Belfast Photo Festival 2019 Truth

And

Lies 06-30 June Contents

TRUTH & LIES 10 - 11 ...... Controlled Perspective - Korean Perspectives In Photography 12 - 13 ...... Do Governments Lie? - Solo Shows 14 - 15 ...... Double Take - Cortis & Sonderegger 16 ...... Land of Giants - Arno Rafael Minkkinen 17 ...... Margins of Excess - Max Pinckers 18 ...... Portraiture In The Post Truth Era - Group Show 19 ...... Post Truth - Group Show 20 - 21 ...... Pusedo - Alma Haser 22 - 23 ...... Science - H+ - Matthieu Gafsou 24 - 25 ...... Science - Ways of Knowing - Daniel Stier 26 -27 ...... Trusted Memory 28 ...... Truth - i-D 29 ...... Truth & Lies - VICE Group Show

OFF THEME 32 -33 ...... Forgotten Places 34 ...... New Talent - Annual Group Exhibition 35 ...... Personal Identity 36 ...... Photobook Library 37...... Unseen Dummy Award - Group Show 38 - 39 ...... London Alternative Photo Collective

TALKS & DISCUSSION 42 - 43 ...... On My Mind 44 ...... Abandoned NI 45 ...... Panel Discussion 46 ...... Comedy - Have I Fake News For You 46 ...... Talk - Cortis & Sonderegger 47 ...... Talk - Unseen Dummy Award Winners 48 ...... Talk - Transhumanism with Matthieu Gafsou 49 ...... Talk - Oliviero Toscani 50 - 51 ...... Talk - Erik Kessels 52 ...... Talk - Phillipe Chancel 53 ...... Talk - Tenx9

WORKSHOPS, REVIEWS, SCREENING AND TOURS 56 ...... Workshop - Belfast City 57...... Workshop - Printmaking 58 ...... Today at Apple 59 ...... Workshop - Photography Ethics 60 - 61 ...... Workshops - London Alternative Photography Collective 61 ...... Workshop - The Camera Never Lies 62 - 63 ...... Portfolio Reviews 64 - 65 ...... Screenings 66 -67 ...... Tours 72 -73 ...... Parties 76 -77 ...... At a Glance 2 Belfast Photo Festival 2019

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20 Botanic Ulster Gardens Ormeau Park Museum

01. Golden Thread Gallery 10. Place Architecture Center 19. Botanic Gardens 02. The Mac 11. Belfast Exposed / 20. Ulster Museum 03. St Annes Square 12. Black Box 21. Culturlann 04. University of Ulster 13. Castle Place 22. Titanic Belfast 05. Writers Square 14. Bullitt Hotel 23. Framewerk 06. Atypical Gallery 15. City Hall Lawn 24. Vault Studios 07. The Bear & The Doll 16. Accidental Theatre 25. Apple Store 08. Castle Court 17. Queens Film Theatre 09. Gresham Street 18. The Naughton Gallery

6 Foreword

Welcome to the 2019 Belfast Photo Festival, Highlights of this year’s festival include collabo- Northern Ireland’s premier visual arts festival and rations with publications which foreground image the photographic biennial for the Island of Ireland, and society: having exhibitions staged with i-D returning from 6 – 30 June 2019. magazine and the global youth media company VICE. Additionally, representatives from the This year, the Festival has taken the current V&A, Aperture Foundation and The Guardian post-truth era as its inspiration, looking at how contribute to a series of broad, exciting events and photography can be used to infuence opinion; discussion programmes. from carefully choreographed photo-shoots to image manipulation and misrepresentation. As the Director and founder, I would like to “The camera never lies,” the age-old saying goes, personally thank my family, Ellen, Lee and Callum but increasingly consumers are having to be ever- Weir, as without their help and support I could more diligent in distinguishing fact from fction never have brought the festival to this point. This – and photography has a crucial role to play in the also includes the Festival board who’s guidance era where billions of new images are captured and advice has been invaluable over the past ten daily and content is consumed at a staggering rate. years.

Through a range of exhibitions, talks, workshops, Being a new year and a new Festival, we have been screenings, reviews and tours, the Festival will fortunate to welcome new fnancial supporters explore how photography has a particular role and maintain the loyalty of our original partners, in shaping our views. With a focus on sources of whose support has helped us make the Festival authority that many have come to question, from even bigger and better than ever before. the press to politics and science we look at the ability of the camera to depict the truth and the Whether it is taking part in a workshop, attending untruthful, as well as how this ability has been a talk or visiting an exhibition, we hope you enjoy embraced by photographic artists. Presenting the exploration into this new era for mankind and photography as a bridge of sight and not of truth. the role of photography within it.

Michael Weir / Festival Director

7 Truth

And 8 Lies 9 Controlled

Korean Perspectives In Photography

Seung Woo Back / Heeseung Chung / Yeondoo Jung

Focusing on trends in Korean photography, the exhibiting photographic artists make use of controlled perspective and constructed environments to infuence the viewers perception and convey a message.

Yeondoo Jung skillfully invents carefully staged realities for the camera through elaborate sets that when only viewed from a particular perspective do they look true to life. Seung Woo Back takes the approach to a larger scale by photographing miniature cities that depict foreign lands, which appear connected and yet juxtaposed against the more traditional landscape of Korea.

Date: 14 - 27 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, 13 June 2019 Venue: Culturlann Times: Mon - Sun, 09:00 - 18:00 Tickets: Free

10 Perspective

11 Do Governments Lie?

Jump Trump Erik Kessels & Thomas Mailaender

Asking the question do government lie? The Here’s one you won’t want to miss, wholesome Golden Thread Gallery presents three small solo fun for everyone! This is the opportunity of a exhibitions by photographic artists Erik Kessels, lifetime, the chance you didn’t know you’ve been Phillippe Chancel and Marc Lee. Each bringing waiting for. It’s time to take the leap and get the their own visual perspective to a question that has Jump on Trump. Get up in his face and tell him a multitude of answers but is as relevant today as how you feel! ever before Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 06 June, 19:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Times: Tues - Sat, 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free

12 Political Campaigns Battle of Opinion on Kim Happiness Social Media Philippe Chancel Marc Lee

Flashy despotism comes across as a kind of In recent months in Political Campaigns all over harmless chromo. But is it permissible to enjoy the world, the supporters of opposing parties the beauty of the images, knowing full well that have engaged in fercely waged wars of images the decor conceals the suffering of a people? Is on social media. Elections have also long since it possible for the photographer to impose the ceased to be won on the street or in the traditional sensitivity and lucidity of his eye? media— social networks have become the digital market place for political disputation. Philippe Chancel raises the question of the ethics of an image, not one taken from the news and the This Interactive Net-Based TV Show, flters the media, but right from its creation. He responds latest Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube posts to the simulacrum by using an epic style whose according to the leading candidates of the parties aim is to work against the ‘aestheticisation’ of in political campaigns. The bot weaves the posts power. How should one react to the sense of awe into a wild TV show (24/7) in which images, that the Korean spectacle is designed to provoke? tweets, and videos ficker across the screen in Michel Poivert real time. What counts today are the ‘Likes’ and ‘Retweets’ that migrate across the screen as icons in the colours of the combatants indicate their Date: 06 - 30 July 2019 current online market value. While, as users of Opening: 6 June, 19:00 social networks, we only ever see variants of Venue: Golden Thread Gallery our own opinions mirrored back to us, Political Times: Tues - Sat, 11:00 - 17:00 Campaigns confronts us with a view beyond the Tickets: Free bounds of these echo chambers.

13 Cortis & Sonderegger Double For five years, the Zurich-based artist duo Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger worked on a project that not only captivates with its concept, but also through its intricacy and Take aesthetic power. ‘Double Take’ plays seductively with iconic images from international photographic history: Pictures imprinted in the collective memory are reproduced as three-dimensional models – a meticulous bricolage of cardboard, sand, wood, fabric, cotton wool and plaster – and photographed so that they in turn represent images that are astonishingly close to the original scene. But the illusion is humorously broken by the inclusion of elements of the studio environment, along with all kind of remnants from reconstructing the scenes. This portrayal of a portrayal of a portrayal of reality becomes Date: 06 - 22 June 2019 a dizzying metaphysical experience: What is Venue: City Hall Lawn real? And can we trust our perception? Times: Mon - Sun, 08:30 - 18:00 Tickets: Free Artist Talk: 1pm, Sun 9th June (Bullitt Hotel)

14 15 Land of Giants

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Inspiring Belfast toward ideas of a more positive Date: From 01 June 2019 and progressive future this photographic art work Venue: Castle Place, Belfast embraces Northern Ireland’s image as a land of Times: 24/7 giants (i.e. Finn Mcool, Samson, Goliath). Posing Tickets: Free the question, at what point to myths and legends become truth?

Image: Shelton, Looking East, 2005 (copyright Arno Rafael Minkkinen)

16 Margins of Excess

Max Pinckers

Margins of Excess exists at the intersection In responding to our so-called post-truth era, between accepted truth and subjective realities, Margins of Excess proposes a new multi-lay- between fact and fction. The series focuses ered approach to documentary photography, one on the stories of six characters based in North where the defnitions between truth, fction and America all of whom momentarily received entertainment are fuid. The artist notes “I want nationwide attention in the US press. to embrace a form of ‘realism’, rather than repre- senting reality itself. Instead of experiencing Darius McCollum drew the limelight through images as objective representations, we should his compulsive highjacking of trains, Herman see them as proposals, or little arguments. My Rosenblat through his self-invented love-story motive is not to unveil the reality behind illusion set in a concentration camp during WWII and but to perceive the reality in the illusion itself.” Ali Alqaisi for his claim to be the ‘hooded man’ in the iconic photo from Abu Ghraib prison. Each Date: 14 June - 27 July 2019 of these characters maintain their own highly Opening: 13 June, 18:00 personal sense of individual truth but all were Location: Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery unmasked by the press and portrayed as frauds Times: Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00 or con artists. Tickets: Free

17 Port- raiture In The

Hiroshi Nomura / Haruyuki Shirai / Post Yuka Kihara

An exhibition showcasing three exceptional Truth emerging Japanese artists and their responses to the theme “Portraits in the Post-Truth Era,” exploring the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in contemporary photography. Era In line with Belfast Photo Festivals ethos, the presented work develops and supports young talent from the ground up, while showcasing them to the international photography community.

Hiroshi Nomura uses the technique of photo- montage to explore the ambiguous boundary between reality and fantasy while Haruyuki Shirai produces a magical sense of humour. For Yuka Kihara, she takes photographic creation a step further, mixing reality and fction by creating portraits of the unidentifed dead from noth- ing but words.

