Besides Press Launch and Exhibition at Besides Press launch and exhibition
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A event on Friday 1st October. The event starts at 19:00.


Besides Press Launch Exhibition

FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER - EXHIBITION OPENING 7PM (NO TICKET REQUIRED), BOOK AND PRINT SALE.

SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER - OPEN FROM 10-5, TALKS FROM 12.30PM (TICKETS FREE BUT MANDATORY).

Featuring work by:
Chris Hoare
Michael Alberry
Billy Barraclough & Lue Mac

Besides Press is a new non-profit publishing company that celebrates a particular approach to photography: projects that are created with an impulsive curiosity, without deliberation, and often without an audience in mind. This includes spontaneous side projects, playful collaborations, and offbeat experiments.

This event serves as the launch of Besides press and our first three books. Come down and join us for an exhibition and book / print sale at Liberty House, Bristol, on 1st October, from 7pm till late.

Discussions, poetry readings, and talks will then take place on 2nd October from 12.30pm. The talks will be a ticketed but FREE event, more information coming soon. The exhibition will be open from 10 - 5 on 2nd October, except for the duration of the talks.

During our 2 day launch event, we will have limited-time offers of books, poster prints, merch, and more. The exhibition is free to enter and all are welcome.

Besides Press is generously supported by Vino Sangre Screen Printing.

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Chris Hoare is a Bristol-based photographer whose work explores areas of society that he feels are overlooked.
www.chrishoare.org

Michael Alberry is a photographer based in Bristol. His work traverses themes of ritual, spirituality, catharsis, and crowd psychology in contemporary society.
www.michaelalberry.com

Billy Barraclough is a photographic artist based in London. His work to date explores ideas around identity, emotion and personal history.
www.billybarraclough.com

Lue Mac is a poet and teacher from rural Dorset. They write about the landscape and its denizens: human, animal, vegetable and so on.

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This is the first of 3 launch events, taking place in: Bristol (Liberty House), London (Photobook Cafe) and Norwich (Fairhurst Gallery). Stay tuned for more information.

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Our presale is now live - visit www.besidespress.com
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