Welcome to the twenty-first annual Hereford Photography Festival
This year’s programme spans the broad theme of Movement, be that political, geographical, or physical. Simon Bainbridge, editor of the British Journal of Photography curates our exhibition at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery with an impressive selection of international photographers including Vanessa Winship, recent recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson award and her partner George Georgiou, currently exhibiting at the Musuem of Modern Art in New York.
CommonLand, our commissioning and partnership program, continues to showcase some of the best work in contemporary photography, video art and socially-engaged practice. We present new work by British photographer Jason Larkin who has been working across Herefordshire over the last year to document the changing economy through the change in use of our rural buildings.
The festival also premiers the first solo exhibition by parkour photographer Andy Day, which goes on to tour the UK following the festival. OPEN HERE, our open submission exhibition, presents the best up-and-coming photographic talent in the UK and beyond. With such a wealth of talent it can be hard to pick a favourite, but please visit the exhibition and cast your own vote.
The festival itself moves across borders, with 36 exhibitions 25 events in Wales, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Birmingham and an HPF fringe of 14 exhibitions showcasing early career artists. Furthermore this year sees the first international partnership, with Krakow Photomonth, who present the Transit exhibitions and a seminar at the University of Wales, Newport. Over the opening weekend we present a series of talks and panel discussion with photographers and curators from the festival programme and hope you will be able to join us.
I would like to thank all that have supported the festival over the past twelve months and those who have contributed to this, the biggest Hereford Photography Festival to date. I hope you all enjoy it very much.
Caitlin Griffiths
Artistic Director
Hereford Photography Festival
Time & Motion Studies: New documentary photography beyond the decisive moment
Donald Weber, George Georgiou, Manuel Vasquez, Robbie Cooper, Tim Hetherington, Vanessa Winship. Co-curated by Simon Bainbridge.
Saturday 22nd October – Saturday 26th November
Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm; Saturday 10am - 4pm
Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad Street, Hereford, HR4 9AU
Event: Simon Bainbridge, curator and editor of BJP talks about the exhibition, 1.30pm – 2.15pm. Saturday 29th October 2011
Photograph: Vanessa Winship
Open Here
HPF’s annual open submission exhibition. Alberto Maserin, Alex Currie, Barry Cawston, Celine Marchbank, Chiara Tocci, Cordelia Weedon, Corinne Silva, Douglas Ljungkvist, Elisa Noguera, Enrico Abrate, Jenny Hardy, Jim McKeever, Jo Gane, Jo Metson Scott, Jon Wyatt, Kelly Hill, Liz Orton, Lydia Goldblatt, Martina Geccelli, Marysa Dowling, Thomas Ball & Toby Coulson.
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November.
Monday to Saturday 10am – 8pm; Sunday 11am – 2.30pm
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR
Photograph: Kelly HIll
Semblance - A Change in Place: Jason Larkin
New commissioned work made in Herefordshire.
Jason Larkin is an internationally recognised, award-winning, documentary photographer. Having worked through-out the Middle East and Africa over the last three years for publications including the Financial Times, New York Times and The Guardian, he returned to the UK to work on this important project.
'Our economy is in a state of constant flux, as are the people who work within it, changing direction and learning new skills to survive. The buildings and structures we work in must change too.'
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday to Saturday 9.15am – 5.30pm; Sunday 9.15am - 3.30pm Hereford Cathedral, Cathedral Close, Hereford, HR1 2NG
Photograph: Jason Larkin, Public telephone 1950
Parkour Photography: Andy Day
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm; Saturday 12noon – 5pm RRA Architects, The Watershed, Wye Street, Hereford, HR2 7RB
HPF presents the first, solo exhibition by British photographer Andy Day. Since 2002 Day has documented the rise of parkour through its communities in London,
Event:
In Conversation - Andy Day and Dr Julie Angel
Wednesday 2nd November
2pm – 3pm
RRA Architects, The Watershed, Wye Street, Hereford, HR2 7RB
Discover the world of parkour and action photography.
Free to HPF Friends / £2 on door
Transit
Kuba Dabrowski, Tomasz Liboska & Michal Jedrzejowski, Krzysztof Miekus, Tomasz Padlo, Wiktor Pental, Konrad Pustola, Lukasz Trzcinski.
