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, CONFERENCE 2008 Church Street, Brighton Street, Church [email protected] contact book: To The Old Courtroom or 01273 643052 book please but free, Admission: disappointment to avoid early Photo Biennial in by Brighton organised Talks Museums. & Hove Brighton with partnership EVENTS BPB Sallis Benney Theatre IN CONVERSATION University of Brighton, Grand Parade Grand of Brighton, University 15 November Saturday 9.30am–5.30pm £30 / £15 (concessions) Tickets: BPB by Julian Stallabrass, Programmed with in association 2008 Guest Curator by Photo Biennial and supported Brighton this important of Brighton, the University brings together internationally event theorists media photographers, renowned and art historians to discuss the production, of war, of images and distribution exhibition referencing historical and contemporary Tom include: Speakers practice. photographic and (Course Leader for the Cultural Hickey of Brighton), University Critical Theory MA at Geert Berlin), Fellow, James (Humboldt Sarah Media (Research Professor in Interactive Lovink and Hilary Amsterdam), van Hogeschool at Management Roberts (Head of Collections London). 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The exhibition will show images from all FMLN Special Forces Students’ Association), 1971 © Thomas Hirschhorn © Simon Norfolk Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the foremost artists of warfare for a generation, women have often University of Brighton Gallery Foyer www.barbican.org.uk sides in the conflicts. In Vietnam, the training to avoid land © International Council of his generation, engages with the ‘war on terror’ endured violence, repression and bereavement. University of Brighton, Grand Parade, mines, El Salvador, 1987 Graphic Design Associations photographers of the National Liberation © Museo de la Palabra y Archive, University of head on, making works that draw on the terrible Harriet Logan travelled to Afghanistan twice, first in Brighton, bn2 0jy Seven years after the West’s ‘War on Terror’ Front and the North Vietnamese Army took, in la Imagen, El Salvador Brighton Design Archives 4 PHOTOGRAPHING THE FIRST WORLD WAR pictures that circulate online and in print, of 1997, during the Taliban’s repressive rule, and again T: +44 (0) 1273 643010 in Afghanistan, Barbican Art Gallery reflects circumstances hard even to imagine, some of FRANK HURLEY bodies torn apart by modern munitions. For the after the defeat of the Taliban in 2001. In her first www.brighton.ac.uk/gallery-theatre on the visual representation of conflict: the most striking images of the war, and these 31.08.08 – 02.11.08 Biennial, he shows an 18-metre long banner of the visit, Logan spoke to and photographed women Monday–Saturday 10am–5pm will be seen alongside the much better known worst of these photographs. Hirschhorn confronts who risked their safety to tell her what was This Is War! Robert Capa At Work images by Western photojournalists. This Charleston us with what is excluded from the mainstream happening to them. When she returned, these A powerful series of video works and Six of his most important war stories exhibition also looks at a lens-based Charleston, Firle, Nr Lewes, bn8 6ll mass media and asks us to reflect on the politics of photographs exploring displacement and are showcased in over 600 works. environment of images at a time of rapid T: +44 (0) 1323 811626 that exclusion. The bodies in the photographs that evacuation by pupils from Stafford Junior School image transmission from digital devices, www.charleston.org.uk he uses, sometimes reduced to no more than an in Eastbourne working with video artist Annis Gerda Taro phone cameras, of vast mass media Wednesdays & Saturdays 11.30am–6pm. abstract smear, are traces of what were once Joslin and photographic artist Lisa Barnard. The first UK retrospective of the groundbreaking conglomerates, independent websites of Thurs, Fri & Sun 2pm–6pm. people with memories, families and friends. Their German female photographer who photographed various political complexions, and news savvy Last entry to the house 5pm. erasure is the most extreme exercise of political Funded by Creative Partnerships, the Spanish Civil War alongside Capa. resistance and terrorist organisations. power, and one wielded by our governments daily Hastings and East Sussex. Frank Hurley’s First World War pictures have a in the occupied nations. These images circulate, On The Subject Of War: Contemporary Exhibiting photographers include Ghaith modern air that runs counter to the usual stock of and we hear their insistent whispering. To blot it War Photography Abdul-Ahad, Larry Burrows, Doan Cong Tinh, images that we hold of that time. While Hurley out would be inhuman; to broadcast it the only, if Four contemporary artists respond to the Ashley Gilbertson, Philip Jones Griffiths, worked with bulky, single-shot cameras, he was brutal, response. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq: Geert Van Bilal Hussein, Catherine Leroy, Don McCullin, able to capture not only the life of the trenches but Kesteren, Omer Fast, Paul Chan and An-My Khalid Mohammed, Tim Page, Stephanie also bunker scenes and combat pictures. The war Lê. Each artist explores how photography Sinclair, Sean Smith and Bruno Stevens. presented novel difficulties of representation: articulates the experience of conflict, far from the mobile massed troops and brightly whether that experience is as a victim, coloured uniforms of previous wars, this was a combatant, perpetrator or observer. AGENT ORANGE camouflaged war of position in which some of PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS the most important elements—flying bullets 30.09.08 – 16.11.08 and shells, gas—were hard to discern. Hurley’s BRIGHTON PHOTO FRINGE frustration at risking his life continually to get Pallant House Gallery pictures that did not fully represent the situation Various locations 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ led him to the controversial practice of montaging Exhibitions continue until 16 November 2008 T: +44 (0) 1243 774557 his photographs to create composite scenes. 