Nick Waplington

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BRIEFING.09.04.14SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS

FotoDocument announce selected photographers for ten public space photo essay commissions on One Planet Living to launch during Brighton Photo Biennial 2014. Our One Planet City PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS IN BRIGHTON & HOVE October 2014 to July 2015 Following an open call, ten established Ten new photo essays based on and emerging photographers have Brighton and Hove’s One Planet been selected to visually document One Planet Living activity in Brighton & Living ambitions have been Hove:- commissioned by arts education organisation, FotoDocument, Thomas Ball together with Photoworks, as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial Murray Ballard in October 2014. Supported by BioRegional, the charity behind Sam Faulkner One Planet Living, the photo essays will form a series of new Sophie Gerrard public exhibitions, to be installed in ten public spaces around the Jonathan Goldberg city for a period of ten months. Amanda Jackson Jason Larkin Valentina Quintano Syd Shelton Nick Waplington

Our One Planet City Brighton & Hove was accredited as the world’s first One Planet City last year. Working with BioRegional, Brighton & Hove City Council and partners developed a Sustainability Action Plan which sets out targets which, when met, will enable the city’s residents to live well within a fairer share of the earth’s resources.

Each of the ten photo essays will be themed on one of the principles of One Planet Living and works will be installed in a corresponding key public space in Brighton & Hove. All venues are subject to change. Principle Exhibition venue Photographer Zero Waste Waste House, University of Brighton Sophie Gerrard Sustainable Transport Brighton Railway Station Jonathan Goldberg Sustainable Materials Emmaus, Portslade Amanda Jackson Local & Sustainable Food Open Market, London Road Sam Faulkner Sustainable Water Hove Promenade Thomas Ball Land Use & Wildlife Foredown Tower, Portslade Murray Ballard Culture & Community Dome Café-Bar (tbc) Syd Shelton Zero Carbon Venue to be confirmed Jason Larkin Equity & Local Economy The Amex Community Football Stadium Nick Waplington Health & Happiness Sussex County Cricket Ground Valentina Quintano

The exhibitions will collectively form a ‘Story Trail’ around the city and will be accompanied by a map and literature to illustrate the route and significance.

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Photographers were judged on the artistic excellence of their existing work, their track record of delivering documentary photography projects and their personal interest in undertaking this commission. Each will receive a fee of £2.5k.

The selection panel included:

Thurstan Crockett Head of Sustainability & Environmental Policy at Brighton & Hove City Council Celia Davies Curator/Director of Photoworks nad Brighton Photo Biennial Nina Emett Photographer/Founding Director of FotoDocument Melanie Friend Photographer/Senior Lecturer at University of Sussex Professor Francis Hodgson Photography Writer & Historian/Professor at University of Brighton Anthony Probert Senior Project Manager at BioRegonal Simon Roberts Photographer

Our One Planet City Nina Emett, Founding Director of FotoDocument says:

“We were very pleased with the quality of the submissions and delighted to be able to include such variety amongst the selected photographers. We have a good balance of emerging and established practitioners and a wide array of styles ranging from more classical reportage to street photography to conceptual art, which makes for an exciting mix. Our aim is for the project to bring world-class documentary photography into every day public spaces and to communicate the One Planet Living principles in an interesting and effective way to a diverse public.”

Celia Davies, Director of Photoworks says:

“This partnership creates an important programme strand for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014. The project helps us achieve our aim to connect outstanding artists with diverse audiences and enable new work to be made and discovered. The ten prominent locations connecting up the One Planet themes will ensure thousands more city residents and visitors have the opportunity to engage with thought- provoking photography, presented as part of city life for over 10 months. For us the photograph is only half the story, the other half is the subject itself and this project provides an opportunity to explore and where possible address key issues affecting sustainability in our local communities.”

Pooran Desai, Co-Founder of BioRegional says:

“It’s is a huge achievement for Brighton & Hove to be accredited as the world’s first One Planet City. We are hugely looking forward to seeing this achievement and ambition brought to life through the work of the world-class photographers and confident that it will inspire more people to live happy, healthy One Planet lives.”