Krakow Photomonth, Imago Mundi and Hereford Photography Festival plan a series of exchange exhibitions, events and publications over 2011/2013, bringing artists, photographers, curators and writers together on issues around migration, partition and changing boundaries in the new Europe.
Transit, co-curated by Lukasz Trzcinski and HPF's Jaime Jackson is the first exhibition in this dialogue of images and ideas, featuring the work of eight Polish artists shown in three venues, including the Krakow Photomonth exhibition Dont Mess with Texas.
School of Film, Photography and Digital Media, University of Wales, City Campus, Usk Way, Newport, NP20 2BP.
Monday 31st October – Wednesday 23rd November
Monday to Friday 7am–9pm; Saturday & Sunday 9am–5pm.
The Globe at Hay, & The Crunch, Newport Street, Hay-on-Wye, Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday & Tuesday 9.30am - 5pm; Wednesday to Sunday 9.30am – 11.30pm
Shire Hall, St Peter’s Square, Hereford HR1 2HY. Monday 14th November – Wednesday 30th November. Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm
Photograph: Wiktor Pental
Re:Create: Kate Owens & Becky Matthews
Recreate, commissioned by Hereford Photography Festival in association with Halo Leisure, celebrates the Olympian ideal in all sports people. Inspired by ancient Greek sculptures and the London Olympics, photographers Kate Owens and Becky Matthews have created portraits of Halo customers in the pose of their favorite God or Goddess.
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday to Friday 8am – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday 9am – 4pm Halo Leisure Pool, St Martins Avenue, Hereford, HR2 7RQ Leominster Leisure Centre, Coningsby Road, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8LL
HPF commission
Manouevres: Mark Paul & Paddy Kelly
Military Training Landscapes.
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November.
Monday to Friday 8am – 6pm (4.30pm Tuesdays); Saturday 9am – 5pm. The Hereford Deli, 4 The Mews, St Owen Street, Hereford.
Mark Paul
A former SAS soldier, and now photographer, Mark Paul captures landscapes of the Brecon Beacons used by the military for training. Armed now only with a camera he reflects back on these familiar geographies from his new position as a civilian and as a photographer.
Paddy Kelly
These photographs, taken in locations that were used as IRA training camps during the 1970s, examine how a political situation can fuse with a landscape and reveal aspects of the social and political context of Northern Ireland: of intimacy and unease and of the highest and lowest peaks in the spectrum of human experience. They ask how an external environment can affect inner states of consciousness and how history can manifest and conceal itself within a place.
Photograph: Paddy Kelly
Site Lines: Alfred Watkins
Friday 28th October – Saturday 26th November Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5pm Discover Herefordshire Centre, 1 King Street, Hereford HR4 9BW
Curated by Simon Roberts and Sally Payen for HPF.
‘Alfred Watkins, (1855 - 1935) lived and worked in Herefordshire. He was a photographer and archaeologist who originated the idea of ley lines, surveyed alignments which revealed the pre-historical landscape and movement through it and wrote 'The Old Straight Track' (1925). Watkins invented the exposure meter called the Watkins Bee Meter in 1890.
In 1907, Watkins was President of Hereford’s 22nd annual meeting of the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society Watkins he was awarded the 11th Progress Medal in the Society's history for his scientific research in photographic exposure and development.’
Dr Sally Payen.
Photograph Alfred Watkins. Courtesy of Herefordshire Heritage Services, Herefordshire Council, collection at the Museum Resource & Learning Centre
The Election Project- Landscapes of Innocence & Experience : Simon Roberts
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November. Monday to Saturday 10am – 8pm; Sunday 11am – 2.30pm.
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR
1 channel video with sound (25 mins)
During my journey around the country between August 2007 and September 2008 for the making of We English, the bank Northern Rock collapsed and the credit crunch unfolded, events that heralded the beginning in a shift in public consciousness about the impending financial crisis. Twenty months later, for the making of The Election Project, I returned to many of the places I had visited and this time, the landscapes were alive not with people at leisure, but with canvassing candidates, political slogans, and echoing with warnings of cutbacks and imminent hardship.