Date: 07 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, Thurs 06 June Venue: Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Times: Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free

18 Post Truth

Group Show

Belfast Exposed is delighted to present Post its own sense of isolation and separation. There- Truth, an exhibition showcasing the photographic fore, empowering a core feeling of division and works of 20 international artists associated with disarray. the MFA photography program at Ulster Univer- sity, Belfast School of Art. Post Truth explores themes such as separation, mortality, spirituality, and confict. The era of Post Truth is symbolic of social and political focus so fragmented that society has Artist Group Discussion: betrayed itself and is unconsciously cashing in on 06 June 2019, 15:00

Date: 06 - 08 June Venue: Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Times: Mon - Sun, 08:30 - 18:00 Tickets: Free

19 Pseudo

Alma Haser

Pseudo is a series that plays on what’s real and what’s not. In a world where we are constantly told about Fake News, not to believe the frst thing you read or are told. And where social media and the internet toy with our beliefs and acceptances. Alma explores the idea of the fake and the real and the in-between with everyday plants. Here she uses techniques of paper-layering, cutting and manipulation by hand to create multiple images that confuse the eye by contorting reality, similar to a Chinese whisper effect, or the more recent ‘Fake News’ phenomenon.

Opening: 06 - 19 June 2019 Date: 06 June 17:00 to 20:00 Venue: Atypical Gallery Times: Tues - Fri, 11:00 - 15:00 Tickets: Free

For access needs contact [email protected]

20 21 H+

Matthieu Gafsou

H+ focuses on transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to enhance humans’ physical and mental abilities. H+’s photographs are elliptical and have little context. Taken one by one, they baffe more than they explain. Seen together, they weave a web of discourse. Artifcial, they resemble their subject: it is no longer known whether the living die by becoming machines or inanimate objects spring to life.

H+ talks about our bodies, our everyday lives and our relationship to technology, as well as opens up future prospects. No response is given, but the exhibition can work both as a tool to think about a key issue of our time and as a poetic space that confronts us with the absurdity of our fniteness.

At a time when scientifc progress has surpassed public understanding, this exhibition uses renditions and constructions of the artists own making to illustrate understanding genuine scientific phenomena and technilogical transformations, using photography as a bridge of sight and not a truth.

Artist Talk and conversation with The UK Transhumanist Party. 14:00, Sat 08 June 2019 (Ulster Museum, Lecture Theatre)

Date: 08 June - 08 July 2019 Opening: 15:00, Sat 08 June Venue: Botanic Gardens (Stranmillis Road Entrance) Times: Mon - Sun, 07:30 - 18:30 Tickets: Free

22 23 Ways of Knowing Daniel Stier

In his project “Ways of Knowing” German photographer Daniel Stier takes us inside the world of scientifc research to meet the real people whose work, represented in these images by an intriguing array of self-built technologies, holds the promise - and perhaps the threat - of transforming our lives.

Together with photos taken in 17 research institutions across Europe and North America, the images exhibited here include a series of home- made experiments, shot in Stier’s own studio, that seem to ask us to consider the similarities between the scientist’s domain and the artist’s. Both domains, lab and studio, are character- ized by big questions, obsessive convictions and a high degree of specialization. Now Stier has invited us, the outsiders, to look in. We do so with wonder, dismay and, depending on our disposition, even a certain faith.

24 Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 15:00, Sat 08 June Venue: Ulster Museum Times: Mon - Sun, 10:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free

25 Trusted Memory

Jacob Burge / Shelli Weiler / memories are to be created. Memories of these Oli Kellett / Seunggu Kim places become easier to forget, whether they be instagram, selfe factories or fantasy holiday It’s impossible to remember everything nowa- parks that attempt to make the fake, real, there- days. Our internal hard drive is overloaded with fore lacking both meaning and authenticity. information on a daily basis, only a fraction being stored and replayed. Naturally over time, Living both on and offine makes this separation what were once clear and vivid thoughts, end up between real and fake even more challenging. confused and faded. Sometimes it is important to take a few seconds and occasionally to think ‘Where do we come This is particularly prevalent in the wake of from?’ and ‘Where are we going?’ constructed and fake spectacles within which

26 Date: From 06 June 2019 Opening: 24/7 Venue: St Annes Square Tickets: Free

27 and beauty. In recent years they’ve cemented themselves as a voice of youth media, allowing tomorrow’s photographers, designers, artists, stylists and musicians to tell their truth through the pages and covers. Their images celebrate Group Show every young person choosing to live their truth throughout the world, and offer them a platform To celebrate the theme of ‘Truth’ we have provided to tell their own stories on their own terms. a selection of photography from i-D over the past fve years. As a world leader, both in the curation Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 of fashion photography, and in elevating the next Location: Gresham Street, Belfast generation of creatives, i-D has, over its 40 year Times: 24/7 history, cemented itself as a champion of truth Tickets: Free

28 Vice–Truth & Lies

Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 Location: Writers Square Times: 24/7 Tickets: Free

Group Show

We know the textbook defnitions of the words Truth & Lies, but can their meanings change over time? Are they static or fuid? The bold black line we always imagined separating what is true, factual, and correct, and what is not, feels more gray in recent years. The photo portfolios chosen all toe this line as well. Whether it’s Emile Askey’s new series, Monuments Are Forever, where he takes a road trip throughout the South and Southwest of America to retrace the routes of his childhood travels, or Sadie Weschler’s power- ful photos of what was left behind by America’s Secret War in Laos—they all uncover new facts. Even Elizabeth Moran challenges her initial skep- ticism as motivation to use photography and paranormal investigators to reckon with her family’s haunted history. We encourage you to do a double take while looking at some of the selections in this exhibition.

