Photo Fringe 2024

As someone who trained and taught fine art printmaking, I see my practice firmly based in Fine art, using lens based media to create images that look like silkscreens. I also work with projections onto swimming pools and underneath glass tables.

Can art save the world? I am not sure, however I believe it has the power to change the world.

My own view’s and then behaviour towards today’s climate situation was greatly altered after two recent photographic trips. I went to the Kingdom of Bhutan in May 2023 and then to Antarctica in March 2024. On my return I realised that less than 1% of the worlds population get to travel to these amazing locations. I was commissioned as an sports photographer to capture a group of international runners that ran a marathon in each of these locations. The clients were paying up to $25000 for the privilege with Albatros Expeditions to Antarctica on the boat trip alone!. I was pleased to see that the company that hired me and the ships expedition crew were so knowledgeable about the location and the effects of climate change and took great steps to limit our impact on these locations.

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Photo Fringe invited artists to propose a single image to engage audiences and help us imagine a greener, fairer world. Artists were asked to respond to the question “How can photography make a difference to the climate crisis?"

The resulting outdoor exhibition of selected images by nineteen artists can be found on Brighton seafront next to the Upside Down House until 17 November 2024.

See all of the images together here

Created with funding from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Fund and the UK government and Brighton & Hove City Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. With print sponsorship from SAS Graphics.

Thanks to our judges Siân Berry, MP and Laura Summerton, Photography Manager, WaterAid.