The Parallel Programme highlights photography activity happening across Bristol during the period of the festival. Please see individual events and exhibitions below for details, including dates and opening times.
Exhibition: Point & Shoot by James Allen
Campus Pool Skatepark, Whitchurch Ln, Bishopsworth, Bristol BS13 7RW – 5th October – 5th December (10:00 – 20:00 – Tuesday-Sunday)
Point & Shoot is a collaborative project devised by photographer James Allen with the aim of introducing young people to contemporary photography. The project has included free workshops, skate sessions and talks by local artists and photographers, including Chris Hoare and James Griffiths. The exhibition will display a selection of Allen’s images – large format portraits of local community members – across the skatepark.
The project has been devised in collaboration with Campus Skateparks and Bath Spa University.
Founded in 2011 – with diversity and inclusivity at the core – Campus Skateparks is a Bristol based, skater-owned, not-for-profit organisation that uses the positive energy and influence of skateboarding to engage with children and young people.
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Exhibition: Liquid Now by Bristol Experimental & Expanded Photography
Kit Form, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, BS2 8JP – 14th – 17th November, 12-6pm (opening night Wed 13th Nov)
Artists: Melanie Clifford, Sarah Rose Currie, Katie Davies, Melissa Edwards, Sam Francis, David Hopkinson, Claudia Pilsl, Mars Saude, Sophie Sherwood and Deborah Weinreb.
Liquid Now brings together artists working with experimental and expanded photography processes – from cyanotypes to moving image – exploring what it means to be alive within liquid times, a period where stability and order have been replaced by impermanence and continuous change.
Highlights include Katie Davies’ installation ‘Speaker’ which reflects on a North Korean propaganda village; Claudia Pilsi’s cyanotypes, created from her father’s images of a family gathering; and Deborah Weinreb’s screen works of early 80’s China.
Events include:
- Thursday 14th, 1-4pm – Phytogram Workshop with Sophie Sherwood
- Friday 15th, 10.30am-1pm – Abstract Film Documents Workshop: create a short film with a photographic approach with Deborah Weinreb