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31 Elliott Verdier / Panos Charalmpidis / Mary Chiaretaki / Giulio Di Sturco / Forgotten Fumi Nagaska / Maria Sturm

Refections of places fallen into abeyance, these photos are but fragments of reality – facts – in Places an attempt to reconstitute a concealed story, shattered pieces, so diffcult to gather and put together. With what is left of their broken dreams and surprising vitality, they are contradictory Neverland’s where great aspirations cross paths with remnants that are found in the country’s landscapes, in it’s peoples minds and sense of identity. Societies rooted in environments where isolation comes into contact with a silent resig- Date: From 06 June 2019 nation. These artists show echoes of pasts that Venue: St. Anne’s Square are being forgotten, that lurk under the surface, Times: 24/7 ready to rear their heads if only someone paid Tickets: Free more attention.

32 33 Annual Group Exhibition New This annual exhibition will launch the new photographic talent graduating from Belfast School of Art’s Department of Photography.

Talent Graduates have built successful careers, won awards, published photo-books and exhibited widely.

Date: 08 - 14 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, 07 June Venue: Ulster University, Belfast Campus Times: Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm Tickets: Free

34 Personal Identity Rachel Cox / Liza Abrossio / Lucie Khatoutian

These projects represent a collective search and celebration of ones identity, being explored through family and multicultural life within our ever evolving settings and psychological frame of mind. For all of us, every photograph becomes a remaining memory of a period in our lives, a person met, a language spoken, a place lived in or a mood you were in. More than ever in a global context of identity confusion and political blur, it Date: From 06 June 2019 has perhaps become more essential to celebrate Opening: 06 June our different origins and focus on the foundation Venue: St Annes Square of our identity, whether is be as a human, an indi- Times: 24/7 vidual or a collective. Tickets: Free

35 Photobook Library

A Cultural Hub in the east of the city. Far more than a photo-book library and gallery, this is a cultural hub with a focus on photography. Featur- ing, photo-books, zines, magazines and artist book dummies from around the world. Chill out and view our specially curated presentations featuring the winners of the 2019 International Open Submission and must see photo-books from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and The Neth- erlands, among many more. The library offers artists, photographers, students, researches and the general public with a unique resource during the festival.

Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 14:00, 09 June Venue: Framewerk Times: 10:30 - 6:00, Mon - Sat Tickets: Free

36 The Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen Amsterdam and Lecturis. The Unseen dummies are prototypes of prospective photo- books, the preferred alternative to printmaking for many independent artists testing the possibilities of their work. A key component in Unseen Dummy Amsterdam’s programme since 2012, the award is designed to showcase the work of exceptional artists from around the world, providing them the ability to position themselves within the interna- Award tional photobook industry. From more than 200 submissions, one winner is selected to have their photobook published. In 2018, the international jury was comprised of Sarah Allen (Assistant Curator, Tate Modern), Tim Clark (Editor-in- Chief and Director, 1000 Words), Russet Leder- man (Co-founder, 10×10 Photobooks), Paul van Mameren (Managing Director, Lecturis) and Małgorzata Stankiewicz (winner of the Unseen Dummy Award 2017). The winning dummy of 2018 was UBUNTU by Rebecca Fertinel.

Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 14:00, 09 June Venue: Framewerk Times: 10:30 - 6:00, Mon - Sat Tickets: Free

37 Constructed Landscapes with

Dafna Talmor 38 Slide-collaging Workshop:

In this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found vintage slides and invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering with the materiality of the surface by collaging, drawing, scratching or layering fragments of the reconfigured transparencies, participants will re-project the slides and photograph them digitally. Participants will get to keep their one-off collaged slides as well as digital fles of the projected images they produce, which can be printed and manipulated further beyond the workshop. In dialogue with historical as well as contemporary processes that engage with the materiality of flm - from Pictorialism and Modernism to current photographic practice - the workshop presents the opportunity to combine analogue and digital processes, experiment with different materials and enables participants to produce work in a short space of time that refects the medium’s malleability and versatility in a playful way.

Date: 08 June 2019 Opening: 12:00 - 14:00 | 14:30 - 16:30 Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: £20 p.p

For more info & to book visit: belfastphotofestival.com

39 Talks

And Discussions 40 Discussions 41 Talk: On My Mind

Erik Vroons / Catherine Troiano / Takashi Kakishima / Roisin Lanigan

Belfast Photography Festival asked a group of tion about exactly what’s on their mind in regards Photographic Curators, Editors, Authors and Artists to photography in an ever shifting landscape. to share thoughts, ideas and images by artists who explore truth and lies through photography, whether Each presentation lasts one hour with time for it be in the present or the past. discussion at the end.

This series of morning presentations gives these professionals the opportunity to talk in conversa- Coffee and tea provided.

42 08 June 10:00 - 12:00 09 June 10:00 - 12:00 Erik Vroons Takashi Kakishima

Editor At Large. GUP Magazine Director, Poetic Scape Gallery (Amsterdam, Holland) (Tokyo, U.K.)

From 2010-2014, he was the Chief Editor of inter- After working in a photo agency and the art indus- national photography magazine GUP - based in try, Takashi set up an independent photography Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Currently he func- label in 2007, started organizing exhibitions and tions as Editor-at-large for both GUP Magazine selling photography prints from artists and Newdawn Paper - a bimonthly ‘freezine’ on contemporary Dutch Photography, initiated by He opened his gallery POETIC SCAPE in 2011 the GUP editorial team. Besides editorial work, and has since organized 40 solo exhibitions he is active as a freelance writer/researcher/ including such artists as Daido Moriyama, Sakiko teacher in the feld of photography. Nomura and Hiroshi Nomura.

