Richard Billingham (UK)
Ray’s a Laugh/New Work
Number 9, Inner Street, Market Square
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm
Carolyn Drake (USA)
Paradise Rivers
The Gallery, 9-11 Mansell Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm
Martin Parr (UK)
Small World
The Cube, Liberation Monument, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / Outdoor display
Samuel Fosso (Cameroon)
African Spirits/Tati
The Sunken Gardens, St James Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / Outdoor display
Tony Ray-Jones (UK)
The English
Market Square, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / Outdoor display
Richard Billingham (UK)
Ray’s a Laugh/New Work
Richard Billingham shot to fame in 1996 with his groundbreaking photographic series Ray’s a Laugh, extraordinary pictures of family life in his childhood home, a tower block in Cradley Heath, West Midlands. Ray’s a Laugh was exhibited internationally and featured in the pivotal show, Sensation (1997) at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was awarded the Citibank (now Deutsche Börse) Photography Prize that year, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001.
Samuel Fosso (Cameroon)
African Spirits/Tati
Samuel Fosso was born in Cameroon, then lived in Nigeria as a child but was forced to leave at the end of the Biafran war in 1972. He moved to Bangui, in the Central African Republic, where he found work as an assistant photographer. Six months later, aged 13, he opened his own photographic portrait studio. Fosso started taking self-portraits to send to his mother in Nigeria, whom he had left behind as a refugee.
Tony Ray-Jones (UK)
The English
Tony Ray-Jones studied at the London School of Printing, before obtaining a scholarship in the early 1960s, which enabled him to join Yale University School of Art. He returned to Britain in late 1965, where he began to survey the English at leisure, trying to extensively document the way of life of the English ‘before it became too Americanised’. His photographs of festivals and leisure activities are full of a somewhat surreal humour and show the influence of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand and Homer Sykes
Carolyn Drake (USA)
Paradise Rivers
Carolyn Drake is a documentary photographer based in Istanbul. Her photo career began at the age of 30 when she decided to leave her multimedia job in New York to learn about the world through personal experience. Since 2007, she has explored the politics, cultures, environment and ideas of progress in Central Asia; a vast territory nestled between Russia, China, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Martin Parr (UK)
Small World
Martin Parr is a photographer, editor, collector and curator who offers a critique of the modern world by expressing its ambiguities. He is widely regarded as the most successful photographer of his generation with work held in many national collections and exhibited and published around the world. He sees his practice as a form of collecting, an activity to which he is predisposed and that provides him with a model strategy for the pursuit of passionate research interests in leisure, consumption and communication.
Jocelyn Allen (UK)
Reality of Youth.../One Is Not Like The Other
11 Commercial Arcade, Trinity Square, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Jocelyn Allen is just 23 and completed her degree in 2010, the year in which she won the Guernsey Photography Festival competition. She was also selected as one of thirteen artists to represent the UK in the 2011 International Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean. Jocelyn Allen presents two exhibitions, Reality of Youth Going Backwards in Vain and One Is Not Like The Other. The first was made in response to a time where Jocelyn could only think about existence and the cycle of life. The second is a project commissioned by Guernsey Photography Festival, as part of her competition prize. Here, Jocelyn explores the theme of identity by looking at her closest relatives, whose clothes, mannerisms and poses she imitates and presents as sets of double portraits.
Admission Free
Tim Andrews Project (UK)
Over the Hill
The Rotunda, Royal Avenue, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Following his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease, Tim Andrews answered a small advert in Time Out Magazine and was photographed in the nude for a portrait project. Filled with a sense of creativity and liberation, Andrews has spent the last three years sitting for portraits by 128 photographers including Rankin and Harry Borden.
Admission Free
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Francesco Giusti (Italy)
SAPE
Bus Terminus, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / Outdoor display
Italian photographer Francesco Giusti presents his award-winning series, SAPE: colourful portraits of Congolese gentlemen dressed in brightly coloured, bespoke tailored suits. Each belongs to SAPE - the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes – a membership who consider themselves artists and who are respected and admired by their local communities. Offering a touch of glamour to their humble environments, every weekend the members gather in bars and dancing halls to parade in the streets, in an expression of urban culture looking for new reference parameters and codes, such as nonviolence and elegance.
Admission Free
Nelli Palomäki (Finland)
Portraits
8 The Pollet
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki conveys the magic of portraits from the past through her exploration of classic black-and-white portraiture. She will show recent works which present children mirroring the behaviour of adults.
Admission Free
Adam Patterson (Northern Ireland) and Dana Popa (Romania)
The Return Journey
David Falla Gallery, Trinity Square, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
An exhibition of two emerging photographic talents, who each return to their respective homelands.