Simon Watkins
ID Generation: Chris Preece & Kerry O'Reilly
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane, Hereford, HR1 1LT
HPF were commissioned by Herefordshire Council to work with young people in statutory care on a project on photography and self-identity. Artists Chris Preece and Kerry O’Reilly worked with young people in the Looked After Unit and at Shypp, the sheltered housing project for young people in Herefordshire.
Participants were invited to document people taking part in their favourite pastimes and help create portraits of each other, which together forms an installation of animated stills and video work at the Hereford College of Arts.
HPF commission
Solsbury Hill: Adrian Arbib
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane, Hereford, HR1 1LT
Solsbury Hill was published to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the 1994 Solsbury Hill road protest, one of the first major anti-roads protests of the 1990s. This exhibition of beautifully reproduced photographs by Adrian Arbib documents all aspects of that protest.
HPF stages this exhibition at a time that young people have staged protests for the first time in twenty years.
HeyDay: Anne James
Friday 28th October – Saturday 26th November Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm Buttermarket, High Town, Hereford, HR1 2AA
‘The photographer Anne James worked with The S and J Club to produce an installation of photographs taken by the group of people over sixty, who meet once a fortnight at the St Nicholas Church Hall in Hereford. The project was a new creative opportunity for the group to share their experiences in everyday life in the community.’
Sue Boulter club organiser
‘I began by trying to get to know the people who came there and introduce myself and to try to get some ideas about their lives and their concerns. Some of the visitors have health and mobility constraints which might and in fact did impact on their choice of photographic subject and style. I also realised that some people were keen to take photographs and others were nervous, and a few suspicious of the activity.
We started with an activity that many were encouraged to participate in, a coach outing to Slimbridge. I used the journey to talk to each individual about basic techniques e.g. not shooting into the light, and thinking about different angles from which to shoot.'
Anne James
HPF commission
Stable: Kathleen Herbert.
Video art installation
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm Rural Media Company, Sulllivan House, 72 – 80 Widemash Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG
Herbert’s super 16mm film Stable was produced in response to a residency at Gloucester Cathedral. During the English Civil War, Puritan troops, in an act of political bravado, used the Cathedral to stable horses. Based on a chance remark that horses had been kept here, for one night she bought horses back. The horses walk freely through and explore the architecture of the space, the camera capturing their sense of restlessness. Hebert draws out the apparent uninteresting or unspoken, redefining social, political, historic spatial narratives
Presented by Meadow Arts
The Den of Iniquity
Tessa Farmer with Sean Daniels
Video animation installation
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November
Monday to Saturday 10am – 8pm; Sunday 11am – 2.30pm
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR
An Insidious Intrusion, Den of Iniquity, Nest of Skeletons
Tessa Farmer’s stop motion animations with Sean Daniels involve highly detailed mise-en-scenes of fairies engaged in spectacular battle with insects and animals. Her fairies, fabricated from plant roots, insect carcasses and other natural materials, resemble apocalyptic beings, fragile looking half-insect, half human. With a mix of horror and humour Tessa Farmer is creating a modern allegory of the human impact on the natural world.
Presented by Meadow Arts
Change the world or go home: TROVE No. 26 Non obsolescence
Curated by Charlie Levine, TROVE
Saturday 29th October – Day 30th December 2011Friday – Sunday 12 noon- 5pm or by appointment
DownStairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire HR2 9NA
Minnie Weisz’ camera obscura, Jo Gane’s collodian and Matthew Andrew’s film photography all represent an era of photographic history; these formats changed the world, revolutionised documentation and altered our perceptions of life and truth. These artists represent how our views of the world changed, and these artists suggest a possible reason why the everyman photographer may want to go home.
Photograph: Ancient and Modern, Jo Gane, Collodion print, 2011
A Social Landscape
University of Wales, Newport MA/MFA 2nd Year Work in Progress
Friday 28th October – Saturday 26th November. Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm. Buttermarket, High Town, Hereford, HR1 2AA
Kerry Bannen, Lorna Evans, Carey Gough, Gillian Kalisky, Shane Lynham, Elizabeth Clare North, Alison Tanner, Christina Williams.
