Join this discussion which explores the relationship between landscape, photography and politics.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY PANEL - LANDSCAPE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND POLITICS
Brett Rogers, Sarah Pickering, Martin Seeds and Eva Stenram
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Join Brett Rogers OBE, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery for a panel discussion exploring the relationship between landscape, photography and politics. The panel discussion will feature Sarah Pickering, Martin Seeds and Eva Stenram and look at how their work encapsulates political subject matter within an expanded view of photography. All three artists subvert the usual photojournalistic and documentary tropes to explore new ways of storytelling. Chaired by Brett Rogers OBE, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery.
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PANELLISTS:
Chair, Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers Gallery:
Brett Rogers OBE is director of The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She played a key role in establishing photography as a leading art form in the UK. Prior to joining The Photographers’ Gallery, Rogers was the Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions at the Visual Arts Department at the British Council.
Panel, Sarah Pickering:
Sarah Pickering is a British visual artist who works with photography and whose work deals with themes of falsity and deception. Pickering (UK, b.1972) uses the process of photographic image making and related media as a way of staging, observing, performing, and facilitating in order to examine and explore mediated versions of reality and work beyond its confines. Central to her work is an intense and repeated scrutiny of the issues raised by such subjects as fakes, tests, hierarchy, science-fiction, explosions, photography, and gunfire.
Pickering’s artwork has contributed to the field of fine art photographic practice and has received extensive national and international attention. Solo exhibitions include Incident Control, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, and Celestial Objects, Durham Art Gallery. Selected group exhibitions include: How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London; Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism, the V&A, London; Theatres of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp; Manipulating Reality, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, Sydney; Staging Disorder, LCC, London; Revelations, Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, London; the European Bienalle, Manifesta 11, Zurich; and collaborating with Julia Weist as part of Open Call, The Shed, New York. Her commission, Match, a 38 metre long public artwork was installed at Castlegate Shopping Centre, Stockton-on-Tees.
Martin Seeds: is an artist and educator from Northern Ireland. He is a trustee of Brighton Photo Fringe and co-founder of Niagara Falls Projects. In 2019 Seeds was nominated for the 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for his solo exhibition Violence Religion Injustice Death at Seen Fifteen gallery London. In 2018 he was awarded the Danny Wilson Memorial Award – Professionals choice for the best solo exhibition at Brighton Photo Fringe. In 2017 he was awarded a Magnum Graduate award for the body of work titled Assembly. Seeds’ artistic practice draws from his experience of growing up in Northern Ireland. Through an on-going reflection upon historical events and an engagement with current issues in the province, his work reflects upon the conflicting experiences of Northern Irish identity, history and culture.
Eva Stenram’s: art practice revolves around photography and post-production. By treating photographic images as data or raw material to be excavated, mined and processed, she subjects archival material to digital manipulation. The original functions of the photographs are disrupted, enhanced or subverted, the photographs’ exact temporal and cultural coordinates rendered ambivalent. Her work is ultimately about being a viewer, a consumer of images. Stenram studied in London at the Slade School of Art and Royal College of Art. She recently exhibited in Die Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, Germany, The Riga Photography Biennale, as part of the internationally touring exhibition A Handful of Dust, and at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. Her work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Gallery London, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Originally from Sweden, she currently lives and works in Berlin.