Brighton Photo Biennial 2012

Photoworks Festival / Brighton Photo Biennial 2012

 Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space: Curated by Photoworks

Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space, the fifth Brighton Photo Biennial (BPB12), explored how space is constructed, controlled and contested, how photography is implicated in these processes, and the tensions and possibilities involved in this dialogue.

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Children of Belo Horizonte, Brazil distribute The Beautiful Horizon newspaper

No Olho da Rua: Julian Germain, Patricia Azevedo and Murilo Godoy

Black and white photograph of women lying on the road on Brighton seafront during a peace demo 1983

Interview: Imagery of Protest: Interview with Janice Harnden

Visitors view Thomson & Craighead's October at the BPB12 launch.

A Tool For Change

16-18 year old students capture their own visual diaries before BPB12.

Watch: Horizon Lines

Photograph of Another Space publication

Bed, Table, Chair, Statement

BPB12 Launch Party at the Brighton Sealife Centre

Watch: BPB12 Launch Party

Watch: Urban Exploration - Talk with Bradley Garrett

Protesters sit on the upper window ledge of an empty clothing shop squatted by social activists. Titled 'Ideal Squat Exhibition', it was occupied to draw attention to Brighton's high level of homelessness despite all the empty houses around town. Brighton, Sussex, England. Photo: Alec Smart

Whose Photos? Press Archives as Contested Spaces

The public look on at the Argus Archive exhibition during BPB12.

Activism & Alternative Media

Adam Murray led a tour group around the Preston is my Paris, Four Versions of Three Routes exhibition.

Changes to Four Versions of Three Routes

Zine Making Workshop with Adam Murray

Watch: Zine Making Workshop

BPB12 Press Launch at the Photographer's Gallery

Watch: BPB12 Press Launch

Accidental Topography III, La Envia gated golf community From the Badlands series, 2008 – 2011

Towards the Biennial

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