Our One Planet City FotoDocument is a unique not-for-profit arts Photoworks is an agency dedicated to BioRegional champions a better, more education organisation, which brings visibility enabling participation in photography, sustainable way to live. We work with to positive social and environmental initiatives the most democratic medium of our partners to create better places for people to around the world through the powerful contemporary visual culture. live, and work and do business. medium of world-class documentary We do this by connecting outstanding artists Our ambition is simple. We want to inspire photography installed in high-profile public with diverse audiences through an innovative people to live happy, healthy lives within the spaces. FotoDocument commissions range of projects, events and platforms. natural limits of the planet, leaving space professional photographers at home and for wildlife and wilderness. We call this One around the world to produce extended photo Collaboration is central to our work, making Planet Living. essays which specifically showcase solutions us an agile and responsive organisation, able to key social or environmental issues in to deliver projects at local, regional, national Perhaps best known for being the charity order to inspire, engage and effect behaviour and international level. behind the UK’s first mixed-use eco-village, change in a large and diverse audience. BedZED in south London, BioRegional has Photoworks’ activities include commissions, FotoDocument works with environmental been working in Brighton since 1999. The mentoring, publishing, a learning and educationalists to produce innovative main project so far has been the award- participation programme and the Brighton photo-based teaching resources, for its winning ‘One Brighton’ community, a Photo Biennial, the UK’s leading curated FotoSchools programme. development of 172 apartments next to photography festival. Photoworks is an Brighton railway station. BioRegional is also Arts Council England National Portfolio working with Brighton &Hove City Council on www.fotodocument.org Organisation. its One Planet City initiative. For further information contact: Nina Emett, Founding Director www.photoworks.org.uk www.bioregional.com FotoDocument www.bpb.org.uk [email protected] 07790 645025 @fotodocument

Our One Planet City About One Planet Living

The thinking behind One Planet Living is simple. Globally, we’re consuming natural resources and generating waste and pollution at far too high a rate for our one planet to cope with. If everyone lived like the average European we’d need three planets to support us; if we all lived like the average North American we would need five planets! Yet, worldwide, more than a billion people are getting far less than a fair share of the planet’s resources and their basic needs are not being met. This is why we need One Planet Living. BioRegional developed the One Planet Living sustainability framework underpinned by ten principles covering areas such as health and happiness, carbon and transport, to deliver One Planet Living. The framework has been backed by another respected organization, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). www.oneplanetliving.org

Our One Planet City One Planet City ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Our One Planet City Thomas Ball © Thomas Ball

“My training in environmental sciences has heavily influenced my working practice. Exploitation of natural resources, sustainability and social issues related to the environment are central themes that run through much of my work. I draw inspiration from thought-provoking, long-term documentary projects, and from the work of photographers like Joel Sternfeld, Mitch Epstein, Ed Burtynksy, Nadav Kander and Alec Soth.”

Thomas Ball (b.1979, Saudi Arabia) is a documentary photographer Studies (USA), Association of Photographer’s Gallery (London), The from Ireland. He graduated with a first class degree in Natural Hereford Photo Festival (UK), Crane Kalman Gallery (Brighton), and Sciences from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. He went on to work The Royal West of England Academy (Bristol). His first short film in the environmental industry and aerial surveying in Australia Electrosensitive: Outliers in a Wireless World was screened at the and Ireland. In 2007 he undertook an MA in Photojournalism and Reframe Documentary Film Festival in Canada in January 2014. Documentary Photography at The London College of Communication Thomas was nominated for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize in 2010 and was awarded a distinction. Since then he has lived in London and was a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Winner in 2011 & and worked freelance in the UK and abroad on self-initiated 2013. documentary projects and editorial or commercial assignments. Thomasʼ photography has been published extensively, including: GEO, The Guardian, GQ, Wired, National Geographic, Independent on Sunday, The Irish Times, The New Review, Libération, Cicero www.thomasballphoto.com Magazine, New Internationalist, Les Temps, Foto8, Hotshoe, Creative Review, and The British Journal of Photography. His work has been exhibited widely, most notably at The Whitechapel Gallery (London), Somerset House (London), Flash Forward Festival (Canada & US), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France), The Royal Photographic Societyʼs International Print Exhibition (UK), The Salt Institute for Documentary Our One Planet City Murray Ballard © Murray Ballard

“I like to use photography as a form of storytelling. Working primarily with a large-format view camera I make quite formal, structured pictures that take time to compose and are rich in detail and information.”

