SEXUALITY AND GENDER 10...... Juno Calypso: The Honeymoon Suite 12 ...... Dazed 14 ...... Hello Mr 16 ...... Gender Ideologies 18 ...... Chen Shu-Chen: After 20 ...... Momo Okabe: Bible 22 ...... Fashion: Blurred Lines, A Matter of Attitude 24 ...... Geoff Brokate & Kate Martindale: Beyond The Binary 26 ...... Pierre Liebaert: Free Now 28 ...... Liu Susiraja: Of Objects & Me 30 ...... Olivier Fermariello: Je T’Aime Moi Aussi

OFF THEME 34 ...... Open Submission Exhibitions: Making Do, Poor Land, I was Here 36 ...... Unseen Dummy Award 37...... Photo-book Library 38 ...... Clare Strand: Snake 39 ...... Dara McGrath: Project Cleansweep 40 ...... RPS 159th International Print Exhibition 42...... New Talent Annual Exhibition 43 ...... Just Innocent Modernisation

TALKS & DISCUSSION 46 ...... On my Mind 48 ...... Panel Discussion Photo Comedy 49 ...... Photo Comedy 50 ...... Artist / Curator Talks

WORKSHOPS 56 ...... Belfast Exposed Workshops 60 ...... Belfast’s Most Fashionable 61 ...... Masterclass with Erik Vroons 62 ...... Saturday Girl 63 ...... Zine Workshop with Unseen 64 ...... Youth Edition Workshop 65 ...... Portfolio Reviews 66 ...... Source Meetings with Photographers 68 ...... Screenings - Circulations 01 - 30 JUNE 2017 69 ...... Magnum Photography Awards 70...... Architectural Photo Walks WWW.BELFASTPHOTOFESTIVAL.COM 71 ...... Arts & Biscuits on Tour 3

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4 5 23 FOREWORD

Donegal Street 04 01 02 Dunbar Link SSE Arena Sydenham Road 06 03 05 07 11 Welcome to the 2017 Belfast Photo Festival, Additionally, representatives from the 10 09 Northern Ireland’s premier visual arts festival V&A, MOMA and Vogue will contribute Millfield 08 Divis Street 14 Bridge End A2 and the photographic biennial for the island to a series of broad, exciting events and 13 Ann St. 24 25 Castle Street of Ireland, returning from 1 – 30 June 2017. discussion programmes.

Victoria Street 15 Oxford Street Chichester Street Few media can capture the nuances and As the Director and Founder, I would like interplay of outward experience and internal to personally thank my parents, Ellen and May Street Howard Street Grovenor Road narratives like photography. This year, the Lee Weir, as without their help and support 22 Festival has taken as its inspiration the visual I could never have brought the festival to this Great Victoria politics of sexuality and the ways in which the point. This also includes the Festival board Street 17 camera is used to construct and deconstruct whose guidance and advice has been A1 gender binaries. invaluable over the past eight years.

Through a range of exhibitions, talks, We have been fortunate to welcome new Dublin Road 18 Donegal Pass workshops, screenings, masterclasses, reviews fnancial supporters and maintain the loyalty of London Road Donegal Road and tours, the Festival will explore how our original partners, whose support has helped photography has a particular role in shaping us make the Festival even bigger and better

Ravenhill Road Ravenhill Ravenhill Avenue ideas about identity and selfhood; how one than ever before. Lisburn Road Ormeau Road Belfast City Hospital 19 sees oneself – authentically and transparently 20 University Street - and how one is viewed by others. Whether it is taking part in a workshop,

Queens Enbankment Ormeau University attending a talk or visiting an exhibition, Belfast Exhibitions and events take place across we hope you enjoy this exploration of identity Ardenlee Avenue both public and private spheres, in which and fnd inspiration as well as an increased Botanic 21 Ulster Gardens Ormeau Park audiences can engage with discussion around understanding of your human. Museum contemporary gender discourse. Representation, self-portraiture, ideology, the body, fashion and Michael Weir community are enduring themes in photographic Festival Director 01. Golden Thread Gallery 10. Place Architecture Center 19. Queens Film Theatre works that are truthful, celebratory, poignant, 02. The Mac 11. Belfast Exposed 20. The Naughton Gallery political, domestic and erotic. 03. St Annes Square 12. Black Box 21. Ulster Museum 04. University of Ulster 13. Whites Tavern 22. Culturlann Highlights of this year’s festival include 05. Writers Square 14. Bullitt Hotel 23. Titanic Belfast collaborations with publications which 06. Disibility Arts Forum 15. Victoria Square 24. Eastside Visitor Centre foreground image and society: exhibitions 07. The Hudson Bar 16. Cotton Court 25. Framewerk staged with Dazed and Hello Mr magazines 08. Castle Court 17. QSS and a museum exhibition curated by the creator 09. PS Squared 18. Cresent Arts Centre of the Conde Nast photographic archive.

6 7 This year we have taken the opportunity to explore the visual politics of Sexuality and Gender, and the ways in which the camera is used to construct (and deconstruct) gender binaries. SEXUALITY AND GENDER Pages 10 — 31

8 9 The Honeymoon Suite JUNO CALYPSO In 2011, after two decades of taking pictures of herself in private, Juno began a series of self portraits in which she staged herself as a fctional character named Joyce.

The Honeymoon Suite is possibly Juno Calypso’s most startling photographic mission.

