Ivor Prickett: End of the Caliphate & Seeking Shelter
Saturday 28th September to Sunday 15th December 2019
Syrian refugees in the Middle East and Europe 2012-2016
After five years of war in Syria almost half of the population has now been displaced. Nearly four million people have fled across its borders to the surrounding countries of Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan, while more than six and a half million are internally displaced.
Rena Effendi – Waiting for Winter
Saturday 11th January 2020 until Sunday 5th April 2020
The exhibition brings together works from three award-winning photographic series: Built on Grass (2014), Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone (2010) and Khainaliq Village (2006).
The images document the back-breaking chores of farmers working the land in a traditional, almost mediaeval, fashion, in meadows and hills in Romania, Azerbaijan and Chernobyl.
Tessa Bunney – Otherwise Unseen
Saturday 11th January 2020 until Sunday 5th April 2020
For over 25 years Tessa has photographed rural life, working closely with individuals and communities to investigate how the landscape is shaped by humans. From hill farmers near her home in North Yorkshire to Icelandic puffin hunters, from Finnish ice swimmers to Romanian nomadic shepherds her projects reveal the fascinating intricacies of the dependencies between people, work and the land.