Murray Ballard (b.1983, Brighton) graduated in Photography from the University of Brighton in 2007. He was selected for ‘Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 2008’ - the annual showcase of work by the most promising recent graduates - at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. In 2011 The British Journal of Photography recognised him as one of the ‘Emerging Photographers of Note’, following his debut solo show, The Prospect of Immortality, at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. In 2012 the exhibition toured to the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland and then in 2013 to the Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City for the Transitio_mx 05 festival. His photographs have been published in many international magazines and newspapers including: GEO, GQ, Financial Times, The Guardian, IL, The Independent, Marie Claire, Wired and the photography journals: 6 Mois, 8, British Journal of Photography, Dummy, HotShoe and YVI. www.murrayballard.com Our One Planet City Sam Faulkner © Sam Faulkner

“I have been fortunate to be able to work in many different areas of image making, both in stills and film, across fashion, art and portraiture but it is reportage photography that has always been my passion and motivation for picking up a camera.”

The day after my last exam, I threw a battered old Canon and a few budget (hopefully) a bit more generous, but it is always a thrill to do rolls of Tri-X into a backpack and took a long route to Afghanistan. It this job. I began shooting my long term project Cocaine Wars in 2001 was 1994. I didn’t really know what I was doing or where I was going. and the first few stories from the project won the Observer Hodge I hadn’t worked out how I was going to get into the country, let alone Award and got me on the Joop Swart World Press Photo Masterclass. how I was going to get out. I wanted an adventure and to have a go Other prizes and grants include The Winston Churchill Memorial at becoming a photographer. I slept under the stars, next to teenage Fellowship, The British Journal of Photography Project Assistance killers who’d never met a foreigner before. At night we shared greasy Grant, The Getty Grant for Good for work on female genital mutilation mutton soup as we watched tracer rounds and rockets silently rain on Mali and selection for last year’s Taylor Wessing exhibition at the distant Kabul. By day we toured the front lines south of the capital, National Portrait Gallery. crouched behind low mud walls as bullets whistled overhead. At times I wondered whether I really was just a guest. My hosts, a band I live in London with my wife and our two young children. of mujihadeen, linked to the murderous warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, seemed in no hurry to see me go and whenever we moved we went in convoy, billowing clouds of dust. I was utterly dependent upon them in a hostile, alien country. After about 2 weeks they drove me www.samfaulkner.co.uk back to the Pakistan border. I had shot 6 rolls of film. But it was the start. Today, I still get the same buzz arriving on assignment in a new country. My kit may be a bit fancier, the brief a bit tighter and the Our One Planet City Sophie Gerrard © Sophie Gerrard

“I am a social documentary photographer pursuing contemporary and environmental stories. I’m interested in people and their stories and try to use the voices of individuals in my work in order to make projects about larger themes. I find inspiration in many places, and some of my influences include photographers Joel Sternfeld, Pieter Hugo, Edward Burtynski and Don McCullin as well as drawings and painting by artists including Lucian Freud and Alberto Giacometti.”

