BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENNIAL 2012
2012-10-08This year’s edition of Brighton Photo Biennial explores photography and the politics of space in a broad sense. Works included.
Julian Germain’s In the Eye of The Street is a compelling body of work shot on loaned cameras by teenagers and kids sleeping rough in Brazil. The project is now into its 18th year and provides a record of these young lives – most of 55 participants have died, disappeared, or are in prison. During the crisis, the Cuban capital, Havana, transformed from a highly mechanized and fossil fuel reliant agricultural system to a completely organic local food production system in just a few years. This outstanding achievement has put Cuba at the forefront of sustainable agriculture, and is recorded in a series of photo essays by Lulu Ash. In Trevor Paglen’s Geographies of Seeing we see images of top-secret U.S. government sites, some shot at up to 65 miles away on a specially adapted camera.
In Control Order House, 2012 Prix Pictet prize nominee Edmund Clark presents an eerie study of a house interior, occupied by a suspected terrorist. Clark is the first artist to have gained access to the home of someone living under a Home Office control order. The UK premiere of Omer Fast’s film Five Thousand Feet is the Best features a former drone operator being interviewed about the controlled unmanned planes he fired at militia in Afghanistan and Pakistan from his base in Las Vegas.
Jason Larkin and Corinne Silva look at the increasing polarisation of the rich and poor in Cairo, Egypt, and southern Spain, in an exhibition addressing urbanisation, migrant workers, and landscapes shaped by the forces of capital. October, a new multimedia installation from the 2012 Jarman Award nominated artists Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, explores the imagery produced by the Occupy movement.
Whose Streets, an exhibition of archive photos from Brighton’s long established paper the Argus, shows the city’s rich history as one of contested political space through pictures of street protest.
Opposite – Trevor Paglen, They Watch the Moon, 2010
Exhibition runs through till November 4th, 2012
Brighton Photo Biennial 2012
58-67 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 9QA
