Format Photofestival Derby, 28th March 2017

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On the 28th of March our  course visited the FORMAT17 Photography Festival this years theme was exploring HABITAT, which will look broadly at landscape, environment, mobility, migrations, digital worlds, ideas of home and displacement, conflict and regeneration and all the spaces that we live in including work that considers our short or long term impact on the world locally and internationally.
When speaking about Format Louise Clements states: “Photography can bring awareness to important issues around the world, through images we can try to get closer to the subject. Photo-blogs and news feeds enable us to see, contribute and connect across the world. From citizen journalism to the Facebook family album Photography is undoubtedly the most important media of our time.”
The exhibition itself was spread out over the whole of the city of Derby, one of the advantages of this was the variety of ways work was displayed. One exhibit was located at the top of a church tower, another in a run down old school. 
One installation really appealed to me and is relevant to this project I’m working on. Monica Alcazar Duarte’s “The New Colonists” the exhibit is very tactile and allows the viewer to physically engage with the work through pulling out draws and touching the work. The concept investigates the ethical and environmental issues surround the new space race, highlighting the human condition in a post human era. The work invites the viewer to examine their position within our contemporary techno society.
Not only does the concept of space travel and astronomy interest me personally,  some of the photography in the project relates visually to my landscape project 





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