Stranded
The car serves as both a figurative symbol of the American destiny, and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns experienced on the road to it.
Unique selection of street photographs from the photographers’ portfolio taken in the 1970’s.
Head On
Award winning Magnum photographer is drawn to strong characters for his close up street portraits, in a new commission for FORMAT he turns his lens on Derby.
Between documentary, street photography and concept art, the Salaryman Project is on a double mission.
Street B
BJP Shoot the Streets winner presents a series of candid street photographs that address themes of service and dehumanisation in modern society.
Beyond Borders
People, moments, places encountered by the photographer whilst travelling between Vienna and Beirut create compelling compositions in cross-section of worlds.
Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West
explores the modernisation and national identity of a country that sits at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures.
The Animals
Animal focused street photography creating eerie and unfamiliar images, which capture the instinctive drama and wildness of his subjects.
The Derby Detective Agency
FORMAT Artist in residence follows the streets to trail cold cases from the local news through investigative street photo journalism. Visit the Agency office.
Jeff Mermelstein is a photographer’s photographer. Schooled on the streets of New York in the instant reflex art of Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, Mermelstein expands upon that iconographic idiom by shooting exclusively in color.
Selection of images spanning the last 50 years from one of the world’s most celebrated street photographers.
Nothing Special
An array of amusing images that capture situations on the edge of absurdity.
street view: a series of unfortunate events
Reinterprets the genre of Street Photography by drawing material for his own work from the almost inexhaustible pool of Google Street View.
Tales from the Data Stream
New commission for FORMAT charts the locations of Tweets through GPS where a compelling street photograph is taken at the site of the story.
The photographer walks the streets daily creating beautiful street photographs documenting the extra-ordinary everyday in black and white.
England Uncensored a decade of photographing the English.
A laugh out loud warts and all romp through this often badly behaved nation.
China Between
Acutely observed small telling gestures tell us as much about modern China as any epic picture of a dam, a protest or a workforce.
These pictures are from a project I shot in reaction to the financial mess of late 2008.
FORMAT will show in QUAD Gallery as part of the RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW survey exhibition, a selection of Vivian Maier's own incredible documentary films edited/selected by John Maloof.
Empty Bottles
Bottle collectors scavenge for a living within the affluence of China’s economic miracle.
City Scene documents an uncomfortable side of life in China’s street life creating a strange, poetic portrait of the contemporary metropolis.
Exposure
Floating Across Possible Breakdowns Photographic journeys from streets around the world.
City of Home
Evocative images of the photographers hometown of Kiev open up realms above and beyond the mundane.
Among Strangers Underground: Commuters on the Washington DC Metro
Funny, quirky and curious moments taken from the everyday on his commute to work.
A Month of Nights, Derby
Makeshift time lapse pinhole cameras produce a nocturnal record of life in the city that show traces of its inhabitants. A FORMAT 2011 commission.
Orderly Conduct Ubiquitous images that present a layered view of public space exposing behaviours that challenge the notion of individuality.
Minescape explores how nature temporarily reclaims the landscape in the aftermath of a conflict, even when underneath hides a most brutal and random killer: the landmine.
Instamatic
Short ‘video snapshots’ moments of beauty in everyday life recorded on low resolution obsolete cameras that leave their trace on the image.
Our project is to create a photographic publication and blog focussing on the city of Derby that can be distributed and viewed throughout FORMAT11
Reflections On Life The faces of commuters in cities throughout the world glimpsed through the windows of trams at the moment of departure.
Until the sun rises
A photographic installation comprising projected images taken in fringe areas that, at night, become a theatre of shadows, searching and endless waiting.
No Ring Circus A term described by the artist to describe his experiences photographing amongst the streets and people in the US, searching for identity and compassion.
Armoured Tourism Street photographs taken through the window of a US military Humvee on manouvers in Afghanistan.
Suān suān tián tián In Chinese, means "sour sour sweet sweet." Intimate, ordinary scenes of everyday life that are belied by a note of tension.
Collectively curated slideshow featuring members of the Hardcore Street Photography Flickr Group
Battered
Portraits of victims of the violence that takes place in public spaces on a night out in the Finnish streets.
After the Fall Locations on the outer edges of urban regions identified through hi-resolution satellite images redefine the notion of public space.
Self-Exposure
An immersive installation showing the urban wanderings of the artist through the eyes of a CCTV operator
Through a Glass Darkly
Reflections within reflections, images of people in the act of watching or being watched present the layers of information and poetics of public space.
From a Train
Locals and day-trippers captured from the window of the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, the smallest public railway in the world.
Terminal Transit
The 1.5 billion passengers moving through 1,195 airports per year have a shared intent – a perfect place to observe life.
Parental Permissions Denied explores the current anxiety collectively felt around image copyright and consensual photographic practice in public space.
Night explores the changes in the way people occupy public space at night under the glare of artificial light.
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna captures tiny moments of us – strangers – spot lit in a shaft of sunlight - passing each other unnoticed in the city.
22 Steps to the Sea Blocked in the US from taking photographs for reasons of national security Tong recreates his journey along the Texas Gulf Coast on Google Streetview.
Shelf Life documents the everyday engagement of the people and shopping in Newport, South Wales.
From Here to There
In reflecting on the spectator-traveller and the space he/she is contemplating or rushing through, From here to there sets out a subtle parallelism between landscape and society in the eyes of 21st century photography.
See the work created by participants of the Magnum Workshop Derby event
RunBabyRun! Connected by the simple act of running coincidence, intuition and spontaneity lead to the documentation of extraordinary yet fleeting moments.
Formotion and Passengers
Moving image. Reflections on the human condition in the city landscape that capture the frantic pace of life and overlooked moments of tranquillity.
Paul Hill FORMAT Exposure Prize winner
Tehran’s Self Portraits explores the experience of living in a changing city by looking through her Holga camera as if she were a statue - part of the fabric of the city.
Passages
A road trip series that draws on the idea that the modern landscape cannot be separated from human intervention, this idea is epitomized in the American West, by 'the road'.
Public Domain documents bomb shelters in the peripheral areas of Israel which Ishay describes as “implanted like alien corn in the public space”
Concrete Island depicts the walls that support a flyover in North London where the process of photographing becomes a examination of the traces of life.
Urban Fictions Documents a series of new towns in Eastern China based on European Architectural models raising compelling questions about an increasingly international world.
From the Bottom of the Ravine to the Top of the World
Stereoscopic photographs that track a journey from the Hoover Dam to the roof of the World Trade Centre.
Street Drama
Compositions that condense and present layers of time from one perspective, built from many individual images of people passing through the street
The London Games
The collision of randomness, chance and luck is where the London look resides.
Collaborative street photos from young people from Derby and Kolkata facilitated by artists from QUAD, Derby Museum and Art Gallery UK and Seagull Foundation for the arts, India.
The Perfect Place to Die
The forest of Aokigahara -- dark and foreboding, at the base of Mount Fuji, is the world’s leading public space suicide destination.
Pratibimb Street portraits in India of ‘Behrupiyas’, costumed performers who change character every forty-two days, transforming their costume and mannerisms to do so.
Uncanny Places Poetic experiments created through an intuitive passage through apparently common places, with no compass, this deliberate aimlessness paves the way for moments of serendipity.
Coastline
China has a continuous 18,000 kilometres of coastline, for Xiao the sea is a place of strong emotions and rich imagery, it is the beginning of lives and dreams.
The Blind
About a camouflage that scientists use to become hidden from view in order to observe and search for the ‘other’.
An open air space in the centre of Derby's historic Cathedral Quarter
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