Our One Planet City 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. Our One Planet City Our One Planet City 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