The festival takes place across Preston from June to September 2023. Phase One, featuring Scream! and open call-out Hit Singles!, was installed in June.

Phase Two, featuring large-scale installations across parks and city spaces, was installed in July.

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PHOTOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHIES

Martin Parr – Avenham Park

Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. He has exhibited all over the world and published over 100 books of his work and edited another 30.

Parr has been member of the Magnum agency since 1994, and was President from 2013 to 2017. His work has been collected by many of the leading museums, from the Tate, the Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). He established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. martinparr.com

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Jenny Lewis – Miller Park

Jenny Lewis is an award-winning artist working across photography. Her work is rooted in a profound and intimate relationship to her community. In recent years, she has focused on exploring the aspects of women’s lives, which remain unseen or unexplored from birth to menopause.  

One Day Young is a celebration of women as they transition into motherhood. Around 150 women were captured in their own homes within the first twenty-four hours of having a baby. The series has had international success, winning numerous awards and has been exhibited in the UK and internationally. Lewis studied fine art The University of Central Lancashire. jennylewis.net

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Maryam Wahid – former entrance to Tokyo Jo’s nightclub, Church Street

Maryam Wahid work focuses on her identity as a British Pakistani Muslim woman. Through her deeply-rooted family history and the mass integration of South Asian migrants within the UK, her photographs explore womanhood, memory, migration and the notion of home and belonging.

Her photograph ‘Halima Jabeen in her front garden’ won the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain award in 2021. She has received awards from Format Festival, Photoworks and The Magenta Foundation.

Wahid’s work has been commissioned by The Guardian, The Financial Times, Wellcome Collection, The Telegraph and Digital Photographer Magazine. maryamwahid.com

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Ian Beesley – Life – A Retrospective – Winckley Square

Ian Beesley is an acclaimed artist and photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Milan Photo festival, the International Industrial Photography Festival (Shengyang China), The National Media Museum (Bradford), the People’s History Museum (Manchester). In 2022, Beesley exhibited a major retrospective of his work Salts Mill (Saltaire).

His work is held in the collections of the National Media Museum in Bradford, The Royal Photographic Society, The Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC) and the National Museum of Labour (Helsinki), plus many other important National collections.

He has published 25 books. In 2012 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. ianbeesley.com

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Dougie Wallace – BHS hoardings, Fishergate

Dougie Wallace is internationally recognised for his long-term social documentary projects and distinct direct style of expressive street photography. The Scottish photographer has published six critically-acclaimed books and exhibited at the Sony World Photography Awards (London), Format (Derby) and Fotofestiwal (Lodz, Poland) and Hoxton Gallery (London). dougiewallace.com

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Bobby Beasley – Preston Bus Station

Bobby Beasley is a Hull-based photographer who has gained widespread recognition for his creative use of flash in unusual everyday imagery. bobbybeasleys.co.uk

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Serena Dzenis – Bargains Galore, Church Street

Serena Dzenis’ work explores how we interact with the world around us. For 2021+II: Utopia Broadcasting, Australian-born Dzenis photographed industrial structures in the Iceland landscape, capturing them in beautiful pastel-coloured light, questioning science, conservation, environmental issues and the future of humankind through her lens-based art.

All of the award-winning images were take in 2021+II: Utopia Broadcasting in Iceland during the pandemic. serenavsworld.com

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Sarah Maple – Lowthian Street

Sarah Maple is an award winning visual artist known for her bold, brave, mischievous and controversial artworks that challenge notions of identity and religion. Much of Maple’s inspiration originates from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing.

Sarah’s artwork, film and performances have been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Tate Britain, Golden Thread Gallery and Tallinn Art Hall. Her recent commissions include The Baltic, New Art Exchange and Sky Arts. sarahmaple.com

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Andy Ford – Preston is My Paris – Avenham Walk

The Preston is My Paris-inspired images were taken by Andy Ford. Ford is a documentary photographer who has worked in America, Russia, Pakistan and Lithuania. His book More Than 90 Minutes focused on Burnley Football Club. Other projects included Cage Fighters (documenting Mixed Martial Arts fighters), Fetlers and Melters (images exploring the last foundries in Lancashire), Talking Shop (commissioned by Mid Pennine Arts) and Lancashire Agriculture Shows (an ongoing project commissioned by Lancashire Photography Festival). andyford.photoshelter.com

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Garry Cook – Hidden Figures community group – Debenhams windows, Fishergate Shopping Centre, Fishergate

Scream! opposite Preston Bus Station and Past Times building, Fishergate

The Scream! Project images were taken by Garry Cook. Cook is a photographer, writer and producer. Cook, the creator of Lancashire Photography Festival, has a background in journalism and lectures in photojournalism at the University of Salford. gazcook.com

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Hit Singles – Lowthian Street and Sykes Street Car Park

Over 50 single images pasted up across the city after an open call-out, with images shown in various sizes from one metre to four metres in size. Please be aware that due to heavy rainfall the Temple of Photography site is not looking at its best.