Betley Whitehorne are pleased to be design partner for the newly launched Guernsey Photography Festival.
Responsible for the identity, graphics and digital requirements the agency is looking forward to this exciting new cultural festival in May 2010.
The first Guernsey Photography Festival will be held in St Peter Port featuring exhibitions by renowned international photographers Simon Norfolk, Josef Koudelka and Judah Passow.
The festival will also feature community activities, with competitions and exhibitions featuring work by local photographers, both amateur and professional.
Festival director Jean-Christophe Godet considers the festival to be of ground-breaking significance in terms of Guernsey’s involvement in the cultural world of photography.
“We’re so excited by the prospect of this festival. We have been able to approach world class photographers; bringing them to the island will hopefully inspire local people to pick up a camera and join in. We will be organising lots of photography focused events, taking inspiration from the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Guernsey, and showcasing photography at venues across St Peter Port.”
The festival is sponsored by PPF Partners and Generali Worldwide whose significant funding commitments have made it possible to secure the prestigious exhibitions which tie in with the festival themes of invasion, occupation, liberation and celebration – a theme that fittingly overlaps with the 65th anniversary liberation day celebrations due to take place on May 9th.
Anna Lisa Detassis, of festival sponsor PPF Partners, said that the firm is keen for local people to get involved in the event.
“A great feature of the festival is that it has an international reach and appeal as well a strong local connection. This reflects what PPF Partners stands for as a company, and we hope that, by bringing world famous artists to the island to display their work, we can engage local people in creating fantastic photography to celebrate the festival themes.”
Gavin Tradelius of joint sponsor Generali Worldwide added ‘The event is a significant undertaking that will bring together a myriad of individuals and organisations from across the Island, creating an event that will be of interest to citizens of Guernsey. We at Generali are delighted to support such an exciting and community wide event’.
© Simon Norfolk
Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963 and was educated in England. He worked for far-left publications specialising in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, in particular the British National Party. In 1994 he gave up photo journalism in favour of landscape photography.
Afghanistan: Chronotopia won a European Publisher’s Award, an award from the Foreign Press Club of America and was nominated for the Citibank prize. In 2004 Simon won the Infinity Award from the ICP in New York and in 2005 Le Prix Dialogue in Arles. His work appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian Weekend.
© Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. He turned full-time to photography in 1967. The following year, Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the initials P. P. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. In 1969, he was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for those photographs.
Koudelka left Czechoslovakia for political asylum in 1970 and shortly thereafter joined Magnum Photos. He has won significant awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Significant exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
© Judah Passow
Judah Passow has been working on assignments for American and European magazines and newspapers since 1978. Based in London, his work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times. Abroad, he has contributed regularly to Time, Newsweek and the New York Times.
A winner of four World Press Photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the Middle East, his photographs have been exhibited in London, York, Leeds, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris, Arles, Perpignan, Tel Aviv, New York, and Washington D.C.
His book Shattered Dreams, looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was published last year and accompanied by major exhibitions in London, Hamburg and Jerusalem. It was nominated for the 2008 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Shamima Sultana // Feb 27, 2010 at 5:37
Oh nice photographs…
very nice
2 Richard Le Poidevin // Feb 27, 2010 at 11:59
I think it’s fantastic that such an exhibition is coming to the island and hope it’ll grow over the years. It would be great for it to be seen as something photographers want their work to be shown in.
I saw the World Press Photo exhibition in Amsterdam several years ago and the quality of the work was excellent, interesting and thought provoking. The event was attended by a good mix of people from different backgrounds. I think that’s important, particularly in a small island like Guernsey; when we do get exciting work of this standard it needs to be accessible for the public as we don’t a large population and we’re not the top of everyone’s list as a cultural destination so wont have ‘passing traffic’. I think this festival will succeed as photography is something many people can appreciate at one level or another. I really like the identity too, it’s modern, clean, colourful and looks interesting. Everyone has a camera these days and if the festival inspires people to pick up them up and take a more active interest in the arts fantastic. I’ll definitely be pushing my dad to get involved as he’s got some amazing photos which tend to get hidden away under all his commercial and motorsport work.
There is something satisfying and fulfilling about taking a photo or making an image, whether it is to the level and importance of the above shots or simply ‘holiday snaps’. It should be encouraged like all forms of creativity as creativity is what makes us human.
3 Ric // Apr 28, 2010 at 21:59
The website is now live.
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