REMEDY is the UK’s only photography festival dedicated to health, wellbeing and identity, launching across Lincolnshire this June. Supported by Arts Council England REMEDY creates a new national platform for socially engaged photographic practice.
The festival brings together photographers from across the UK whose work engages directly with some of the most urgent social and cultural questions of our time.
The Barbican Creative Hub will be hosting the Festival Weekend, 19th-21st June. The Friday will be given over to a day of talks by photographers and commissioners, plus a symposium to explore the ethics of photography and health. On the Saturday and Sunday, REMEDY will be showing a special projected digital version of all the exhibitions in the Cube. Tickets are free and available from www.remedyphoto.com
The festival also features work by Lincolnshire-based photographers including Tom Martin, Poppy Bellamy and Tobias Beach Wyld. A further group exhibition will be presented at Not Quite North photography shop, featuring six emerging and established photographers working across documentary and socially engaged practice.
Lincoln Arts Centre will be showing photographer Emil Peltola, whose work documents his experience of living bedbound with ME/CFS.
Other exhibiting artists include Rosie Barnes, Anthony Luvera, Cheryl Newman and JA Mortram (Small Town Inertia).
Across the programme, projects explore subjects ranging from underdiagnosed autism in women and girls to chronic illness, gender transition and historical representations of sickness.
REMEDY runs from 1–30 June across Lincolnshire, with exhibitions and events taking place in Lincoln, Skegness and Sutton-on-Sea.
Festival Weekend: Friday 19 – Sunday 21 June
Free tickets and information: www.remedyphoto.com