29th October – 27th November 2010
marks the 20th anniversary of Hereford Photography Festival.
The longest running annual photography festival in the UK, Hereford Photography Festival has presented a broad range of international photography since 1990.
This year, the Festival builds on its strong history of showing work by groundbreaking and leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Rankin and Wang Qingsong, with a major retrospective, new commissions, a series of exhibitions and more.
Starting on Friday 29th October with a launch weekend of exhibitions, talks, workshops and a conference, this year’s festival will be bigger than ever and encompass the city and local area. Entry to all exhibitions is free.
This year’s highlights include:
TWENTY
- a retrospective
Twenty photographers who have shown work at the Hereford Photography Festival in the past 20 years have been asked to lend examples of their current work to form this timely retrospective. The photography on display will include works by internationally renowned names such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Jackie Nickerson and Pieter Hugo. The exhibition will be on display in Hereford Museum and Art Gallery and will be curated by photographer Paul Seawright and Festival artistic director Caitlin Griffiths.
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Images by photographers from across the globe will form the basis of this year’s open submission exhibition, with a unique prize – a £2000 socially-engaged commission for next year’s Festival.
The exhibition will be on display in the Courtyard Centre for the Arts. Closing date for submissions is 31st May.
The Hereford
Hereford Cattle, known by stockmen worldwide as ‘The Hereford’, are a symbol of Hereford and an important part of local, rural industry.
Photographer Steven Brown and documentary photographer Tessa Bunney has been commissioned by the Festival to take portraits of local breeders and their cattle. Bunney will live with the cattle breeders and their families and record their lives, as well as visiting county shows and working with the Hereford Cattle Society alongside artist Steve Brown. There work draws attention to details which often go unnoticed and aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the changing nature of rural life. Bunney has recorded rural life in Romania, Finland and Vietnam. The works will be displayed around Hereford city.
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The IBSA World Blind Football Championship is being hosted by The FA for the first time in its history, with The Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford as the venue.
Ten of the best teams from around the globe will be in Hereford this August to compete for the most prestigious prize in the sport. To celebrate the event, 20 partially sighted students from the Royal National College for the Blind have been working with HPF on an unique project to photograph portraits of the players of England squad.
Examples of their work will be on display over the summer and during the Festival.
