Photography Changes Everything: Details for 2018 Brighton Photo Fringe announced

Posted 10 August

Barry Falk, from the series Thresholds of the Mind, 2018

This October, Brighton Photo Fringe presents its 8th edition along the south east coast of England.

One of the largest and most inclusive photography festivals in the UK, BPF18 takes inspiration from Marvin Heiferman’s 2012 book and project for the Smithsonian Photography Initiative: click! photography changes everything. It collated “a series of original essays, stories and images that explore the many ways photography shapes our culture and our lives”. It explored how photography changes “who we are, what we do, what we see, where we go, what we want and what we remember.”

Photography is not just a recording device, it actively influences how we see and understand the world and how we live in it. When poet Walt Whitman described “the democracy of photography” and said the power of photography was in its "knack of catching life on the run, in a flash, as it shifted, moved, evolved", he could not foresee just how integral photography would be in all our lives and just how addicted to photography we would become.

Now billions of photos are created every day. We speak in photography. It’s a powerful medium and a great communicator. It’s impact is nothing short of life­changing. BPF believes it is vital to democracy for us to understand this and to learn how to read and interpret images and to put them to good use.

By showcasing a vast range of photography in our festival we hope to engage you, and the communities around you, in debate about how photography shapes our lives and how we might harness it to create a better world. Through these images, we want you to think and talk about how photographs can inspire new feelings, thoughts and actions. And we want to inspire you to use photography in new ways.

Join us to develop new ways of seeing together; experiment with photography; and tell us how photography changed your life.

THE BPF18 PROGRAMME INCLUDES

  • A series of self ­curated exhibitions in pop­up venues in Brighton, Hove, Hastings and Worthing.

  • OPEN18 SOLO at ONCA with an installation by winner Sarah Howe and a showreel of twenty other shortlisted artists.

  • OPEN18 Moving Image at ONCA, a selection of 10 moving image works

  • OPEN18 Young Photographers, twenty selected artists on the Outdoor Hub

  • OPEN18 Participate, our new community project for the Outdoor Hub

  • Collectives’ Hub at Phoenix Brighton, showing 10 collectives and work by Metro Imaging staff and mentees.

  • Artist Residency at Colonnade House, Worthing by Jack Latham

  • Photo Hastings Hub at Hastings Arts Forum with ‘Not the Final Major Project’

  • Trainee Curators Programme for 3 emerging curators.

  • Danny Wilson Memorial Award, with 3 awards: Professionals’ Choice, Trainee Curators’ Choice and the People’s’ Choice.

  • Instagram Project: #ThisPhotoChangedMyLife

  • International Festival Showcase, ACCA, University of Sussex, 27 October


    KEY FESTIVAL DATES

  • 29 September – Launch Events from 5pm.

  • 30 September – Talk by Sarah Howe, OPEN18 Winner

  • 20 & 21 October – Photo Publishers Market

  • 27 October – Panel Discussion and International Festival Showcase, ACCA Various dates – Talks, Workshops, Guided Tours.

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  • Support us

    Help raise match funding for BPF20. You can donate here.

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    Patrons have the opportunity to enjoy a close relationship with the team at Brighton Photo Fringe, as well as meeting our impressive array of photographers and curators.

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  • Volunteers

    BPF is a registered charity and a volunteer-led organisation without ongoing core funding. We operate through collective and partnership working and the hugely generous gifts of time that all kinds of people offer to us.

    There are many opportunities to get involved through volunteering across the festival and its exciting programme of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings, tours and more.

    If you would like to volunteer with us please email kate@photofringe.org

    Find out more here

  • About us

    Brighton Photo Fringe is a volunteer-led, collaborative platform providing essential professional development opportunities and peer-support for emerging lens- based artists.

    Committed to equality and diversity, BPF’s year-round programme fosters ambition, innovation and self-reliance in artists; nurtures confidence and creativity in participants; and inspires audiences with extraordinary images in unexpected places.

    Every two years in October Brighton Photo Fringe organises a free city-wide open-access fringe festival of new photography.
    Read more about us here

  • Contact

    Festival Manager: Kate O'Neill

     

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