The last twenty years have seen huge shifts in the definition of documentary practice. The photograph can no longer be seen as an objective record. The work included in this exhibition has been developed within a demanding critical framework that requires students to continually question their process.
All of the photographers are in one way or another documenting the social landscape, be it Kentucky, Saint David’s, California or Paris. The work is at a half-way point for some students and two-thirds of the way through for others. The exhibition should be seen as a preview of the final work, which will be presented at the City University Campus Univeristy of Wales, Newport in June 2012.
IMAGE (clockwise) by Christina Owen Williams, Gillian Alexandra Kalisky, Shane Lyham, Carey Gough
Graduate Prize
Kerry O’Reilly & Mark Paul
Tuesday 1st November – Sunday 27th November. Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm. Applestore Gallery, 3 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DF
HPF's anual Graduate Prze from HCA.
Preview
Tuesday 1st November
4pm-6pm
Applestore Gallery, 3 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DF
Join photographers Kerry O’Reilly and Mark Paul for the opening of their new exhibition.
Free
In Conversation
Saturday 12th November
4pm-5pm
Applestore Gallery, 3 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DF
Kerry O’Reilly and Mark Paul chat to Caitlin Griffiths, Artistic Director of HPF.
Free to HPF Friends / £2 on door
Photograph: Mark Paul
Young Person’s Photography Competition
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November. Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm. Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane, Hereford, HR1 1LT
The 2011 HPF & HCA Young Person’s Photography Competition attracted over 150 entrants from young people from across the region. Young photographers from Birmingham to Herefordshire sent in their artwork for selection on the theme of Movement.
HPF is proud to help promote and show the work of young photographers and hope that it will lead to a new generation of people taking part in and enjoying the festival. Movement is the subject of a community group film by the Shoot Out project from the Rural Media Company, the film is made by young people aged 13-19, to view the film go to: www.shootout.org.uk
Photograph: Fergus McKeown
A Body of Work
New work commissioned by DanceFest & HPF
Saturday 29th October – Sunday 27th November. Monday to Saturday 7am -6pm; Sunday 9am – 6pm. Boston Tea Party, 18 Broad Street, Worcester WR1 3NF
Body of Work is a partnership commission between HPF and Dancefest to create works that celebrate the achievements of Dancefest and mark its 21st anniversary (as well as HPF's!) through creative portraits of their professional dancers. Artists Gigi Giannella and Kate Brookes have worked with the professional dancers to create an engaged portrait of Dancefest.
Dancefest is the dance development organisation for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and runs a vibrant year round programme with professional contemporary dancers that includes classes, projects and performances with all age ranges and abilities across the two counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
HPF Commission
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Company - Chiara Tocci
New work commissioned by DanceFest & HPF
Company
Chiara Tocci
Friday 11th November – Sunday 27th November
Monday to Sunday 7am - 9pm
Castle House Hotel, Castle Street, Hereford, County of Herefordshire, HR1 2NW
The Festival has always worked to promote Herefordshire nationally as a centre for photography. In its commissions HPF celebrates Herefordshire's uniqueness. This year Company will be an exhibition of new commissioned work specifically focusing on Herefordshire businesses. The artist has visited and taken photographs of 5 different businesses in Herefordshire for this project.
Architype: Photography & Architecture
Leigh Simpson
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November. Monday to Saturday 10am – 8pm; Sunday 11am – 2.30pm. The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR
Photographs by Leigh Simpson of a selection of Architype’s built projects. The exhibit includes a number of contact sheets revealing a process of observation over a period of time. Some sequences appear cinematic and imply movement, as the angle and position of the camera changes.
‘The main problem that a photographer has to overcome is the fact that a building is the ultimate three-dimensional object and a photograph is the definitive two-dimensional one. Either way, the photographer will loose or at best only be able to tell part of the story'.
