HPF & The Crunch
Friday 28th October – Sunday 27th November Monday & Tuesday 9.30am - 5pm; Wednesday to Sunday 9.30am – 11.30pm The Globe at Hay, Newport Street, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR3 5BG
Lukasz TrzcinkiTake Me (essay from the New Europe project) 'Photographs inspired by amateur pictures of Moldavian women, placed on the internet to get the attention of men from western countries looking for a wife from the East.
The cycle is set in Moldavian reality and begins with an expression of the desperation of its female inhabitants looking for a way to better their quality of life. It also queries the eastern model of sexuality colliding with Western civilisation’s cultural model, as well as raising the issue of internet awareness and being conscious of one's presence on the web.'
Lukasz Trzcinski was born in 1975 in Krakow, Poland. For over fifteen years he worked as a documentary photographer in countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Russia and the Middle East. He is an award winner of the ‘Pictures of the Year International’ competition, repeated winner of the Polish Press Photography Contest and twice winner of the title of Photo of the Year (1999, 2000).
He holds a scholarship from The National Centre for Culture in Warsaw and is a member of the curator board of the Photomonth festival in Krakow. His key works comprise essays from countries from the former Eastern Bloc. This project is stylistically eclectic, as Trzcinski draws his styles for the topics from the point of view that there is no one language from which it is possible to describe everything.
Realised over the course of ten years, Trzcinski simultaneously is an evolutionary mirror image of the author himself, from the classical aesthetics aimed at registering symbolic images, to the intervention of photographing certain situations and a fascination for amateur photography which he recreates in front of his lens. Today he still believes that reality is merely a starting point: he definitely prefers to transform it.
Konrad Pustola
Unfinished Houses
The economic and social transformation after 1989 set off a big construction boom, mostly an outcome of a permanent undersupply of living space during the time of communism in Poland. But by the end of 1990 the economy started to decline resulting in serious depression in the beginning of the new millennium.
Usually the building process stopped abruptly leaving the construction site unsecured. The aftermath of it are the skeletons of unfinished houses located in the middle of what once was a cultivated crop field. Now they became monuments of failure, examples that there are also dark sides of free market economy teaching many people a painful lesson, letting down their hopes and aspirations and leading sometimes to family tragedies.
Lukasz Trzcinki: Take Me (essay from the New Europe project) - Photographs inspired by amateur pictures of Moldavian women, placed on the internet to get the attention of men from western countries looking for a wife from the East.
Konrad Pustola: Unfinished Houses- The economic and social transformation after 1989 set off a big construction boom, mostly an outcome of a permanent undersupply of living space during the time of communism in Poland. But by the end of 1990 the economy started to decline resulting in serious depression in the beginning of the new millennium.
Photographer’s talks at Crunch 2011
Saturday 19th November
2.30pm Adrian Arbib 'Photography and Freedom'
Adrian Arbib studied photography at the London College of Printing. Focusing on indigenous land rights, he has worked all over the world including in Africa, West Papua, India and Mongolia. His photographs have been widely published in the world’s press. In 1997 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Cherry Kearton Medal for his work with indigenous groups. He was recently threatened with 5 years in jail for photographing N Power contractors destroying a Kingfisher's nest, which became a test case for the media's right to cover protests. He also gave evidence at the Government Select Committee on policing protests.
3.30pm Benjamin James Dixie
Dixie's photography presentation centres on his work as Communications Specialist. UN operations. Sri Lanka and the circumstances leading to the 'war without witness'. Dixie took part in the recent Channel Four documentary ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ .
Dixie will also be showing two exhibitions of his work at Addyman books, 39 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye and at the Art Pavilion Café, The Globe at Hay, Newport Street, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, HR3 5BG
For tickets: www.theglobeathay.org
Crunch2011
The art and philosophy festival at Hay
"Crunch is back, with the thought-provoking debate, infectiously danceable music and late-night parties that you’ve come to expect. But this year there’s a whole lot more. We’ve doubled in size. With three new venues, a new art pavilion to explore, multiple musical events and performances running simultaneously across the weekend, Crunch 2011 is an essential date to enliven the darkening days of mid-November.
Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg, artists Susan Hiller and Jake Chapman, novelist Mark Haddon, and Serpentine Director Hans Ulrich Obrist are just a few of the guests who’ll be answering the big questions behind this year’s theme, ‘Awake in the Universe’. We’ll be exploring the role played by art and creativity in making us alive. There'll also be music from the likes of stunning songstress Mara Carlyle and indie rockers British Sea Power, exhibitions from leading galleries and an array of comedy, cabaret and mayhem to ensure Crunch 2011 will be a weekend to overwhelm the senses."