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Brighton Photo Biennial 2016: Beyond the Bias – Reshaping Image ** Oct 2016 ** Brighton
Brighton Photo Biennial is the UK’s leading curated photography festival and promotes new thinking around photography through a commissioned programme of events and exhibitions.
Beyond The Bias – Reshaping Image
For its seventh edition, Brighton Photo Biennial sets out to explore understandings of identity and representation – our personal and projected image – as influenced by the pervasive genre of fashion and style photography.
Beyond the Bias – Reshaping Image, explores photography’s role in defining and informing our understanding of subjects such as: gender and sexuality, the representation of the body, the politics of style, subcultures and the subversion of social and cultural norms.
Identity and self-representation are explored in relation to the wider context of mass-representation; where self-image and attitude are often co-opted. Including work from documentary photographers and photographic approaches that knowingly reference the language of fashion and style photography, BPB16 unpicks understandings of image and self-image in relation to society.
Our theme probes photography’s duality: sometimes authentic, informing and reflective, transgressing the pervasive view; sometimes feeding into the uniformity of photographic visual culture and its influence upon us.
The exhibitions, commissions and events focus on individuality, sub-cultures and communities, in contrast to standardisation, mass-representation and the generic.
At the core of BPB16 are three major exhibition projects, one a European premiere of a show from the USA, another two are new commissions; one centered on British Youth Style, the other a UK/India collaboration exploring sexuality and identity.
These three projects are the impetus for a textured programme of companion presentations and are enriched by a live events and digital programme, devised to throw a raking light on key aspects of the ideas raised by the festival.
7 Day Suit: A Portrait of the Tracksuit
Photography collective 7 Day Suit, have focused on a single item of clothing, the tracksuit, and have documented, researched and presented its history, evolution and possible future.
Fashion shows.
Nigel Shafran has been invited by Photoworks to create a cabinet of style curiosities exhibition for BPB16.
Reimagine
Olivia Arthur (UK) and Bharat Sikka (India) have collaborated for the first time to explore private and public presentation of self-image in relation to the body, gender, sexuality and fantasy.
The Dandy Lion Project
The Dandy Lion Project explores global expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon against the backdrop of contemporary life.
Off the Page – Self Styled
The presentation includes a selection from celebrated writer and photography curator Magda Keaney, author
of Fashion Photography Next (Thames and Hudson), who has devised A Short Herstory of Fashion Photography.
Kick over the statues
In this new commissioned project, ‘Kick over the statues’, Ewen Spencer’s intention is to re-establish a belief in youth tribes and style. This Summer, Ewen has cast young Londoners along the route of the July 2016 Notting Hill Carnival and against locations in Liverpool.
Brighton Photo Fringe 2016
Brighton Photo Fringe’s free city-wide festival of photography, features over 100 artists across 40 venues with exhibitions, talks, screenings, workshops and tours.
Into the Outside: The Story So Far
An exhibition charting progress of this major, multi-partner heritage-learning project with local young people, re-examining the city’s rich LGBTQ past and creating a new archive of queer youth experiences.
The MPower Project
A short exhibition and performance created and performed by a group of young men aged 15 – 16 from Brighton & Hove.
State of Control
What are our similarities and our differences? What unifies or divides us as a group? An exhibition of new work by young people from Brighton & Hove who have been considering their individual and collective identity.
Our City, How Do We Look?
An exhibition of new photography by four University of Brighton students co-commissioned with the Together the People festival – Brighton’s independent, green-field, music and arts festival.
LensCulture Street Photography Awards Screening
Presented here is a collection of winners, finalists and top 100 entries of the 2016 LensCulture Street Photography Awards.
Fashion Cities Africa
In this first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion, Brighton Museum explores its global influence and diversity from couture to street style.
Tom Wood at Spectrum
To celebrate the re-introduction of colour hand-printing services, Brighton Photo Biennial Print Sponsor, Spectrum Photographic hosts a celebration of the work of award-winning photographer Tom Wood.
Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate: 1916, Lewes Remembers
A series of exhibitions and events marking the centenary of ‘the year that Sussex died’.
The Dandy Lion Project Trail
Follow The Dandy Lion Project Trail to uncover additional images from the main The Dandy Lion Project from photographer Sara Shamsavari and her series, Rude Boys.
All events: http://2016.bpb.org.uk/whats-on/
For more information visit Brighton Photo Biennial 2016
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