VENUE: CENTRE FOR BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY, 49 JERMYN STREET, LONDON, SW1Y 6LX
The discussion will range over Melanie’s photographs, past & present, where documentary overlaps with landscape, looking at borders and territory in Border Country, and the historical echoes within the landscape in The Home Front and her recent work The Plain. Images from Border Country and The Plain are currently on show in Landscape Trauma at the Centre for British Photography.
During the 1980s and early 1990s Melanie Friend worked extensively as a photojournalist, in the UK and overseas; in 1986 she joined Format Photographers Agency. From the mid 1990s Melanie began to focus on long-term projects looking at the wider aspects of war. Melanie was Reader in Photography at the University of Sussex 2003 to 2019. For details of her exhibitions and books see www.melaniefriend.com
Dr Pippa Oldfield is a photography curator and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery. Pippa is the author of Photography and War (Reaktion Books, 2019) and is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teeside University.