Format Photography Festival programme announced

Press release:
World’s finest photographers gather in Derby for 5th edition of FORMAT in its most comprehensive programme to date

FORMAT 2011, the UK’s leading international festival of contemporary photography and related media today announces its full programme for its 5th edition, taking place at various venues in and around Derby, 4th March – 3rd April 2011. 
This year’s festival, curated by Louise Clements around the theme Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the public realm, explores the resurgence of street photography – put simply, photographs taken in public places. Presenting more than 3,000 works by over 300 artists of international significance, FORMAT11 will provide the most comprehensive survey of street photography ever seen. 

The Festival will show curated exhibitions and new commissions by leading international artists within the practice of street photography. In a unique commission for FORMAT11, esteemed Magnum Photographer Bruce Gilden turned his lens on the people of Derby, creating a fascinating portrait of the city’s people in Head On 2010, which will be shown at Derby Museum & Art Gallery. 
Outside in Derby Marketplace, Magnum Photos and FORMAT in association with Photography Archive, Birmingham Library and Archive Services, will present Take to the Streets – a major outdoor survey show of 140 large-scale street photos by seven leading Magnum photographers working around the world: Constantine Manos, Richard Kalvar, Raymond Depardon, Chris Steele-Perkins, Bruno Barbey, Trent Parke and Alex Webb.
 
QUAD Gallery will present an extensive survey of contemporary street photography in an exhibition showcasing leading practitioners alongside new artists from around the world. Bringing together the work of more than 20 artists, the exhibition includes archive, unseen and new works by the likes of Brian Griffin, Joel Meyerowitz, Amy Stein, Michael Wolf, Zhao Liang, Polly Braden, Raghu Rai, and Wassink Lundgren. The exhibition will also feature a slideshow of 300 images by Vivian Maier, a Chicago-based street photographer whose incredible archive of works spanning the 1950s - 1990s was only recently discovered, and a further slideshow exhibition of work created and selected by the prolific Hardcore Street Photography group from Flickr.

For more information, visit the websites below:
www.derbyquad.co.uk
www.ideageneration.co.uk
www.formatfestival.com