⊗⊕ smile please

yesterday we travelled up the M1 motorway

to the Format International Photography 

festival in Derby:

'Right Here, Right Now'

exposures from the public realm

explores street photography:

short walks take you from

space to space

set around Derby's City centre:

lots to see, even on a Sunday:

from here to there by Ljudmilla Socci:

images taken from a train window:

a journey of shifting landscapes:

pyramid by Raoul Gatepin:

flaked suburbia after Wall St financial messes:

modern architecture looms hazily

over victorian semi's:

we were shadows watching shadows:

stereoscopic photographs that track a journey 

from the hoover dam to the 

roof of the world trade centre:

by Robert Covington:

peep through the glasses as the photos

merge and animate:

all is not what it seems:

nature enshrouds the traces of war:

but some things remain beneath:

minescape by Brett van Ortt:

tactile surfaces of bomb shelters:

personalised not disguised:

public domain by Orit Ishay:

best in show for me was 

concrete island by Peter Ainsworth:

marks left by inhabitants on walls

that support a motorway flyover:

painterly, abstract, layered:

there was an eclectic mix of both

photographs, styles and venues:

just like the city

old, sits comfortably, next to new:

our final exhibition of the day

and the biggest interaction:

Al had taken images on his phone during 

our visit:

bluetoothed to pogo:

printed: tagged:

attached:

photographic points around the city:

a visually changing map:

street photography is a vast topic:

there is always the debate

'is it street?'

everything shifts as you move:

different things come into focus at

different points in your life

and you try to articulate that:

Format continues until 3rd April 2011: