Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins

Bianca Borrisova is originally Russian-Bulgarian and has been based in London for the last year and a half. She studies Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, UAL and hopes to build a career within the arts and curation.

"In this tour, I will be focusing on the importance of privacy in the photography work at Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins. Particularly, I wish to focus on how the value as well as distribution of photography has changed since photography has become digital and explore whether most of these works could be created, were they done in a digital world. I will be doing the tour around the gallery and focusing on a number of artists, but will be strongly focusing on the works of Boris Mikhailov, Jim Goldberg and Larry Clark."

Bianca Borrisova

Ellen O’Donoghue Oddy is a London-based writer and creative. After graduating from University College London with a degree in Modern Literature, she has gone on to run live spoken-word events, promote a national film tour and festival, and co-ordinate partnerships with contemporary influencers within London’s nightlife and creative scene.

Another Kind of Nightlife Tour will move through three rooms to explore how nightlife is presented through the photographs, and discuss how nightclubs form a space for alternative communities to exist and interrupt mainstream dialogue. Focussing on Daido Moriyama, Phillipe Chancel and Teresa Margolles, the tour will underpin the different communities represented across the exhibition and consider the power of nightlife as a cornerstone for identity construction in an otherwise disenfranchised space.

Phoebe Nightingale is an illustrator and writer interested in making work about liminal spaces. She is a firm believer that everyone can - and should - draw.    

Explore the exhibition with drawing tools and paper. Prompts will be given that focus on key concepts in the exhibition such as 'isolation', 'community', 'intimacy', 'belonging', and 'empowerment' then pin your drawings in a mini gallery, and discuss their your findings with each other.
 

Pietro Bardini is a multimedia artist and composer who works with audio-visual installations. Pietro is a graduate in Music Composition from the University of Hertfordshire and in Electronic Music and Multimedia Arts from the University of Pécs. He has also been involved in music production for films, TV commercials and animations. 

Four sound portraits will explore the hidden relationships between four photographers and four composers. By joining the dots between the lives of these artists, you'll have a chance to experience the exhibition with an added layer of ethnomusicology. The tour will focus on four photographers who portrayed individuals in their social context rather than covering whole communities.