Catherine Troiano Roisin Lanigan

Curator of Photography, Victoria & Editor, i-D (London, U.K.) Albert Museum (London, U.K.) Roisin Lanigan was born and grew up in Belfast. Catherine Troiano is Curator of Photographs at She is now based in London where she works as the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She an Editor for i-D. She is also a freelance arts and joined the team as Assistant Curator in 2015, culture writer with work seen in ArtUK, VICE, having worked with photography at various Broadly, Refnery29, The Outline, Cosmopolitan organisations, including the Museum of Modern and others. Art, New York. Venue: Bullitt hotel She has curated and contributed to displays Tickets: Suggested donation within and without the V&A, most recently Visit: belfastphotofestival.com Collecting Photography: from Daguerreotype to Digital (V&A, 2018), the inaugural display in the V&A Photography Centre. Her main research interests include digitally-informed photographic practices, approaches towards curating photography and the CEE region, and she publishes regu- larly on these topics.

43 Talk: Abandoned NI

Come and listen to Abandoned Ni’s frst 2019 lecture in an abandoned performing arts school that’s been taken over by artists. Listen to them talk about the abandoned and forlorn country manor houses, hospitals, mental asylums, churches from all four corners of Ireland and more! You will get to hear of the lives that have gone through these homes and institutions and they will also share some paranormal experi- ences that have come from these explores with Date: 09 June 2019 shared evidence to present. Some artefacts from Location: Vault Studios homes will also be on display. For any hidden Times: 15:00 and 19:00 history fans this is a must! Tickets: belfastphotofestival.com

44 Panel Discussion Photography: Construction of Truth

Recognising that photography has played a major role in our collective view of what is true and what is false, the panel will be discussing how the camera has been used to construct (and de-construct) our understanding.

In approaching this we will recognize the international relevance of this issue and its pertinence to Northern Ireland. Within the context of this discussion, the panel will consider the festivals exhibition concepts and how photography has been edited and misrepresented to portray the truth and the untruthful.

We’re delighted to welcome:

Sean O’Hagan Photography Writer & Critic The Guardian & the Observer (London, U.K.)

Michael Famighetti Editor – Aperture Magazine (New York, U.S.A)

Elizabeth Renstrom Photo Editor – VICE Media (New York, U.S.A)

Date: 07 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00 Venue: The Mac Tickets: Suggested donation Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

45 Interactive Theatre: Have I Fake News For You!

Accidental Theatre, Belfast Photo Festival & Talk: Belfast Improv Theatre present a wild night of comedy improv inspired by never before seen fake news images, made up from audience Cortis & suggestions in the week before the show! Sonderegger The performers will never have seen the images and will create on the spot new worlds, stories This photographic duo will discuss their on going and elaborate tales for the audiences enjoyment! project ‘Icons,’ where they play seductively with iconic images from international photographic history and reproduce them as three dimensional models that are astonishingly close to the original scene. By creating a portrayal of a portrayal of a portrayal of reality, they question what is real and whether we can really trust our perception.

Date: 08 June 2019, 20:00 / Doors 19:30 Date: 09 June 2019, 13:00 Venue: Accidental theatre Venue: Bullitt hotel Visit: belfastphotofestival.com Tickets: Suggested donation tickets: £6

46 Unseen Dummy Award Presentations

Date: 09 June 2019 Time: 14:00 Venue: Framewerk tickets: Free

We have invited a number of specially selected dummy book artists to present their award winning photo-book dummy creations. Join us for compelling photo-book designs with a degree of artistic rawness and hear of their crafted creation from these exceptional photographers from all over the world that made them.

47 Artist / Curator Talks

Discussion: Transhumanism with Matthieu Gafsou

At a time when scientifc progress has surpassed The discussion will focus on the subject of Tran- public understanding, artist Matthieu Gafsou shumanism, a movement advocating the use of uses documentary photography, as well as science and technology to enhance humans’ renditions and constructions of his own making physical and mental abilities. The talk and discus- to illustrate understanding genuine scientifc sion with the artist will be followed by a conver- phenomena and technological transformations, sation with The UK Transhumanist Party. using photography as a bridge of sight and not a truth. Date: 8 June 2019, 14:00 Venue: Ulster museum, lecture theatre Tickets: Suggested donation Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

48 Photography is like

An Discussion: Oliviero Toscani Exorcism

We are delighted to be hosting a Q&A event with the legendary Oliviero Toscani Studio.

Oliviero Toscani has produced Award winning photography for Vogue, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Stern, Liberation... He has been awarded the Lions d’Or four times, the UNESCO Grand Prix, Grand Prix d’Affnge on two occa- sions....the list goes on... From 1982 to 2000 he built the identity, corporate image, communi- cation strategy and online presence of United Date: 13 June 2019, 18:00 Colors of Benetton transforming it into one of Venue: Ulster Museum, Lecture Theatre the world’s most recognized brands as Creative Tickets: £15 / £10 Student Director. Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