Sophie Gerrard is an award-winning documentary photographer from Streetlevel Photoworks in Glasgow, Paris Photo and a solo show in Scotland pursuing contemporary and social stories with a strong The Arbetes Museum Sweden. Sophie is a co-founder of Document focus on environmentally sensitive themes. Born in Edinburgh in 1978, Scotland, a collective of internationally acclaimed photographers Sophie began her career as an environmental scientist graduating dedicated to chronicling the social, cultural and economic life in from Manchester University. Her creative passion for documenting Scotland. She is also a lecturer in Editorial photography at Edinburgh environmental and social issues then led to a photography degree Napier University. She is represented by The Photographers’ Gallery from Edinburgh College of Art and an MA in Photojournalism in London and Eyevine. and Documentary Photography from The London College of Communication. Sophie works regularly for NGO and editorial clients including The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine and Telegraph Saturday Magazine, The Independent www.sophiegerrard.com on Sunday, Save The Children and Greenpeace International. A recipient of a Jerwood Photography Award, Fuji Bursary and Magenta Foundation Award, Sophie has completed commissions, assignments and personal projects in India, Mexico, Myanmar and The UK. Her work is held in a number of private and public collections. Sophie’s work has been exhibited internationally including The Jerwood Space, Flowers East Gallery and The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Our One Planet City Jonathan Goldberg © Jonathan Goldberg

“Always shooting, I use a medium format film camera when undertaking personal work, as I believe this gives more depth and forces me to slow down. For inspiration I look at a lot of portraits, and photos depicting people’s relationships to their environments.”

Born in 1973, I am a London based Portrait and Documentary Environmental Photographer of the Year competition. Shaking the photographer. My personal work addresses themes around Tree portrays one man’s mission to prevent tons of fruit gong to waste sustainable living and alternative lifestyles. Most recently I have in suburban NW London. I have been shortlisted for Pink Lady Food been completing a series of photos depicting Grow Heathrow, Photographer of the Year (2014), Environmental Photographer of a community garden located next to Britain’s busiest airport. the Year (2013), Vignette Award (2013). Recent exhibition selections Occupied by approximately 15 squatters, my project documents the have been at Photofusion Salon (2013), London Independent lives of determined individuals, who choose to question accepted Photographers Annual Exhibition (2013) and the Foto8 Summer Show conventions of society by living in an off-grid commune. I have (2012). When I’m not working on personal projects, my commissions been paying regular visits to the site for over 3 years. Portraits of are from a range of magazines undertaking environmental portraits, Sustainability is a project that I have been working on alongside Grow news and school & college prospectuses. I have been working as a Heathrow. It depicts people who, between work commitments, are photographer for 18 years since graduating from Brighton University, involved in projects with a sustainability theme. The initiatives I’ve where I studied Editorial Photography (BA Hons). focused on have mostly been initiated by Transition Towns, a growing grass-roots movement engaging people on a local level. Photos featured portray: community gardens, jam-making workshops, a local currency initiative and so on. In 2013 I won Best Video at the www.jongoldberg.co.uk

Our One Planet City Amanda Jackson © Amanda Jackson

“Early on in my career I realised my passion lay with photographing people and places on the edges of mainstream society. I would describe my style as quirky and honest and falling somewhere into editorial/documentary/artistic photography. I prefer to use a medium format film camera over digital. For me, film photography still has an artistic edge and forces a more considered approach to creating a body of work.”

Originally from Canada, I moved to the UK in 2001 and completed gallery exhibitions and such wide-reaching publications as Self Build an HND in photography at Hereford College of Art. In 2003 I moved and Design magazine, The Observer and The Telegraph. I feel it is to London and spent 4 years working as a freelance photographer’s important to photograph what you are passionate about. I properly assistant. I then returned to Hereford and completed a photography become interested in sustainable living when I first visited Lammas in degree in 2008, gaining a First Class hons. My work has been 2010 and have been photographing low impact homes since. I now exhibited at The Empire Gallery in London where I won the portraiture divide my time between a house in Malvern, West Midlands and a category of the 2008 DegreeArt Signature Photography Awards. field in Pembrokeshire. Other exhibitions include The Hereford Photo Festival, Rhubarb Rhubarb (Birmingham), D&AD (London), The New Designers www.amandajaxn.co.uk exhibition (Islington Business Centre) and DKNY in Bond Street’s New Designer’s Showcase. In 2013 I was awarded a grant from The Arts Council of Wales for a photographic project based on the Lammas Eco Village and the surrounding community. An exhibition of “To Build A Home” will be shown at Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan in August 2014. I am privileged to be able to share my work both through intimate

Our One Planet City Jason Larkin © Jason Larkin

“I have developed an immersive attitude and a slower, more complex approach to my documentary work. This allows for more comprehensive stories that can communicate important social, economic and environmental issues.”

