Brighton Photo Fringe online

Brighton Photo Fringe is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the UK. Open to all and with a strong character, attitude, playfulness and freedom, the festival enables Fringe exhibitors to take risks and self-curate a large number and wide variety of lens-based exhibitions throughout Brighton and the south coast.

Brighton Photo Fringe launches Saturday 6th October 2012 with exhibitions opening across the city during the course of the day.

Enjoy the Fringe. There is something for everybody and everyone is invited.

Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile online

Victor Hugo and the Jersey Studio

Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society

What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and friends in their exile on the Channel Island of Jersey between 1852 and 1855. In these years, the Hugo group turned exile into a photographic project, and in doing so, they transformed the history of photography.

Riverbed Stories online

Mandy Williams

The work I am showing is from Riverbed Stories (2012), a series of photographs that document the riverbeds beside the industrial area of Erith, South London. In the past year the river has become increasingly polluted and choked with debris. Mattresses, chairs, televisions, and car tyres litter the beds, along with handless gloves, floating shoes and discarded baby carriages.
In an area of natural beauty, these riverbeds tell a story about the profit and greed of the waste disposal companies and the local council’s difficulty in protecting the environment.

Urbanality online

Graham Barker

‘Urbanality’ is a visual exploration of the ordinary and the mundane, presenting a series of analogue, double-exposures of buildings – either decadent or brutally bland. These ‘chance’ images provide an alternative way of seeing the all too familiar architecture in our towns and cities, recreating them as ‘castles in the sky’.

GLASGOW and EDINBURGH - Built Environment from Gulf War to Harry Potter, 2003-2007 online

Constantine Gras

A gritty black and white study of how Scotland builds its great cities. 
It reveals how the shaping of urban space in Glasgow and Edinburgh relates to human needs: home ownership, health, security and identity. 
The period covered is from the outbreak of the Gulf War to the publication of the last Harry Potter book, 2003 - 2007.