49 Artist / Curator Talks Storytelling With– Erik Kessels

Over a period of 20 years Erik Kessels has made bestseller Failed It! For the DVD art project Loud many books and exhibitions out of his passion & Clear he worked together with artists such as for vernacular and amateur photography. In this Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels lecture he will highlight his latest publications writes regular editorials for numerous inter- and give an insight in collecting and editing the national magazines. He lectured at the D&AD photographs often found online or on fea markets Presidents Lecture and at several international from all over the world. Another subject of the design conferences such as in Singapore, Goa, lecture is the role of images in the time we live in NY, Toronto and Bangkok. He has taught at the and how you can look at these in other ways than Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Écal simply consuming them. (Lausanne) and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture where he curated a celebration of BIOGRAPHY amateurism. Kessels made and curated exhi- Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and bitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Mother curator with great interest in photography. Nature, 24HRS in Photos, Album Beauty, Unfn- Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Director ished Father and GroupShow. He als co-curated of communications agency KesselsKramer in an exhibition called From Here on together with Amsterdam and works for national and interna- Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Cheroux tional clients such as Nike, Diesel, J&B Whisky, and Joan Fontuberta. Oxfam, Ben, Vitra, Citizen M and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amster- dam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the As an artist and photography curator Kessels has Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2017 his published over 60 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin and images: Missing Links (1999), The Instant Men Düsseldorf and exhibited this year in the MOMA. (2000), in almost every picture (2001-2015) and He was called “a visual sorcerer” by Time Maga- Wonder (2006). Since 2000, he has been an editor zine and a “Modern Anthropologist” by Voque of the alternative photography magazine Useful (Italia). Photography and has written the international

50 Vernacular Photography

Date: 15 June, 13:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Tickets: £5 Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

51 Artist / Curator Talks

Phillip Chancel & North Korea

Over the past twenty fve years Philippe Chan- Best known for his body of work ‘DPRK,’ Chan- cel’s photography has explored the complex, cel will offer a revealing and original vision of shifting and fertile territory where art, docu- North Korea from his festival exhibition ‘Kim mentary and journalism meet. His is a constantly Happiness.’ In this talk he will raise the question evolving project, focusing on the status of images of the ethics of an image, not one taken from the when they are confronted with what constitutes news and the media, but right from its creation. “images” in the contemporary world.

Date: 08 June, 13:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Tickets: Free

52 Tenx9

“A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words” Tenx9 is a storytelling event where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a true story from their lives. Begun in Belfast in 2011 by Paul Doran and Pádraig Ó Tuama, this event now takes place in cities across Ireland, the UK, the Neth- erlands, the US and Australia. Every night has a theme, and hundreds of stories can be heard on the podcast: www.tenx9.com/podcast

For this year’s collaboration, we are delighted to have the theme “A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words”. We are looking for nine storytellers. To submit a story, please visit: Each storyteller will submit one photo, and a www.tenx9.com/submissions Make sure to read true story from their life about that photo. While the editorial guidelines on the page ﬁrst though. details about composition and exposure are inter- esting, we’re more interested in the human story: Date: 19 June 2019 what happened just beforehand? why is this photo Time: 19:00 for 19:30 start irreplaceable in your life? Why you hid this photo Venue: Black Box for years… you get the picture. Tickets: Free

53 Workshops Reviews Screenings Tours 54 Workshops Reviews Screenings Tours 55 Workshop

Using Belfast Exposed Archive we will look at Belfast City. ( The Truth ) Belfast from a time past gaining an insight into how the past has shaped Belfast.

We gain insight into these events and through our lens today capture how Belfast looks today offering each photographer a capture of a moment in time,These images adding to the rich historical visual record of Belfast.

Date: 29 June 2019 Venue: Belfast Exposed Times: 14:00 - 17:00

Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com

56 Workshop

Discover new possibilities for your photographic Printmaking imagery by combining it with printmaking. This weekend workshop with BPW artist Raquel Amat Parra, will use light sensitive photopolymer flm to produce intaglio-plates using photographic, digital and collaged imagery. Participants will leave with a small printed edition, made with their own images. All materials provided. Suit- able for beginners or those with some experience. (Ages 15+ but under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult). Venue: Belfast Print Workshop Date: 22 - 23 June, 10:00 - 14:00 Cost £125

Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com

57 Workshop

Today At Apple Presents Today at Apple helps you do more with the prod- ucts you love. Come learn essential photo skills, experiment with portraiture and even break the Photography rules for more artful photos.

Workshops include: Photo Lab Crafting your shot Photo Walk Framing architecture and taking portraits on location Photo Skills Photography on iPhone

Venue: Apple Store (Victoria Square) For more info & to book visit: www.belfastphotofestival.com

58 Understanding Photography Ethics

Facilitator: Savannah Dodd

Founder & Director, Photography Ethics Centre

This workshop will engage your critical thinking We will begin this workshop by discussing what skills in an in-depth conversation about photogra- ethics are and how we make ethical decisions phy ethics. in our own photographic practice. We will then look at key ethical principles, and examine real- We have seen the important way that photography life situations to understand how we can apply has played in global events like the migration these principles in different contexts. We will of Syrian refugees across the Mediterranean address important issues that are relevant for and the surge of violence against the Rohingya photographers today, including “fake news”, community in Myanmar. Photographs shape how misrepresentation, and digital manipulation. we view the world, and when we take and pres- We will look at examples of altered and misused ent photographs we are shaping how others view images to better understand the responsibility of the world. This is an enormous responsibility. In the photographer in these situations. order to meet this responsibility, we need to be ethically literate.

Date: 08 June 2019 Times: 14:00 - 17:00 Tickets: £20 Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

59 London Alternative Photo Collective

Workshops

The chlorophyll printing process with: The Anthotype process with : Almudena Romero Nettie Edwards

Artist Almudena Romero will be explaining step Join Lacock Abbey Fox Talbot Museum teacher by step how to print photographs directly onto and artist in residency Nettie Edwards to learn leaves using a plant’s own chlorophyll pigment the organic Victorian photographic technique and the power of sunlight. of the anthotype process. Invented in 1842 by early photographic pioneer Sir John Herschel, this process uses dyes made from crushed plants.

