The Hereford Photography Festival
has been bringing photography and photographers to rural Herefordshire for twenty years.
Hereford has welcomed photography with a generosity and enthusiasm only exceeded by that of the many photographers who have been involved along the way.
Hereford Photography Festival, until recently, was the only annual photography festival in the UK. It has always had a documentary flavor, although has never consciously adopted that title.
Hereford Photography Festival has always been a photographers’ project; started by enthusiasts and sustained by artists happy to see their work reach new audiences outside of predictable city spaces. It has maintained an open submission show alongside the curated exhibitions, with many of those photographers invited back in subsequent years.
It is perhaps fitting then, that a photographer - and not a curator - has selected the work TWENTY. Many of the photographers were at the start of their careers when they first exhibited in Hereford and the exhibition is a genuine reflection of that full twenty-year period.
Paul Seawright
Photographer and co-curator TWENTY
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Hereford Photography Festival
Team:
Artistic Director - Caitlin Griffiths.
Caitlin Griffiths is a curator based in the West Midlands specialising in film, photography and socially engaged commissions. In 2006 she gained her M.Phil from the University of Birmingham and is currently working toward her Ph.D. Caitlin also curates for The Public in West Bromwich and is practicing artist. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and in 2010 she was awarded the Jury Prize at the Worcester Open.
Project Director - Jaime Jackson
Specialising in socially engaged practice and public realm commissions, Jaime also practices as a video/installation artist. Previous posts include art commission consultant/officer for Milton Keynes Council, South East Arts Board, Southern Arts Exhibition Services, Arts Council England West Midlands, Contemporary Art Society Projects, local authorities and public art agencies
in London, the South and South East and the Midlands.
Festival Coordinator - Cai Broom
Cai works for the Hereford Photography Festival, as well as Hereford College of Arts and The Courtyard Centre for the Arts. A photographer since 2002, Cai studied at the Hereford College of Arts graduating with a first class BA honours degree in photography In 2008. Cai has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions and was awarded a Brian Hatton Award prize in 2008.
Nina Gustavsson - Curator HCA exhibitions
Luke Rodgers & Kirsty Pye - HPF Interns
With the help and support of our Board of Trustees and Volunteers
links:
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