Dressed in lurid pastels and a wig, Calypso’s one-woman tour of honeymoon hotels defes the typical perceptions of gender and identity through an edgy prism of wit, humour and courageous vulnerability.

“Taking over the world one heart-shaped

1 June, 19:00 bath at a time? Now that’s a revolution Free Golden Thread Gallery Thread Golden Tues – Sat, 11:00 – 17:00 01 June – 22 July 2017 to get behind.” Nell Frizzell, The Guardian Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

10 11 DAZED & CON— FUSED

This exhibition explores the role of fashion and photography in shaping gender identities.

The images have been taken from the archives of the world’s leading independent fashion and culture magazine, Dazed & Confused.

Based in London and founded in 1991, the images track over 25 years of fearless fashion, art and ideas. 2 June, 19:00 Free WritersSquare Mon – Sun, 09:00 – 20:00 2 – 26 June 2017

Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

12 13 Curated by Ben Crothers HELLO & Ryan Fitzgibbon Opening set by Girl DJ’s

The Naughton Gallery proudly presents a comprehensive survey of the history of Hello Mr. magazine, founded by MR. Brooklyn-based Ryan Fitzgibbon in 2013.

More than a magazine, Hello Mr. is a community of “men who date men”, starting new conversations about their interests, loves, hopes and fears. Published twice yearly, Hello Mr. consistently features an intelligent collection of articles, stories, interviews, photographic essays and reviews.

The magazine aims to start meaningful conversations about the values and aspirations of a current, culturally inquisitive generation, celebrating and showcasing the diversity of gay culture.

Please visit the gallery website for details of the Hello Mr. events programme, developed in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival.

Art in the A.M. with Ryan Fitzgibbon

Friday 02 June, 9:00am-10:00am, The Pocket 1 June, –17.30 20:00 Free The Naughton Gallery at Queens Tue – Sun, 11:00 – 16:00 01 June – 30 July 2017 Hello Mr. LIVE (in collaboration with Outburst) Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets: WWW.NAUGHTONGALLERY.ORG Friday 02 June, 21:00, QFT

14 15 ID— GENDER EOLOGIES Artists from Korea

Refecting on trends in their country’s cultural preference, these artists explore sexuality, gender, socialisation and identity, whilst also highlighting associated relationships with consumerism.

These images also depict a spectrum of responses to the body; from the lengths to which

09:30 – 17:30 – 09:30 people will go to achieve society’s perceived Free Crescent Arts Centre Gallery (floor 01) (floor Gallery ArtsCentre Crescent Mon – Fri, 09:30 – 21:00 perfection of gender appearance, to isolated and 04 June – 24 2017 depersonalised aspects of the body presented as

Date: Venue: Times: Sun, & Sat Tickets: objects of desire.

16 17 AFTER Chen Shu-Chen After focuses on the interior spaces of theme motels in Taiwan, their state after being used and the heterogeneity within. These images refect impartially on these spaces and the ways in which they are used; without ridicule or criticism.

This series takes as its initial focus motels located in Northern Taiwan but will evolve into an island wide project. This project explores these heterogeneous spaces in a socio-cultural context, their complex relations to users and modern life in Taiwan. free Cotton Court, Cathedral Quarter 24/7 02 – 26 june 2017 Date: Venue: Times: Tickets:

18 19 B IBLE Momo Okabe

In these award-winning, explicit portraits, Okabe sensitively presents her subjects: two of her transgender lovers who are going through the intense period of their transitions.

Okabe is the first Japanese photographer to receive FOAM’s Paul Huf award (a photography prize initiated by Dutch museum FOAM for photographers under 35 across the world) in 2015.

FOAM Magazine is an international 22 June. 19:00 21:00 June. – 22 Free Framewerk photography magazine that connects 10:3018:00Sat, – – Mon 23 June – 22 July a global network of photographers,

photography enthusiasts and professionals. Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

20 21 Outdoor Event Partner Exhibitions Partner Curated by Diana Edkins

This world-exclusive exhibition presents some of the globe’s most infuential fashion photographers, with imagery shot for iconic publications, which include British Vogue, Italian Vogue, Vogue Paris and Vogue Homme amongst others.

Fashion photography has never existed in a vacuum. Photographers have continually pushed boundaries and the tension between the artistic and commercial demands have generated great creativity and technical innovation.

This exhibition is not a survey, but a focused consideration of a particularly astute vision of the ever-changing world, where the artistic and commercial effected a clear and consistent change in fashion photography.

It explores how personal photography has inspired a new visual vocabulary. Fashion photography has always oscillated between the two poles of conformism and revolt and in this case it has become the backdrop for these photographers and their exploration of identity, gender and sexuality rather than ephemeral beauty. These bold photographers show us new ways to think and engage with a life that is changing so quickly around us.

BLURRED LINES Photographers included Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, Jack Pierson, Craig McDean, Viviane A MATTER OF ATTITUDE Sassen, Stef Mitchell and Kristen-Lee Moolman 04 June - 30 June 2017 Free Ulster Museum & VictoriaSquare & Museum Ulster Curator Talk A talk by Curator Diana Edkins Tue – Sun, 10:00 – 17:00 04 June – 30 July 2017 will accompany this exhibition, taking place

at 15:00, Sunday 04 June, at the Ulster Museum. Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

22 23 BEYOND Geoff Brokate & Kaye Martindale

The collection of images presented in Beyond the Binary refects upon contemporary family structures within the UK. This exhibition invites us to consider how the evolving role of gender and sexuality within our culture is reconfguring our ideas of how traditional families look.

