The Activists of Brighton, Luisa De la Concha Montes
An exhibition showing at BMECP Centre until 1 November
10A Fleet Street, BN1 4ZE
The Activists of Brighton started as a personal attempt to make sense of the summer of 2020 – a historical moment of political turmoil and confusion. A summer that fuelled emotions of anger and started conversations about privilege, identity and systemic change.
Follow the weblink to read more about the artist and the exhibition and for opening times.
Mon - Sat: 9am - 6pm
Sundays: 11am to 2pm
Image of the activist: Kaia Allen-Bevan (TEDX 2022 speaker)
Past events
Private View - A Slow Creeping
Join the artists Kirsty Thomas and Rachel Maloney
at Metropolis Contemporary Art Gallery
17:00 - 19:30
Opening Party at Paxton Glew
6-9pm
Thursday 6 October
Launch of exhibition featuring artists: Richard Heeps, Lexi Laine, Jack Parker and Emily Paxton and printmaker Rosie Emerson
RSVP - info@paxtonglew.com
Private View - Looking For Spiders
Please join us for a glass of wine to celebrate our group exhibition 'Looking for Spiders' featuring 7 artists.
All artists will be present and we look forward to seeing you.
5pm - 9pm
Discussion: Telling Pictures - University of Brighton Research Group in Photography
A moderated discussion introducing the 'Telling Pictures' exhibition and some of the ideas it touches upon.
Open to staff, students and the public. Everyone welcome.
Registration is free, but necessary
6.15 - 7.45pm
Wet Plate Collodion Portrait Session
Throughout the day (11am-5pm) wet plate collodion photographer Simon Sandys is offering tintype portrait sessions.
Come and have your portrait taken and walk away with a unique tintype and piece of history.
Each portrait is £35.
Contact hello@torzdallison.com to book your place.
Jane & Jeremy Photo Book Corner
Every weekend / 1 - 31st October / 11am - 6pm
Come and browse ten Photo Books selected by Jane & Jeremy of the Book End in Brighton. Books selected explore themes relating to Real Utopias as well as community projects and collective working.
The Alternative Archive Workshop
Sofia Yala's image-making workshop will transport you back to a family memory or alternative reality.
In this participatory photoshoot, the alternative archive, will offer a welcoming space where you can bring objects and/or digital/analogue imagery related to your lives and stories. These images will be projected, or the objects will be presented in alternative ways, in which you can play with portraiture and present stories through photography. The series type here to search is a hybrid creation between the analogue and digital realities.
Everyone is welcome to come and be photographed. Yala will be photographing with their 35mm B&W point-and-shoot camera and digital camera.
The outcomes from the workshop will be used for an online exhibition on SEAS website.
Sofia Yala is an Angolan/Portuguese photographer. The artist has an academic background in African Studies and Anthropology. Yala’s artwork explores archival material combined with unexpected encounters in life. Their work considers (dis)construction of identity as a diasporic or transatlantic body in this immense and complex world.-
11am - 1pm
FREE, ALL WELCOME
Newtopias Launch
Join us for some tea and cake for the opening of the Photo Fringe Newtopias exhibition.
2-5pm
Meet the artists
Rosie Barnes, Julia Biro, Susanne Hakuba, Zara Pears, Kim Shaw, Kim Thornton and Verity Welstead from the peer mentoring group (re)casting
Exhibition Opening: Queer Photography II: Identity Displaced
Queer Photography II: Identity Displaced, at The Ledward Centre is a collaborative exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists.
Free entry, everyone is welcome.
A sequel to SEAS’ 2021 exhibition, Queer Photography: A non-definitive survey, the exhibition explores and deconstructs the many facets of queer identity, highlighting how the ever-evolving, multiplicity of queer identities have the potential to engender a world without prejudice and discrimination – a queer utopia.
Opening Event
Join (re)structure members to celebrate the opening of their exhibition and month of workshops and event at the Old Peacocks Building in Newhaven. As part of the opening Lindsey Smith will be inviting visitors to contribute to her on-going project 'The Absent Image'. Between 4-6pm she'll be circulating to collect audio descriptions of a photograph that you did not take.
