

The PMA 2011 trade show, scheduled for 6-11 September, has been renamed. Held in Las Vegas, the show is now officially called CliQ 2011 but is still presented by PMA International. Besides being the new name of the largest annual international convention and trade show, CliQ is also “a community united by the passion of photography, images and motion”. For $25 a year, anyone can be part of this community and get a pass into the exhibit floor at CliQ 2011, 20% discount on ACDSee Photo Manager 12 and certain subscriptions to the Lynda.com online training library, and more.

Website: CliQ

To raise the final portion of funds to transform its Ramillies Street Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery will stage a charity auction at Christie’s South Kensington on Thursday, 17 February 2011. The event will comprise a Live and Silent Auction, offering nearly 70 lots. From Helmut Newton to Rineke Dijkstra, Sebastião Salgado to Corinne Day, the works on sale will reflect some of the extraordinary talents who have exhibited at the Gallery during its 40 year history. The works will be on public display at Christie’s South Kensington from Saturday 12th until Thursday 17th February. Christie’s South Kensington saleroom is located at 85 Old Brompton Road, London.