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FORMAT FESTIVAL CONFERENCE AGENDA
'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Welcome to FORMAT International Photography Festival Conference, 2011 PROGRAMME 9:00am – 09:45am: REGISTRATION
10:00am – 10:10am: Huw Davies Introduction 10:10am – 10:50am: Sophie Howarth and Sara T‟Rula 10:50am – 11:20am: Nick Turpin
11:20am – 11:30am: BREAK 11:30am – 12:10pm: Yumi Goto
12:10pm – 12:50pm: Mark Sealy 12:50pm – 1:50pm: LUNCH
2:00pm – 2:40pm: Bruce Gilden 2:40pm – 3:20pm: Amy Stein
3:20pm 3:30pm: BREAK
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman 4:00pm – 4:40pm: Michael Wolf 4:40pm – 5:10pm: John Maloof
5:10pm – 5:30pm: Q & A via text 5:30pm – 5:40pm: Huw Davies Closing
5:50pm – 6:00pm: Buses from QUAD to the University of Derby
6.30pm – 7:00pm: FORMAT 11 Exhibition Launch at the University of Derby, Faculty of Art, Design & Technology, Markeaton Campus. Featuring Athanasios Zacharapoulos (aka Lomef) performance: 11x11photographic journals, a music slideshow.
Reception until 8:00pm, return buses provided.
FINISH
FORMAT is the UK‟s leading festival of contemporary photography and related media. Curated by Louise Clements and organised by QUAD in partnership with Derby City Council, University of Derby and Arts Council of England. The festival celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is the place to see an incredible range of new work alongside the best known practitioners of the world.
Pick up a fold-out festival guide and visit www.formatfestival.com for information about artists‟ talks, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, master classes and events.
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TEXT US YOUR CONFERENCE QUESTIONS
Throughout the day, you can text us to ask any of the speakers a question about their presentations. Please keep your questions short and clear and remember to add your name.
At the end of the conference we will select the best questions and request those chosen to ask their question in person.
Text your question to: 0044 (0)7941 470145
FORMAT 11 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Chair: HUW DAVIES Biography:
Huw Davies is a filmmaker, curator and academic. His film work has included commissions for the Arts Council, Scottish Screen, BBC and Discovery Channel which have been network broadcast and screened extensively at international film festivals, most recently winning awards at Barcelona, Houston and Florence.
Over the last two decades he has also taught at a number of universities in the UK and abroad including the USA, China and India and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology at the University of Derby.
Huw maintains an active involvement in a number of arts and cultural organisations. He is currently is a board member of QUAD, UK Young Artists, Derby Theatre and is Chair of the FORMAT International Photography Festival Steering Group. He co-founded the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival in 2004, is the Chair of its Board of Trustees and curates its Artists‟ Trail programme.
SOPHIE HOWARTH with SARA T’RULA
Biographies:
Sophie is a Senior Advisor at the Young Foundation in London. Her work focuses on creative approaches to learning and self-development. She is currently working on a new online venture which will use social media to enhance wellbeing and resilience. Sophie was the Founding Director of The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com), a social enterprise that puts the history of ideas into the service of everyday living. She has also worked Head of Education and Research at iniva and Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern. Sophie is the co-author and editor of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson 2010) and editor of Singular Images (Tate/ Aperture 2005). She is the curator of several online arts projects including www.thedailyaphorism.com and www.streetphotographynowproject.com.
Sara T'Rula graduated from Oxford University in 2006 where she read PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Following this, she worked in Westminster and was a member of the Young Fabian Executive Board where she advised on social media strategies. She has since moved to Liverpool, where she is a photographer, continuing to draw from her background in politics and philosophy, and is currently the lead co-ordinator for the Street Photography Now Project (www.streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com), Project Manager for the Frame of Mind exhibition at Look11, and is engaged with the Redeye Network.
Abstract:
Street Photography 2.0: In the last few years street photography has gone viral. But what does it really mean for photographers that an image taken a moment ago in New York can be uploaded and instantly compared to one taken at the same time in Tashkent?
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Sophie Howarth and Sara T‟Rula will explore how social media is radically reforming the photographic landscape, supporting the development of new kinds of self-managed creative communities. They will discuss how professionals and amateurs rub shoulders online and how new curatorial, editorial and marketing strategies for photographers have emerged as a result of social networking. They will talk in particular about the international community that has developed around The Photographers' Gallery Street Photography Now Project (www.streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com).
