There is a lot of news this month. I was very excited to visit Madrid for the first time in March, to take part in the FICIMAD film festival. My short film, Vanishing, which won the Best Documentary Director Short Movies award last year, was screened at the Ateneo, which is an emblematic and historic place where many Spanish and international Nobel Prize winners such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein have given talks and conferences. All of the films on the programme were preceded by short interviews on stage by their Directors and crew, so I was able to discuss the film before it was screened. A very memorable evening for everyone who took part. Although I was only in Madrid for a couple of days I was able to visit the Prado, and enjoy walking around the city.
Three photographs from Disrupted Landscapes on show at Proud Galleries, London, with two photographs by Chloe Rosser
The exhibition, Collective Visions, at Proud Galleries, London, opened on 6 March, and has now been extended to 12 April, with a talk scheduled for the last Saturday. It was an enjoyable opening, with many of the Photo Book Club Collective exhibitors at the gallery. My photographs were printed as Giclees and two had not been printed previously. All the work was curated and framed by the gallery.
Disrupted Landscapes selected for Photo Frome Festival Open Call exhibition
In early March Photo Frome Festival announced the finalists for its first Open Call exhibition. I am very happy to be included in this show, which will be on display at the Station Gallery, Frome, from 5 April - 27 April. I can’t wait to see all the shows that have been programmed around the theme of inequality, which includes work by Nick Hedges, Susan Meiselas and Paul Seawright.
Finally, Vanishing was screened in Folkestone on 24 March as part of the Folkestone Film Festival. I was unable to visit unfortunately. Vanishing was also made an Official Selection of the Cinematic European Film Festival (a quarterly festival in Romania) and that screening took place at the end of February.