On Tuesday 16th October 2018 we visited the Brighton photo Biennal this exhibition was located at 154-155 Edward Street,BrightonBN2 0JG which was on from the 28th September to the 28th October.The three exhibition that we visited were Tereza Červeňová, Émeric Lhuisset – L’Autre Rive Heather Agyepong - Habitus potential realities and Robin maddock- nothing we can't fix by running away.
The title of the biennial is A New Europe. It explores Brexit and a permanently reshaped Europe through photography and video works across eight venues in Brighton.
Heather agyepong
Billboard in Jubilee Sreet, BN1 1HF
Heather Agyepong is visual artist, performer and maker who lives and works in London, she created a series of twelve self-portraits exploring the potentiality of British values in a new Europe.At this time of uncertainty, the work poses questions about what has been learnt during the two years since the EU referendum and about our capacity for change.
Emeric Lhussiet
Émeric Lhuisset’s Is a french photographer who has pictured daily lives of refugees and made them into fixed cyanotypes to tell stories of different generations who have migrated to Europe. His exhibition 'L'Autre' translates to 'the other'. The images will fade to shadea of blue which is supposed to represent the sea and The EU flag.
Harley weir
Fabrica gallery, 40, Duke Street, BN1 1AG
Harley Weir displays her work on backdrops reprsenting displacement and uncertainty. Located in a church to also represent the lives of refugees whos lives have been destroyed. Exhbited in location highlights how the church is seen as their second home as the destruction of theitr homes and are left with no homes and how religion has not become heir savior in this situation.
Robin maddock
Robin Maddock has spent the last two decades travelling around England gathering pictures for his portrait of national identity exhibiting his work at a tattoo parlour as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial, with the theme a New Europe. This exhibiton includes a total of 100 photographs including pictures from the last 20 years.
Overall my favourite exhibition was Robin Maddock's as I specifically liked they work was exhibited.The way he has displayed his photos in a tattoo parlour was very significant to the them "identity" as tattoos can be percieved as a way of changing the appearance of your skin. All of his framed photos tell a story although they are not specifially taken to represent brexit they still somehow relates to politics. It represents his life throughout the past 20 years which tells us the experienvce hes had up until this controversial event in time .
General photos - Brighton
The process of creating a cyanotype
A Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
Firstly before printing on acetate your image has to be negative version of black and white as well as it being an mirrored version of the image so when being printed on acetate it will have high contrasts on the image to do this it is suggested to use photoshop.
Using the acectate place it onto the prepared on the paper and leave it on to be exposed to sunlight, the expsosed paper wll begin to change to a greyish colour this will let you know when it is ready to wash
Finally rinse your paper and you will see the colours reversed. This will also fix your exposed image and make it safe to view in daylight