NICK TURPIN
Biography:
Nick Turpin started his photography career on the staff of The Independent Newspaper, he is a self confessed Street Photography evangelist, he founded the international street photographers group in-public in 2000 and is the publisher of the Street Photography magazine PUBLICATION. Nick has taught Street Photography at Tate Modern, The School of Life, The Discovery Channel and Yale School of Art.
Abstract:
Street Photography is a unique and vital way of observing and recording our daily lives, where else can we turn for an uncensored and unflinching view of the societies we have built. From around the world a growing community of passionate photographers are sending us back images of the details of life in public places. The internet has propelled Street Photography into the limelight as its practitioners have learned to reach an audience without the traditional patronage of curators, gallerists or editors. in-public's founder Nick Turpin will argue that Street Photography will always be a relevant photographic strategy and explain why he considers it to be the greatest challenge in photography.
Image:
YUMI GOTO
Biography:
Yumi Goto is an experienced independent art and documentary photography curator, editor, researcher and consultant who focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders. She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses and women‟s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as international photo festivals and events throughout Asia.
She is a founder of REMINDERS PROJECT, and has launched REMINDERS PHOTO PROJECT GRANT FOR ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS “Visual Story Telling” with the Angkor Photo Festival as well as a founding member of Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop. She is a curator of the weekly photography blog, REMINDERS: I WAS THERE, and an editor in chief of PDFX12, photo documentary folio.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Ms. Goto is a jury member of the Asian Women photographers showcase for the Angkor Photo Festival, a jurist for the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand annual photo contest 2010, and for the KL PHOTO AWARD 2911. She is a curator for the Photo Forum Beirut and a photo editor of the 100th memorial photographic book project, “THIS DAY OF CHANGE” by the Japanese publisher Kodansha which was nominated Lucie Award‟s support Category. She is a recipient of Women‟s Human Rights Activities Award, Yayori Journalist Award.
Abstract:
Yumi has had some great opportunities to learn about photography projects though her personal collaboration with photographers and activities in Asia. The projects she‟s seen have been related to issues people care about; raising awareness and alerting the general public through images and other visual means.
Photographers she‟s collaborated with are taking risks at different levels to capture moments. Although she appreciates and respects their passion and energy, the question she often asks them is: “Why are you so committed to the subject matter of your photographs?” Her question always expects an answer; there must be a personal connection to the matter. To be so intimate to the subject, what is the secret behind the images? Why do the images have to be brought to the public? Sometimes, they are too personal to share with the public or are even considered taboo.
Yumi‟s photography research has become more centred on finding the answers to these questions, something more fundamental than just viewing more projects or series of work. Some photographers‟ images reveal the answer to her questions, showing her a new way to look at photographs. This has inspired her to take a much closer look at the relationship between the subject and the photographer.
MARK SEALY
Biography:
Mark Sealy has a special interest in photography and its relationship to social change, identity politics and human rights. In his role as director of Autograph ABP he has initiated the production of well over 50 various publications, produced exhibitions worldwide, residency projects and commissioned photographers globally. During his time with Autograph ABP, Sealy has jointly initiated and developed a £7.96 million capital building project (Rivington Place) in partnership with the Institute of International Visual Arts. This is the first new build visual arts project to be built in London for over 40 years. He has guest lectured extensively throughout the UK and abroad including The Royal College of Art and currently at Sotheby‟s Art Institute where he lectures on the subject of global photography. He has written for the several international photography journals, including most recently for Foam Magazine. He has severed as a jury member World Press Photography and Sony's World Photography Competition.
Sealy‟s most recent large scale curated project was “Disposable People”: a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition which opened at Royal Festival Hall in London in October 2008, toured nationally throughout 2009 and was viewed by over 450,000 people, and the first one-person show for Sammy Baloji in London. His book project with Phaidon Press Limited titled “Different” on photography and identity produced with Professor Stuart Hall has received critical acclaim.
In 2007, Sealy was awarded the Hood Medal for services to photography by the Royal Photographic Society. He is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University. His research focuses on photography and cultural violence. He is currently working on a major photography show for Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada which will examine issues of representation and human rights due to open in 2012.
