Photo Fringe 2024

OPEN ECO 24

Siân Berry is the Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since July 2024, succeeding Caroline Lucas. She was a co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Jonathan Bartley from 2018 to 2021, and was its sole leader from July to October 2021. From 2006 to 2007, she was one of the Green Party's principal speakers.

Laura Summerton is Photography Manager at WaterAid, where she shares stories of people living without access to water and sanitation in new, engaging and, most importantly, ethical ways. Laura is also working with Mimi Mollica support his vision of establishing a photography festival in Palermo Sicily. Previously, she worked for Bridgeman Images as the UK Sales Manager and was a Trustee of Photoworks.

Rebecca Drew is Chair of Photo Fringe.
Rebecca was Deputy Director of Photoworks from 2000 to 2011. In this role, she was instrumental in the conception and delivery of the Brighton Photo Biennial and was a Trustee from 2006 to 2011. Rebecca is currently Head of Finance and Operations at Hastings Contemporary. She has also worked at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft as General Manager and Fabrica as Head of Finance and European Programmes.

Claire Wearn, Director, Photo Fringe.

As a freelance creative producer for the past 15+ years, Claire has worked with a portfolio of artists, commissioning organisations and visual arts festivals. In 2010, Claire started working with some of the world’s best known documentary photographers and has since developed her practice with a focus on photography. From 2017 to 2020 Claire worked as a curator for Photoworks. In 2020 she embarked on her current role with Photo Fringe as Festival Director, having delivered the 2016 festival.

Danny Wilson Memorial Award

Danit Ariel, Curator, Photoworks. Danit Ariel is an artist and writer based in Brighton, UK. Her practice looks into the love, loss and evolution of countercultures, as well as how art can create new ways of ‘meeting’. She is the author of Nayah: Empathy as an Act of Resistance which explores the role of gender in practices of empathy; and All the Tables are Brown, looking more specifically at language as both a bridge and barrier between communities. Most importantly, she takes love very seriously.
@danitariel

Ricardo Reveron Blanco is an author, curator and art writer. He is Curator & Programme Manager at Aspex Portsmouth and the co-founder of UnderExposed, a photography platform and collective dedicated to encouraging artistic collaboration.

Portsmouth

Image: Luke Spencer, Larkfield Way, 2024