Photoworks Brighton presents the Photoworks Weekender, a range of exhibitions across Brighton with a highlight being Variations, a new work by photographer and artist Felicity Hammond to be unveiled in an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning.
Alongside the weekender, the biennial, open-platform photography festival returns in October with six weeks of exhibitions and events in and beyond Brighton & Hove, Newhaven and for the first time, Portsmouth.
Photo Fringe offers a vibrant mix of photographers presenting their own work, plus photography selected from open calls, in galleries, cafés, pop-up venues, outdoor installations and other extraordinary spaces.
Exhibitors for 2024 include:
Rhiannon Adam, British Culture Archive and Tish Murtha, Murray Ballard, Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Laura El-Tantawy, Arpita Shah, MacdonaldStrand, Peckham 24, Pippa Healy, Mandy Williams and many more.
For its eleventh edition, many of the established names and emerging talents featured in the programme respond to the theme of “Common Ground”.
Festival Director, Claire Wearn, explains, “Finding common ground is a starting point for positive change. Like photography, common ground can bridge divides, challenge stereotypes and create space for collaboration and connection.”
The Collectives Hub at Phoenix Art Space has become a well-established feature of the Photo Fringe line-up. Eight different groups of photographers, selected from open-call, will show work responding to the festival’s Common Ground theme. The selected collectives are Brighton Queer Photographers Collective, Emic Collective, Flowers of Lilith, HOLD, Iris Collective, London Alternative Photography Collective, MAP6 and Rethinking Eastern Europe.
Photo Fringe is well known for extending beyond the boundaries of its home city of Brighton & Hove, both with its online exhibitions and by stretching along the coast to connect with venues in Hastings, Lewes, Newhaven and Worthing. This year, the festival reaches Portsmouth for the first time with shows and happenings across the six weeks of the festival, including an extended weekend (Thu 10 – Sun 13 Oct) of artist talks and tours, openings, book events and portfolio reviews.
The full programme will launch at photofringe.org on 4 October
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