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Abstract:
Part 1 - The Canvases of Representation and the Photographs of Nontsikelelo Veleko
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift, a more human face. – Steve Biko
It‟s now evident that curatorial work in the field of photography across the continent of Africa has, especially in the last 20 years or so produced some intriguing interpretations of what constitutes good „African photography‟. Some exhibitions have been truly innovative and in time have proved to be historically important moments, particularly “Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art”, New York in 1991, the “24th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie”, Arles 1993 and the first “Rencontres de Bamako” in 1994 were exceptional moments in the presentation of contemporary African photography. It‟s true that many exhibitions have done good work in allowing its audiences to discover African photographers but others have simply served to expose a deep-seated conservative approach to contextualizing, presenting and exploiting the complex nature of photography produced by indigenous African photographers.
Part 2 - What Have ‘We’ Done with the Image of Africa?
The very notion of Africa is a complex question and no other geo political space has been so highly contested. The idea of Africa has driven Europeans mad with greed and crazy with the desire to deliver both „benevolence‟ and „civilization‟. Exploiting African resources or saving Africa from Africans has been an international concern for Europe‟s enlightened classes throughout time. Denying the sutural relationship that European culture has with African cultures dates back through classical studies. The open theoretical wound, that the seat of civilization is located in Africa is a historical scab on the knees of Europe that keeps getting knocked off and won‟t heal. If we then begin to think about African history, culture and politics as a series of ideological concerns then we enter into a most dangerous and contested arena, one that questions the very foundation of European civilization. It‟s therefore increasingly clear that the invention of Africa or our understanding of Africa is implicitly linked to, and cannot be separated from the way we have been invited to see Africa, and since 1839 with the invention of photography the medium has played a crucial role in how Africa has been rendered for Western consumption.
BRUCE GILDEN
Biography:
Bruce Gilden (USA b. 1946) has been a member of Magnum, the acclaimed international photographers‟ co-operative, since 1998, and has won numerous international awards. Over the last forty years his fascination for strong characters and individual peculiarities has brought him up close to his native New Yorkers through to Irish horse racing fans and Japanese mafia gangs. As Gilden explains, „I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get‟.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
AMY STEIN
Biography:
Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the West Collection.
In 2006, Amy was a winner of the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize for her Domesticated series. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. Amy's first book, “Domesticated”, was released in fall 2008. It won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.
Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BS in Political Science from James Madison University and a MS in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006, Amy received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Amy is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, ClampArt in New York, and Pool Gallery in Berlin.
Abstract:
Beginning with the government's failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. “Stranded” is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as this collapse of certainty left the country stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief. In this series the car serves as both figurate symbol of American destiny and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns on the road to that promise. The images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through „the journey‟, Stein‟s photographs seek to tell the story of this time through the journey interrupted.
Amy has spent the past 5 plus years driving across American photographing stranded motorists. Finding subjects is a matter of chance and every encounter is tense because of the unusual circumstances of our interaction and the inherent danger of the roadside environment.
Images:
NATE LARSON and MARNI SHINDELMAN
Collaborative Biography:
Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman‟s collaborative work focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and network culture. Their GEOLOCATION project was recently featured on the National Public Radio program Marketplace Tech Report.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Selections from this and our other collaborations have been shown at the Houston Center for Photography; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Baltimore Museum of Art; the 2nd Moscow International Biennale, Russia; RAIQ, Montréal; Peloton, Sydney, Australia; the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; City Without Walls, New Jersey; and the Conflux Festival, NYC. For FORMAT11, they have been commissioned a new site-specific GEOLOCATION project in Derby.
Marni Shindelman is Associate Professor of Art and an Associate of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women‟s Studies at the University of Rochester. She received her MFA from the University of Florida in 2002.
Nate Larson is Faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. He received his MFA from The Ohio State University in 2002.
Abstract:
In our current project, GEOLOCATION: TRIBUTES TO THE DATA STREAM, we use publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of users posts and make a photograph to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text. Our act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and also probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks.
We think of these photographs as historical monuments to small moments, selecting texts that reveal something about the personal nature of the users' lives or the national climate of the United States and the United Kingdom. The photographs also examine the relationship to physical space and the ways that it influences online presence.
