Format Festival – Derby

     Daniela Friebel (Germany): Bateria

We visited The Format Festival in Derby. The theme of this year is HABITAT, exploring different views of documentary photograph.

 

Jost Franko (UK): Cotton Black, Cotton Blue

There are several issues for audience to notice on this exhibition, for example, environment, technology, migration, climate and so on. I’m afraid that there is no works which could connect to my idea of landscape project, but it is very interesting to look different things from photographers around the world, moreover, the way of placing photographer’s works is carefully considered, from my perspective, for example, when we visited the University of Derby and looked photography in the corridor, I had seen at three kinds of layout, some of the works were hanged by binder clips, some of them with wood picture frame and some works were pinned to the wall, which gave viewers different visual effect from different layout.

 

 

Magda Biernat (USA): Adrift

 

Wanuri Kahiu: Pumzi 2009

In addition, technology are also the medium to present photographer’s works, or a short video and information are played by using a projector. The downside of this trip for students I think is not enough time, because there are lots of place where held part of the exhibition and few location are too far to visit so that we just picked up some galleries nearby.

Kenta Cobayashi : Island is island's, 2015, phychic VR Lab