Festival to bring year-round programme of contemporary photography to Bristol

Festival to bring year-round programme of contemporary photography to Bristol

Posted on: 26 Sep 2024

Opening next month, Bristol Photo Festival is an international festival, shaped by the movements of the city and offering a range of exhibitions, talks and workshops.

 

Bristol Photo Festival’s opening week runs from Wednesday 16 until Sunday 20 October 2024.

 

The festival’s second edition will bring together leading photographic voices as well as collaborate with the local community. Through the power of photography as a tool to experience the world anew, the organisation aims to present nuanced and unexpected stories that foster a greater understanding of shared pasts, presents and futures.

 

Read on for some programme highlights or find out more on the festival’s website.

 

 

Running at Serchia Gallery throughout the opening week, ‘Marked by Light’ draws together Agnieszka Sosnowska, Giulia Vanelli, Kiowa Casey and Yana Wernicke, all photographers that use their craft as a tool for returning to lost pasts, while recording the unfolding of life around them.

 

At Arnolfini from 19 October to 9 February, ‘At the edge of the everyday world’ will celebrate over 20 years of work by acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. She is best known for finding beauty in the every day, her work has a poetic, dreamlike quality, giving mundane scenes a sense of transcendence.

 

‘Realms of Memory’ (17 October – 22 December) at the Royal Photographic Society looks at the archiving impulse to make sense of the world. Billy H.C. Kwok, Jay Lau, and Lau Wai respond to Hong Kong’s photographic archives, and explore how it has always been a place of duality: both real and imagined, public and private, fact and fiction.

 

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah will be in residence at The Georgian House Museum (16 October to 31 December), creating a new body of work titled 'The House is a Body' in relation to the building’s colonial history. Built in the late 18th century, the house was home to both slaveholders and those born into slavery.

 

The festival’s inaugural edition in 2021 drew 200,000 visitors with 18 exhibitions taking place at museums, galleries and independent spaces across Bristol. The second festival, entitled ‘The World A Wave’, is managed and produced by Bristol-based arts organisation, IC Visual Lab.

 

 

Bristol Photo Festival’s opening week runs from Wednesday 16 until Sunday 20 October 2024. Browse the full list of exhibitions, talks and workshops on the festival’s website.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.