Live Reading - Lauren Joy Kennett
Join Lauren Joy Kennett for a 10 minute live reading from the text accompanying her exhibited project Paper Cuts. Journal extracts composed of fragmented thoughts, memories, dreams and nightmares will be read to recount LJK‘s difficult journey to becoming a mother. Unsuitable for those under 18 / Trigger warnings - abortion, miscarriage, mental illness
Accessible Photography Workshops - Phoebe Wingrove
Most of us have a smartphone which can be used for taking photos, but how many of us just point the camera and press the button to take a photo without really thinking about what we see and how we’re taking it?
This course with Photo Fringe exhibitor Phoebe Wingrove, will transform your skills from just taking a photo to creating an image and reshaping how you see things. Throughout the six sessions, you will use your smartphone to explore photographing different objects; learn how to compose and edit your images on your phone; and use artistic research to guide your image making. The first few sessions will guide you through utilising what your phone has to offer, you’ll take photos of nature, people, and a variety of objects. The rest of the sessions will give you more freedom to experiment with creating images using the skills you’ve developed. At the end of each session, you’ll pick your best photo to be printed, which you’ll get to keep.
This course aims to share ideas, inspire each other’s visual interpretations and build skills in creating a thought-provoking image.
This course is suitable for beginners to intermediate level.
- 10 October - 21 November
- 6 Monday evenings, 18:00 - 21:00
- White Room, Phoenix Art Space
- £150 for 6 Sessions
- 10 Maximum Attendees
Photology: Prof. Ben Burbridge – British Art Remembers Rave
Monday 8pm, £4
“This talk is about a book project I’m working on about art, cultural memory and the early UK rave scene. It looks at the different meanings that have been assigned to Acid House and Rave during the twenty-five years that followed, from the 1994 Criminal Justice Act to the thirtieth anniversary of the ‘Second Summer of Love’ in 2019, tracing an idiosyncratic history of Britain after Thatcher."
a Photo Hastings event
Film Processing Class
In this short class you will learn how to process a black and white film that you have already shot. We will be using Paterson tanks which are suitable for 35mm, 120 & 5x4 sheet film.
You may process up to 2 of the same types of roll film or 6 sheets of 5x4
Max class size 2.
£45
Meet the Artist
Tom Lee will be at his exhibition South Downs, everyday 12-16 October.
free
Nothing But A Curtain - exhibition opening
'Nothing but a Curtain' explores womanhood and gender in Central and Eastern Europe through photography and moving image. In the summer of 2021, Zula travelled 4,552 miles (7325.80 km) across the former “Eastern Bloc” by public transport, to document how younger generations experience traces of an obsolete world order. Tracing the border known as the “Iron Curtain”, Zula photographed and interviewed 104 people about their personal experiences of gender and womanhood.
6-9pm
all welcome
Self-Published Photo Book Event
a showcase of self-published photo books from an array of talented photographers.
13-15 October
11-5pm
Private View - So There's an Island Somewhere
Private View for Torz Dallison and Tanya Shadrick's photography and written word exhibition.
Join us for this special event where Tanya will be reading her extract alongside Torz's prints.
calibration street action
Throughout the day on Friday 14th October Adam Brown will be capturing reflected light in the streets of Brighton and uploading images to the online 3D gallery in Mozilla Hubs. At 1pm outside the Jubilee Library he will be launching a spontaneous, informal participatory workshop demonstrating some of the techniques used to make the images in the show - participants will have the opportunity to make work, find out more about the project, and ask questions. Free, informal - just turn up, bring cameras.
Richard Heeps Photographer Talk and Q&A
Paxton + Glew gallery host a talk and Q&A with British photographer Richard Heeps known for his highly saturated iconic photographs.
Richard Heeps' seductive, highly saturated colours and sophisticated pictorial structures demonstrate a true love and empathy for his subject matter - be it cool descriptive interiors, still life or landscape. His distinctive style pushes the limits of lens-based photography without the need for digital manipulation.
Free - Booking required via Eventbrite
Private View Back to Normal – A Sense of Familiarity
Bringing together photographic, moving image and sculptural form this exhibition is an observation exploring the themes associated around the definition of normality as an ideal life, a provided standard, something safe, familiar, and comfortable.
Participants: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths | Justine Devenney | Alexander Brattell | Anne Mason | Sophie De Roe | Clare Hocter | Marybeth Haas | Roz Cran | Richard Butchins | Jude Montague | Sinéid Codd | Nicole Zaaroura | Alexandra Vacaroiu | Caoimhe McDonnell | Alison Bettles | Neale Willis | Agness Clark | Patricia Webb | Sharon Haward | Luiza Machado
PV Friday 14 October 6 – 8pm – All welcome
(exhibition runs 12 – 16 October 11am-5pm)
Black & White Printing Workshop
This workshop covers the fundamentals of the darkroom and teaches you the skills to produce beautiful, exhibition quality black and white prints. Tailored around your previous experience, we will cover topics including resign coated and fibre-based papers, dodging and burning, and split grade printing.
