''Source'' is a quarterly

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published in

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. It is distributed throughout Ireland, Great Britain and internationally.

History

''Source'' was first published in 1992 as a newsletter of the organisation Photo Works North. This organisation had been set up the previous year to promote photography in Northern Ireland. The first editor was the photographer

Paul Seawright Paul Seawright (born 1965) is a Northern Irish artist. He is the professor of photography and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (previously Executive Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Belfast School of Art) at Ulster University in Belf ...

. From 1995 ''Source'' expanded its remit to include review coverage of exhibitions across Ireland and the UK. Since 2002 it has also included extensive reviews of photographic publishing. In 2007 ''Source'' published its 50th issueNews item in Circa magazine
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Coverage

''Source'' is primarily concerned with social, historical or

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uses of photography rather than technical or

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. The magazine deals largely with art photography, in exhibition or

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, essays or in the portfolios of photographs it publishes. These portfolios are selected from submissions, including those from photographers who have attended the regular portfolio days the magazine has run at venues around Ireland and the UK since 1997. However, as well as

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the magazine is also concerned with other non-artistic uses of the medium and has in the past published essays on subjects such as police photography,

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, satellite photographs,

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illustration,

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, photography and

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, and the history of photography. This approach is typified by two columns that have run since the magazine's relaunch in 2007, discussing photography in relation to 'advertising' and 'law'.

Source website

''Source'' has had a website since 1997. Since 2002 this has included a growing archive of all the back issue content of the magazine. Additionally it contains two projects that are specific to the website: oral history interviews and graduate photography online.News story about graduate photography online
. belfastexposed.org. The Source oral history archive consists of lengthy interviews with photographers, curators and writers about their lives and involvement in photography. These are gradually being made available as indexed audio files sometimes up to three hours in length. Graduate photography online, running since 2007 is a large gallery of the work of graduating photography students in Ireland and the UK with each student represented by a selection of their work indexed by the universities they have attended.

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