Rhubarb-Rhubarb “Photography Is Dead…”

June 10, 2009

PRESS RELEASE
Rhubarb-Rhubarb Announces “Photography Is Dead…”
2009 sees Birmingham-based creative development agency Rhubarb-Rhubarb mark it’s tenth year of hosting the UK’s International Photographic Review.  Now known as Europe’s premiere review for photographers, this year’s event will attract 50 curators, collectors, gallerists, agents and picture editors who will give advice and opportunities for exhibiting, publishing and selling, to over 100 image makers from around the world.

Bookings are open and photographers can book their reviewers online for the Portfolio Event on 31st July, 1st, 2nd August 2009.   It’s already selling out fast so places are limited.

Lorna-Mary Webb, Company Manager, says: “At a time when some say photography is becoming a communication system of pixels and data transfer, we thought this was a timely subject for the beginning of our tenth year of the Review.  There is no denying that in this last decade the photography industry has changed hugely, with some embracing the technological future and others wanting to ignore it.  Just what is the impact of progress on the working practices of existing and emerging photographic artists? What will photography look like in ten years’ time? These are some of the issues we want to explore in 2009.  Our radical title for the International Review  is intended to stimulate and challenge how we see, use, react and interact with images and technologies.”

This year’s reviewers join us from across the globe – Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden and the US among others, as well as the UK.
International reviewers include:
Alasdair Foster – Director of the Australian Centre of Photography
Stephen Mayes – CEO of VII Photo Agency, New York
Natalie Matutschovsky – Photo Editor at the New Yorker magazine
Wendy Watriss – Artistic Director of Fotofest, Houston
Johan Sjostrom, Curator at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
Several London galleries will also be represented including Flowers, Purdy Hicks, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Photographers’ Gallery – the list goes on…
The British Journal of Photography, Rhubarb’s media partner, will also be represented.

2009 Rhubarb-Rhubarb Events
“Photography Is Dead…” Debate, Thursday 30th July 2009, BIAD Birmingham
New for 2009 is the Rhubarb debate, which aims to discuss and deconstruct the provocative premise that “Photography Is Dead…”  Chaired by New York-based critic Stephen Mayes, the panel includes Alison Nordstrom from George Eastman House in New York, MaryAnn Camilleri from the Magenta Foundation in Toronto, photographer Brian Griffin and more…

Portfolio Promenade, Saturday 1st August, Radisson Hotel Birmingham
The private Portfolio Review will be opened up to the public for the Portfolio Promenade, a chance to view and buy images from the international photographers visiting the event.  Rhubarb team members will be on hand to assist nervous or shy buyers and give advice to new or emerging collectors who might want to buy work for individual, public or corporate collections. The event offers a great opportunity for the public or arts-interested companies to meet likeminded others:
An unmissable opportunity to see the finest international contemporary Fine Art photography.

link: www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net

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