Re-imag(in)ing WORK explores the changing face of ‘work’ across Europe, Africa, and South America. Themes addressed include productivity, the decline of traditional and manual industries alongside the rise of service industries, the impact of new technologies upon labour, constructed sites of commerce and controlled natural environments, migrant workers and migration, and identity and opportunity in a newly expanded EU.
The Changing Faces Collection comprises works by eighteen photographers created between 2004-2007, commissioned by the International Photography Research Network (IPRN), coordinated by the University of Sunderland.
A selection of these photographers are presented in this exhibition.
Changing Faces was the first international photographic cooperation project supported by the EU Culture 2000 fund. It facilitated intercultural dialogue and exchange, fostering photographic storytelling as a means to visualise socio-economic and cultural shifts as well as the changing face of work in an increasingly globalised marketplace.
Curator: Amanda Ritson
Exhibition support: Alexandra Moschovi
Exhibition installation: Stephen Turner
Installation support: Michael Daglish
IPRN partners:
University of Sunderland, UK; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Paradox and Leiden University, the Netherlands; Dom Fotografie, Slovakia; and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Changing Faces project partners:
Contemporary Art Information Centre, Lithuania; National Museum of Iceland; J. E. Purkyně University of Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic; Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Italy; Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Locus+, UK; National Centre of Photography of the Russia Federation; University of The Witswatersrand, South Africa; Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.
Changing Faces photographers:
Andrej Balco, Vincent Debanne, Luigi Gariglio, Ulrich Gebert, Rob Hornstra, Ralph Kämena, Eija Keskinen, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Renja Leino, Tuomo Manninen, Thomas Neumann, Orri Jónsson, Xavier Ribas, Stepanka Stein and Salim Issa, Arturas Valiauga, Nontsikelelo Veleko, André Vieira, Tomoko Yoneda.
