FORMAT’s EXPOSURE section is dedicated to artists who have submitted through our open-call programme. FORMAT invites artists from anywhere in the world to share their work. It is truly open in the sense of the freedom of creativity and interpretation we welcome, with the only parameters being that it must fit in some way to the festival’s theme. Submissions go through a selection process with an expert jury with successful artists exhibited alongside some of the best-known practitioners in contemporary photography.
Alex Grace
An animal photographer currently studying ex-caged and ex-free range egg laying hens. Her photographs document the conditions of these birds just after they are rescued from the farms.
Andreas Meichsner
German photographer Andreas Meichsner has entered the fascinating and little-known world of product testing in his work »TUV: to the acid test«.
Andrew Emond
Photographs of recently vacated factories, in particular those that have remained relatively untouched since they ceased operation.
Andy Lock
Rudimentary structures in industrial workshops used to train building and plastering apprentices..
Björn Larsson
Images of abandoned iconic Swedish cars, the result of an ongoing cooperation between the artist and an Egyptian hand-colourist from Cairo.
Burton and South Derbyshire College
Over the past year the students have been working across the mediums of photography, film, fashion and illustration on the theme of ‘factory’.
Carmine Cuccuru
A series by Cuccuru about Marlene, a factory in Italy where 140 people have died due to the inhalation of toxic substances.
Caroline McNally
Earth is Room Enough focuses on the final destination of the detritus of mass production and addresses issues of consumerism in contemporary society.
Christopher Steel
The photographic souvenirs from the offices that Steel has worked in explore the effects of the recession on team members and employees.
Clay Smith
Working with transparency film, and using slides from the 1950s onwards, Smith makes photomontages combining the worlds of work and the home.
Daniele Cinciripini
To increase productivity large companies allow their staff on average only ten minutes for a break. Cinciripini’s photographs document what workers do during their monitored and timed breaks.
Darek Fortas
Fortas combines contemporary photography and archival research, highlighting the social and political capacity of miners, acknowledging the legendary Solidarity movement.
Darn Thorn
Thorn photographs the living conditions of ordinary workers in Beijing, examining the human cost of China emerging as an economic ‘superpower’.
David Chancellor
South African Pulp and Paper Industries set up ‘Project Grow’ in 1983 in the KwaZulu Natal area to help sustainable tree farming. This work documents the workers of the 'Pelepele' community forest, Kokstad.
David Severn
The ecological restoration and reinvented social uses of ex-colliery land around the former coal mining stronghold of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
David Shepherd
Attempting to trace his town’s industrial heritage, Shepherd documented relics collected from the bottom of the Wolverhampton waterways.
David Welch
These photo-assemblages speak of production, accumulation and materiality and aim to encourage debate about consumption and the ways in which we feel compelled to consume.
Debbie Adele Cooper - Daily Commutes
Daily Commutes began as a documentation of Debbie Adele Cooper’s commute to work which developed as she connected with 3 other international artists Truls Bärg, Leora Tanzer and Emily Chen.
Dionysis Kouris
Kouris explores the problem of immigration in this series, based in a Greek abandoned recording factory.
Elisa Noguera Lopez
Noguera Lopez is interested in language, the image and memory. In pursuit of her series 100 Chickens 1 Egg she adopts mass production and industrial techniques to achieve her aims.
FORMAT Graduate Award
Work by 2012 graduates from the University of Derby BA Photography Degree and University of Derby BA Commercial Photography Degree.
Freya Najade
Photographs on how the expectations on agriculture today are very demanding, computerisation, automation and how mass production is now a key element of most farms.
Gazi Nafis Ahmed
Made in Bangladesh explores the lives of the women working in garment factories in and around Bangladesh.
Hajime Kimura
Kimura’s series documents the breeding of racehorses in Hokkaido, northern Japan, an area that was originally known for its war-horses until 1904.
James A. Hudson
Working conditions of employees in factories and building sites in a variety of locations including Scandinavia, one of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced areas in the world.
James Newton
The ubiquitous Ford Transit or ‘white van’ is photographed in close-up to make a mini-typology of patterns created on the van doors.