All paper and chemistry are supplied. This workshop does not cover film processing and students are expected to arrive with black and white negatives ready to print.
This workshop is suitable for both beginners & those with experience.
Max 3 students. £125
Observational photo walks around Newhaven
Join Hugh Fox for a two-hour photography walk around the town centre, seeking out everyday objects and moments that would otherwise be overlooked, we will discuss what draws us to an object or moment, the importance of light and framing (what you decide to leave in and take out) You will learn how to start training yourself to see things through a different lens, about how images can relate and have narrative, even when they are not connected and finally translating your images into final works of art. Please bring a camera or a phone.
Collage workshops
A free creative artist led workshop, inspired by the Photo Fringe photography exhibition at Rose Hill "Our Own Utopia".
Using the content in our photography exhibition for inspiration, Artist Louise will run a workshop where you will create cardboard collage mosaic cards, based around the animals, birds and the flowers in the exhibition.
12 - 1.30pm
Cyanotype card workshop
Using your choice of media including painting and collage, Artist Juliette will run a creative card making session based around the beautiful wildlife photography in our exhibition.
Drop in Cyanotype create a card or gift tags. Saturday and Sunday 2 - 4pm
Artist Lucy will show you how to create a set of 2 cyanotype cards or 4 gift tags to take away with you. Allow approximately 15-20 minutes for you to create your cyanotype, including developing times. While your print is developing you can explore our photography exhibition.
2 - 4pm
Runway – A Celebration Art Walk
As part of PhotoHastings 2022 Runway (Sharon Haward and Roz Cran) invite you to join a celebratory walk from St Leonard's on Sea to Galley Hill and back.
Walk together, chat, meet new and old friends and then stop at points along the way for a few minutes to stand in silence, breathe, to contemplate and ponder while Runway take photographs of the group.
So don your darkest clothes and join us on Sunday 16 October on the prom outside Azur in St Leonards at 10.00 am. We will walk as a group to Glyne Gap and up to Galley Hill, stopping en route for photographs.
All welcome
Collage workshop
Sunday 16 October 12 -1.30
Using your choice of media including painting and collage, Artist Juliette will run a creative card making session based around the beautiful wildlife photography in our exhibition.
Cyanotype card workshop
Using your choice of media including painting and collage, Artist Juliette will run a creative card making session based around the beautiful wildlife photography in our exhibition.
Drop in Cyanotype create a card or gift tags. Saturday and Sunday 2 - 4pm
Artist Lucy will show you how to create a set of 2 cyanotype cards or 4 gift tags to take away with you. Allow approximately 15-20 minutes for you to create your cyanotype, including developing times. While your print is developing you can explore our photography exhibition.
2 - 4pm
Silences: Works in Book Form by Véronique Rolland
Photographer Véronique Rolland will present three artists books with Susanna Brown (Lecturer at London College of Fashion and former Curator of Photography at The V&A Museum, London).
Throughout the publications Rolland quietly explores the human condition and the natural world, questioning the notions of ecology, femininity, transformation and constancy. The books are designed to reflect Rolland's quiet observations by Jane & Jeremy.
A free event, please book a place on link provided.
Photology: Mick Williamson
Artist Talk with Mick Williamson
for PhotoHastings 2022
All welcome
£4
Proof of Ghosts. In Conversation with Joan Alexander and Bryonie Reid
For this Zoom event, Joan will be in conversation with Bryonie Reid about the making of Proof of Ghosts. Bryonie is a published writer, cultural geographer and artist, her practice explores belonging, identity, place and memory. She will share her thinking about Proof of Ghosts as a means of drawing out the themes within Joan's work.
Visual Memory and the Art of Protest: Nicaragua
This panel discussion is organised in conjunction with the exhibition 'The April Rebellion: Photography and Memory in Nicaragua', on view 17th– 21st of October 2022 in the Atrium Space Grand Parade campus at the University of Brighton.
Participants include exhibition curator Dr. Ileana L. Selejan, and two Nicaraguan emerging artists, along with Dr. Emilia Yang Rappaccioli, Director of “AMA y No Olvida” Museum of Memory Against Impunity.