Mark Lumley
Archetype Photography & Architecture, West Office, Upper Twyford, Hereford, HR2 8AD
Don’t Mess with Texas
Tomasz Liboska and Michal Jedrzejowski
A Krakow Photomonth exhibition
Monday 14th November – Wednesday 30th November Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm. Hereford Shire Hall, St Peter’s Square, Hereford HR1 2HY
'We set off to Texas in 2009, 155 years after the first wave of the Silesian exile. We came to Panna Maria – the first Polish parish on the American mainland. We visited homes, schools, churches and bars. We were looking for Moczygeba, Labus, Janysek and other settlers from Silesia. We found Texans in jeans and cowboy boots, Republican views and the all-pervasive “Don’t Mess with Texas”.
We learned their stories, and heard tales of ancient and modern homeland. Each one is a multi-generational saga interwoven with sorrow, but also a sense of joy and fulfillment. Among our heroes there are farmers, businessmen, clergymen, musicians, and writers. Who are the descendants of the Silesian pioneers today? We couldn’t find the answer. We don’t need one.'
HPF & The Crunch
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday & Tuesday 9.30am - 5pm; Wednesday to Sunday 9.30am – 11.30pm The Globe at Hay, Newport Street, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR3 5BG
The Globe at Hay hosts part of HPF's Transit exhibition as well as two photographer's talks during Crunch 2011, The art and philosophy festival at Hay.
Lukasz Trzcinki: Take Me (essay from the New Europe project) - Photographs inspired by amateur pictures of Moldavian women, placed on the internet to get the attention of men from western countries looking for a wife from the East.
Konrad Pustola: Unfinished Houses- The economic and social transformation after 1989 set off a big construction boom, mostly an outcome of a permanent undersupply of living space during the time of communism in Poland. But by the end of 1990 the economy started to decline resulting in serious depression in the beginning of the new millennium.
photograph: Lukasz Trzcinki, Take Me
HPF Photographer’s talks at Crunch 2011:
Saturday 19th November
2.30pm Adrian Arbib 'Photography and Freedom'
Adrian Arbib studied photography at the London College of Printing. Focusing on indigenous land rights, he has worked all over the world including in Africa, West Papua, India and Mongolia. His photographs have been widely published in the world’s press. In 1997 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Cherry Kearton Medal for his work with indigenous groups.
3.30pm Benjamin James Dixie
Dixie's photography presentation centres on his work as Communications Specialis,. UN operations, Sri Lanka and the circumstances leading to the 'war without witness'. Dixie took part in the recent Channel Four documentary ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’
For tickets: www.theglobeathay.org
Dixie will also be showing two exhibitions for HPF Fringe of his work at Addyman books, 39 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye
Crunch speakers:
Artists Susan Hiller and Jake Chapman, novelist Mark Haddon, and Serpentine Director Hans Ulrich Obrist are just a few of the guests who’ll be answering the big questions behind this year’s theme, ‘Awake in the Universe’. We’ll be exploring the role played by art and creativity in making us alive.
From Exile to Freedom- Polish Expats
Sunday 13th November – Wednesday 30th November
Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm. Hereford Shire Hall, St Peter’s Square, Hereford HR1 2HY
A photography and multi-media exhibition by the Birmingham based Polish Expats Association, which aims to portray the new Polish migration to the UK. It presents their heritage and culture and demonstrates how the new communities are being formed. The project introduces the Polish communities to wider society as knowledge about Poles is very stereotypical and the media coverage is mainly negative. The exhibition presents individual histories, showing the reason for the migration, and combating negative stereotypes.
Recent migration influx is not purely economic; Polish communities are active, have long histories, reach, traditions and culture. The Polish Expats Association believe that bringing this understanding will benefit all the communities and improve integration and community cohesion.
Presented by Herefordshire Council's diveristy team.
www.fromexiletofreedom.org.uk
Rush Hour
Paul Howard and David Matthews
In partnership with PVA Media Lab
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November, Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm. Rural Media Company, Sullivan House, 72 – 80 Widemash Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG
Created in collaboration with the writer, David Matthews, in 2006 and 2007 to coincide with the 200 year anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act.
Shot as a single-take in Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown and recorded at the Sierra Leone State Television Studios with the street theatre group, The Freetong Players.
