4 April – 31 December 2022 at The Georgian House Museum.
Lebohang Kganye references family, memory and heritage. Kganye has created a new work at the Georgian House Museum as part of Bristol Photo Festival. The installation offers a response to the violence of historical erasure of names and oral traditions. The house was once home to a sugar trader and his enslaved staff. Dipina tsa Kganya invites us to reflect on the legacy of colonialism as a shared history.
4 April – 31 December 2022 at The Georgian House Museum.
Lebohang Kganye references family, memory and heritage. Kganye has created a new work at the Georgian House Museum as part of Bristol Photo Festival. The installation offers a response to the violence of historical erasure of names and oral traditions. The house was once home to a sugar trader and his enslaved staff. Dipina tsa Kganya invites us to reflect on the legacy of colonialism as a shared history.
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and ambitious city-wide festival that celebrates the power and diversity of photography. For the first time, all the major visual arts institutions have come together to deliver a sustained programme of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings and collaborative projects in the city of Bristol.
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and ambitious city-wide festival that celebrates the power and diversity of photography. For the first time, all the major visual arts institutions have come together to deliver a sustained programme of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings and collaborative projects in the city of Bristol.
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and ambitious city-wide festival that celebrates the power and diversity of photography. For the first time, all the major visual arts institutions have come together to deliver a sustained programme of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings and collaborative projects in the city of Bristol.
© Hoda Afshar
We want to challenge the way we think about a festival as something ephemeral. With a sustained programme of education, mentorships and collaborations, we will engage and nurture photographers, participants and audiences in the long term. We want to encourage new perspectives on photography, on its cultural value and its place within the visual arts in Bristol, the South West and beyond.
© Elaine Constantine
We are producing a programme that celebrates the city of Bristol, its versatility and complexity, its past and its potential. Through exhibitions, commissions, installations and events at key venues and locations across the city, the Festival will showcase photography as a vital contemporary medium whilst exploring its relationship with film, performance, poetry, music and other cultural forms so central to Bristol’s identity.
We are producing a programme that celebrates the city of Bristol, its versatility and complexity, its past and its potential. Through exhibitions, commissions, installations and events at key venues and locations across the city, the Festival will showcase photography as a vital contemporary medium whilst exploring its relationship with film, performance, literature, music and other cultural forms so central to Bristol’s identity.
we want to create discussions to help us reflect on the current state of the cultural industry, and in particular, the photographic one. We believe a festival should create networks and platforms to trigger new initiatives and develop sustainable models of production.
© Jem Southam
PROGRAM
Exhibitions
A programme of exciting exhibitions held in the main Bristol city art venues and running throughout the city in independent galleries, public spaces and unconventional venues. Some of the artists confirmed: Stephen Gill, Thilde Jensen, Chloe Dewe Matthews, Sarah Waiswa, Lua Ribeira, Lebohang Kganye, Jessa Fairbrother, James Barnor, Jem Southam plus many more.
Collaborations
This programme of collaborations has been developed to ensure participation from a range of individuals and groups, both in and outside of the arts, for example socially engaged artists, youth workers, the health sector, young people and community groups. example socially engaged artists, youth workers, the health sector, yothe health sector, young
Education
The festival provides an educational programme to engage with young people at various stages of their education- through secondary school to college and university. Our aim is to become a bridge between students and artists to produce interesting learning experiences. Our aim is to become a bridge between students and artists to produce interesting learning experiences.
Commissions
Selected local and international photographers will be commissioned every year to develop a new and original photographic body of work about important aspects of the city of Bristol and surroundings. The resulted visual interpretations will be included in the exhibition programme.
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he final bodies of work will be included
Opportunities
The festival is committed to providing a series of professional opportunities to those in early stages of their creative careers. In partnership with educational and community institutions a series of creative roles are facilitated through professional internships, a mentoring program and a series of volunteering roles to get a first-hand experience in working in a photography festival.
Public Events
The festival will include an ongoing year-round public programme of talks, seminars and events with local, national and international artists and professionals. We are collaborating with local and national partners to bring a broad programme.The festival will include an ongoing year-round ithwill in
estival year-round
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