Members’ Event - Panel Discussion: Film Photography Aesthetics
This online panel discussion led by photographers and urbanists, Qiu Xinrui, David Kendall and Paul Halliday, will focus on the poetics and approaches used by photographers working within contemporary analogue practices. The session will be of particular interest to those making images and project around urban landscape, place and space, portraiture and materialities.
About the panelists
David Kendall is a photographer, educator and researcher originally trained at LCC and Goldsmiths, whose work focuses on architecture and urbanism. His practice explores how spatial design and environmental change encourage interconnection or dissonance inside or outside cities. Kendall's photographs, workshops and collaborative projects have featured in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and symposia at museums and academic institutions, including: Københavns Universitet, Denmark, Centro Cultural Manuel Gómez Morín, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexicó, Tate Britain, London, UK, Southbank Centre, London, UK, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK. To see David’s work, please go to: https://www.david-kendall.co.uk/
Xinrui Qiu is a photographer and visual artist, trained in photography at Goldsmiths, working with analogue photography and moving image. Her practice investigates memory, identity, and urban environments, combining archival work with research on diaspora and displacement. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Los Angeles, and Beijing, and through collaborative projects and research initiatives that explore social and spatial narratives.
Paul Halliday is an artist, interdisciplinary urbanist and educator who originally trained in photojournalism and fine art film at the LCC and CSM, social anthropology at Goldsmiths, art history and archaeology, at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is the former founding convenor of the international MA Photography & Urban Cultures, ran the third year of the BA Photomedia at Croydon Art School, worked as the media advisor for the British Refugee Council, and previously worked for Channel 4 TV as a documentary film director. He has also worked as a consultant in marketing and branding. Paul works on long-term photographic and film projects exploring the nature of contemporary urban spaces. To see his work, please visit his website at: www.paulhalliday.com
This panel discussion is free for UrbanAnalogue members.
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