Hereford Photography Festival is the UK's longest running photography festival.

'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.'

Paul Seawright - Photographer and co-curator TWENTY

HPF Team:

HPF works with external curators within its exhibition program - in 2011 these are Simon Bainbridge, editor of The British Journal of Photography Lukasz Trzcinski, director of ImagoMundi and Charlie Levine, Trove.

Artistic Director - Caitlin Griffiths

Caitlin Griffiths is a curator based in the West Midlands specialising in photography, film and socially engaged commissions. In 2006 she gained her M.Phil from the University of Birmingham and is currently working toward her Ph.D.

Project Director - Jaime Jackson

Specialising in socially engaged practice and public realm commissions, Jaime came to HPF from Milton Keynes Council, where he was a Public Art Consultant, and has worked as an officer for South East Arts Board, Southern Arts Exhibition Services and Contemporary Art Society Projects, London.

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.

Volunteer Coordinator - Kerry O'Reilly

A photographic artist recently graduated from HCA, Kerry also works for the Courtyard Art Centre, Kerry interned at HPF in 2010

HPF Interns

Kirsty Pye & Luke Rodgers and a special thanks to all our volunteers.

 

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