Janet Delaney
Delaney photographs doormen in Delhi exploring how as globalised commerce enters the economy, a long established workforce may become at risk.
Ji Hyun Kwon
Dormitory explores relationships between people that, although seem very close physically, are distant mentally and emotionally.
Joanne Betty Conlon
The office environment through a large, partly mirrored glass window that reflects back mundane day-to-day activities whilst offering a glimpse of the city behind the glass.
Jonathan Blaustein
Blaustein acts as a corporation might: extracting raw materials from his own piece of land, then turning his studio into a mini-factory in which he produces goods for sale.
Kajal Nisha Patel
Examining the trade of textiles between India and Great Britain, the industrialisation of cotton manufacturing in Britain and India's renaissance after British colonial rule.
Ken Grant
Grant’s black and white photographs feature the craftspeople and labourers of his adolescence, depicting an intimate story of the English working class.
Liv Pennington
A set of twelve studio portraits of naturally occurring chicken eggs that have been pulled off the packing line so that they will not be seen or sold to the public.
Liz Murray
Through a collage of machines, landscapes and people Murray combines found imagery of the past utopian state of Czechoslovakia.
Louis Quail
Quail’s humorous project on office life around the globe, of furniture, rituals and dress codes, sheds light on globalisation and our relationships to the corporation.
Maria Kapajeva
Digital collages from the found images of Russian women at home in a project about the internet phenomenon of Russian ‘mail-order brides’.
Martin Cregg
The series documents the spread of unfinished industrial parks that were suddenly halted and eventually abandoned in 2008 as Ireland spiralled into severe levels of recession.
Michele Palazzi
Pallazzi follows the lives of a traditional nomad family in Mongolia, documenting ancient traditions that are quickly disappearing in light of encroaching industry.
Minna Pöllänen
A site-specific structure and series of photographs depicting Pöllänen’s attempts to restore two dead birch trees in a forest by covering them with scraps of industrially processed wood.
Moira Lovell
25 years after battles were fought and jobs were lost, the artist visits the sites of the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike, to photograph former coal miners in the darkness of the night.
Nadine Stijins
Stijns’ photographic works combine the upcoming massive consumerism in China and the rising numbers of migrant workers at the foundation of China’s economic progression.
Nick Rochowski & Tim Bowditch
Hind Land is a collaboration between Rochowski and Bowditch surveying the pedestrian walkways beneath London’s Orbital M25 motorway.
Oliver Eglin
Eglin photographs patrons of an infamous techno club, housed in a former power station in East Berlin, as they are leaving on a Sunday morning after a night of fun.
Oliver Woods
The images explore how Chinese factories and manufacturing have been fired by an insatiable appetite for coal, crucial for their massive economic growth.
Patricia van de Camp
Patricia Van De Camp explores the relationship between nature and industry and what happens to factories once they are abandoned.
Paul Wenham-Clarke
Bodyworks depicts a prosthetics manufacturer that is still producing traditional and modern limbs.
Pawel Fabjanski
Fabjański photographs the relationship between a leader and his subordinates, exploring the way in which leaders distance themselves from their staff to gain respect and obedience.
Petra Stridfeldt
WANT is a series of ‘consumerist’ portraits with a touch of environmental concerns, representing how, in a consumer society, we can easily become defined by our possessions.
PUTPUT
Surreal combinations of plastic objects and house plants, causing the audience to double take and question the relationship between ideas, meaning, expression and artefact.
Rebecca Conway
Conway documents the daily lives of labourers who work in brick factories in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Many are bonded labourers, working in dangerous conditions.
RJ Fernandez
Fernandez photographs the effect gold mining has had in the Philippines: entire mountains have disappeared; river systems polluted; ancestral land rights ignored, and indigenous people displaced.
Rob Ball / Obsolete Studios
A live tintype studio, Rob Ball seeks to identify trends by exploring past, current and future technologies.
Robert Day
In the 1970s and 1980s Day photographed annual open days in Derby’s railway workshops, following families as they looked behind the scenes to see what their relatives did at work.
