Format 11 International Photography Festival

Derby, UK from [4 Mar 11 - 3 Apr 11]

Format Festival 2011

FORMAT was established in 2004, by Louise Clements and Mike Brown, and is now one of the UK’s leading non-profit international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. The biennale programme celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is the place to see an incredible range of new work alongside some of the best-known practitioners in the world. FORMAT is focused on developing opportunities for audiences to see, debate, develop and engage in the best of what photography is and can be. The festival is a unique opportunity to see and engage in contemporary photography and to hear what is happening ‘right here, right now’. Read more…

* In Conversation with Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom

* Screening of ‘L’Art et la Maniere’

The National Media Museum, Bradford [Tuesday 22 March 2011, Time: 13.00]

Anders Petersen & JH Engstrom

The photographic work of Anders Petersen and JH Engström deals unflinchingly with experience, memory and the human condition. They established their reputations with two seminal works, Petersen’s Café Lehmitz (1978) and Engstrom’s Trying to Dance (2004). Read more…

Shadow Catchers: Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss

V&A, London [13 Oct 10 - 20 Feb 11]

The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists – Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss – who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper.

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New Worlds by Andrew Brooks

The Hive, Manchester [18 Feb 11 - 3 Mar 11]

New Worlds is a collection of composite photographic works by digital artist Andrew Brooks. The exhibition displays a series of fifteen previously unexhibited photographs from around the world – shots that really capture the energy and excitement of travel.

Images range from a hyper detailed cityscape of New York, crumbling industrial plants in the Australian outback, the garish neons of Coney Island juxtaposed against the Baroque splendour of St Peter’s Basilica. Highly diverse, the collection captures vivid moments of sublime beauty from a changing world. Read more…

Harry Hammond – The Birth of British Rock
The Lowry, Salford Quays  [15 Jan 11  - 10 Apr 11]

Starting in the late 1940s, Harry Hammond captured the definitive images of virtually every leading British musician, as well as those of many visiting American artists.

From Cliff Richard to The Beatles, Shirley Bassey to Dusty Springfield, Harry Hammond captured the emergence of the British rock ‘n’ rollers. First circulated through New Music Express (NME), his work has set the standard of pop photography for the following generations.

More than eighty photographs from the V&A collection are on show, most taken from his days as lead photographer at the New Musical Express from its re-launch in 1952 until the early 1960s.

“I’d seen it all: jazz, swing, pop, R&B, bossa nova, doo-wop, and finally, Britain’s acceptance of rock’n’roll,” he once reflected. “With the arrival of The Beatles, and finding that there were now at least 20 photographers at every concert, I decided to slow down.”

Nevertheless, before that slow-down, he set the standard for pop photography, and his images of the likes of Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, and American visitors such as the Everly Brothers and Little Richard have become iconic, none more so than the definitive concert portrait of Buddy Holly. Read more…