Exhibited throughout 2007 as an immersive three-channel projection with surround sound at specific locations in the UK with direct links to the slave trade. Exhibited in 2010 as a three-channel LED-screen installation with surround sound in the inaugral exhibition, 'Plug In' at MAC (Midlands Arts Centre) in Birmingham. "Rush Hour gives the exhibition a true sense of globalisation at work. A single tracking shot courses through a static crowd in Free Town, Sierra Leone. The film beautifully encapsulates Marshall McLuhan's idea of the global village, where we see western influences alongside truly local culture." Simon Poulter, Curator
Paul Howard is an associate artist of PVA MediaLab, Bridport
Rush Hour was created with in kind support from PVA MediaLab.
Video still
The Picket. Thresholds, boundaries and borders.
Ned James & the Swifts, Saulius Leonavicius, Various Artist, Dan Bosworth, Rhiannon Adam, Charlie Hurcombe,
Tuesday 1st – Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Open by appointment
PITT studio space, 62 Chestnut Walk, Worcester, WR1 1PR
Photography, installations and slide projections.
Private View Tuesday 1st November 6-8pm
www.pittstudio.co.uk
photograph IN-GER-LAND Courtesy of the artist Various Artist
Saulius Leonavicius
Saturday 5th November – Saturday 5th December 2011
Check website for opening times. www.divisionoflabour.co.uk
54 Cowleigh Rd, Rear of 6 North Malvern Road, Malvern
WR14
This is the inaugural show for Division of Labour, a new contemporary art gallery based in the UK. Various sites in Malvern will play host to a series of exhibitions during 2012.
Saulius Leonavicius lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. This, his first solo presentation in the UK, is new work specially commissioned for the Hereford Photography Festival. The presentation is based on the word ‘zudysio’ which translates as ‘I’ll Kill’. This text appeared on posters across Vilnius advertising a new play, of the same title. The posters were censored and instantly covered-up. Saulius is interested in using this text in a different context.
Represented by Pitt Studios and Gallery
Private View Friday 4th November 6-8pm
Walking in my shoes
A Photovoice exhibition
Friday 28th October – Friday 25th November. Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm. Rural Media Company, Sullivan House, 72 – 80 Widemash Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG
Walking in My Shoes - PhotoVoice Photo Trail
Featuring work by seven talented photographers trained through PhotoVoice's groundbreaking projects in the UK, this exhibition presents a truly diverse selection of perspectives and experiences of life in Great Britain. Visitors are invited to discover new ways of looking at their homeland, and to consider viewpoints and facets of life in Great Britain that they may have never considered.
Photographers showcased in Walking in My Shoes include one blind and one partially sighted photographer, both of whom use sensory photography techniques to capture and share their thoughts and experiences. Also showcased are photographs by two young people living in supported housing in Hackney, a wheelchair-using photographer, a young person with experience of homelessness on the streets of Glasgow, and a young Afghan photographer who is working to establish a new life in Britain having arrived as an unaccompanied refugee a few years ago.
An audio trail featuring audio captions, soundscape and quotes from the photographers will be available for download from the PhotoVoice and HPF websites during the exhibition.
Image: Toryglen: I love to hate it and hate to love it.
© Sarah McIntyre 2010 / Fairbridge / PhotoVoice
See it Our Way
PhotoVoice & The Photographic Angle
Monday 31st October - Wednesday 23rd November 2011. Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am- 3.30pm
Fotofilia Gallery, 20 Regent Parade (off Caroline St), Birmingham, West Midlands B1 3NS
Young people speak out about the risks and root causes of human trafficking in their communities.
Trafficking is the term used to describe the trade in people, for whatever reason. It could be for manual labour, domestic work, prostitution, begging rings or babies for childless couples. In all cases, someone is making money out of another human being; it is modern day slavery. The issue is widespread, and often simplified in the media so that activities that involve the exploitation and degradation of a human being are not perceived as trafficking, or even as a crime.
In 2010, international charities PhotoVoice and World Vision joined forces to run photography workshops with young people from communities affected by human trafficking and child slavery across Middle East and Eastern Europe. The countries involved were Albania, Armenia, Lebanon, Romania and Pakistan. The risks and realities of human trafficking are different in each country and between them they represent source, transit and destination countries used by traffickers.