Jason Larkin, (b. 1979) is a British photographer recognised for his Now based in London he has been continuing his focus on themes desire to forefront the subjects on the periphery of current affairs. of social and collective identity surrounding environments and their Soon after finishing his studies Larkin worked as a documentary interaction with the landscape. He outputs his work using a variety photographer across the Middle East and Africa, with his work of conventional and new formats to ensure his work reaches multiple published worldwide. His latest body of work Tales From The City Of audiences. Gold (Kehrer, 2013) has just been published both as a monograph in Europe and as a bilingual newspaper publication for Africa. Larkin jasonlarkin.co.uk is the recipient of numerous awards including, most recently the PDN Arnold Newman New Portraiture Award and a Renaissance Photography Prize. His freely-distributed publication, Cairo Divided was nominated for both the Deutsche Börse and Prix Pictet photography awards. Recent solo exhibitions include Flowers Gallery, London and Farnsworth Art Museum, USA and he has exhibited at the Brighton Photo Biennial and Hereford Photography Festival. In 2013 he moved from Johannesburg and is now based in London.

“My reportage is shot in an unobtrusive way, giving my interpretation of candid moments, mostly with available lighting. I shoot in colour and my visual style tends to be raw, though emotional and poetic.”

Valentina Quintano is an Italian freelance photographer based in TimeOut London, La Repubblica, Left, Il Giornalista. Her work has London. She has been working since 2007 when she was the staff been also featured in four books and various exhibitions in the UK, photographer of a regional magazine focussed on social affairs. She Italy and Canada. Her work has been awarded and selected finalist works mostly within the editorial market but also with performance in international competitions such as the Ian Parry Scholarship, the photography, events, portraiture, news. Her personal reportage Magenta Flash Forward 2013, the Lucie Foundation Scholarship and projects try to investigate the different aspects of human nature and Ojodepez. She has also been artist in residence at R.E.D. in Norway ‘being human’ with an intimate, curious and open-minded approach. and Trasparesidenze in Italy. She attended an International Semester of Photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2009 and graduated www.valentinaquintano.net with distinction from London College of Communication, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2010. Her images have been published in various magazines and newspapers, including: British Journal of Photography, Sunday Times Magazine, L’Espresso, Ojodepez, Psychologies Magazine UK, ilReportage, Vice,

“As an editorial photographer my influences range from Walker Evans to William Klein. I have always worked with 35mm cameras and until very recently all of my work has been on film. I see my photographic mission to be about extracting an intimacy from my subjects and presenting photography as a visual argument.”

Having studied fine art in Yorkshire Syd began his photography in the Life of London, and Ireland: A Week in the Life of a Nation. practice in the early 1970s, following a move to Australia. In Sydney, His work has been widely published and is in numerous collections he worked as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers such including The V&A, Photographers’ Gallery, Calouste Gulbenkian as Nation Review, The Age, and Digger. In 1975 he had a solo Foundation, Erick Frank Fine Art, Rock Archive and Autograph. exhibition of his photographs, ‘Working Class Heroes’ at the Sydney Syds’ photographs from the 1970s were featured in the exhibition ‘A Film-makers Cooperative. In 1976, Syd returned to London and Riot of Our Own’ at Chelsea Space in 2008 and in 2012 in Croatia he established the design and photography partnership ‘Hot Pink as a part of the International Biennale organised by the Museum Heart/Red Wedge Graphics’ which evolved into the current agency of Contempory Art Istria. ‘Graphicsi’. Syd become one of the key activists in the movement Rock against Racism. He was the photographer and one of the www.sydshelton.net designers of the RAR magazine ‘Temporary hoarding’ which was published between 1976 to 1981. During the 1980s, as well as producing photographs for the music press, and graphics for the public and private sector, Syd co-edited, and was art director of, a series of photographic books that includes the award winning Day

“Concept before style is the basis of my approach to photography. Once I know what I want to say or at least have the basis of an idea I then work out how I am going to make the work. My approach is open and anything is possible. I am making photography from an artistic standpoint rather than trying to create a visual style for which I become known.”

