Exercise - BPB 2008

BPB 2008


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The Brighton Biennial is the UKs leading festival of photography offers an ambitious celebration of international photographic practice.  Its stimulates debates on photography in all its forms, new, old, digital, analogue, still and moving.  An extensive education program develops local audiences through which the Biennial aims to reach the widest possible audiences and creates exciting opportunities for the participation and engagement.

The Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 exhibition is entitled 'Memory of Fire' : The war of images and the
images of war.  Exploring how they were made, how they were used and their circulation.

The shows curator is writer Jullian Stallabrass and he will speak at 10 exhibitions.  He will be presenting Photography, films and online material that was produced and circulated at the time of war.
These have been produced by photojournalists, artists and non professionals.

They will look at the conditions of conflict, power and displacement and the radically different perspectives of the opposing sides of various conflicts.  It will also explore collective and individual memory of such images and their rebirth at times of crisis and war.

There will be a total of four exhibition centres extending its boundaries .. offering extensive film programme, talks, workshops and portfolio reviews.

Also the Brighton Photo Biennial will reach a large online audience which will also offer a platform for online discussion on the theme of photography and conflict. You will be able to upload images and post comments.

Jullian Stallabrass lectures in modern and contemporary art, post war British Art and the history of photography, he is a prolific writer and his photography has been exhibited and published internationally.