Darek Fortas, from the series ‘Coal Story’, 2011 The overriding theme of this year’s international photography festival Format, currently on display at various locations in Derby and beyond, is Factory – a purposefully broad term that has vast economic, social and political implications in a globalized world. The very first location of the festival, a…
Lisa Barnard, from the book Chateau Despair, 2013 Lisa Barnard’s new photobook Chateau Despair was born out of a commissioned photo-project in which she documented the abandoned Conservative Central Office at 32 Smith Square – HQ for the Tories from 1958 to 2004. The majority of images in the book are interior photographs of a…
John Clang’s photographic project ‘Being Together’ critically interrogates the family photograph in an increasingly globalized world. As a resident of New York, Clang made a recording of his family in Singapore via Skype. He then projected this recording into his living space, thus cunningly re-performing a classical family portrait. In the photograph titled ‘Being Together…