The individuals that we encounter in this series of photographs call on us to examine what constitutes a family and expand our understanding of the ties that bind us together. Whilst these households may challenge our preconceptions, they also reveal the constellations of frustration, love, mundanity and quirkiness that are common to all families. Opening 31st May, 18:00 19:00 May, - 31st Opening Free Ulster UniversityUlster ArtBelfast Gallery, campus TBC 03 – 30 June 2017 June 30 – 03 Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets: THE BINARY 24 25 Pierre Liebaert

Pierre Liebaert invites us to a strange in-camera: a private process by which he has invited responses to an ad of his placing which required participants to pose nude for him. The models who replied to his ad wanted to pose behind the intimacy of closed doors, as if this face to face with the photographer whom they knew nothing about was the one thing they had been waiting for.

No other desire than to be in front of him, to be contemplated, exposing themselves before the camera and transgressing a norm, their public life or private situation seem to impose on them. By posing nude and masked, revealing imperfect bodies at odds with the standards of erotic photography, these men had nothing else in mind but to abandon themselves to the gaze of the other, to submit themselves to it. The resulting photograph is for them but a document bearing witness to this, a ‘photograph as proof’, an image of their momentary freedom. FREE NOW 02 June - 30 June 2017 June 30 - June 02 Free QSS, Bedford Street Bedford QSS, Tue – Fri, 10:00 – 17:00 01 June – 30 June 2017 Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

26 27 OF OBJECTS Liu Susiraja

Susiraja’s work depicts the artist engaging in a variety of absurd activities in a domestic environment. She stages surreal situations and her work is humorous in its simplicity. & ME The images depict a woman who takes risks and challenges social stereotypes by exposing herself to the camera. Susiraja’s work is unapologetic; her direct gaze challenges the viewer by contradicting what the work otherwise appears to be portraying. 02 June - 30 June 2017 Free PS Squared PS Mon – Sat 13:00Sat 18:00,– 10:00– Mon 16:00Sun – 01 – 30 June 2017 The exhibition is curated by Mirjami

Schuppert, Curator in Residence at PS2. Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

28 29 JE

Olivier Fermariello

The artist based this series ofT’AIME work on comments from people with disabilities, who reported that they can feel discrimination through not being considered entirely a man or entirely a woman.

For Fermariello, “these images portray people, who are suffering from this kind of discrimination, but are not willing to give up their fght by choosing a direct way to express themselves.” MOI AUSSI 22 June, 17:00 – 19:00 Free DisibalityArts Forum Tue – Fri, 11:00 – 15:00 23 June – 21 July 21 – June 23 Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

30 31 OFF THEME Pages 34 — 43

32 33 OPEN A sense of global character unites this series Poor Land - Sheng-Wen Lo (Bottom) of three exhibitions - a rich seam of people, places and objects that come together to speak The work by the fve artists in this exhibition to timely, universal themes of loss and longing; refects on everyday life on land that has failed class and kinship. These exhibitions have been to or can no longer support its inhabitants. The curated through an international open submission landscapes featured have been disconnected process, with artists selected from the following and disembodied by war, isolation, a lack of 13 countries: Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, recognition and systems that don’t have or France, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, seek a future. Sites include war-torn cities, — the world’s northernmost settlement, young SUB Poland, Russia, Taiwan, UK and USA. countries and fabricated set pieces designed Belfast Photo Festival invited judges from to replicate nature. Artists: Christian Werner, Magnum, The New York Times, MoMA, British Ksenia Kuleshova, Julien Lombardi, Journal of Photography, Foam, MACK, Invisible Dominika Gesicka, Sheng-Wen Lo Photographer Asia and Belfast Exposed to select this year’s successful entrants. I Was Here - Kourtney Roy (Middle)

Making Do - Johanna-Maria Fritz (Top) Portraiture can offer up our most obvious features, but tell us very little. The fve artists MISSION This exhibition features work by four artists who selected for this exhibition address this all address, in different ways, the poignancy ambiguity. Whether images of the self or others, of continuing to exist when - and where - their the context for the photographs circumvent existence is challenged. Each approach teaches our sense of openness - we can only guess how us about what is important to them - family, much truth is in their gestures and gazes. fun and the snatched luxuries which make it Artists: Weronika Gesicka, Tom Butler, worth persevering. Artists: Johanna-Maria Fritz, Kourtney Roy, Neta Dror, Amiko Li Gabriel Carpes, Alexey Shlyk, Graeme Oxby 02 June, 16:00 June, 02 Free St. Anne’s Square Anne’s St. 24/7 03 June – 30 June 2017 Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

34 35 FESTIVAL ESSENTIALS PHOTO FAIR UNSEEN PHOTO-BOOK LIBRARY & PUBLISHER LECTURIS

Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen and Lecturis designed to showcase the work of exceptional artists from around the world; offering them an opportunity to publish their photo-books.

The ffth edition of the Unseen Dummy Award will once again give the winning maker(s) an entry into the international photobook industry.

