Hereford Photography Festival presents 'Photo ID: Photographers and Scientists Explore Indentity' (From Hereford Times)

Hereford Photography Festival presents 'Photo ID: Photographers and Scientists Explore Indentity'

12:24pm Thursday 22nd July 2010 in

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AS part of the lead-up to the main event in the autumn, Hereford Photography Festival is delighted to present Photo-ID, a free exhibition, which runs from Saturday until Saturday, August 14 at Hereford Town Hall.

Some of the complex issues of personal and social identity - how people describe themselves and how they feel about being ‘them’ -are explored in Photo-ID. The exhibition presents work by ten photographers alongside recent information about how our human genome affects how we, and others, will think about and use identity in the future.

Photo ID was developed with support from a Society Award from the Wellcome Trust and comes to the Hereford Photography Festival as part of the Identity Project, a nationwide season of activity from the Wellcome Trust exploring what makes us who we are. The exhibition will be accompanied by a book and a programme of free workshops and artist talks, with exhibition curator Professor Keith Roberts presenting a free talk at midday on Saturday about how the selected the photographers and the history of genetics.

Every Monday at 6pm throughout the exhibition, photographers from the exhibition will talk about their work, and every Tuesday from 1pm to 1.30pm Hereford Photography Festival will host free guided tours of the exhibition and free drop-in family workshops from 2pm to 4pm. The Courtyard will be hosting an exhibition of Carl Jaycock’s photography work to run alongside the main exhibition at the Town Hall.

COMPETITION For the first time this year, Hereford Photography Festival will be running the annual Young Photographer of the Year, run since 2000 by Hereford College of Arts. This year, the competition invites young people to submit work through their schools on the theme of Network, and now, in tandem with the Young Photographer of the Year, an invitation is being extended to Hereford Times readers to submit their own photographs on the theme of Network. Winning images will be shown during the festival and prizes will be awarded to the winners. For further details and a full brief, please contact Jaime Jackson at HPF by emailing jaime@photofest.org.