Photo Fringe 2024 Collectives Hub
Photo Fringe 2024 Collectives Hub: Common Ground
Phoenix Art Space
10-14 Waterloo Place
Brighton
BN2 9NB
5 Oct-17 Nov, Wed-Sun 12-5pm
closed Mon-Tue
FREE
Following an open call, eight photography collectives have been selected for this year's Collectives Hub exhibition at Phoenix Art Space, each presenting a different approach to image-making and to this year’s festival theme “Common Ground”.
An important part of Photo Fringe since 2014, the Collectives Hub has consistently formed one of the most visible, visited and critically acclaimed exhibitions of our biennial festival.
The collectives are :
● Brighton Queer Photographers Collective
● Emic Collective
● Flowers of Lilith
● HOLD
● Iris Collective
● London Alternative Photography Collective
● MAP6
● Rethinking Eastern Europe
[ABOVE] © Ania Ready - Rethinking Eastern Europe
Brighton Queer Photographers Collective is a group of LGBTQIA+ photographers who have come together to centre queer joy and creativity. The collective brings together different local creatives, each showcasing their personal projects whilst interweaving common threads such as identity, connection, and self-exploration.
As a collective, we have chosen to stand in for one another as models - centering ourselves and the connection we have forged over the past year through our shared experiences as artists and queer people. When we think of common ground, we think of connection - and without connection we are nothing.
Artists: Jerrika, Lucy, Mary, Nuria, Roxy, V, Zoe
[ABOVE] Mary - Brighton Queer Photographers Collective
Emic Collective is a new research collective, specialising in interrogating and exploring postcolonial narratives. Each artist within the collective approaches and explores the overarching theme differently through their critical and theoretical practices. Their considerations encompass the discourse of photography and its historical context regarding forms of representation and the future possibilities of the medium.
Artists:
Yuxing Chen, Harry Compton
Margarita Galandina
[ABOVE] Yuxing Chen - Emic Collective
Flowers of Lilith is a platform for artists to align thematically, artistically, and practically with the nature of identity and the value of interpersonal connections. Inspired by Gertrude Stein's statement, “I am because my little dog knows me,” we explore how identity is recognized and shaped by others, delving into themes of belonging and the evolving self through various artistic mediums.
Artists: Nadia Abatorab-Manikowska, Mariam Menteshashvili, Aisha Olamide Seriki, Eli Pimentel
[ABOVE] Aisha Olamide Seriki - Flowers of Lilith
HOLD is a collective of four artists sharing a desire to express something that, while ineffable, is held, and felt, and explores our relationship with the natural world. Using a range of digital, analogue and alternative photographic processes, they explore a language which expresses the need to discover and experience the interconnectedness of the human with the non-human in relation to the environment alongside issues relating to sustainability.
Artists:
Susan Bell, Elissa Jane Diver, Gin Rimmington Jones, Eileen White
[ABOVE] Eileen White - HOLD
Iris Collective comprises six lens-based artists who graduated from the University of Brighton MA (Photography) in 2022. For Photo Fringe 2024 the collective present Tableau - six photographs from the collective’s individual practices as five works orbiting around a sixth central image. The playful juxtaposition of these images invites the viewer to query the relationships between seemingly unrelated elements or parts through a language of tension, interpretation and contradiction.
Artists:
Bill Brooks, Torz Dallison, Elizabeth Doak, Lorraine Edridge, Andy Lloyd, Syl Ojalla
[ABOVE] Torz Dallison - Iris Collective
London Alternative Photography Collective‘Symbiosis III’ is an evolving collection of works by members of the London Alternative Photography Collective, exploring the relationship between image makers, the more-than-human, and alternative photographic processes. Curated by Hayley Harrison, Ky Lewis and Melanie King, the exhibition considers the connections between symbiosis and alternative photography, asking if nature is a collaborator, or a commodity in alternative photography processes.
The London Alternative Photography Collective (LAPC) was founded by Melanie King in 2013, and has grown from a small group of analogue and alternative photography practitioners to a collective which produces large-scale symposiums, exhibitions and workshops.
[ABOVE] Zara Carpenter - London Alternative Photography Collectiv
MAP6 is a collective of ten photographers making work about the complex relationships between people and place. At the heart of the group is collaboration, which takes many forms – from working together when picture-making to editing and directing each other’s images. Wales: The Landscape Project, explores facets of the Welsh landscape and commonalities both within MAP6 and relating to the project.
Artists:
Leia Ankers, Richard Chivers, Rich Cutler, Barry Falk, Mitch Karunaratne, Chloe Lelliot, Heather Shuker, David Sterry, Paul Walsh, Aaron Yeandle
[ABOVE] Richard Chivers - MAP6
Rethinking Eastern Europe is comprised of visual artists engaged in redefining the concept of “Eastern Europe.” Using photography, moving image, sculpture and visual art, the collective seeks to present more nuanced narratives about a diverse region often reduced to a homogenous mass. Their understanding and emotional connection to the region and its past, and their respect for tradition is blended with modernity, creating multifaceted explorations of identity and memory in “Eastern Europe”.
Artists: Marcelina Amelia & Grupa Łono, Laura Bivolaru, Eve Gill, Vera Hadzhiyska, Viktoriia Hrysa, Lina Ivanova, Ksenia Kazintseva, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Ioana Marinca, Katie McCraw, Nastassja Nefjodov, Patricia Petersen, Zula Rabikowska, Ania Ready, Diana Serban, Erika Nina Suárez
[ABOVE] Marcelina Amelia & Grupa Łono - Rethinking Eastern Europe