A cultural hub in the heart of the city

Far more than a photo-book library and gallery, this is a cultural hub with a focus on photography. Featuring photo-books, zines, magazines and artist book dummies from around the world. Chill out and view our specially curated feature presentations including the must see photo- books from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and The Netherlands, among many more. Free Writer’sSquare The library offers artists, photographers, 12:00 – 18:00, Tues – Sun students, researchers and the general public 03 June – 30 June 2017

with a unique resource during the festival. Date: Venue: Times: Tickets:

36 37 SNAKE PROJECT CLEANSWEEP

Clare Strand Dara McGrath

Belfast Exposed are delighted to present Snake Project Cleansweep surveys the landscape by Clare Strand. This is a new body of work of chemical and biological weapons in based on a selection of images sourced from the British Isles and its continuing legacy, the artist’s extensive personal archive, some interrogating deliberate state and military of which was recently published as Girl Plays encroachment into and appropriation

with Snake by MACK Books. of the landscape. 2017 une Here, Strand presents the work for the frst time Dara McGrath is the winner of the 2017 01 June, 19:00 – 21:00 Free – 17 J – 17 Free Belfast Exposed Belfast 1 Tue – Sat, 11:00 – 17:00 Tue – Sat, 11:00 – 17:00

Belfast Exposed as an experimental mixed media installation Roscommon Arts Centre Photography 28 April – 17 June 2017 June 17 – April 28 0 of photography, text and technology colluding Award, judged by internationally renowned

Date: Venue: Times: Tickets: within the gallery space. photographer Martin Parr. Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

38 39 Group Exhibition

The Royal Photographic Society’s Print Exhibition was inaugurated in 1854 and during its early history included work by some of the world’s most eminent photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron and Edward Steichen.

This is the 159th edition, which makes it the longest-running exhibition of its kind in the world. Now run as an annual open submission competition, images were submitted from photographers worldwide and the finalists were selected by a panel of photographic professionals.

The 159th exhibition features an eclectic mix of work, with traditional photography being shown alongside contemporary images and for the first time in the exhibition’s long history, all four medal winners are women.

THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: 159TH INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION 09 June, 17:00 – 19:00 – 17:00 June, 09 Free Titanic Belfast (Andrews Gallery) (Andrews Belfast Titanic Mon – Sun, 09:00 - 19:00 10 June – 01 July 2017 Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets:

40 41 YOUTH EDITION EXHIBITION

Celebrating Belfast’s future photographers, this free

exhibition brings together young people from Mon – Sat, 10:00 – 17:30 Cultúrlann communities throughout the city to produce and website See

show off their own unique photographic works Date: Venue: Times: Tickets: celebrating identity.

NEW TALENT JUST INNOCENT MODERNISATION

Matthew Gordon

Just Innocent Modernisation shows an imagined future, a future where drones are used as a means of surveillance for public utilities Annual Group infrastructure. It comments on how the world is slowly becoming more westernised with Exhibition many large investment banks fnancing the setup of much smaller countries. In doing so, large investment brokers are enabled to enter This annual exhibition will launch the new smaller, more localised marketplaces. photographic talent graduating from Belfast School of Art’s Department of Photography. Using a light, mounted on the underside of a model aircraft, the artist can select areas of the 02 June, 18:00 June, 02 Free Free Ulster UniversityUlster Art Gallery EastSIDE Visitor Centre 10:00 – 17:00 Graduates have built successful careers, landscape to be illuminated remotely, as if the Mon – Sun, 09:00 – 17:00 03 June – 11 June 11 – June 03 2017 June 30 – June 03 won awards, published photobooks and ‘drone’ was inspecting structures within the

Date: Opening: Venue: Times: Tickets: exhibited widely. wider landscape. Date: Venue: Times: Tickets:

42 43 Pages 46 — 55

44 45 Fotofest, Houston, and the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography. Prior to joining the V&A, she worked in the photographs collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and studied at Bristol University and The Courtauld Institute of Art. Date: Saturday 03 June Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Date: Sunday 04 June Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm ON MY Kristen Gaylord Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York Tom Seymour Digital Editor, Kristen Gaylord is the Beaumont and Nancy British Journal of Photography Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Tom is a photography and arts journalist from Art, where she has worked on exhibitions and London. He is the editor of British Journal publications including, most recently, Ocean of Photography online and writes long-form of Images: New Photography 2015 (2015); features for the worlds oldest photography One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages magazine, while also writing on photography MIND of Josef Albers (2016), Arbus Friedlander for titles including The Guardian, The Financial Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017), and Times, The New Statesman, Foam, Vice and Susanna Brown / Kristen Gaylord the forthcoming survey of Stephen Shore and the BBC. publication Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920. Tom Seymour / Alessandra Capodacqua She curated the inaugural Duke House Exhibition Alessandra Capodacqua Series at HYU’s Institute of Fine Art (2016-2017), Writer / Curator, SIFEST, Italy where she has taught and published on 19th and 20th century art. As a curator, Alessandra has developed exhibitions of photography and has participated in the creation of festivals of photography Susanna Brown Curator of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) London in Italy and abroad, such as the International Triennial Festival of Photography, Backlight in Tampere (Finland) and SI Fest 2016 in Belfast Photography Festival invited a group Susanna is Curator of Photographs at the Victoria Savignano sul Rubicone (Italy). of Curators, Editors, Authors and Artists to and Albert Museum (V&A), home to the UK’s share thoughts, ideas and images by artists national collection of the art of photography. Her main area of interest is documentary - past and present - who work within She helps build the V&A collection, teaches, photography, photojournalism, street photography to explore identity. writes and curates exhibitions, most recently A History of Photography: The Body; Horst: photography, and visual story-telling. This series of morning presentations also Photographer of Style; and Selling Dreams: offers each professional an opportunity to One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography. discuss what’s on their mind in relation to current developments in photographic media. Susanna has contributed to numerous books Suggesteddonation tea provided.