RE:VIEW
A meet up group for artists, writers and creative practitioners.
This is a group for anyone who would like to share practice in an informal setting. There is no set theme or prerequisite for joining. This is a supportive space to share ideas, show new work, get feedback and chat with other artists, writers and creative practitioners. We invite you to bring your ideas, plans, new work or just yourself.
@metropoliscontemporary This meet up will be hosted within @thomas_and_maloney exhibition A Slow Creeping part of @photofringe
5.30 - 7pm
Free
Private View: Phoebe Wingrove - In the Dark
The exhibition 'In the Dark' showcases abstracted images of HPV experience. The ongoing series aims to ethically visualise sickness and bring awareness to emotional and physical strain of hidden illness.
6 - 9pm
Artists Talk & Q&A
6pm, Paxton + Glew
Underwater photographer Lexi Laine; aerial photographer Jack Parker and printmaker Rosie Emerson discuss the fascinating themes, techniques and processes in their work, shown in the gallery as part of the New Vision exhibition.
Solarisation Workshop
Spend a morning learning how to create dramatic tone reversal images and the obtain the classic halo effect, known as Mackie lines, to your images.
Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of working in a darkroom and to bring a selection of their own negatives to work from. All chemicals and photographic paper supplied.
Class size limited to 2
£60
10am – 1pm
Private View : Elissa Jane Diver and Tolly Robinson
An evening viewing of the exhibitions 'Wilding' by Elissa Jane Diver and 'This Septic Isle' by Tolly Robinson
5 - 8pm
Preview: Fragments of my Journey, Sophia Yala
Join artist Sophia Yala for the opening of their exhibition at Nadir Project Space, 6-8pm
Wet Plate Collodion with Simon Sandys
In this workshop you will immerse yourself in the photographic technology of the 19th Century. You will be taught how to prepare plates, and then using a large format camera you will learn the skills of assessing light to expose your images correctly and shoot Tintype and glass plate ‘Ambrotypes’, which will then be developed in the darkroom.
The workshop is suitable for both beginners, non-photographers and experienced photographers alike.
Places limited to 5
£160 per person
10am - 5pm
Half Term Photogram Workshop for Kids and for Young Adults
Ages 11+ 10am-12.30pm
Ages 15+ 1.30pm – 4pm
The photogram is a camera-less photographic print. Images are created by simply laying objects directly onto light sensitive material.
In this workshop you will learn all about the process, experiment with light and shadow, texture and abstraction and create your own set of prints to take home.
We will be working in the darkroom and using the enlargers with photographic paper and chemicals to develop the prints.
Small class size
£25
Make your own camera obscura with Lynn Weddle
Learn how to make your own camera obscura from a cardboard box. A camera obscura is an ancient optical device that ultimately led to the invention of the modern camera. It allows you to capture images of the outside world by projecting them inside a dark chamber or box. Lynn will show you how to construct a simple camera obscura using a cardboard box, magnifying glass and some tracing paper. You will then be able to experiment with creating ghostly images of your surroundings.
Our family workshops are for children aged 5yrs+ to enjoy being creative together with their parents / carers. Artist-led and inspired by the themes of our exhibition programme they are a great opportunity to have fun and explore different materials. All workshops are free and drop-in so there’s no need to book.
11am - 1pm
free, drop-in, no need to book
Queer Imaginaries Workshop with Farah Way
Queer Imaginaries is a workshop for queer, trans and intersex people to explore narratives where they are placed front and centre. Taking reference from pop culture sci-fi or fantasy movies you will be introduced to the foundational understanding of storytelling and world-building.
Workshop participants will take part in a playful activity in which they will be creating a collective photomontage of pictures of themselves holding their phones in front of their faces displaying a picture of their own visions of queer imaginary. The aim of this workshop is to collaboratively explore queer imaginaries and draw trajectories to our plural futures.
The outcomes from the workshop will be used for an online exhibition on SEAS website.
11am - 1pm
Free, but booking essential
Artist Talk 'In the Dark'
Join artist Phoebe Wingrove and curator Ricardo Reverón Blanco in conversation where they’ll discuss the role of photography when visualising (in)visible illnesses.
Free
Photology: Bruce Fleming
Artist Talk with Bruce Fleming for PhotoHastings 2022
Bruce Fleming is a London-based commercial and fine art photographer with over 30 years experience in advertising and corporate work, shooting people and locations world-wide.
