Communities ColleCtives & Collaboration brighton Photo biennial 2014 exhibitions P3-39 Digital Programmes P40-41 EVENTS oPENING WeeKenD P42-43 talKs, Screenings & tours P44-50 bPb14 big WeeKenDs P48-50 WORKSHOPs Young PeoPle & Adults P51 Creative Professional DeveloPment P51-52 teaChers & Schools P53 FAMILIES P54 -55 bPb14 HUB AND INFO P56 - 63 2 #BPB14 bPb14 COMMUNITIES COLLECTIVES & COLLABORATION 4 October – 2 november 2014 Welcome to brighton Photo biennial, the uK’s largest photography festival, returning this year for its sixth edition, taking place in venues and public spaces in brighton & hove and beyond Introducing the theme of Communities, explores photography’s role in relation Collectives & Collaboration, BPB14 to these larger ideas. presents a series of remarkable exhibitions The core programme runs throughout and more than 50 events. All are bound October with exhibitions throughout the together by a common approach; city of Brighton & Hove and across the region. photography based projects produced The events programme is geared towards through innovative, new and unexpected different interests, experience and ages, partnerships. This includes photographers offers many opportunities to get involved and artists collaborating with and participate in BPB14, including environmentalists, scientists, young and older workshops, talks, tours, screenings people, photo and film archives, local and and online digital projects. international communities and digital networks. BPB14’s programme is outlined here. From collusion and intrusion in paparazzi To find out more, the BPB14 team are on photography, to live underwater cameras hand throughout October at our pop-up recording the creation of an artificial reef; shop and information hubs at Jubilee Library to connect and disconnect in communities; and Circus Street Market in central Brighton, to explorations of national and international or connect with us online for updates and photography collectives, to ambitious ways to take part. participatory projects, BPB14 presents We look forward to welcoming you. previously unseen perspectives on photography. #BPB14 bpb.org.uk Prompting questions around custodianship, BPB14 is produced by Photoworks, an organisation dedicated to enabling participation in photography, the authorship, mythologies, image-making, most democratic medium of contemporary visual culture. sharing and collaborative processes, BPB14 photoworks.org.uk 3 amore e Piombo: the PhotograPhY of extremes in 1970’s italY enter a tumultuous era with this unparalleled collection of photographs made by a group of photographers working for the rome-based agency team editorial services The press photographers constantly shifted Forty years on and Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’ between battling film stars at play and the are still shrouded in mystery. Despite reality of near civil war unfolding on the countless attempts to unravel the political streets. Politics and celebrity are brought confusion of the times, key tragic events, together through the paparazzi style of alto from the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan contrasto, collusion and intrusion. Alluded to, in 1969, to Aldo Moro’s 1978 kidnap and although less visible, are the murkier dealings assassination by the Red Brigades, remain of clandestine groups linked to the Italian unresolved. Secret Services, The P2 Masonic Lodge Instead of offering answers, Amore e the CIA and NATO, operating against Piombo (Love and Lead) presents for scrutiny the backdrop of the extremes of the Red the press photography of this most turbulent and Black Brigades. and tangled decade. Archive prints are presented alongside television news footage, film sequences 5 BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY roYal Pavilion garDens, brighton, bn1 1ee and sound recordings. A choice of Italian tue - sun 10am - 5pm, Closed mon Services/Alinari Editorial TEAM © c1970s , photo-books of the period, loaned from A Photoworks and Archive of Modern Conflict co- commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014, curated the Martin Parr collection, add a further by Roger Hargreaves and Federica Chiocchetti. Giulio AndreottiGiulio layer of reference. for related events see pages 44, 47. 