BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL
Meditations On Love welcomes you to consider how love is represented, preserved and remembered through an archive of photobooks, novels and nonfiction works curated by the Develop Collective for The Photographers’ Gallery. Designed as a reading room, everyone is invited to explore the multitude of books and reflect on the common thread that runs through stories of resilience, community, friendship, subversion, identity and queerness.
Presenting the many languages of love through a global lens, photobooks from Tami Aftab, Ollie Adegboye, Deana Lawson, Ewen Spencer, and many others explore love’s complex and varying iterations: tender, provocative, queer, defiant and sacrificial.
From Palestine to Switzerland, Argentina to Taiwan, Meditations on Love investigates different facets of love for all who have been both graced by and fallen victim to its numerous manifestations.
Together, this collection of eclectic narratives attempts to articulate love’s capacity to endure amidst adversity, and its revolutionary power to resist.
Meditations On Love is curated by the Develop Collective with The Photographers’ Gallery.
The Develop Collective 2024 are:
Charlie Bird
Kairo Urovi
Kymara Akinpelumi
Madeleine Woodhouse
Taja Lews Boodie
Tolu Elusadé
From 14 June 2024 to 22 September 2024
The Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London W1F7LW
UK
The winners are:
Youqine
Kourtney Roy
Amin Yousefi
Adam Rouhana
Maggie Shannon
Chloé Milos Azzopardi
Laura Pannack
Aaryan Sinha
Arnau Blanch Vilageliu
Juan Brenner
Honourable mention:
Asafe Ghalib
Judges:
Damarice Amao - Curator of photography: Centre Pompidou, Paris, (France)
Mirjam Kooiman - Curator: Foam, Amsterdam, (Netherlands)
Irene Lombardo - Cultural Project Manager : Magnum Photos, Paris, (France)
Meaghan Looram - Director of Photography: The New York Times, New York, (USA)
Jessica Baxter - Assistant Curator : Tate Modern, London, (UK)
Brendan McCleary - Curator: PHOTO 2024 International Photography Festival, Australia
Michael Famighetti - Editor-in-Chief: Aperture Magazine, New York, (U.S.A)
Michael Weir - Director: Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, (UK / IRELAND)
Belfast Photo Festival
10th international edition
06 - 30 June 2024
Botanic Gardens
7:30 am - 8:30 pm: Mon - Sun
www.belfastphotofestival.com/