Brighton Photo Fringe
2018 | We Are All Connected, Les Monaghan
Les Monaghan was selected from open call with a project that shows the human and personal connections that spread out from one homeless man on a Brighton street. Ostensibly he would appear to be outside society but Monaghan believes through photographs and texts that he can show how close, interlinked and similar we are. He wants to change how people experiencing homelessness are seen, how we – wherever we may appear in the chain of relationships with this ostracised man – see ourselves, and how we are only a few steps from each other.
We Are All Connected / 2018
From the outdoor installation in Brighton
2018 | Is Photography Democratic?
Is Photography Democratic? is created by the BPF’s emerging curators in 2018. The event is aimed at creating lively debate and conversations between the audience and speakers. The curators sent one question to each speaker in advance to the guest speakers, and also asked them in turn to think of a question for us, or each other or for the room. With that, the curators asked: Is Photography Democratic?
You can watch the video documentation of the event HERE
2018 | BPF Guided Tours
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Brighton Photo Fringe / 2018
Image credit BPF18
Brighton BPF18’s first guided tour will be led by this year’s trainee curator Idil Bozkurt. She will offer the public guided tours through several exhibitions across Brighton, providing an in-depth look at the artworks and the themes they engage with.
The tour will start at the BPF18 Collectives’ Hub at Phoenix Brighton to take in some of the 13 exhibitions by photography collectives that were selected to participate in this year’s festival, including Open18 Young Photographers, Reflections of Us, MAP6, New Grounds and Form Collective. After exploring the wide range of photography exhibitions, the tour will continue with Lucy Helton’s installation, The Earth Itself at Grand Parade. This window-display installation investigates the importance of our present actions, and what we will leave behind. Then the next stop will be Cold Cases exhibition at Brighton Old Police Cells Museum. For this exhibition, Work-Show-Grow brings together 20 emerging international photographers to retell three crime cases found in this very historical space. The exhibition is curated by Natasha Caruana and Juno Calypso. Lastly, the tour will end at the BPF Outdoor Hub to view the OPEN18 Participate installation, We Are All Connected by Les Monaghan. His installation looks through the human and personal connections that start from one homeless man’s story on a Brighton street. Within his photographic expression, he passionately reveals these truthful stories through a combination of photography and text.
The tour will aim to explore new and connected photography in selected exhibitions and lead a dialogue for the images that represent the artistic processes and the techniques from the artists’ diverse perspectives.