Transition, my collaborative installation show at Liverpool’s Look2011 photography festival, opened on Friday to coincide with the city’s Light Night, the festival opener and the start of the National Photography Symposium. Summer appears to have ended just before we pasted our work onto the containers and since then we have been left with incessant rain. Nevertheless we were really pleased with the number of people who made the short walk (swim?) from the city centre and much further afield to help us mark the occasion, and the prints appear to be staying up ok despite the damp. The collaborative process has at times been a challenging one but I think we are all really pleased with how good the show looks. It’s open for another two weeks so please take the time to visit if you are going to check out Look2011. My personal highlights of this weekend’s symposium were discovering the work of Belfast photographer Paul Seawright and listening to a talk by Dean Chapman from Side Gallery/Amber Collective in Newcastle but it will take me several weeks to get around the whole festival.