4 #BPB14 Giulio Andreotti, c1970s © TEAM Editorial Services/Alinari 5 bpb.org.uk a return to elseWhere two locations, two photographers, working together to exchange experiences and perspectives, sharing the process of making to create a single project Photographers, Kalpesh Lathigra (UK) representation, exploring understandings of and Thabiso Sekgala (SA), have used the belonging, histories, silence, memory and loss. framework of collaboration to develop work Lathigra/Sekgala chose to begin their at the same time in two cities. Together, they project in connection with Indian communities have chosen to explore communities and their in two primary locations Marabastad and Lost City, Laudium Bus Depot © Lathigra/Sekgala 2014 6 #BPB14 Laudium, South Africa and in Brighton, UK. Lathigra/Sekgala’s collaborative project Marabastad was a culturally and racially combines contemporary images with diverse community before forced relocation co-authored captions to create pertinent in the late 1940’s. Closeby, Laudium, on the associations between people, time and outskirts of Pretoria was proclaimed an Indian place. These include retrieved stories and Township in 1961 under the Group Areas notes from archives. Act. One of Brighton’s largest ethnic minority Lathigra/Sekgala have produced a new groups is of Indian descent, a community with digital artwork (p14) to complement and an interesting historical back story relating to extend the project. the British Indian Army, whose soldiers fought 8 Circus STREET MARkET in WW1 and were temporarily hospitalised CirCus street, brighton, bn2 9Qf in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, a building Daily 11am - 5pm Co-commissioned by the British Council Connect ZA inextricably linked with Brighton’s identity. programme with Photoworks, Market Photo Workshop Both photographers are interested in and The Space for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 and the Johannesburg Photo Umbrella in a show at Mary the role of photography in representing Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg. The communities, creating narratives and raising project is part of SA-UK Seasons 2014 & 2015 which is partnership between the Department of questions around truth and fiction, notions Arts & Culture, South Africa and the British Council. of connection and disconnection. for related events see pages 42, 44. Mandir, Marabastad © Lathigra/Sekgala 2014 bpb.org.uk 7 © The Photocopy Club 8 #BPB14 the PhotoCopy Club: a giant ColleCtive aiming to get photography off the internet and printed matter back into the hands of the public, the Photocopy Club presents an international exchange All Photocopy Club exhibitions are based cities they live in and the communities living on photographers submitting work printed within it.” via the use of a black and white photocopier/ Bringing international photographers and xerox machine. local communities together, The Photocopy In partnership with Brighton Photo Biennial Club makes photography in print affordable and Joburg Photo Umbrella, The Photocopy and accessible to people from all different Club made an open call to photographers walks of life. All exhibited works will be of all ages and ability to form collectives available to purchase. with their friends, families and peers, and Matt Martin will run a one day workshop to submit works on the theme of “community”. on zine making, the history of zines and how Photographers around the world photographers use them today. submitted black and white copies of their 8 Circus STREET MARkET work and created a “giant collective”, CirCus street, brighton, bn2 9Qf exhibiting both here in Brighton and Daily 11am - 5pm Co-commissioned by the British Council Connect in Johannesburg. ZA programme with Photoworks and Market Photo Matt Martin from The Photocopy Club Workshop for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 and the Johannesburg Photo Umbrella in a show at Mary explains, “We asked people to come up Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg. The with a collective name and make individual project is part of SA-UK Seasons 2014 & 2015 which is partnership between the Department of Arts & or group images that work around the theme Culture, South Africa and the British Council. of community. For example: music, religion, for related event see page 51. sport, art, sex, politics, to think about the bpb.org.uk 9 five ContemPorarY PhotograPhY ColleCtives an exploration of collaborative working methods, with five very different contemporary photography collectives © Julie Cockburn Contemplation, 2014; Untitled © Don Hudson, 2014; ABCED, Courtesy the ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative These contemporary views on photography rooms is a different artist’s book. Visitors provide a route into current conversations can wander a floor-plan of assembled books. around the resurgence of photography ABCEUM is an evolving project with its own collectives. Invited for their varying styles and changing programme of exhibitions – much like their approaches to working together, ABC, any museum. In ABCEUM, however, the idea Burn My Eye, RUIDO Photo, Sputnik of a museum itself can become its own subject. Photos and Uncertain States outline Burn My Eye grew from a small group of the impact of this way of working, nationally photographers with a shared passion for straight, and internationally. Considered here is the unposed photography. Wanting to encourage dynamic, democratic