Bullitt Hotel Bullitt and journals on historic and contemporary & Each presentation lasts one hour with time photographs. She lectures internationally and

Venue: Tickets: Coffee for discussion at the end. has been an invited reviewer at festivals including

46 47 PANEL DISCUSSION Recognising that photography has played a major role in our collective view of gender and Date: 12:00 - 14:00, 02 June 2017 sexuality, the panel will be discussing how the Venue: The MAC Tickets: Free camera has been used to construct (and de-construct) gender binaries.

The panel will address this theme’s relevance both in an international context and in relation to Northern Ireland. Within the context of this discussion, the panel will consider the festival themes and how photography approaches topics such as proportional representation in the media. It will also consider the role of fashion photo- graphy in shaping identities and its censorship.

We’re delighted to welcome:

Ronojoy Dam Group Creative Director - Dazed Media (Including: Dazed, Another Magazine, Another Man Magazine, Nowness, Hunger Magazine)

Ryan Fitzgibbon Publisher – Hello Mr magazine

Ruth McCarthy Director – Outburst Queer Arts Festival

Anthony Luvera PHOTO COMEDY Artist / Writer / Educator

Join us for our shining line up of local comics to celebrate the Belfast Photo Festival! Our MC, Photography: George Firehorse, will be putting you through your paces with his customary surrealist style while introducing you to our eclectic line up Construction of Sexuality including Ronan Linskey, Mary Flanigan 20:0022:00 – and Paddy McDonnell. £4 Sunflower Bar Sunflower 14 June 2017 Expect magic tricks, tales of woe and

plenty of laughs throughout the night. Date: Venue: Times: Opening Tickets:

48 49 ARTIST / CURATOR TALKS

Beyond the Binary Chen Shu-Chen Dara McGrath Fashion - Blurred Lines:

Date: 15:00 - 16:00, 03 June 2017 Date: 12:00, 04 June 2017 Date: 15:00 - 16:00, 02 June 2017 A Matter of Attitude Venue: University Gallery Venue: Bullitt Hotel Venue: Belfast Exposed Tickets: Free Tickets: Suggested donation Tickets: Free Date: 15:00, 04 June 2017 Venue: Ulster Museum Tickets: Suggested donation Photographers Geoff Brokate and Kaye Chen will discuss her after project “After” Dara McGrath is the winner of the 2017 Martindale will talk about their exhibition which has continued for more than four years Roscommon Arts Centre Photography Accompanying the world-exclusive exhibition, Beyond The Binary, their reasons for creating and focuses on the interior spaces of theme Award, judged by internationally renowned curator Diana Edkins will be speaking about the the work and an account of their experiences motels in Taiwan, their state of being used and photographer Martin Parr. Join us on Saturday evolution of fashion photography and culture during the making if it. The work focuses the heterogeneity within. Her work aims to 17 June at 1pm, when Dara will be discussing from the studio into the streets. on contemporary family structures and how represent and rethink this phenomena. his award winning series Project Cleansweep, the evolving role of gender and sexuality in exhibited at Belfast Exposed. Diana was previously Curator at Conde Nast our culture is reconfguring our ideas of how Funded by The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan Publications where she created the photographic traditional families look. archive and has since held positions such as Director of Exhibitions at The Aperture They will be joined by Jenny-Ann Bishop Foundation (New York). OBE and her daughter Jasmine Ann Strange who participated in the project. Jenny-Anne will speak about family life as a transgender woman. Jasmine, an intersex woman, will share her harrowing story of spending time in a male prison, the issues she faced and how she found solace with her adopted family.

50 51 ARTIST / CURATOR TALKS

Invisibility In Juno Calypso Lewis Bush Yet Another Gaze

Japanese Photography Date: 13:00, 03 June 2017 A New Horizon for Contemporary Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Date: 14:00 - 15:00, 01 June 2017 Taiwanese Photography Date: 18:00, 27 June 2017 Tickets: Suggested Donation Venue: Belfast Exposed Venue: Framewerk Tickets: Free Date: 13:00, 04 June 2017 Tickets: Suggested Donation In 2011, after two decades of taking pictures Venue: Bullitt Hotel Lewis Bush is a UK based photographer, writer of herself in private, Juno began a series of Tickets: Suggested Donation As a small island, surrounded by the sea, and curator interested in power and the ways self-portraits in which she staged herself as a Japan has been struck by many disasters it is created and contested. We are delighted fictional character named Joyce. Image making in Taiwan has evolved both such as earthquakes and tsunamis. to welcome Lewis to Belfast Exposed for this alongside, and in response to, political and artist talk, where he will discuss his upcoming Without knowing how to explain what she was social developments in the country since martial This also infuences how Japanese people photobook ‘Shadows of the State’ to be doing at the time, she used her grandmothers’ law was abolished in 1987. Through this talk, perceive nature and belief in invisible existence. published later in 2017. ‘Shadows of the State’ houses, or rented bedrooms online, and took Professor Shen Chao-Liang of Photography at In this talk, curator Miho Odaka will investigate explores technologies of espionage through open pictures of herself while the hosts were asleep. Tamkang University will outline how Taiwanese how invisibility relates to Japanese photography source research and satellite imagery. Once alone she used Joyce to reenact the private photographers are articulating both a refective and how Japanese photographers deal with underlife of a woman consumed by the laboured view on their country’s formation, as well as invisibility within their work. construct of femininity, carried out to the point current and potential ideological agendas. of ritualised absurdity. Speaker Miho Odaka is the Curator Funded by The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan of Tokyo International Photography Festival. In this talk Juno will discuss her photographic practice and staged self-portraits, where she Funded by the Sasakawa Foundation enacts solitary moments of preparation and anticipation with her alter ego.