Sam Curtis
Curtis’ work uses found video footage to look at the way people introduce creativity and individuality into their jobs; a singing bus driver, a beatboxing call centre operator, a dancing waiter.
Sandra Hoyn
In Kanpur, India, more than 350 tanneries and other factories dispose of their highly poisonous water directly into the Ganga River, putting lives at risk.
Sasha Kurmaz
Exploring what it is like to be a young person in an industrialized metropolis, Kurmaz documents the active social lives of a young generation of what he describes as ‘heroes’ in Donetsk in the Ukraine.
Sebastian Liste
Since 2009 Liste has documented a community living in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
St. Austell Student Collective
A collection of books and zines produced by St. Austell Student Collective on display between the 8 - 10 March as part of the Photo Market event.
Stuart Royse
In his photographs Royse uses imagery which is oddly painterly and abstract, depicting industrial environments both used and unused.
Susan A. Barnett
The series explores the identity, issues and perception of individuals in the twenty-first century, revealed in their t-shirts.
Tatyana Palyga
This series looks closely at the life of the office worker – being one herself – resulting in a stark exposure of the day-to-day mundane routine of her fellow workers.
Thais Medina
Medina’s series Brazilian Packaged Miracles documents Brazilian esoteric products designed to give good fortune, love, health and money.
The Caravan Gallery
A series examining the blurring between places of work and leisure: factories are reincarnated as art galleries, lap dancing clubs and buffet restaurants.
Thomas Vanden Driessche
Welcome to Tata City delves into the lives of the workers and families that benefit from free housing and healthcare thanks to the corporate giant.
Tiane Doan na Champassak
Enlarged prints of Polaroid film, representing manufacturing machinery from the early days of the industrial revolution found in a crowded bazaar in Kolkata.
Tim George
Tim George explores the psychological impact of occupational stress - the result of a conflict between the needs of the individual and the demands of the workplace.
Toby Smith
The artist photographs the intense Scottish landscape where renewable energy has been providing power from the glens for over 60 years.
TogsQUAD
Led by Derby Telegraph Picture Editor, a group of photographers submitted to a call for factory related images to make a collective artwork.
Wideyed Collective
An installation inspired by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth’s pioneering studies to improve the work habits of employees in the production line of a plant specialized in paper-based products. Sponsored by SCA tissue mill in Prudhoe.
Wolfgang Müller
Müller captures the scope of China’s domestic migration to industrial centres and the everyday reality it entails. Between 2005 and 2011 he followed some migrants in their private and work lives.
Youth Forum
QUAD and Derby Museum’s Youth Forums have come together to create a photographic exhibition entitled ‘Industria’ (from Derby’s motto ‘Industria, Virtus et Fortitudo’).
Artsmith
Artsmith LIVE is an arts organisation based in Derby, whose aim is to bring artists and the community together, to work with each other , share ideas, offer great exhibition opportunities alongside workshops and residencies.
Bank's Mill
Bank’s Mill is owned and run by the University of Derby and is one of the creative hubs of Derby city.
Déda
Déda is a unique venue located in Derby city centre offering a dance-focussed arts programme of performances, classes and dance development activity.
Museum and Art Gallery
In the heart of the city, Derby’s Museum and Art Gallery is home to a fascinating and diverse range of nationally (and internationally) important collections.
New Art Exchange
New Art Exchange was formed in 2003 as a new organisation to steer and manage the development of Nottingham’s first dedicated cultural facility for Black contemporary arts.
QUAD
QUAD is Derby’s £11 million centre for Art and Film. It houses a Gallery, Cinema, Café Bar and Workshop.
The Chocolate Factory
This former factory turned exhibition space is an exciting new addition to the FORMAT venue line-up and a huge development for the festival.
The Silk Mill
Derby’s stunning Silk Mill building stands on the site of the world’s first factory and is the gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
University of Derby
Markeaton Street is a £21m bespoke arts, design and technology facility. Throughout FORMAT a number of artists will be exhibiting around the building.
Westfield
Westfield Derby is one of the UK's largest purpose built shopping and leisure destinations with over 200 retail outlets and many cafe's and restaurants.
