This month, we will be launching Photoworks Annual 26, which has been Guest Edited by independent curator and founding editor of Typical Girls, Jamila Prowse.
This special issue of our magazine marks our
Artists featured include: Ibrahim Azab, Helen Cammock, Mahtab Hussain, Sandy Kim, Jason Larkin, Maggie Lee, Anthony Luvera, Muslim Sisterhood, Ute and Werner Mahler, Boris Mikhailov, Nina Mandahar, Marcia Michael, Ingrid Pollard, Kazim Rashid, Silvia Rosi, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Nigel Shafran and many more.
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Photoworks Annual 26 comprises three sections. Then looks back at the history of Photoworks and Brighton Photo Biennial. It includes a re-publishing of David Alan Mellor’s text on Boris Mikhailov, who was commissioned to make new work for the first Brighton Photo Biennial in 2003. Artist and facilitator Becky Warnock looks back on participatory projects spearheaded by the organisation in collaboration with the artists Helen Cammock and Anthony Luvera and curator Juliette Buss. Jamila’s own text re-evaluates the Photoworks archive, which consists largely of publications, commissions of new work and exhibitions. Her research not only highlights pivotal series but also disrupts the archive by putting it into conversation with the work of artists who were not present in Photoworks’s history. In doing so, Jamila creates an expanded parallel narrative that provides a more diverse and inclusive view of photography over the past 25 years.
Now, meanwhile, focuses on the contemporary, exploring how artists and practitioners open up new modes of creation and agency. Lorén Elhili discusses Arab representation in the UK post 9/11, and Isaac Kariuki’s essay looks at the Kiev88, a ‘consumer-friendly’ replica of the Hasselblad, in relation to the legacy of imitation cameras and the unique visual language they create.
The final section, Chain Reaction, invites artists, curators and collectives to speak about photographs produced over the past 25 years that have influenced them.
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