Wideyed is a non-profit photography collective based in the North East of England. Founded in February 2008, the group is dedicated to creating, curating and promoting compelling contemporary photography for exhibition and cross-media publication.

Wideyed's photographers and founding members - Lucy Carolan, Richard Glynn, and Louise Taylor - provide peer and technical support for each others practices, engage in commissions, community arts projects and workshops, explore varied methods of printing, publishing and presenting works, and initiate collaborations with photographers and photography collectives outside nationally and internationally. Collectively they own a high-end Imacon that can scan film stock up to 5"x4", a 17" Epson archival inkjet printer, a pool of cameras, studio and lighting equipment, and the proven expertise to make best use of it all - between them they have decades of experience in a variety of educational, professional and creative photographic practices.

To date, Wideyed has produced in-house four solo exhibitions and seven group shows. Its photographers played an active part in the 2008 edition of the Tees Valley Museums Photography Festival, leading workshops as part of the event as well as curating and producing 'Sisters in Chanel and Chador', young Iranian photojournalist Newsha Tavakolian's first UK solo exhibition. March-April 2010, Wideyed undertook an experimental collaboration with Blindboys photography group in South Asia, leading to the exhibition 'Blindboys Wideyed' and two site-specific interventions in Newcastle upon Tyne, followed by participation in 'BlowUp Bombay', a group street exhibition in Bandra, Mumbai on 22nd May. September-October 2010, Wideyed exhibited and were artists-in-residence at Chateau du Perron in the Touraine region of France. In 2010, Wideyed was also awarded a NAN 'Go and See' Bursary, and in October used it to visit photography collective Belgrade Raw in Serbia.

Wideyed is continuing to explore the potential of crossovers between the online and real world, as well as building on previous successful experiences of international projects, by undertaking creative collaborations lead to the production and innovative dissemination of new works.  In 2011, Wideyed was commissioned by Photo Festivals to work in partnership with ASA Collective on 'Mapping the Flâneur', an installation as part of Collectives Encounter at FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, March-April 2011. Wideyed and ASA Collective then continued working together to recurate the prints produced at FORMAT11 into the exhibition 'Re:Mapping the Flâneur', which took place at Newcastle Arts Centre 14th June - 9th July.

News about Wideyed and its members can be found on facebook, twitter, and its blog.