The young people participating in the project used their new photography skills to explore the risks and impact of human trafficking on them and their communities. In some cases this process caused them to reconsider what can count as exploitation. The work is being used locally and internationally to raise awareness and myth-bust about the reality of human trafficking and to shed light on what can be done to stop people becoming victims to exploitation.
This exhibition has been generously curated and produced by The Photographic Angle (http://thephotographicangle.co.uk) as part of the Voices exhibition that is touring Britain throughout September – December 2011. The Photographic Angle holds free exhibitions that travel across the UK transforming vacant spaces into temporary galleries. The exhibitions showcase the contemporary work from students, graduates and enthusiasts of the art of photography giving the public the chance to see the current practices from this dynamic field.
PhotoVoice is an international charity that designs and runs participatory photography projects with marginalised and vulnerable communities in order to give them a means to speak out, be heard and become active agents for social change.
www.photovoice.org
Opening Event
Monday 31st October 2011
5.30pm
Curator’s talk
Monday 31st Ocotber
5.30pm
Image: Ragpicking. This ragpicker was playing and fell down and started laughing.
© Ismail 2010 / World Vision / PhotoVoice
War Without Witness - Benjamin James Dixie
Mon - Sat 10.00 - 5.30
Sundays 10.30 - 5.30
Addyman books, 39 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye
Dixie's photography centres on his work as Communications Specialist, UN operations, Sri Lanka and the circumstances leading to the 'war without witness'. Dixie took part in the recent Channel Four documentary Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, an investigation into the civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers. The documentary's shocking video evidence of alleged war crimes against the civilian population caught in the conflict by the Sri Lankan government forces.
‘On the 12th September 2008 the GoSL told the UN that they could not guarantee our safety and we needed to leave Kilinochchi. The UN gave the remaining 8 internationals, myself included, 48 hours to pack our offices, secure items, and try and gain passes from the Tigers to evacuate our staff and their families. The Tigers did not give passes to our staffs families and I therefore had the impossible job of trying to advise and counsel my staff on what to do – to stay and try to protect their families – or to come with us to the ‘safety’ of the government areas. This decision for my staff and myself was too much to bear and those final 48 hours were charged with the deepest emotions I’ve ever witnessed. 24 of my staff remained behind and many of them were forcibly recruited by the Tigers and had to fight, 8 of them died
Photogrpahers Talk: Dixie speaks about his experiences in Sri Lanka during Crunch 2011 at The Globe at Hay, Saturday 19th November at 3:30pm.
Square Magazine
Monday 3rd October – Sunday 4th December. Monday to Saturday 8am – 9pm; Sunday 10am – 4pm. The Shrewsbury Coffeehouse, 5 Castle Gates, Shrewsbury, SY1 2AE
The lens element is a circle.
The eye is a ball. Stamps, TV screens, business cards are rectangular. The pubis is a triangle, Italy is shaped like a boot, a kite is a diamond.
A pound coin is a disk and a cigarette is cylindrical (a tea bag, on the other hand, is pretty shapeless).
But a photograph is square.
That’s the way it is.
It is a fundamental law of the universe, there’s nothing we can do about it.
We’ll just have to deal with this and that’s why we created Square Magazine.
We are a multilingual quarterly. We publish Big Names alongside amateurs. We show native 6x6, Polaroid, iPhonography, shots from Holga cameras and Blads and everything in between. We also show digital crops, because a square is in the eye, not necessarily in the camera.
The magazine is free to read from www.squaremag.org and free to contribute to.
Out of England Images from Overseas
John Bulmer
Saturday 29th October – Saturday 26th November. Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am – 4pm. Art 360, 38 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DG
John Bulmer left Cambridge in 1960 at just the right moment to join the new band of photo-journalists recording the changes sweeping through Britain in the sixties. Having sold pictures to Life Magazine while still at university, his bold approach took him to the top of the profession, and his innovative work with colour photographs got his pictures into the new magazines – his image was used for the first cover of the first colour supplement, the Sunday Times, and he continued to work regularly for the Sunday Times and others such as Town and the Daily Express.