52 53 For more informtion on latest ARTIST / CURATOR TALKS talks and dicussions visit

Tenx9 - Snapshot From the

Date: 28 June 2017, 19:30 - 21:30 Picture Editor’s Seat 19:00 for 19:30 start Venue: Black Box Date: 17 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Tickets: Free & 17 June 2017, 19:00 - 20:00 Venue: Ulster Museum Tenx9 is a storytelling event in which nine Tickets: £6.00 people have 10 minutes to recount the autobiographical narrative behind the images Vogue Picture Editor Mike Trow will join that they present. Participants will focus on both Belfast Photo Festival at Victoria Square to what is seen and what is unseen; the context of discuss how some of the fashion magazine’s the images ranging from humour to poignancy. most iconic images were created. This is a free, un-ticketed and hugely popular event. Please arrive early to secure a place and Magazine imagery is much more than just avoid disappointment. fashion photography. Trow is responsible for commissioning, production and art direction of most of the portraits, reportage and house shoots for Vogue. He also shoots some portraits for the magazine himself.

Mike Trow has worked at Vogue for 12 years, having cut his teeth for two decades as Photo Editor, Photographer and Features Writer for cutting edge press - from Bizarre magazine (a hard-hitting counter culture title), to Jack magazine with the legendary James Brown.

54 55 WORKSHOPS Pages 58 — 71

56 57 BELFAST EXPOSED

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You will get an introduction to your camera’s This course will be run over 3 x three hour Day one: Studio based. We will prepare you manual controls and will get to know the sessions starting with picture taking, through to move into the feld of landscape photography potential of your camera as well as taking the to high quality printing. We also look at with confdence, and we will look at both hit-and-miss out of picture taking. This course composition and taking images in full frame historical and contemporary work. will also enable you to apply a practical and capturing the entire scene and obtaining theoretical knowledge to help you use correct exposure and metering techniques. Day two: On location. Tuition on all aspects a digital camera effectively and creatively. of manual photography will be given. The location will be decided on day one and the choice between a morning sunrise shoot or an evening sunset shoot will also be decided.

Day three: Studio based. The photographs taken on day two will be reviewed, and you will learn how to prepare your photographs for print/ publishing, and the do’s and don’ts for entering competitions.

58 59 MASTERCLASS — PROJECT DEVELOPMENT WITH ERIK VROONS ( GUP MAGAZINE)

Date: Sat 3 June 2017 Date: 17 - 18 June 2017 art photographers. He can give valuable and BELFAST’S Time: 10:00 – 17:00 Time: 10:00 - 18:00 to-the-point feedback in regards to: how to Venue: Victoria Square Venue: Ulster University, Belfast approach an editor, how to customise a portfolio Tickets: Free Tickets: £85 for a specifc medium or platform and the do's MOST FASHIONABLE and don'ts. Are you one of Belfast’s most fashionable? In this two day masterclass, participants We are teaming up with Victoria Square to are invited to present works at all stages of Furthermore, he will give practical assignments photograph the fashionistas of the city with development – ranging from initiation phase that can help you when applying for awards and one of Northern Ireland’s major up emerging to (nearly) accomplished. Mentor Erik Vroons grants; shape the articulation of your creative photographers and a team of make-up artists. (GUP Magazine, The Netherlands) will share his ideas and improve your artistic 'voice'. expertise in regards to how to elevate a project Photographs will be presented by Victoria to a next level, and will guide you through Booking & more info: visit Square throughout the festival both in the square all steps towards a fnal presentation. WWW.BELFASTPHOTOFESTIVAL.COM and online in celebration of the exhibition, Based on his experience as picture editor, Fashion - Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude, Vroons will address a wide range of issues taking place at the Ulster Museum. concerning the practice of documentary and

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SATURDAY GIRL

Date: Sat 3 June 2017 Saturday Girl is both a playful celebration Date: 9 – 11 June 2017 Time: 11:00 – 16:00 of style and a photographic study of how we Time: 10:00 - 18:00 Venue: Castle Court Shopping Centre experience and use the power that is discovered Venue: Belfast Exposed Tickets: Free through becoming visible in the world. Tickets: £20

The Saturday Girl pop-up portrait studio is The portraits speak of the undercurrents in In partnership with Unseen Photo Fair, we are touring the UK in 2017, collecting portraits culture, the unspoken ways in which we express pleased to present a three-day workshop where of young women and the playful and powerful our values, beliefs, tribe identities and desires. participants learn how to make their own zine ways we express ourselves. with a story and project of their choice.

Whether you are out to meet friends, shop, hang Working with other people’s imagery as well out, to see and be seen, we want you to come as your own, you will learn to take a more down and show us your style! Everyone daring and experimental approach to really is welcome to be photographed. It’s free! make your zine unique.