Date: 06 June 2019 Date: 07 June 2019 Opening: 18:00 - 19:00, 06 June Opening: 14:00, 07 June Venue: Castle Court Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: Free Tickets: Free

60 Slide-collaging Workshop: Constructed Landscapes with Dafna Talmor

In this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found The Camera Never Lies? vintage slides and invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering This fun flled workshop is designed to enable with the materiality of the surface by collaging, the photographer to present a different view of drawing, scratching or layering fragments of Belfast. Firstly taking an image followed by using the reconfigured transparencies, participants photoshop to create a view of Belfast that isn’t will re-project the slides and photograph them as real as it seems, a quirky view of Belfast. We digitally. Participants will get to keep their will create a scene of Belfast where all is not as it one-off collaged slides as well as digital fles of seems, create a fctional story behind each image the projected images they produce, which can and display in Belfast Exposed Studio Gallery be printed and manipulated further beyond the workshop. Details for event booking (if relevant) - Bring your camera, basic knowledge of Photoshop.

Date: 08 June 2019 Opening: 12:00 - 14:00 | 14:30 - 16:30 Venue: Castle Court Date: 15 June 2019 (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Venue: Belfast Exposed Tickets: £20 p.p Times: 14:00 - 17:00

Booking & More Info: Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com belfastphotofestival.com

61 Portfolio Reviews

Belfast Photo Festival presents a day of one on You can choose from either one portfolio reviews with a range of interna- 2, 4, 6, 8, or 11 reviews / Reviewers include: tional experts. The purpose of these reviews is to provide both photographers and artists working Michael Famighetti with photography the opportunity to meet with Aperture Magazine (U.S.A) professionals from Europe, Asia and America. Through these reviews participants can expect to Catherine Troiani gain vital feedback on their artistic development, Victoria & Albert Museum (U.K.) expand their professional networks and exchange ideas. Each review session will last 20 minutes. Elizabeth Renstrom PLEASE arrive on time for sessions. VICE Media (U.S.A)

The Festival has carefully selected international Daria Tuminas experts in the feld of photography, art and fash- Unseen Photo Fair (Holland) ion from around the world to review for one day. Reviewer bios can be viewed through the Festival Roisin Lanigan website. The invited reviewers are looking for i-D Magazine (U.K.) new and emerging talent, as well as works by established artists utilizing photography. This is Takashi Kakishima an invaluable professional development opportu- Poetic Scape Gallery (Japan) nity, and whilst the purpose of the review is not guaranteed to deliver exhibitions, publications Erik Vroons or representation, these are potential outcomes. GUP Magazine (Holland)

Date: 07 June 2019 Joanne Mullan Time: 09:30 - 17:00 Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland) Venue: The Mac, Belfast Malcolm Dickson Booking & More Info: Street Level Photoworks (U.K.) belfastphotofestival.com Trish Lambe Gallery of Photography (Ireland)

Deirdre Robb Belfast Exposed (N.Ireland)

62 Source Meetings

Submission deadline 29 May 2019

As part of research for future issues, Source magazine. If you are interested in attending Magazine will be organising meetings with you should email a pdf with up to 8 images and photographers to fnd out about new their work contained within it up to three paragraphs of text and to offer feedback on work in progress. Meet- that give a background to your new work along ings with selected photographers will take place with your name, contact phone number and web on Saturday 08 June 2019 at the Source Offce, address. Belfast.

The meetings are an opportunity to directly intro- duce a new piece of work to one of the editors. This is one way Source fnds new work for publi- For more details about the process, cation in the ‘portfolio pages’ section of Source Email: [email protected]

63 Screenings

Bellingcat

Truth in a post truth world

Bellingcat explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the “citizen investigative journalist” Length: 88mins collective known as Bellingcat. In cases ranging Date: 09 June 2019 from the MH17 disaster to the poisoning of a Time: 15:30 Venue: Queen’s Film Theatre Russian spy in the United Kingdom, the Belling- Tickets: £5.50 - £6.95 cat team’s quest for truth will shed light on the fght for journalistic integrity in the era of fake Booking & More Info: news and alternative facts. belfastphotofestival.com

64 Screenings

Circulations Lensculture

Circulations festival focuses on Young Euro- Street Photography pean Photography by exhibiting a photographic dialogue about Europe. This screening presents Awards work by 48 young photographers from around the globe. We’re excited to present the winners of 2018 LensCulture Street Photography Awards–39 photographers who are reinvigorating and rede- fning the genre of street photography today.

Date: 06 June 2019 Date: 06 June 2019 Time: 20:00 - 21:00 Time: 20:00 - 21:00 Venue: Bullitt Hotel Venue: Bullitt Hotel Tickets: Free Tickets: FREE

Info: belfastphotofestival.com Info: belfastphotofestival.com

65 Tours

We will seek beauty, or at least visual interest, Architectural in texture and the juxtaposition of colours and materials. We will chat about Belfast, its archi- Photo Walk tecture and we will discuss technical issues such as lenses and cameras and also technique. We’ll have an entertaining chat and we will, hopefully, We will walk around Belfast looking at and talk- create some images which capture the essence ing about the architecture and we’ll encourage of the city. viewing it with a fresh perspective. Date: 23 June 2019 We will make images, concentrating on the char- Time: 12:00 acter of the buildings, rather than simple record Venue: PLACE, 7-9 Lower Garﬁeld Street. making; we’ll fnd visual interest in detail and Tickets: £10 + Booking Fee explore the potential in pattern making with architectural features. Info: www.placeni.org

66 Tours

Titanic Taster Late Night Photography Tour Art Bus Tour

Become a Titanic inspired photographer for Discover Northern Irelands capital city through the day, learning all about the science behind the creative work of its artists, designers and photography while having the opportunity makers. to explore Titanic Quarter’s industrial & mari- time heritage. You will learn how to use light The Late Night Art bus tour is a fully guided to create stunning images and the power of tour visiting galleries, artists studios, public magnification at our very own giant optic lenses. art and art events in and around Belfast. All On this interactive tour, you will be transported our fully trained guides are also local artists around the quarter in style on the Wee Tram with so you learn about Belfast’s thriving arts commu- various stops along the way including the Great nity from those who know it best. The tour Light, Titanic’s Dock & Pump-House and H&W takes place on the first Thursday of every cranes. month and finishes at 9.15pm.

