Brighton Photo Fringe online

Brighton Photo Fringe is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the UK. Open to all and with a strong character, attitude, playfulness and freedom, the festival enables Fringe exhibitors to take risks and self-curate a large number and wide variety of lens-based exhibitions throughout Brighton and the south coast.

Brighton Photo Fringe launches Saturday 6th October 2012 with exhibitions opening across the city during the course of the day.

Enjoy the Fringe. There is something for everybody and everyone is invited.

Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile online

Victor Hugo and the Jersey Studio

Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society

What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and friends in their exile on the Channel Island of Jersey between 1852 and 1855. In these years, the Hugo group turned exile into a photographic project, and in doing so, they transformed the history of photography.

Shit London online

Patrick Dalton

Shit meaning – unspecified item(s), ‘stuff’, ‘thing(s)’.

NOT, ‘London is shit’. I love this city.

These are photographs of the unintentional human comedy that surround us in the city. It’s the flotsam and jetsam of city life , the overlooked minutiae, the tragic, the grotesque and the basest of base. It’s the adapted posters, the dirty joke on the back of a van, the mispelt signs, the glory hole in the public loo, that weird shop down the end of your road and the knob graffiti strategically placed for maximum effect.

Out of the Loop online

Graham Barker

‘Out of the loop’ is a series of photographs of plastic waste in the Regent's Canal, Hackney.

These images have been carefully selected for their an ‘ambiguous’ appeal – looking surprisingly life-like, more like strange organisms discovered in the barren depths of our deepest oceans than plastic bags affected by the harsh conditions of the canal.

‘Out of the loop’ refers to waste material that has escaped recycling and which cannot compost or safely biodegrade into the natural environment.

Backyard Magazine online

Jonathan Goldberg, Katherine Green, George Plemper, David Solomons, Paul Tucker, Graeme Webb

The first issue of Backyard Magazine launches on the 5th November! It showcases the work of photographers who love to explore and capture their neighbourhoods. For the first issue we’ve kept it close to home and have selected work based in and around London.

It has been curated by photographer Mark Burton and features fantastic work from Jonathan Goldberg, Katherine Green, George Plemper, David Solomons, Paul Tucker and Graeme Webb.

Backyard focuses on projects close to a photographer’s heart and home. We feature photography with an international flavour, but by the photographers and artists who live and work there.

Riverbed Stories online

Mandy Williams

The work I am showing is from Riverbed Stories (2012), a series of photographs that document the riverbeds beside the industrial area of Erith, South London. In the past year the river has become increasingly polluted and choked with debris. Mattresses, chairs, televisions, and car tyres litter the beds, along with handless gloves, floating shoes and discarded baby carriages.
In an area of natural beauty, these riverbeds tell a story about the profit and greed of the waste disposal companies and the local council’s difficulty in protecting the environment.

Urbanality online

Graham Barker

‘Urbanality’ is a visual exploration of the ordinary and the mundane, presenting a series of analogue, double-exposures of buildings – either decadent or brutally bland. These ‘chance’ images provide an alternative way of seeing the all too familiar architecture in our towns and cities, recreating them as ‘castles in the sky’.

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead): a homage to you in Hackney online

Alix Edwards

This exhibition is inspired by mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd each year. In Mexico friends and family gather together to celebrate and pray for family members and friends who have died. Alix Edwards documents what we do in East London to celebrate and let go of our loved ones when they have died, particularly in unexpected or tragic circumstances and she hopes these images will inspire us all to ask what we can do as individuals to prevent such deaths from happening in the future.

GLASGOW and EDINBURGH - Built Environment from Gulf War to Harry Potter, 2003-2007 online

Constantine Gras

A gritty black and white study of how Scotland builds its great cities. 
It reveals how the shaping of urban space in Glasgow and Edinburgh relates to human needs: home ownership, health, security and identity. 
The period covered is from the outbreak of the Gulf War to the publication of the last Harry Potter book, 2003 - 2007. 

Imago Corporis online

Yvanne Teo

An exploration of our states of being through a series of snapshots of the body in various unique yet characteristically recognised demeanours.

Fugitive Images/In Wait online

Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell

“In Wait” is a visual essay on the Haggerston West & Kingsland estates in Hackney, east London, in the process of demolition and re-building. The 56 photographs document the spaces left behind when people were moved out. Despite residents living in limbo for over 30 years as refurbishment plans were continuously proposed, shelved and re-proposed, the images highlight their innovative solutions to the difficulties of continuing to live while an idea and a set of buildings were being abandoned around them.

Shit London online

Patrick Dalton

Shit meaning – unspecified item(s), ‘stuff’, ‘thing(s)’.

Shit London has been capturing the unintentionally funny, the weird and depressing mundane side to London street photography for just over two years.

Started by photographer Patrick Dalton, the Shit London blog acts as a place for Londoners to share their images of strangeness they spot around the city.

This is a photographic archive of London at it's most candid and it's funniest.

Immerse online

Mandy Williams

An online exhibition of video stills of the sea located close to where the photographer lived as a teenager. The images are a visceral response to the physical landscape, an exploration of place through emotion and memory.

Select Photofair online

There will be over 30 leading photographers from the UK and Europe including award-winning photographers Timothy Allen, Sasha Gusov, and Ian Cumming. Three Young Photographers' Alliance photographers have also won places in the exhibition: Sarah Howe, Helen Mildmay-White, and Aditya Swami.

Select Magazine is bringing together some of its top talent for its first group show event. Showcasing the work of over 30 leading international photographers, the Select Photofair will give collectors, art buyers, and creatives the unique opportunity to both discover new commercial talent and buy high quality, but affordable prints. The exhibition includes prints from award-winning photographers such as Timothy Allen, Ian Cumming, and Sasha Gusov.

Working in association with the charity, The Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA), Select has given three lucky young photographers the chance to exhibit their work at this new event.