He became famous through his photographs of such recording artists as The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Dave Clark Five, The Kinks, The Hollies and The Animals. In 1966, Bruce accepted an offer to shoot the now infamous cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? album.
All welcome £4
Shadowlands: Alternative Photography Processes
part of Photo Hastings 2022
Exhibition, Workshops,Talks & Performances
26 – 30 October 2022
Artists: Alison Bettles | Louise Whitham | Jude Montague | Ian Land | Rachael Williams | Estelle Vincent
Open 11-5pm Daily
The show brings together multiple interpretations of alternative process photography from a small selection of PhotoHastings artists and guests. Processes include portrait cyanotypes, pinholes, cyanotype wallpaper, projection (analogue & digital), photograms, adapted polaroids, shadowgrams, work-in-progress, visual poetry and alternative chemicals especially those featuring organic materials.
Private View: Friday 28 October 6 – 8pm
Workshops: Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October
Talks & Performances: Sunday 29 October from 2pm
Close Ups - Gil Mualem-Doron and Julia Winckler in conversation
An artistic conversation between Gil Mualem-Doron and Julia Winckler about their personal and collaborative practices.
SEAS' founder and Creative Director, Gil Mualem-Doron, will be discussing socially engaged photography practices within his own work and will present his latest project created during his artist's residency at Stiftung-Kuenstlerdorf. With Dr. Julia Winckler, a Senior lecturer at Brighton University MA Photography, they will discuss Photographic Archives, Memory & Migration and the use of photography as a social and political tool.
Free but booking required
5.30 - 7pm
Preview for A City Inside Out - Los Angeles
‘A City Inside Out’ is a photographic study of the city’s connection to nature. The project demonstrates how we can search for and incorporate elements of nature within the built environment. The recent global pandemic has further proved the importance of green open space for the welfare of our society and if we look in the right places, we can find and appreciate elements of nature day to day, in any city around the world.
6-8.30pm
Real Utopias Celebration and Danny Wilson Memorial Awards
Everyone is welcome to join us for a relaxed evening of photography, chat and music. Raise a glass to this year's Photo Fringe festival and all the amazing people and talented creatives who have helped make it happen. Come meet our exhibitors; we hope many of the local exhibitors, and some from further afield will be there too. We'll be projecting images from all of this year's exhibitions, getting hands-on with some Mark Murphy collage and playing favourite tunes (Drop us a line if you'd like to suggest anything for our playlist.)
The evening will also see the winners of this year's Danny Wilson Memorial Awards announced. The Awards were established to commemorate the life and work of the late Director of Brighton Photo Fringe who passed away suddenly in 2008. You can vote for your favourite in-venue and online Photo Fringe exhibitions right up until 5pm on Friday.
Please RSVP to this event here
6-8pm
When unicorns flew over Brighton pier…or how to make an image without a camera or a brush with Gil Mualem Doron
Gil Mualem-Doron image-making workshop will create utopian worlds and dreams through AI technology
Did you ever have a weird dream and simply couldn't describe it in words and didn't have the drawing skills to picture it? Would you like to capture a utopian world but your camera just won't do? In this workshop, using cutting-edge AI technology, photography and photomontage, you will be able to do it. Come and realise your dreams!!
The outcomes from the workshop will be used for an online exhibition on SEAS website.
11am-1pm
Free, but booking required
Creative Writing Workshop
Join artist Danit Ariel for an experimental workshop to explore playful storytelling formats which will help you access an easy writing flow. At the end of the workshop, each participant will have a finished piece of creative writing. All materials will be provided / suitable for all ages / no sign up needed just drop in.
Please email arieldanit.r@gmail.com to sign up
2-3pm
Real Utopias Panel Discussion
Join us on Zoom Saturday 29 October
2pm to 5pm
To mark the end of this year's festival we are hosting an online panel discussion to explore how photography can help imagine a brighter, greener, fairer world. Real utopias exist on the periphery of the mainstream, demonstrating what could be possible. They take the here and now as a starting point for dreaming and visualising a better future.
We are gathering together artists who have all thought deeply about photography’s impact and ethics. Please join us to listen, learn and debate.
The event will be co-chaired by Rebecca Drew, chair of Photo Fringe and Pelumi Odubanjo, writer and curator.
