Viva Brighton Issue #67 September 2018

PHOTOGRAHY
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© Harley Weir, Homes, 2016
you see it on the opening day and then come back
a couple of weeks later, you’ll see them fade to
blue, which suggests the ocean and the EU flag.
“We’re also going to be looking back to the 1990s
when the opening of the Channel Tunnel physically
linked Britain to the continent for the first time.
The Cross Channel Photographic Mission was
the predecessor of Photoworks, and the idea was
that the building of the Channel Tunnel would be
documented on both sides, in France and in England.
The opening of the tunnel was huge. For the
French, as the photos from Calais show, there was
a lot of optimism, whereas here there’s always been
some scepticism.”
There’s a whole programme of tours and
workshops throughout the exhibition, at various
venues, including the chance to see what develops
when you do cyanotype work, and there are opportunities
for the resulting work to be shown in
pop-up galleries both in and outdoors.
“We have 30,000 followers on the Photoworks
Instagram page” says Shoair, “and we get a
different artist to take over each week. We find
them via Instagram, so that’s really positive; 52
new artists a year. There are so many images
circulating these days, and the way we share them
is changing. It’s a really diverse career now, with
people doing so much crossover work: personal,
artistic and commercial. I think it’s a great time to
be a photographer!” Andy Darling
Brighton Photo Biennial, 28th Sep – 28th Oct,
bpb.org.uk
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