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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