Image:
MICHAEL WOLF
Biography:
The work of the German photographer, Michael Wolf, uncovers and documents a subject of vernacular culture – the making and shaping of personal spaces. Wolf grew up in the United States, Europe and Canada, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang School in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 and worked for eight years as contract photographer for Stern magazine, after which he withdrew from editorial photography in order to pursue his own projects. Wolf‟s photographic work in Asia focuses on the city and its architectural structures, and follows on from his interest in people and human interaction.
Wolf‟s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2010); Aperture Gallery, New York; Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere; Museum for Work, Hamburg, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
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His work is held in permanent collections across the USA and Germany, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; San Jose Museum of Art, California; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum Folkwang, Essen and the German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt.
He has won first prize in the World Press Photo Award Competition on two occasions (2005 & 2010), and he has published seven photo books including Tokyo Compression (Peperoni Press/Asia One 2010,) Hongkong Inside Outside (Asia One/Peperoni Press 2009,) The Transparent City (2008) and Pieces of China (2007).
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JOHN MALOOF
Biography:
Photographer, author and archivist of Vivian Maier. Inspired by the late Vivian Maier, he is interested in street and documentary photography.
John co-authored Portage Park (Arcadia, 2008), a Chicago neighbourhood history book featuring 220 antique and vintage photos of the area. He is currently working on the archiving of Vivian Maier's extensive body of work left behind, as well as exhibitions and publications.
Abstract:
Vivian Maier lived life on her own terms. Few people, much less artists, create without the views of others in mind. Yet Maier did just that, a simple nanny who left behind over 100,000 negatives, prints, and home-made documentary films that she hid away from even those closest to her. The quality of her work astounded the world and led to international interest in who this mysterious woman really was. An exclusive slideshow of 300 images from Vivian Maier including unseen work selected by John Maloof, is shown in QUAD gallery as part of FORMAT11.
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At 5:50pm, please make your way out of the building. Busses will be waiting in the Market Place to take you to the University of Derby, where you can attend FORMAT11 Exhibition Launch with an audio-visual performance by Athanasios Zacharapoulos (aka Lomef). The reception will continue until 8pm. Return buses are provided.
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Welcome to FORMAT International Photography Festival Conference, 2011 PROGRAMME 9:00am – 09:45am: REGISTRATION
10:00am – 10:10am: Huw Davies Introduction 10:10am – 10:50am: Sophie Howarth and Sara T‟Rula 10:50am – 11:20am: Nick Turpin
11:20am – 11:30am: BREAK 11:30am – 12:10pm: Yumi Goto
12:10pm – 12:50pm: Mark Sealy 12:50pm – 1:50pm: LUNCH
2:00pm – 2:40pm: Bruce Gilden 2:40pm – 3:20pm: Amy Stein
3:20pm 3:30pm: BREAK
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman 4:00pm – 4:40pm: Michael Wolf 4:40pm – 5:10pm: John Maloof
5:10pm – 5:30pm: Q & A via text 5:30pm – 5:40pm: Huw Davies Closing
5:50pm – 6:00pm: Buses from QUAD to the University of Derby
6.30pm – 7:00pm: FORMAT 11 Exhibition Launch at the University of Derby, Faculty of Art, Design & Technology, Markeaton Campus. Featuring Athanasios Zacharapoulos (aka Lomef) performance: 11x11photographic journals, a music slideshow.
Reception until 8:00pm, return buses provided.
FINISH
FORMAT is the UK‟s leading festival of contemporary photography and related media. Curated by Louise Clements and organised by QUAD in partnership with Derby City Council, University of Derby and Arts Council of England. The festival celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is the place to see an incredible range of new work alongside the best known practitioners of the world.
Pick up a fold-out festival guide and visit www.formatfestival.com for information about artists‟ talks, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, master classes and events.
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TEXT US YOUR CONFERENCE QUESTIONS
Throughout the day, you can text us to ask any of the speakers a question about their presentations. Please keep your questions short and clear and remember to add your name.
At the end of the conference we will select the best questions and request those chosen to ask their question in person.
Text your question to: 0044 (0)7941 470145
FORMAT 11 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Chair: HUW DAVIES Biography:
Huw Davies is a filmmaker, curator and academic. His film work has included commissions for the Arts Council, Scottish Screen, BBC and Discovery Channel which have been network broadcast and screened extensively at international film festivals, most recently winning awards at Barcelona, Houston and Florence.
