INTERNATIO NAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL F O RM AT F ESTIVA L.C OM
15 MARCH
9 JUNE
F O R M AT O P E N C A L L C U R AT E D B Y LAURA O’LEARY
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ARTISTS 1 Seunggu Kim (KR) Better Days Korea has developed rapidly over the last 40 years, which has caused a lot of social ironies. One of these is long working hours with mini-breaks. During holidays, Koreans try their best to enjoy it. Better Days explores the spectacle of Korean short vacations.
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2 Karl Ohiri (UK) A Year in Protest Since the 1st of January 2018 the artist has resisted the urge to comment on, or take part in any online social-political debates. Instead he has taken his opinions offline in a series of self-portraits that when scanned via the QR code directs the viewer to his source of protest.
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3 Maria Sturm (RO) You Don’t Look Native to Me Royal Photographic Society Award Since 2011, Maria Sturm has photographed the unrecognised Lumbee Tribe from around Pembroke, North Carolina, where 89 percent of the population identifies as Native American. Sturm’s photographs might appear to depict a community almost anywhere in America, but elements of hybridity signify the mixing of heritage and contemporary culture
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EAST MEETS WEST
4 East meets West Digital Showcase East meets West is a series of Masterclasses organised by FORMAT Festival, QUAD and GRAIN Projects, which offered photographers from the East and West Midlands an immersion in their subject matter and a unique opportunity for emerging photographers to receive feedback from industry experts. Each photographer developed a body of work between October 2018 to February 2019 which is exhibited in a digital showcase for FORMAT19.
ARTISTS Anand Chhabra, Ala Buisir, Emma Case, Hazel Simcox, Ilona Denton, Jonny Bark, Kaya Isaac, Kristy Clark, Liam Pye, Luca Crawford , Luke Williams, Maryam Wahid, Oliver Tooke, Phillip Singleton, Simon Burrows, Tom Wynne, Tristan Poyser ORGANISED BY
P R I N T PA R T N E R
SUPPORTED BY
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QUAD