INTERNATIO NAL P HOTO GRAPHY FESTIVAL F O RM AT F EST IVA L.C OM
15 MARCH 14 APRIL ARTISTS 1. Leah Gordon (UK)
4. Maki Hayashida (JP)
Air traffic control towers embody the title of the Richard Brautigan
Teshima, now known as one of Japan’s touristic ‘Island of Arts’ is a rural
poem and subsequent Adam Curtis film, All Watched Over by Machines
island on the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, that between 1975–1980s had
of Loving Grace. They exemplify benevolent surveillance and benign
a huge volume of industrial waste illegally dumped. After a long legal
panopticism, as the Modern exerts itself through all-seeing architecture.
battle, the dispute was settled, and the island was cleaned. Between
They have become an enduring graceful symbol of a form of progress
2000–2017, 918,000 tons of industrial waste was removed. Hayashida’s
which protects and enables, resistant to critique, forever and now.
work includes documentation of the cleaning process taken after
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2017 and archival photographs from the island residents, taken
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Almost Transparent Island
between 1980–2000s. 2. Lydia Goldblatt (UK)
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Instar is a term that describes biological states of change, a
5. Jack Latham (UK)
Instar
metamorphosis between shedding and growing. Referencing primal,
Parliament of Owls
revelatory changes of love and loss, Goldblatt’s work explores these
Parliament of Owls is an investigation into Bohemian Grove. An area
experiences as speaking to the enduring nature of being human, and as
of Redwood trees in Northern California which every summer, since
fundamentally creative states. Carbon, the basic building block of all life,
1878, has played host to the upper echelon of American society. This
appears in various forms, connecting the natural and the man-made.
exclusive club starts its proceedings by carrying out the ‘Cremation of
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Care’, in which an effigy of a person is offered as sacrifice under a 40ft concrete Owl. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton are but a few of the men that call
3. Jens Schwarz (DE)
themselves members of the Grove.
Themmuns
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Is a documentary photo project on youth in Northern Ireland where the slang term ‘themmuns’, derived from ‘them ones’, is used by both
6. Yvette Monahan (IE)
Catholic Irish nationalists and Protestant unionists to refer to those on
The thousand year old boy
the other side of the religious-political divide. Under the anticipated
In 2006, cavers discovered the 3,000-year-old skeleton of a child in The
terms of a Brexit agreement still in negotiation, Northern Ireland will
Burren, South West Ireland. The DNA was tested by archaeologists and
leave the European Union along with the rest of the UK, despite a
matched with that of the local school children, and curiously one boy
majority Remain vote. Most unionists support the decision to leave
was an exact match. This made Monahan question how a landscape
whilst most nationalists do not, and there is real concern that a hard
and its people hold the stories of those that pass through it. Using Tim
border between the EU and the UK will threaten the Peace Process and
Robinson’s idea of the ‘adequate step’, Monahan explores the geology,
rekindle old conflicts.
biology, myths, history, and politics of The Burren.
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