Over the last two decades he has also taught at a number of universities in the UK and abroad including the USA, China and India and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology at the University of Derby.
Huw maintains an active involvement in a number of arts and cultural organisations. He is currently is a board member of QUAD, UK Young Artists, Derby Theatre and is Chair of the FORMAT International Photography Festival Steering Group. He co-founded the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival in 2004, is the Chair of its Board of Trustees and curates its Artists‟ Trail programme.
SOPHIE HOWARTH with SARA T’RULA
Biographies:
Sophie is a Senior Advisor at the Young Foundation in London. Her work focuses on creative approaches to learning and self-development. She is currently working on a new online venture which will use social media to enhance wellbeing and resilience. Sophie was the Founding Director of The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com), a social enterprise that puts the history of ideas into the service of everyday living. She has also worked Head of Education and Research at iniva and Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern. Sophie is the co-author and editor of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson 2010) and editor of Singular Images (Tate/ Aperture 2005). She is the curator of several online arts projects including www.thedailyaphorism.com and www.streetphotographynowproject.com.
Sara T'Rula graduated from Oxford University in 2006 where she read PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Following this, she worked in Westminster and was a member of the Young Fabian Executive Board where she advised on social media strategies. She has since moved to Liverpool, where she is a photographer, continuing to draw from her background in politics and philosophy, and is currently the lead co-ordinator for the Street Photography Now Project (www.streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com), Project Manager for the Frame of Mind exhibition at Look11, and is engaged with the Redeye Network.
Abstract:
Street Photography 2.0: In the last few years street photography has gone viral. But what does it really mean for photographers that an image taken a moment ago in New York can be uploaded and instantly compared to one taken at the same time in Tashkent?
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Sophie Howarth and Sara T‟Rula will explore how social media is radically reforming the photographic landscape, supporting the development of new kinds of self-managed creative communities. They will discuss how professionals and amateurs rub shoulders online and how new curatorial, editorial and marketing strategies for photographers have emerged as a result of social networking. They will talk in particular about the international community that has developed around The Photographers' Gallery Street Photography Now Project (www.streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com).
NICK TURPIN
Biography:
Nick Turpin started his photography career on the staff of The Independent Newspaper, he is a self confessed Street Photography evangelist, he founded the international street photographers group in-public in 2000 and is the publisher of the Street Photography magazine PUBLICATION. Nick has taught Street Photography at Tate Modern, The School of Life, The Discovery Channel and Yale School of Art.
Abstract:
Street Photography is a unique and vital way of observing and recording our daily lives, where else can we turn for an uncensored and unflinching view of the societies we have built. From around the world a growing community of passionate photographers are sending us back images of the details of life in public places. The internet has propelled Street Photography into the limelight as its practitioners have learned to reach an audience without the traditional patronage of curators, gallerists or editors. in-public's founder Nick Turpin will argue that Street Photography will always be a relevant photographic strategy and explain why he considers it to be the greatest challenge in photography.
Image:
YUMI GOTO
Biography:
Yumi Goto is an experienced independent art and documentary photography curator, editor, researcher and consultant who focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders. She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses and women‟s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as international photo festivals and events throughout Asia.
She is a founder of REMINDERS PROJECT, and has launched REMINDERS PHOTO PROJECT GRANT FOR ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS “Visual Story Telling” with the Angkor Photo Festival as well as a founding member of Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop. She is a curator of the weekly photography blog, REMINDERS: I WAS THERE, and an editor in chief of PDFX12, photo documentary folio.
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Ms. Goto is a jury member of the Asian Women photographers showcase for the Angkor Photo Festival, a jurist for the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand annual photo contest 2010, and for the KL PHOTO AWARD 2911. She is a curator for the Photo Forum Beirut and a photo editor of the 100th memorial photographic book project, “THIS DAY OF CHANGE” by the Japanese publisher Kodansha which was nominated Lucie Award‟s support Category. She is a recipient of Women‟s Human Rights Activities Award, Yayori Journalist Award.
Abstract:
Yumi has had some great opportunities to learn about photography projects though her personal collaboration with photographers and activities in Asia. The projects she‟s seen have been related to issues people care about; raising awareness and alerting the general public through images and other visual means.