It is my reasoning and understanding that art practice should became known for, Living Room (Aperture, 1991). My work features engage with the world in which we live, I consider art as a calling in a number of Public Collections including Guggenheim Art Gallery not a vocation and have been lucky enough to have spent the last30 in New York, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery years making art full time. It is my goal to deal with the issues and of Australia in Canberra, Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, Victoria and complexities of the contemporary world by using a mixture of different Albert Museum in London, National Museum of Film, Photography artistic endeavors while keeping photography at the centre of my and Television in Bradford, Government Art Collection in London practice. I come from Steyning, West Sussex and attended Worthing among others. I currently live between London and New York but Art College after which I travelled globally for many years working on will be living with my family back in Steyning for the summer while various art and photographic projects. My work has appeared in both I undertake the One Planet Living commission. I am also a life long solo and group exhibitions in a variety of venues including Brooklyn supporter of the Albion and was at both matches at Wembley in 1983. Museum, New York (2014), Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery, London (2012), The Spaceship, Tel Aviv (2010), ICA, London (2007), Whitechapel www.nickwaplington.co.uk Art Gallery, London (2007), White Space Gallery, London (2006), Biennale de Quebec (2004), 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (2001) among others. I have produced 18 Monographs, including most recently, Settlement (Mack Books, 2014), Alexander McQueen, Working Process (Diamini Press, 2014), Surf Riot (Little Big Man Books, 2011) right back to the first one I produced and Our One Planet City Athabasca Lodge, Patient Care Bay, On a rooftop in A young boy works Northern Alberta, Alcor Life Extension the barrio of Santo in a scrap yard in Canada. From the Foundation, Phoenix, Doming, teenage Seelampur, a well series Inescapable Arizona, USA. members of the ‘29’ known recycling area Limits, 2007. From the series: gang show off their of Delhi, 2006. © Thomas Ball The Prospect of arsenal, Medellin, © Sophie Gerrard Immortality, 2006. Colombia. © Murray Ballard © Sam Faulkner

Sheikh Zayed Road, Daniel, Balcombe. Clara, Kanysh and Computer parts stored Dubai. From the From the series: Bekmukhambet riding in a workshop in Maya series Inescapable FRACK OFF, 2013. to the hunting grounds Puri, Delhi, 2006. Limits, 2010. © Murray Ballard near the village of © Sophie Gerrard © Thomas Ball Nura with Clara’s eagle AK Balak (White Legs), Kazakhstan. © Sam Faulkner

Charlotte, Grow Elfie. From the series: Breaking down the Image from the Heathrow, June 2013. To Build A Home: A dump, Johannesburg, project ‘White life- © Jonathan Goldberg study of the people South Africa, 2013. sentence’, Asylum for of the Lammas Tir © Jason Larkin the criminally insane, Y Gafel Eco Village Aversa (Italy), 2008. and the surrounding © Valentina Quintano community, 2013. © Amanda Jackson

Wind Turbine, Grow The Beekeepers. From Past Perfect, Museum Image from the project Heathrow, February the series: To Build A 6, 2010. ‘Midnight sun dream’, 2013. Home: A study of the © Jason Larkin Arctic Russia 2012‘ © Jonathan Goldberg people of the Lammas (...)sometimes you Tir Y Gafel Eco Village wish you were and the surrounding invisible, right?’ community, 2013. © Valentina Quintano © Amanda Jackson

Bevin Fagan, (aka Family, Tekoa D Bagga) lead singer of Settlement, West the band Matumbi, Bank, from the book Hackney, London ‘Settlement’ Mack 1979. Books 2014. © Syd Shelton © Nick Waplington

Main Street, Untitled from the Johannesburg, South series ‘Living Room’ Design: Simon Bottrell at 7creative.co.uk Africa 2011. 1985-1997. © Syd Shelton © Nick Waplington

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