62 63 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

Reviewers include:

Elisa Medde FOAM Magazine (Netherlands)

Susanna Brown Date: 2 June 2017 Victoria & Albert Museum (U.K.) Time: 09:30 - 16:00 Venue: The Mac Kristen Gaylord Tickets: Free Museum of Modern Art, New York (U.S.A) Belfast Photo Festival presents a day of Ronojoy Dam one-on-one portfolio reviews with a range of DAZED (U.K.) international experts. The purpose of these reviews is to provide both photographers Tom Seymour and artists working with photography the British Journal of Photography (U.K.) opportunity to meet with professionals from Europe, Asia and America. Through these Shen Chao-Liang reviews participants can expect to gain vital Photo Eye, Young Art Taipei (Taiwan) feedback on their artistic development, expand their professional networks and exchange ideas. Alessandra Capodacqua SIFEST (Italy) Each review session will last 20 minutes. Please arrive on time for sessions. Malcolm Dickson Street Level Photoworks (U.K.) The Festival has carefully selected international experts in the feld of photography, art and Monika Chmielarz fashion from around the world to review for Blow Photo (Ireland) YOUTH EDITION one day. Reviewer bios can be viewed through the Festival website. The invited reviewers Trish Lambe WORKSHOPS are looking for new and emerging talent, as Gallery of Photography (Ireland) well as works by established artists utilizing Karen Harvey photography. This is an invaluable professional Shutter Hub (U.K.) development opportunity, and whilst the purpose of the review is not guaranteed Diana Edkins Inspiring Belfast’s future photographers, to deliver exhibitions, publications or Independent Curator, Editor, Author, we are holding workshops in partnership representation, these are potential outcomes. Historian, Advisor (U.S.A) with local schools to offer opportunities to develop skills and provide a sense of You can choose from either Anais Lopez achievement through exhibition. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 reviews Docking Station (Netherlands)

64 65 SOURCE — MEETINGS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS

Date: 3 June 2017 Submission deadline 19th May 2017. editors. This is one way Source fnds new work Time: 09:30 - 16:00 for publication in the ‘portfolio pages’ section of Venue: Source office Tickets: Free As part of research for future issues, Source 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 Source offices, Northern Whig Building photographers to fnd out about new their work contained within it up to three paragraphs of text House, 3-, 2-10 Bridge Street, Belfast BT1 1LU and to offer feedback on work in progress. that give a background to your new work along with Meetings with selected photographers will take your name, contact phone number and web address. Email submissions to [email protected] place on Saturday 03 June 2017 at the Source Offce, Belfast. For more details about the process, visit: www.source.ie/main/submissions.html The meetings are an opportunity to directly introduce a new piece of work to one of the

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Circulations The Rocky Horror

Date: 1 June 2017, 20:00-21:00 Picture Show Venue: Bullitt Hotel Tickets: Free Date: 04 June 2017, 20:00 - 23:00 Running time: 1h 41m For the seventh year the Circulations festival Venue: Whites Tavern, Courtyard focuses on Young European Photography Tickets: Free by exhibiting a photographic dialogue about Europe. This screening presents work by 48 In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Date: 1 June 2017, 20:00 young photographers from around the globe. Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck MAGNUM Venue: Bullitt Hotel with a fat tyre during a storm, discover the Tickets: Free Circulations is an offcial partner eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim of Belfast Photo Festival Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their PHOTOGRAPHY Magnum Photos and LensCulture are delighted innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a to present 44 remarkable photographers from houseful of wild characters, including a rocking AWARDS around the world who were chosen by an biker (Meatloaf) and a creepy butler (Richard international jury for the first annual Magnum O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and Photography Awards. Discover the work of rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest these brilliant photographers in a compelling creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” slideshow projection.

68 69 Date: 17 June, 12:00 - 14:00 Tour Begins: Disability Arts Forum ARCHITECTURAL Venue: Meet at PLACE, 7 - 9 Lower Garfield Street. ARTS & BISCUITS We will host a tour for individuals living This photographic walking tour will take with memory conditions and their carers. PHOTO WALK in some of Belfast’s fnest buildings and its ON TOUR Meet the exhibiting artists over a cup of tea hidden gems. Along the way, we will highlight and participate in making your own For further details and booking information, architectural features, colours, materials and photographic images. All access needs will please visit: PLACENI.ORG details of visual interest that you can record be catered for, in an event which will be with your cameras. friendly, inclusive and comfortable for all who participate. By the end of the tour, you will have an insight into the architecture of the city and a range of images which refect a fresh perspective on our urban environment.

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Art Prize SOURCE www.source.ie THE PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW SPRING 2017 ISSUE 89 print & digital edition £8.00 #RESIST NAN GOLDIN subscribe online MADS HOLM MEMES free access website learn about photography short films, audio interviews, individual photographers images, information on photography careers, reviews of photography exhibitions & books.

Call For Entries

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence and welcomes entries from artists working in all media

n £5,000 Main Art Prize courtesy of Hiscox Booklet Design by n £1,000 Emerging Art Prize courtesy of Hiscox BYLANDMARK.CO.UK n Group exhibition for shortlisted artists n Editorial coverage in Aesthetica Magazine n Publication in the Art Prize Anthology

Deadline 31 August 2017

www.aestheticamagazine.com/artprize Image: Yael Portabales, The Lady of the Strainer.