Photographers she‟s collaborated with are taking risks at different levels to capture moments. Although she appreciates and respects their passion and energy, the question she often asks them is: “Why are you so committed to the subject matter of your photographs?” Her question always expects an answer; there must be a personal connection to the matter. To be so intimate to the subject, what is the secret behind the images? Why do the images have to be brought to the public? Sometimes, they are too personal to share with the public or are even considered taboo.
Yumi‟s photography research has become more centred on finding the answers to these questions, something more fundamental than just viewing more projects or series of work. Some photographers‟ images reveal the answer to her questions, showing her a new way to look at photographs. This has inspired her to take a much closer look at the relationship between the subject and the photographer.
MARK SEALY
Biography:
Mark Sealy has a special interest in photography and its relationship to social change, identity politics and human rights. In his role as director of Autograph ABP he has initiated the production of well over 50 various publications, produced exhibitions worldwide, residency projects and commissioned photographers globally. During his time with Autograph ABP, Sealy has jointly initiated and developed a £7.96 million capital building project (Rivington Place) in partnership with the Institute of International Visual Arts. This is the first new build visual arts project to be built in London for over 40 years. He has guest lectured extensively throughout the UK and abroad including The Royal College of Art and currently at Sotheby‟s Art Institute where he lectures on the subject of global photography. He has written for the several international photography journals, including most recently for Foam Magazine. He has severed as a jury member World Press Photography and Sony's World Photography Competition.
Sealy‟s most recent large scale curated project was “Disposable People”: a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition which opened at Royal Festival Hall in London in October 2008, toured nationally throughout 2009 and was viewed by over 450,000 people, and the first one-person show for Sammy Baloji in London. His book project with Phaidon Press Limited titled “Different” on photography and identity produced with Professor Stuart Hall has received critical acclaim.
In 2007, Sealy was awarded the Hood Medal for services to photography by the Royal Photographic Society. He is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University. His research focuses on photography and cultural violence. He is currently working on a major photography show for Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada which will examine issues of representation and human rights due to open in 2012.
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Abstract:
Part 1 - The Canvases of Representation and the Photographs of Nontsikelelo Veleko
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift, a more human face. – Steve Biko
It‟s now evident that curatorial work in the field of photography across the continent of Africa has, especially in the last 20 years or so produced some intriguing interpretations of what constitutes good „African photography‟. Some exhibitions have been truly innovative and in time have proved to be historically important moments, particularly “Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art”, New York in 1991, the “24th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie”, Arles 1993 and the first “Rencontres de Bamako” in 1994 were exceptional moments in the presentation of contemporary African photography. It‟s true that many exhibitions have done good work in allowing its audiences to discover African photographers but others have simply served to expose a deep-seated conservative approach to contextualizing, presenting and exploiting the complex nature of photography produced by indigenous African photographers.
Part 2 - What Have ‘We’ Done with the Image of Africa?
The very notion of Africa is a complex question and no other geo political space has been so highly contested. The idea of Africa has driven Europeans mad with greed and crazy with the desire to deliver both „benevolence‟ and „civilization‟. Exploiting African resources or saving Africa from Africans has been an international concern for Europe‟s enlightened classes throughout time. Denying the sutural relationship that European culture has with African cultures dates back through classical studies. The open theoretical wound, that the seat of civilization is located in Africa is a historical scab on the knees of Europe that keeps getting knocked off and won‟t heal. If we then begin to think about African history, culture and politics as a series of ideological concerns then we enter into a most dangerous and contested arena, one that questions the very foundation of European civilization. It‟s therefore increasingly clear that the invention of Africa or our understanding of Africa is implicitly linked to, and cannot be separated from the way we have been invited to see Africa, and since 1839 with the invention of photography the medium has played a crucial role in how Africa has been rendered for Western consumption.
BRUCE GILDEN
Biography:
Bruce Gilden (USA b. 1946) has been a member of Magnum, the acclaimed international photographers‟ co-operative, since 1998, and has won numerous international awards. Over the last forty years his fascination for strong characters and individual peculiarities has brought him up close to his native New Yorkers through to Irish horse racing fans and Japanese mafia gangs. As Gilden explains, „I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get‟.
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Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
AMY STEIN
Biography:
Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the West Collection.
