Projects | Exhibitions

Brighton Photo Biennial 2012

Brighton Photo Biennial is the largest and most exciting curated photography festival in the UK and with 60,000 visitors in 2010, one of the best attended in the world.

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another

The Otolith Group

commissioned as part of RELAY in response to London 2012

A new filmwork from the Turner Prize nominated collective is an intimate portrait of poet, painter and philosopher Etel Adnan.

This Storm is What We Call Progress

Ori Gersht

Imperial War Museum, London

A significant new exhibition of work by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht shows in partnership with Photoworks at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Domestic Interiors

Sian Bonnell, David Spero, Nigel Shafran

An exhibition for HOUSE 2011

Three photographers transform the ordinary into the uncommon in a show curated by Celia Davies for HOUSE 2011.

Brighton Picture Hunt

Alec Soth and Carmen Soth

Photoworks Commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

A photographic journey across Brighton & Hove with his eight year old daughter formed a captivating portrait of a city for Alec Soth's Photoworks commission, his first in the UK.

Murmuration

Rinko Kawauchi

A Photoworks Commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

Flocking starlings at Brighton beach draw parallels with swarming crowds in Kawauchi's first UK commission.

Myth, Manners and Memory

Photographers of the American South

An exhibition of prominent American photographers, addressing the physical and psychological landscape of the American South.

Compost Pictures 2008-9

Nigel Shafran

Charleston Farmhouse, Firle, Sussex

A closely framed corner of a kitchen and a collection of household waste becomes the focus of Nigel Shafran's series Compost Pictures.

Churches

David Spero

David Spero's series of urban churches from the ‘charismatic evangelical movement’.

Thurston Hopkins – Memories of Happiness

Thurston Hopkins

Renowned British photojournalist Thurston Hopkins captures the revived spirit of British life as it emerged from the austere aftermath of World War II.

Photographing the First World War

Frank Hurley

An exhibition of Frank Hurley's extraordinary images of the First World War, exhibited as part of 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial.

We Are Witnessing The Dawn of An Unknown Science

Victoria Emes, Clare Strand, Shannon Taggart, Richard Wiseman

Curated by Benedict Burbridge for Permanent, Brighton

An exhibition of contemporary photographic works by a number of artists each displaying a preoccupation with the supernatural, paranormal or occult.

No Pasaran! - Robert Capa and the Spanish Civil War

An exhibition of Robert Capa’s photographs of the Spanish Civil War, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the death of Julian Bell and the sixtieth anniversary of Magnum Photos.

Fig.

Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg

Drawing together newly commissioned work Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's Fig. traces links between photography, imperialism and the colonial impulse to acquire, map and collect the world.

Picture Book of Britain

Henna Nadeem

Delicately interwoven collages combine western and non-western pictorial traditions to produce lavishly illustrated photographs for this Photoworks commission.

Walker Evans – England, 1973

Photographs of the little-known late chapter in the life of the great American photographer Walker Evans.

Crossing the Line

Magali Nougarède

Magali Nougarede's intensely coloured studies of young and elderly people focus on the effect of the generation gap on the segregation of groups of people.

Archives from the New British Photography of the 70's

An exhibition examining key works of 1970's photography in Great Britain.

Flemish Fields

Hans van der Meer

Flemish Fields takes us on a tour of amateur and village football teams and their pitches.