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FORMAT06 is a photography festival taking place in Derby between 22 September and 22 October 2006 organised by Q Arts, Derby City Council and Derby University. Building on the success of FORMAT05 which saw 100,000 people visit 30 exhibitions in 20 venues over 60 days in April and May last year. The season becomes bigger and bolder and this year, contains high profile exhibitions, a photography conference, master classes, workshops, professional practice opportunities, mobile phone photography competition and much more.
The FORMAT06 programme includes photographic
work that is challenging and engages with relevance to contemporary life, directly and indirectly, in social, political and pictorial terms and a relationship to the theme ‘TRANSFORM’. FORMAT06 will include the diversity of techniques within photography from darkroom to digital, printed, projected and moving image.
The theme for FORMAT06 – TRANSFORM is deliberately broad allowing a variety of responses and explorations; including work that engages with our changing urban, global and political environments through to the developments of photographic practice and the proliferation of digital technology. The theme also reflects the massive programme of urban redevelopment that is happening in Derby where new buildings are being constructed throughout the city centre. Not least of these
is QUAD, Derby’s new visual arts and media centre. |