In 2006, Amy was a winner of the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize for her Domesticated series. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. Amy's first book, “Domesticated”, was released in fall 2008. It won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.
Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BS in Political Science from James Madison University and a MS in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006, Amy received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Amy is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, ClampArt in New York, and Pool Gallery in Berlin.
Abstract:
Beginning with the government's failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. “Stranded” is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as this collapse of certainty left the country stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief. In this series the car serves as both figurate symbol of American destiny and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns on the road to that promise. The images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through „the journey‟, Stein‟s photographs seek to tell the story of this time through the journey interrupted.
Amy has spent the past 5 plus years driving across American photographing stranded motorists. Finding subjects is a matter of chance and every encounter is tense because of the unusual circumstances of our interaction and the inherent danger of the roadside environment.
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NATE LARSON and MARNI SHINDELMAN
Collaborative Biography:
Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman‟s collaborative work focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and network culture. Their GEOLOCATION project was recently featured on the National Public Radio program Marketplace Tech Report.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
Selections from this and our other collaborations have been shown at the Houston Center for Photography; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Baltimore Museum of Art; the 2nd Moscow International Biennale, Russia; RAIQ, Montréal; Peloton, Sydney, Australia; the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; City Without Walls, New Jersey; and the Conflux Festival, NYC. For FORMAT11, they have been commissioned a new site-specific GEOLOCATION project in Derby.
Marni Shindelman is Associate Professor of Art and an Associate of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women‟s Studies at the University of Rochester. She received her MFA from the University of Florida in 2002.
Nate Larson is Faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. He received his MFA from The Ohio State University in 2002.
Abstract:
In our current project, GEOLOCATION: TRIBUTES TO THE DATA STREAM, we use publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of users posts and make a photograph to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text. Our act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and also probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks.
We think of these photographs as historical monuments to small moments, selecting texts that reveal something about the personal nature of the users' lives or the national climate of the United States and the United Kingdom. The photographs also examine the relationship to physical space and the ways that it influences online presence.
Image:
MICHAEL WOLF
Biography:
The work of the German photographer, Michael Wolf, uncovers and documents a subject of vernacular culture – the making and shaping of personal spaces. Wolf grew up in the United States, Europe and Canada, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang School in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 and worked for eight years as contract photographer for Stern magazine, after which he withdrew from editorial photography in order to pursue his own projects. Wolf‟s photographic work in Asia focuses on the city and its architectural structures, and follows on from his interest in people and human interaction.
Wolf‟s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2010); Aperture Gallery, New York; Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere; Museum for Work, Hamburg, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
His work is held in permanent collections across the USA and Germany, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; San Jose Museum of Art, California; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum Folkwang, Essen and the German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt.
He has won first prize in the World Press Photo Award Competition on two occasions (2005 & 2010), and he has published seven photo books including Tokyo Compression (Peperoni Press/Asia One 2010,) Hongkong Inside Outside (Asia One/Peperoni Press 2009,) The Transparent City (2008) and Pieces of China (2007).
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JOHN MALOOF
Biography:
Photographer, author and archivist of Vivian Maier. Inspired by the late Vivian Maier, he is interested in street and documentary photography.
John co-authored Portage Park (Arcadia, 2008), a Chicago neighbourhood history book featuring 220 antique and vintage photos of the area. He is currently working on the archiving of Vivian Maier's extensive body of work left behind, as well as exhibitions and publications.
Abstract:
Vivian Maier lived life on her own terms. Few people, much less artists, create without the views of others in mind. Yet Maier did just that, a simple nanny who left behind over 100,000 negatives, prints, and home-made documentary films that she hid away from even those closest to her. The quality of her work astounded the world and led to international interest in who this mysterious woman really was. An exclusive slideshow of 300 images from Vivian Maier including unseen work selected by John Maloof, is shown in QUAD gallery as part of FORMAT11.
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At 5:50pm, please make your way out of the building. Busses will be waiting in the Market Place to take you to the University of Derby, where you can attend FORMAT11 Exhibition Launch with an audio-visual performance by Athanasios Zacharapoulos (aka Lomef). The reception will continue until 8pm. Return buses are provided.
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'Right Here, Right Now'
Exposures from the public realm
4th March – 3rd April 2011 Derby, UK
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