Photomonth 09

east london photography festival

1 October – 30 November 2009

PHOTOMONTH 09 is a photographic feast. Discover over 150 exhibitions and events in more than 85 galleries and spaces across East London and the City. Major artists exhibiting this year include Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Jenny Matthews, Nadav Kander, Terry O’Neill, Tom Hunter and Sophie Calle, with many exciting emerging artists who have chosen to show in a wide variety of interesting venues from the Crypt at Christ Church to Lennie’s Snack Bar. photomonth is the only photography festival in London and the largest in the UK.

Headline Events

PHOTOMONTH OPENING Thursday 1 October 6pm-9pm
V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green E2 9PA (Bethnal Green tube)
photomonth opens with an evocative exhibition of images of an East End childhood by Paul Trevor from 1970s, 80s and into the 90s. At the opening photomonth will launch it’s new Youth Photography Award, sponsored by the World Photography Organisation.

PHOTOMONTH PHOTOFAIR Saturday 10 October 10am-6pm
Spitalfields Traders Market, Brushfield Street. E1 6AA (Liverpool Street tube) Admission Free.
Photographers selling their prints; galleries including The Photographers Gallery, Cynthia Corbett Gallery and Rocket; magazines, books, products and services; the photo-bus and a photo-bar. A great opportunity to buy prints at very reasonable prices from emerging artists and play Pass the Parcel with Photobox for fantastic prizes.

PHOTOMONTH PHOTO-OPEN Thurs 15 Oct – Wed 4 Nov, 12noon-6pm daily.
F Block, Old Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury Street E1 6QR (Aldgate East tube) Admission Free.
See this year’s submissions in a show invigilated by the photographers. A wide range of subjects and approaches will be exhibited. All prints for sale. To participate email info@alternativearts.co.uk Curated by Alternative Arts.

PHOTOMONTH PORTFOLIO REVIEWS Sat 31 Oct & Sun 1 Nov, 11am-4pm each day.
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street. E1 7QX (Aldgate East tube).
An opportunity for photographers to showcase their work to curators, publishers, picture editors, journalists, gallerists and established artists. Reviewers this year include Louise Garczewska/Getty Images Gallery, Tony Bell/Picture Editor, Observer, Hannah Watson/Trolley Books, Simon Bainbridge/British Journal of Photography, Renee Mussai/Autograph ABP.

PHOTOMONTH LECTURE Thursday 12 November 7pm
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street E1 7QX (Aldgate East tube).
Mark Neville delivers this year’s lecture. He is best known for his Port Glasgow Book Project where he produced a coffee table book of social documentary style images which he then delivered free to all 8,000 homes in the Port.
Tickets £7/£5 concs. Booking essential 020 7522 7888 www.whitechapel.org/event

FREE BROCHURES available from info@alternativearts.co.uk
Full details of the photomonth 09 programme will be on www.photomonth.org
photomonth is produced by alternative arts +44(0)20 7375 0441 www.alternativearts.co.uk
For further information and images email info@alternativearts.co.uk

Supported by Alternative Arts, Photobox, Shoot Experience, Spitalfields/Hammerson, The Old Truman Brewery, theprintspace, Tower Hamlets Council, V&A Museum of Childhood, Whitechapel Gallery, World Photography Organisation.

 Download Useful Documents here.

[Photo - Open Letter] [Photo - Open form] [Entry Form] [Photofair application form] [Photomonth Brochure - 2009]

 

 

 

PHOTOMONTH PHOTOFAIR

Sat 10 Oct 09
Spitalfields Traders Market
Brushfield Street E1 6AA
(Liverpool Street tube)
020 7375 0441

The Photomonth Photofair started out as a small affair in 2008 but this year, due to popular demand, the event is spreading across the Spitalfields Traders Market with stands and stalls run by photographers selling prints, galleries representing photographers, publishers, products and services, and a photo-bar on the photo-bus.

Exhibitors include The Photographers Gallery, Photobox, Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Trolley Books, Rocket, Photofusion, Cynthia Corbett Gallery,
Next Level Magazine, theprintspace, Shoot Experience, The Renaissance Photography Prize, Contact Editions, Association of Photographers, Alaska Editions, Rapid Eye Darkroom, YELP, David Allan, Catherine Ames, Samuel Bedford, Silvia Boarini, Anne Clements, Holly Cocker, Eugemio Costa, Nadia    Denton, Sheina Donaldson, Cordelia Donohoe, Mike Drummond, Michael Featherstone, Karen Grainger, Olli Hellmann, Tiffany Jones, Steven Joyce, Ulka Karandikar, Lisa Larsson, Zofia Laskowska, Leon Woolls, David    Lewis, John Matthews, Amy Miedzwiecki, Elisa Pavan, Lydia Polzer, Julie Willaims-Krishnan, Joel Rosi-Schwartz, Agnese Sanvito, Valentina Silva, Raphael Silva, Emma Stack, Rebecca Tolhurst, Thodoris Tzalavras, Aysegul Wilde, Lee Williams, Ralph Withers and many many more…

Photobox,  a major sponsor of this year’s Photofair, invite everyone to come and play Pass the Parcel with fantastic prizes to be won and delicious cookies to eat. Shoot Experience present all the fun of the fair and ‘Dr Photo’ who will sort out your photography woes. Rhubarb Rhubarb will create their own ‘Mystic Meg’ stand where you can discover your own photographic future. Rocket will be selling a mini retrospective of books by Martin Parr. Scarlet Dot will run a photo-bar in a red Routemaster bus and there’ll be loads of magazines, books and photographic prints for sale.

 Immerse yourself in this creative photography event, buy prints at very reasonable prices, join in the games and enjoy the convivial surroundings of the market lined with a great variety of restaurants, cafes and shops.

 For more information contact Alternative Arts 020 7375 0441 info@alternativearts.co.uk  www.photomonth.org

 Supported by Photobox, Spitalfields, Hammerson, Alternative Arts, Tower Hamlets.