Mark Neville. Fancy pictures Automatic translate

July 21 - Thursday - 19:30

Mark Neville is a British artist who works at the intersection of art and documentary practices. His works, created using various optical media, are distributed in a variety of forms: in the form of still and moving images, slide shows, films and gift books.

His photographic projects are created in small communities, in close collaboration with people and aimed at practical results. The heroes of his projects themselves often become their main audience. The Port Glasgow Book Project (2004) was a book based on socially documented images of a working city, which the guys from the local football team delivered to each of the eight thousand houses, and which could not be obtained in any other way. Another project called “Actions Instead of Words” (Deeds Not Words, 2011), which draws attention to the problem of toxic waste recycling, was also done in the form of a book, which was sent free of charge to all 433 departments of the British Environmental Protection Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency throughout to the world.

In 2011, Mark Neville spent three months in Guilmand, Afghanistan. Films and photographs accumulating this experience of the war were presented in the summer of 2014 at a large-scale solo exhibition at The Imperial War Museum in London, and became part of the still-successful book project The Battle Against Stigma, which aims to combat stigmatization of mental health problems of veterans. During 2015, Neville himself helped distribute 1,500 free copies to prison libraries, surveillance services, homeless shelters, mental health services, and charities.

At a lecture at the Center for Photography named after Lumiere Brothers Marc Neville will talk about his early works, showing films and photographs that rarely come into the view of a wide audience. Central to the presentation will be the theme of ethics and photography. Neville problematizes the gap between the representation of the conflict in the media and the reality of hostilities, talks about the censorship that his work has faced since he returned from Afghanistan and the various techniques and strategies that he uses in his projects. In addition, Mark Neville will talk about his new project, which he is working on in Eastern Europe.