Although John's work documenting the changing urban landscapes of northern England won him huge acclaim, he also carried out more than a hundred assignments overseas during the decade, usually to the more inaccessible parts of the world, at a time when foreign travel was becoming more feasible but many places were still remote and uncomfortable. It is his pictures from out of England that are shown here, both colour and black and white, mainly images which have not been shown before. The photographs capture with elegance and simplicity the grace of people the world over both in struggle and in celebration.
Photographer’s talk - John Bulmer
Friday 4th November
6.30pm
art360, 38 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DG
Tickets £6.
For tickets call 01873 811 330; 07952 485 538 or email art360@btinternet.com
Film -The Painter and The Fighter, John Bulmer
Friday 25th November
6.30pm
art360, 38 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DG
Tickets £6.
For tickets call 01873 811 330; 07952 485 538 or email art360@btinternet.com
IMAGES: John Bulmer
Forêt, Oliver Udy & 28 Day Flower Diary, Kate Owens Holloways
9am - 5pm, Monday to Saturday
Lower Court, Suckley, WR6 5DE
28 Day Flower Diary. From a series of 28 which document the ups and downs of a menstrual cycle, these pictures challenge the idea of a fixed, coherent and unified self. Each bouquet is made up of flowers chosen for their symbolic meaning. It is then annotated with that meaning along with extracts from a diary I wrote over 28 days in my twenties. The bouquets collaged together in Photoshop fracture and break down. They are not always pretty and are often out of control. The diary extracts are chaotic and often contradict the imagery. We should accept as Barthes said the multiplicity of writing where ‘everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered.’ There is no one final meaning to be got at in this work. Just lots of meanings appearing and disappearing.
Forêt
In the latter part of the twentieth century the Ardenne forest came back to life. The local population began to return, taking up their traditional rights as loggers and guardians of the trees. This has been related to the two oil shocks of the 1970s, and the reduction in the local metallurgical industry. Although the conjunction of these two phenomena does point to the economic factors as the primary concern of this activity, in reality, this needs to be put into perspective.
The rejuvenation of logging has enabled the local population to make some savings, but above all it has led to the rehabilitation of certain forms of social behavior. The working of the land combines work with pleasure. The locals work together with friends and family, with picnics around the camp-fire, and meetings in the local departement huts. Young and old are working together in a social model long since gone from contemporary western society. Logging in this way undermines the traditional oppositions between work and leisure, as it also fudges the borderline between market and non-market activities.
Disabled access to Gallery
Free car park
Photograph Oliver Lewis
HCA Student Showcase
Monday 24th October to Saturday the 12th November 2011. Monday to Saturday 10am - 4pm. The Old Mayor’s Parlour, Church Street, Hereford. HR1 2LR
Black and White/Day and Night - Jacob Burge
Did You Want Chocolate Sprinkles on Top? - Camilla Watkins
Monday 24th October to Saturday 29th October 2011
Having spent a considerable time in Japan, Jacob’s night-time imagery expresses the nature of contemplation and self within the modern and anonymous metropolises of Tokyo and Yokohama.
There's just something about an old cafe. They are friendly, unique and they have soul. Camilla’s imagery captures a fading café culture.
Childhood Fears - Jasmin Scriven-Smith
Skin - George Sharman
Monday 31st October to Saturday 5th November 2011
Jasmin explores the notion of childhood fears and nightmares using digital photographic manipulation while George’s imagery playfully depicts body details allowing a fresh look at the growing trend of body adornments.
About Boys - Natalie Hodges
Reminiscence - Carl Gibbs
Monday 7th November to Saturday 12th November 2011
Natalie’s work depicts young men within their personal spaces allowing - and at times challenging - the viewer to construct their own interpretation of ‘male’.
Carl’s subtle interior images focus on abandoned servants’ quarters of a large Victorian country house. The people are long gone but by being presented with views of the past we are reminded of their lives through an eerie lack of presence.
Photograph: Natalie Hodges
A Portrait of Kington
Staff & Students from Hereford College of Arts. With John Bulmer.
Tuesday 2nd November to Saturday 26th November 2011. Tuesday to Saturday 11am – 3pm. Cider Museum & King Offa Distillery, 21 Ryeland Street, Hereford, HR4 0LW
Photograph Oliver Lewis