“Lively commentary, knowledgeable guides and plenty of hospitality along the way-what a fantastic way to experience the arts in Belfast”

Date: 15 June 2019 Date: 06 June 2019 Time: 10:30 - 13:30 Time: 18:30 - 21:15 Meeting: Titanic Sign, Titanic Belfast Begins: Linenhall library tickets: £10p.p Info: belfastphotofestival.com Visit: belfastphotofestival.com

67 Dine for Less Quote BPF to get 10% off your bill FOURTY FOUR Belfast Photo Festival has partnered with restaurants in Belfasts Cathedral Quarter to offer 10% off all you order. Reference Belfast Photo Festival when paying your bill at the following restaurants

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71 Belfast Photo Festival Presents

Art School Graduation Party

The biggest party night of the Belfast Photo Fes- Date 07 June 2019 tival comes to The Bear & The Doll. Celebrating with the new graduates of Belfast School of Art Time: 20:00 Till Late and all Festival goers, we will be partying till the Venue: The Bear & The Doll early hours with free fowing beer and some real Tickets: Free 21st century beats. See you there!

72 Belfast Photo Festival Presents

Art School Graduation Party Festival Launch Party

The party to launch the festival will be lead by Date: 06 June 2019 one of the hottest DJ’s to come out of Northern Ireland, the one and only Timmy Stewart. He 21:00 - 00:00 will have you hear subtle bells ring, percussion Venue: Bullitt Hotel rattle, with a whole load of twisting and turning Tickets: Free until the end of the night.

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Thursday 06 June 2019 Artist Tour: Late Night Art Screening: Phillippe Chancel, Coach Tour: Outside Street Photography Golden Thread Gallery Linenhall Library, 18:30 Awards, Bullitt, 20:00 17:00 Exhibition: Screening: Exhibition: Portraiture In The Circulations Festival Pseudo, Post Truth Era, Belfast Screening, Bullitt, 20:00 ATypical Gallery, 17:00 Exposed, 18:00 Official Launch Party: Exhibition: Workshop: Bullitt, 21:00 Do Government Lie? Chlorophyll printing Golden Thread Gallery process, Castle Court, Awards: 19:00 GTG, 18:00 Spotlight Award Winner Bullitt, 21:00

Friday 07 June 2019 Portfolio Reviews: Workshop: Exhibition: Graduation Party: The MAC, 09:30 - 16:00 Anthotype process New Talent The Bear & The Doll Castle Court, GTG, 14:00 Ulster University 20:00 Talk: 18:00 Panel Discussion -Truth Exhibition: & Lies (The MAC) London Alternative Exhibition: 12:30 - 14:00 Photo Collective Post Truth Castle Court, GTG, Belfast Exposed 17:00 18:00

Saturday 08 June 2019 Talk: Workshop: Talk: Workshop: On My Mind - Slide-Collaging Transhumanism Q&A - Undertsanding Erik Vroons - GUP Castle Court, GTG, Matthieu Gafsou Photography Bullitt 13:00 Ulster Museum Ethics Workshop 10:00 14:00 14:00 Artist Talk: Talk: Phillipe Chancel Exhibition: Comedy: On My Mind - Golden Thread Gallery Opening: H+/ Ways Have I Fake News Catherine Troiano - Q&A 13:00 of Knowing. Botanic For You? Bullitt, Gardens/Ulster Museum 19:30 11:00 15:00

76 Sunday 09 June 2019 On My Mind: Artist Talk: Exhibition: Talk: Takashi Kakishima - Daniel Stier Photobook Library Abandoned NI Poeticscape Bullitt 14:00 VAULT Studios Bullitt 12:00 19:00 10:00 Talk: Artist Talk: Abandoned NI On My Mind: Cortis & Sonderegger VAULT Studios Roisin Lanigan - Bullitt 15:00 i-D Magazine 13:00 Bullitt Screening: 11:00 Talk: Bellingcat Unseen Dummy Queens Film Theatre Award Presentations 15:30 Framewerk 14:00

Thursday 13 June 2019 Talk: Exhibition: Exhibition: Oliviero Toscani, Korean Perspectives, Margins of Excess, Ulster Museum, 18:00 Culturlann, 18:00 Belfast Exposed, 18:00

Saturday 15 June 2019 Titanic Taster Artist Talk: Workshop: Photography Tour: Erik Kessels The Camera Never Lies Titanic Belfast Golden Thread Gallery Belfast Exposed 10:30 13:00 14:00

Wednesday 19 June 2019 Talk: Tenx9, Black Box, 19:00

Saturday 22 June 2019 Saturday 23 June 2019 Workshop: Photo Intaglio, Belfast Print: 10:00 Tour: Architecture Photo Walk, Place: 12:00

Saturday 29 June 2019 Workshop: Belfast City, The Truth: 14:00

77 Funders & Support

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