Photoworks Weekender

Photoworks Weekender

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Bringing together a dynamic contemporary photography programme presented over four days across Brighton, The Photoworks Weekender returns on Thurs 24 – Sun 27 Oct. This year’s highlights include the premiere of a major new commission by Ampersand/Photoworks Fellow, Felicity Hammond, as part of Dreamy Place festival, and an unmissable Superlab organised in partnership with Photo Meet - an incredible professional practice opportunity for photographers featuring world class industry masters. There’s also the launch of Photoworks Annual Annual #31: Multi Multi, which features a discussion led by Photoworks and Multi Multi Editor Diane Smyth together with contributors from the publication.

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Photoworks Director, Louise Fedotov-Clements, said: “Celebrating our focus on engaging audiences with the most innovative practices within photography and on supporting contemporary practitioners, the weekender is an unmissable chance to engage with the first installation of a major new artwork by Felicity Hammond, in a unique space in the centre of the city. There’s also the launch of our next Photoworks Annual that deepens our perspectives on image reproduction, digital replication, ai processes and extraction. Plus, an exceptional range of events, launches, interactive sessions, socials and more across the four days.”

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Exhibitions

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Variations by Felicity Hammond

Thurs 24 - Sun 27 Oct

Jubilee Square

Staged in four venues across the UK, Variations is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning. The first iteration of this installation, V1: Content Aware, reflects on the global structures that support the digital economy; V2: Rigged brings together extractive processes that exploit humans and the land; V3: Model Collapse considers how machine-produced data feeds back into its own system; and V4: Repository highlights the role of data storage centres.  Each installation will be photographically documented, and the resulting images used as a training set for the next exhibition; as in AI image-creation, the logic from past datasets will therefore be reiterated in new work.  

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Peer Matters

Fri 25 – Sat 26 Oct

University of Brighton, Edward Street

This artist-led development programme is facilitated by Eva Jonas, Ezra Evans and Marguerite Minnot Thomas, with participating artists include Alexandra Davenport, Anna Sellen, Chiara Zandonà, Ed Sykes, Emile Kees, Eva Jonas, Ezra Evans, Georgina McNamara, Marguerite Minnot Thomas, Phil Hill, Polly Palmerini, Roz Doherty, Sebastian F. Mahon, Sergey Novikov and Siddharth Khajuria. 

They will be staging an exhibition and a public programme consisting of workshops, roundtables and other artistic and community-based activities and alternative ways of learning. These events will feed into a large installation (or Live Wall) within the exhibition that reflects both Peer Matters members and the wider Photoworks community brought together through the Weekender.    The exhibition continues until 4th November 2024.

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Photoworks Photography Champions

Fri 25 – Sat 26 Oct

University of Brighton, Edward Street

A showcase at University of Brighton, Edward Street of works from photographers based within Photoworks’ Photography Champions network in locations: Barnsley, Portsmouth, Dudley and Blackpool. Photoworks’ Photography Champions is a programme that creates and invests in communities of artists and practitioners in selected locations across England.

The programme seeks to make new connections and build networks that activate the Photoworks programme and resources we already produce, expanding its impact and reach. It will empower communities in Arts Council England priority places supporting them to develop their own local programmes.

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Photomeet 2024 Portfolio Review Award Winners

Fri 25 – Sat 26 Oct (Exhibition continues until Mon 4 Nov)  

University of Brighton, Edward Street

An exhibition of works by the three Photo Meet 2024 Award winners Sabine Hess, Keerthana Kunnath and Imogen Forte. 

Alongside the exhibitions, there’s a range of events, including book launches, artists’ talks, professional development workshops and discussions. Photoworks seeks to champion photography for everyone. This international platform has provided opportunities for artists and audiences since 1995, with a programme which offers new experiences to audiences and opens up new ways to encounter photography.

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For more information, visit: www.photoworks.org.uk 

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