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Art photographers followed Zone B, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, bn1 4aj Facilitated by video artist Annis Joslin, the range of current UK photographic practice. Griffiths continued to go back to Vietnam for which was the first radical conflict to be Monday–Saturday 10am–5pm photographs or pictures of their mates mugging in the wake of armies, documenting the image T: +44 (0) 1273 647197 undergraduates from the School of Arts Look out for exhibitions and events that will run decades afterwards to document the changes extensively filmed and photographed, with the for the camera. Others have had complex of destruction. These works, from the lyrical and www.lighthouse.org.uk & Communication at the University of in parallel with Brighton Photo Biennial 2008. wrought first by the Communist government willing participation of the revolutionaries. Curated by Catherine Moriarty. motives, as the camera is used as a box to collect painterly images of Simon Norfolk to the quieter Wednesday–Sunday 11am–5pm Brighton have been working to devise and and then by market ‘reform’. He pursued with Many themes from photographs of the Mexican trophies. Others still have a political purpose, and bleaker photographs of mine fields and ruins deliver gallery based workshops for A Level Exhibitions include: Jason Evans at Permanent great tenacity a story few wanted to hear Revolution are picked up again in the portrayal Taking a poster held within the University of to highlight conditions of service or very in Afghanistan by Paul Seawright, stand in Geert Van Kesteren has established himself as students in Brighton & Hove that analyse and Gallery; Gordon MacDonald, Clare Strand and about: the horrific legacy of the defoliant of Castro’s overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, Brighton Design Archives as a starting point, this occasionally war crimes. In Portsmouth, Julian contrast to photojournalism, through a practice one of the most innovative photojournalists investigate photographic images of war. Danny Wilson at The Regency Town House; Agent Orange that was sprayed over great and again in the Sandinista revolution against display considers how photography was Germain, one of the best known photographers that claims to be quieter, more resolved and working today. His book, Why, Mister, Why? is See the results at www.bpb.org.uk Sarah Pickering and Entre-deux at Phoenix swathes of South Vietnam. Its active chemical Somoza, and in the failed insurrection in El incorporated in graphic contexts as part of working in the UK today, will ask those who are thought-through than the news-driven work of one of the few photographic books to attempt from Wednesday 12 November 08. Gallery; Foto Ramblas at Crane Kalman Brighton; was dioxin, one of the most toxic substances Salvador. As the dictatorships fell across the campaigning strategies in opposition to US or have been in military service to show and talk the photojournalists. They may also examine a synthetic view of the Iraq war. It tracks the Jonathan Swain at Grey Area; Diversity at known, which lingers in the environment and continent following the end of the Cold War, intervention in Vietnam. This conflict was about their photographs, to make an evolving representation itself, as in Broomberg and brutal tactics of the coalition forces, the many Gallery 100; Susan Trangmar at Brighton the body, causing cancers and genetic activists turned to photography to reclaim the identified as emblematic of struggles against exhibition that will give the opportunity to Chanarin’s pictures of the Israeli training grounds humiliations ordinary Iraqis endure under the Museum & Art Gallery; Coded, Siderotype and mutations. 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Shekyls at Worth Media; Emer Gillespie at The families, schools and medical staff dealt with radicalism that has swept the continent, links to bright future should two, three or many Vietnams In his new book, Baghdad Calling, Van Kesteren 3 and 10; Rob Macdonald at the Redroaster them, and the resilience and courage of the the revolutionary past continue to be drawn out flourish throughout the world.’ The Exhibiting artists are Broomberg and Chanarin, worked with Iraqi refugees, millions of whom Coffee House; plus many many more.... victims to do things most of us take for granted. through photography. internationalist perspective at the heart of the Simon Norfolk and Paul Seawright. have been driven away by the conflict. He Cuban political agenda was a key determinant in became fascinated by their exchange of phone The opening weekend (4 and 5 October) The exhibition will include work by Korda, the designs produced to encourage solidarity. The images with those who remained in Iraq. These 11 will also feature The Caravan Gallery Once Upon A Susan Meiselas, Jonathan Moller, Roberto Salas, incorporation of photographic elements in the 9 10 images, from mundane shots of family life made and Shoot Experience’s Shoot Brighton Moment In Time Sebastião Salgado, Antonio Turok and posters produced by these organisations Photograph by Harriet Logan A mobile phone photograph poignant by circumstances of separation to at locations across the city. Fahrida lost her leg during a of exiled Iraqi civilians: a Photograph by pupils from many others. demonstrates the way photographs of Vietnam mujahideen mortar attack in Muslim family celebrates images of violence, are contrasted with Van Stafford Junior School came to be recognised internationally as Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1997 Christmas at home. Kesteren’s own photographs of the refugees. 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