Photo Fringe officially kicks off Thursday 6 October and everyone’s invited!

Our festival website will contain full listings for the month and online exhibitions too.

Many of the Photo Fringe exhibitions in Brighton & Hove can be previewed during Thursday afternoon and evening, before we let our hair down at our opening party at Ironworks Studios (see below).

Phoenix Art Space
10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB

6-8pm
speeches, pay bar

all welcome / no need to book

Join the Photo Fringe Team at Phoenix Art Space to launch this year's Collectives Hub exhibition of new work by photography and lens-based artist collectives selected from open call.

Exhibiting Collectives:

AION - Rhiannon Adam, Emily Graham, Laura Pannack, Jon Tonks.

Collective 22 - Leah Band, Adam Bennett, Simona Ciocarlan, Caitriona Dunnett, Susanne Hakuba, Pippa Healy, Phil Hill, Christian Jago, Elena Kollatou and Leonidas Toumpanos, Nieves Mingueza, Zara Pears, Nat Wilkins, Mandy Williams,
Sofia Yala.

Collective - Iana Mizguina, Corinne Whitehouse, Hayden Wilde.

Copy and Paste - Paula Tollett, Matt Bruce, Ryan Smith, Mike Tudor.

Hiatus Collective - Anna Luk, Ben Parker, Emily Gaskin, Lisa Doyle, Lucy Kane, Saffron Laishley, Sam Megilley, Sophie Phillips, Stani Vaseva.

Mass Collective - Henry Woide, Luca Piffaretti, Francesco Russo, Polly Tootal, Simon Kennedy, Caroline Charrel, Andrew Meredith, Sue Barr.

PHOTO FRINGE 2022 OPEN DIGITAL
Anne-Marie Atkinson

Brighton CCA: Dorset Place
6 Dorset Place, Brighton BN2 1ST

5 - 7pm

Commissioned by Photo Fringe from an open call, Anne-Marie Atkinson’s piece brings often excluded voices into conversations around new or alternative futures. Working with people with learning disabilities, Atkinson has compressed multiple visual responses to the festival’s theme of Real Utopias and presents them as an ever-changing animated projection.

no need to book / drinks / donations welcome

TELLING PICTURES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE; PHOTOGRAPHY IN THEORY

University of Brighton Galleries
154-155 Edward St, Brighton BN2 0JG

9am - 8pm

Showcasing a range of photographs emerging from different research practices in the University of Brighton's Research Excellence Group.

Exhibiting artists: Kamal Badhey, Holly Birtles, Daniel Campbell-Blight, Zoe Childerley, Matthew Cornford, Jasper Goodall, Fergus Heron, Åsa Johannesson, Mark Joste, Rachel Maloney, James William Murray, Annebella Pollen, Xavier Ribas, Ëpha Roe, Martin Seeds, Kirsty Thomas.

A SLOW CREEPING
Thomas & Maloney

Metropolis Contemporary
170 Edward Street, Brighton BN2 0JB

5 - 7.30pm

A culmination of experimental photographic and moving image work which has evolved since the artist duo's last exhibition two years ago for Photo Fringe 2020, responding in part to the artists' joint interest in Charlotte Perkins Gillmans' gothic tale, The Yellow Wallpaper, written in 1890.

Exhibiting artists: Rachel Maloney and Kirsty Thomas.

LE CIEL DE SAISON
Baudouin Mouanda

Koop Projects
93 St George's Road, Brighton BN2 1EE

6 - 9pm
all welcome / no need to book

Mise en scène photographs constructed to speak of catastrophic flooding in the artist's hometown of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo with the help of local people posing against colourful backdrops with personal items.

Curator: Averil Curci

WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD
Phillip Cundall

Portland
90 St George's Road, Brighton BN2 1EE

8am - 4.30pm

Large-scale sea-scapes.

EVEN A MANIAC CAN LEARN TO DRIVE

Cole Flynn Quirke

The Bookend
61 St George's Road, Brighton BN2 1EF

11am - 5pm

An ongoing, autobiographical, coming-of-age series. "A swan song to the age of no, or very little responsibility".

MULTIPLE STATES
Kevin Beck

The Bookend
61 St George's Road, Brighton BN2 1EF

7.30 - 8.30pm

A different visual investigation projected onto a screen every night throughout the festival by creative development studio Multiple States.

LOOKING FOR SPIDERS

The Regency Town House
13 Brunswick Square, Hove BN3 1EH

12 - 6pm

Exploring themes related to the imagined places and conditions of utopian or dystopian existence.

Exhibiting artists: Rosie Barnes, Julia Biro, Susanne Hakuba, Zara Peers, Kim Shaw, Kim Thornton and Verity Welstead.

PROJECTING POWER
Jubilee Library

Jubilee St, Brighton BN1 1GE

10am - 7pm

Work by young photographers examining how the photograph can be used to document history, tell a story, convey a message, or disrupt the narrative. The exhibited images were created by the 16 - 21 year old participants of the Photo Fringe project Projecting Power: Photography as Activism, whose online workshops were led by Natalie Mitchell.

Exhibiting artists: Symoné Adeymi, Maroa-Isabell Al-Sahlani, Malak Hamdallah, Mars Obonyo, Destinie Paige, Hisham Pryce-Parchment and Shaefali Sakharkar.

NEW VISION

Paxton+Glew
12 Hanningtons Lane, Brighton BN1 1GS

6-9pm RSVP to info@paxtonglew.com

Exhibiting artists: Rosie Emerson, Richard Heeps, Lexi Laine, Jack Parker and Emily Paxton.

PHOTO FRINGE 2022 OPENING PARTY

Ironworks Studios
Cheapside, Brighton BN1 4GD

8pm - midnight
Tickets £5 in advance via Eventbrite

All welcome

Come celebrate the tenth edition of our biennial, open-platform, photography festival with music, dancing and photography projections. Guest DJs include Jade Hylton aka DJ 5 Star plus, of course, it wouldn't be a Photo Fringe party without some tunes from the legendary Stephen Bull. Meet our exhibitors, network with Brighton's photography community, find out more about this year's festival and help us raise funds for Photo Fringe.

You'll find full listings of all the many shows and events plus online exhibitions that make up Photo Fringe 2022 on our festival website here from Thursday 6 October.