The event features more than 80 exhibitions and events in 50 galleries and spaces in East London. Founded in 2001 and taking place in October & November each year the festival aims to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary photography and reach the widest possible audience. The programme includes portfolio reviews, lectures, seminar's, talks by artists, workshops and tours.
East London Photography Festival
PhotomonthThe East London Photography FestivalOctober/November
2007photomonth has grown into an international photography festival with
over 80 exhibitions and events in 50 galleries and spaces in the East End
of London.Shoot photomonth launches the festival which opens on 2 October
with the first photo-open at the Art Pavilion giving the opportunity to see
emerging new talent, Acclaimed photographer Stephen Gill conducts
photo-tours around Hackney Wick, Anna Fox delivers the photomonth lecture
and portfolio reviews take place over 2 days at the Whitechapel.
The photomonth seminar ‘Photographing the East End’ is at the Rich Mix and
features the work of seminal street photographer Paul Trevor.photomonth
demonstrates the diversity of contemporary photography. Magnum and Camera
Press celebrate their 60 years with special shows featuring famous
photographers they represent from Martin Parr to Mary McCartney. The all
new Rivington Place opens with the work of Dinu Li, Amnesty International
present their Media Awards and Host Gallery reveals the latest work by
Chris Steele-Perkins. Emerging photographers Ned Dyke-Coomes and Mauro
Bottaro show at the Indo Bar and Mohiuddin Siddique exhibits images of the
cinema banner painters in Bangladesh in his shop off Brick Lane.
Co-inciding with photomonth the Sandblast Festival has panoramic pinhole
photography of the Western Sahara at St Ethelburga’s Centre for
Reconciliation and Peace, and David Hoffman, Phil Maxwell and Colin O’Brien
show their valuable archives. Exhibitions reveal large scale installations,
constructed images, elderly East Enders from the Somali, Bengali, Jewish
and Caribbean communities, Eastern European immigration, the Palestinian
Occupied Territories, phrenology, controversial sexual imagery and hybrid
cultures.This year photomonth goes global, creating links with photography
festivals around the world. Special guest Emily McInnes, creative
Development Director from CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival will join a
distinguished panel of critics, curators and publishers for the portfolio
reviews. With an International line-up of established and emerging
photographers, photomonth offers a comprehensive programme of talks and
events designed to promote interest and participation in contemporary
photography and focus attention on the changing face of East London.
Image by Seamus Ryan
Regular updates and full details of the photomonth programme can be found on the
new website http://www.photomonth.org
photomonth is produced by alternative arts
+44(0)20 7375 0441
For further information and a free brochure email
mailto:info@alternativearts.co.uk
For images contact
viv@the-flying-fish.com
Supported by Tower Hamlets Council, ERDF, The Whitechapel, Olympus, Shoot Experience, I Am Human, The Rich Mix, Alternative Arts.
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Free Admission