Post-communist Romania is the subject, and home, of Dana Popa and her project Our Father Ceausescu. She focuses on a generation who have lived the majority of their existence in a capitalism system, as they struggle with the desire to leave Romania behind while conforming to western ideals of fashion and beauty. Returning to Northern Ireland, Adam Patterson’s project Men and my Daddy, confronts a generation of paramilitary members struggling to find purpose to their lives after the Troubles. Focusing in particular on the Ulster Defence Association, Patterson tells the stories of these men’s pasts through borrowed photographs and writings, supplemented with anecdotes of his own childhood.
Exhibition curated by FOTO8 Magazine.
Admission Free
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Paul Briginshaw
Graphic Guernsey
The Rotunda, Royal Avenue,
St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
The desire for simplicity and space is an integral part of Paul’s identity, whether as an art director or a photographer. He finds this a constant joy to see it through a lens all over the island.
Admission Free
David Evans
Tattoos
17 Mill Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Exploring the relationship between an individual and their tattoos. The portraits highlight the personal nature of the tattoos and present a more intimate portrayal of their owners.
Admission Free
Lucy Henry
Gabriels
No. 30 Gabriels, Fountain Street,
St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Photographs capturing the Gabriel’s store before it was lost forever. Inspiring many wonderful memories and proving exactly why Gabriel’s will always be far from ‘just a row of shops’ in Guernsey hearts.’.
Admission Free
Rob King
Construction of Identity
17 Mill Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
The rest of the world sees us in a stereotypical way but we all have a private identity which we only show to ourselves and our closest companions. The exhibition compares this to their public persona.
Admission Free
Steve Molnar
Backstage
Hojo, South Esplanade,
St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 8.00am - 10.00pm Mon to Sat
Capturing the atmosphere and intensity of performers and stage crew involved in a stage production. The photographs show a original and insightful angle of what is happening backstage.
Admission Free
Peter Neville
Me2
17 Mill Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Too often our identity is linked solely to the jobs we do. This exhibition draws attention to the importance of our spare time occupations in defining who we are – our motivations, our beliefs and our values.
Admission Free
Adam Prosser
Harbour Life
Lucas Freight, Cambridge Berth, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / Outdoor display
The Identity of a Working Harbour - images of the people and characters that work around the freight and passenger areas of the harbour.
Admission Free
Carl Symes
Working in Guernsey
Hojo, South Esplanade,
St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 8.00am - 10.00pm Mon to Sat
This photographic documentary is about two very different EU nationals working in Guernsey - their motivation for being here and some of the sacrifices and hardships they endure.
Admission Free
The Caravan Gallery
Is Britain Great?
The Caravan, Market Square,
St Peter Port
1 - 15 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
A photographic investigation of everyday life in contemporary Britain. The Tardis like interior of the caravan accommodates a selection of photos documenting the reality and surreality of ‘the way we live today’.
Admission Free
Guernsey Press
A Reflection
The Albion, Church Square,
St Peter Port
Outdoor display, after dark
A reflection on Guernsey Identity through a selection of the Guernsey Press photography Collection Photographs will be projected at night against the Albion Public House in town.
Admission Free
Priaulx Library
The Place, the People
Priaulx Library, Candie Road,
St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 9.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Guernsey - the place, the people. Can a photograph capture the essence of Guernsey? The Priaulx Library searched through their archive of photographs in an attempt to find out.
Admission Free
National Trust of Guernsey
Archive
The Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square
1 - 30 June 2011 / 9.30am - 1.30pm Tues to Fri
A slideshow of historic photographs, many of which have never been previously exhibited. Including images of local militia, community celebrations and photographs taken in portrait studios.
Admission Free
The Airport Display
Guernsey Portraits
Guernsey Airport
1 - 30 June 2011 / 6.30am - 9.00pm Mon to Sun
Large-scale portraits exploring the identity of Guernsey residents. Featuring work by local photographers Paul Briginshaw, Simon Campbell, Vikki Ellis, Jean-Christophe Godet, Dave Sauvarin, Mark Windsor and more.
Admission Free
Digital Imaging Camera Club
Identity
Town Church, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
An exhibition by Digital Imaging Camera Club members on the theme of the Festival.
Admission Free
The Guernsey Prison Project
Inside View
22 Smith Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Inside View is an ongoing photography project where inmates document their own life inside the Guernsey Prison.
Admission Free
Prism Photography Club
Dave the Donkey
The Arcade and High Street, shop windows
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am
A light hearted approach following the concept of Where’s Wally? Hundreds of images have been taken capturing the identity of Guernsey people, events and places all with a hidden image of Dave the Donkey. Can you find them?
Admission Free
Spectrum & Guernsey Photography Clubs
Identity
Jimmy’s Café, St James, College Street, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / 10.00am - 5.00pm Mon to Sat
Spectrum and the Guernsey Photographic Club are exhibiting their members work on the Festival theme of Identity.
Admission Free
Photomarathon
Exhibition
Market Square, St Peter Port
1 - 30 June 2011 / Outdoor display
The Photomarathon exhibition promises to deliver a varied and exciting range of photographs which will have been taken during this unusual event.
Admission Free