Speakers:
Rhiannon Adam, a winner of The Photographers’ Gallery’s inaugural New Talent Awards in 2019, who is showing work in the Photo Fringe 2022 Collectives Hub at Phoenix Art Space as part of AION Collective and as part of the Photo Fringe OPEN Eco exhibition in Worthing.
Isabel Okoro, whose debut monograph, Friends in Eternity, is a poetic introduction to a world free from the jarring realities of racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia.
Sofia Yala, whose work explores archival material combined with unexpected encounters in life. Currently showing Fragments of My Journey at Nadir Project Space and work as part of Collective 22.
Gwen Riley Jones, Socially Engaged Photographer in Residence at University of Salford Art Collection in partnership with Open Eye Gallery and showing an image in OPEN ECO made with Daniel, from Action in Conservation.
Felicity Hammond, internationally renowned artist, whose first monograph, Property, was published in 2019, and is commissioned to make a new public sculpture in Portslade.
Please note that a recording of the event will be made but not all artists will be recorded.
The event is free and open to all. Donations welcome.
Dream Scapes workshop with Lynn Weddle
Join us to create magical and dream-like realities through the use of mixed media projections! Create dreamscape scenes from everyday objects and 35mm slide mounts, posing for portraits against the projected dream worlds.
The outcomes from the workshop will be used for an online exhibition on SEAS website.
3 - 5pm
free , but booking required
re(structure) - Closing Event
4-7pm
Join (re)structure members for their final weekend closing event and reflect together on a month of showing, discussing and creating photography at the old peacock’s building.
Belonging(s) in Place II
11am - 1pm
How do local objects help us to imagine the stories of a place and its people? Objects serve as a portal into our own memories, bringing us to far and forgotten places, and deeper into familiar ones. We invite you to share personal objects and stories of meaning through cyanotype-making, and together reimagine the lost
stories of found objects. Cyanotype is a simple 19th century photographic printing process which uses UV light to reveal the image. Please bring with you 2 objects of personal significance (which can ideally be laid flat onto paper for printing, eg. flower, chain, fabric etc.). This workshop is donation based.
Please email marguerite123thomas@gmail.com to sign up
Close Ups - Reme Campos in conversation with Gil Mualem-Doron
Reme Campos is a Spanish artist based in the UK, whose work focuses on social documentary and portraiture. Campos seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer, with a particular interest in social issues, gender and human rights. Campos is currently exhibiting their project Trans(ition)at The Ledward Centre for Queer Photography II: Identity Displaced. Trans(ition) is a four-year project of a small group of teenagers, who identify as transgender, making and creating collaborative portraits with them. Last year one of the images in the series won the National Portrait Gallery, Taylor Wessing Portrait of Britain award and the image is now part of the permanent collection Camos is also part of @fotofemmeunited a curators collective that promotes the works of female identifying and non-binary lens-based artists.
11am - midday
Free, but booking required
Fly A Photo
Join Eva Jonas to ‘fly a photo’ in which using images printed onto kites we will explore ways to perform, walk with and fly photography. All materials provided / event will be photographed.
Please email evalouisajonas@gmail.com to sign up
2 - 4pm
La valise des souvenirs, photographic memory.
In an era where everything is becoming faster, where transport takes us in a few hours and just a few clicks to the other side of the planet, both to travel and to respond to the urgency of a new life, a new work…every human being carries with him his past, his memories, and his origins what I call the “background” of life or the backup of one’s own memory. Each participant will present a series of photographs that have accompanied their lives. The photos must somehow trace a life course from ea
Photology: Lucy Bell
Talk with gallerist Lucy Bell for PhotoHastings 2022.
Lucy Bell founded The Independent Photographers Gallery in Battle, in 2001 with her husband, the renowned darkroom printer Robin Bell. In 2009 she moved the gallery to “the Portobello Road of the South” Norman Road, in St Leonards-on-Sea. The Gallery’s ethos is to promote fine art photography in the region whilst maintaining international and national connections.
All welcome £4
Book Launch: Even a maniac can learn to drive by Cole Flynn Quirke
Cole Flynn Quirke’s latest photographic work stages a tender exploration into the vagaries of youth. ‘Even a maniac can learn to drive’ is an autobiographical venture into Quirke’s twenties and sundown on the devil-may-care youthful days of yore. Through a nostalgia of self, depicted with scrapbook style collage and playful curation, Quirke’s book is a swan song to themes of love, loss and the fading of innocence in the wake of adulthood. Limited edition of 100 with a signed print.
6 - 8 pm