22.09.10
TWENTY - A retrospective of 20 years of Hereford Photography Festival
2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Hereford Photography Festival. The longest running annual photography festival in the UK, Hereford Photography Festival has presented a broad range of international photography since 1990. Central to the festival will be TWENTY a retrospective exhibition of works by world renowned photographers who have exhibited at the festival during the past 20 years.
Twenty photographers from Europe, American, China, South Africa and beyond will lend examples of their current work to form this timely retrospective. Many of them were just setting out when they first showed at the festival. Among its themes are childhood and environment as well as social commentary. Highlights include:
Rankin visited the Congo with Oxfam in 2009. He travelled to a village called Sange that was home to tens of thousands of displaced people made homeless by fresh fighting in Congo. The population of the town had doubled in size, with families opening their homes to people made homeless by the fighting. Their generosity inspired Rankin, and the photos he took focus on Congo’s remarkable love stories. Rankin also ran a series of photographic workshops with the local community, asking them to take images of people and things that they loved. The results are like a huge family photo album. Rankin’s images will be displayed as large banners around the High Town area of Hereford.
A series of works by American photographer KayLynn Deveny explores “Cinderella” homes, both as middle-class American dwellings and as outposts of a little-recognized niche of mid-century domestic architecture, one that uniquely reflects notions concerning the ideal family home. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the houses that make up this collection of images are reflective of the aesthetics of the broad variety of owners and renters who have occupied them over the past 60 years.
The Hereford Photography Festival was started by local photographer Dave West and one-time Rolling Stone photographer Al Vandenberg who both settled in Hereford in the 1980s. Work by them both will be on display. The Stuff of Life, West’s most recent work to date, is a series of photographed objects found when he was clearing out his brother’s home after he died in June 2010. Al Vandenburg will show work from a return visit to New York earlier this year.
Plus a brilliant array of international photographic talent including:
Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood series; Martin Parr’s images of White Kenyans; John Bulmer showing his1968 US portraits; Shelby Lee Adams’s portraits of Kentucky hill folk; Jodi Beiber’s take on Soweto; Paul Shambroom’s images of warhead memorials; Jackie Nickerson‘s portraits of rural Ireland and Simon Norfolk’s images of satellite and missile launches. Work by Wang Qinsong, Michael Danner, Liza Dracup, Beth Yarnell Edwards, Robert Ashby (former director of the festival), Roger Ballan, Robert Ashby and Paul Hill will also feature.
The exhibition will be on display in Hereford Museum and Art Gallery and is curated by photographer Paul Seawright and Festival artistic director Caitlin Griffiths. Starting on Friday 29th October with a launch weekend of exhibitions, talks, workshops and a conference, this year’s festival will be bigger than ever and encompass the city and local area. Entry to all exhibitions is free.
Events around TWENTY:
Paul Seawright Curator’s Tour
Friday 29th October 2-3pm, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery. Admission free.
Jackie Nickerson Photographer’s Talk
Friday 29th October 12.30-1.30pm, Hereford College of Art, Media Centre. Admission free.
Martin Parr Photographer’s Talk
Saturday 20th November 2-3.30pm, Hereford College of Art. Admission £6 (£4.50 conc).
Wang Qinsong’s video work will be shown at TROVE in Birmingham on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th November.
For further details on TWENTY, other festival events and exhibitions and the 40 different venues involved in HPF please visit www.photofest.org
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