72 73 FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY WITH SCHMUTZ

THE HUDSON PARTY 2 JUNE 2017, 8PM TILL LATE 1 JUNE 2017, 9 — 12PM

FREE

1 JUNE 2017, 9 — 12PM

The biggest party night of the Belfast Photo Festival comes to The Hudson. The party to launch the festival will be lead by one of the hottest DJ groups to Celebrating with the new graduates of Belfast School of Art and all Festival come out of Northern Ireland, the one and only Schmutz. This energising house goers, we will be partying till the early hours with free flowing beer and some and techno duo will have you hear subtle bells ring, percussion rattle and a real 21st century beats. See you there! whole load of twisting and turning for some nearing the end of the night.

74 75 AT A GLANCE Sunday 4 June 2017 On My Mind - Tom On My Mind - Alessandra Talk - A New Horizon For Opening: RPS Seymour, British Journal Capodacqua (Bullitt) Contemporary Taiwanese International Print of Photography (Bullitt) 11:00 Photography (Bullitt) Exhibition & Events 10:00 13:00 (Titanic Belfast) 17:00 Artist Talk - Chen Shu Thursday 1 June 2017 Chen (Bullitt) 12:00 Curator Talk - Fashion: Screening: Rocky Horror Blurred Lines: A Matter Picture Show (Whites Artist Talk: Opening: Free Now Opening: SNAKE - Clare Magnum Photo of Attitude (Ulster Tavern) 20:00 Lewis Bush 14:00 Pierre Liebaert (QSS) Strand (Belfast Exposed) Awards & Circulations Museum) 15:00 18:00 19:00 Screening, Bullitt 20:00 Opening: Hello Mr - The Naughton Gallery 17:00 Opening: Liu Susiraja Opening: Joyce Official Launch Party (PS2) 18:00 Juno Calypso (Golden Bullitt, 21:00 Thread Gallery) 19:00 Wednesday 7 June 2017 Stage 1: Using your digital camera, Belfast Exposed, 18:00

Friday 2 June 2017 Friday 9 June 2017 Portfolio Reviews Panel Discussion - Open Sub Launch Graduation Party Zine Workshop with Unseen (BX) 12:00 / Opening: RPS International Print Exhibition & Events, Titanic Belfast, 17:00 The MAC, 09:00 - 16:00 Sexuality & Gender, The St Annes Square 16:00 The Hudson 21:00 MAC 12:00 Art in the A.M. Graduation Show Hello Mr. LIVE Saturday 10 June 2017 With Ryan Fitzgibbon Artist Talk - Project Ulster University 18:00 QFT 21:00 Stage 3: Landscape Zine Workshop Focus On: Black & White Opening: BIBLE by The Pocket 09:00 Cleansweep, Belfast Photography Belfast with Unseen Photography (Belfast Momo Okabe, Exposed 15:00 Exposed) 10:00 Belfast Exposed, 12:00 Exposed) 14:00 Framewerk 18:00

Sunday 11 June 2017 Saturday 3 June 2017 Zine Workshop with Unseen, Belfast Exposed, 12:00 Source Magazine Belfasts Most Fashionable Artist Talk Opening: Gender Publication Opportunity Victoria Square, Juno Calypso, Golden Ideologies, Crescent Arts Source Office, 09:00 10:00 - 17:00 Thread Gallery, 13:00 Centre, 18:00 Sunday 11 June 2017 Zine Workshop with Unseen, Belfast Exposed, 12:00 On My Mind On My Mind Focus On: Black & White Opening: Fashion - Kristen Gaylord, MoMA Susanna Brown - V&A Photography, Belfast Blurred Lines: A Matter (Bullitt) 10:00 Bullitt, 11:00 Exposed, 14:00 of Attitude, Ulster Museum, 20:00 Wednesday 14 June 2017 Stage 3: Landscape Saturday Girl Artist Talk - Beyond Stage 1: Using your digital camera 18:00 / Photography & Comedy Night Sunflower Bar 20:00 Photography, Belfast Castle Court, 11:00 the Binary, University Exposed, 10:00 Gallery, 15:00

76 77 Wednesday 14 June 2017 FUNDERS & SUPPORT Stage 1: Using your digital camera 18:00 / Photography & Comedy Night Sunflower Bar 20:00

Thursday 15 June 2017 FUNDERS SPONSORS Workshop: Project Development, University of Ulster 10:00

Friday 16 June 2017 FASHION OUTDOOR EXHIBITION Workshop: Project Development (University of Ulster) 10:00 CULTURAL PARTNERS

Saturday 17 June 2017 Talk: Vogue - Picture Exposed) 10:00 Tour: Architecture Tour Editor (Ulster Museum) (Place) 12:00 Focus On: Black & White 10:00 Workshop: Project Photography (Belfast Development (University Talk: Vogue - Picture Exposed) 14:00 Stage 3: Landscape of Ulster) 10:00 Editor (Ulster Museum) MEDIA PARTNERS Photography (Belfast 14:00

Wednesday 21 June 2017 blow Stage 1: Using your digital camera (Belfast Exposed) 18:00

EVENT PARTNERS Thursday 22 June 2017

Opening: Olivier (Disibility Arts Forum) 17:00

Saturday 24 June 2017 Talk: Japanese Photography (Framewerk) 12:00

Wednesday 28 June 2017 SUPPORTERS & VENUES Photo Poetry: 7:30: Tenx9, Black Box, 19:00 / Stage 1: Using your digital camera, Belfast Exposed, 18:00

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