Brighton Photo Fringe 2024
'Root down' is a group exhibition by photographers Frankie Adams, Thaïs Verhasselt, and Victor Anton, part of the Photo Fringe festival 2024 at LANO Yoga in Southsea. This show explores grounding through photography, delving into identity, connection and growth.
Victor Anton, a Spanish photographer and yoga student, uses root vegetables as metaphors for his journey of establishing new roots in the UK, reflecting personal growth and the search for grounding.
German-born Franki Adams captures the fluidity of time and memory with abstract photography. Influenced by Italo Calvino, Craigie Horsefield and Uta Barth, her blurred water scenes and ‘skinscapes’ from wild swimming symbolise reflecting the essence of time and the search for balance.
Thaïs Verhasselt combines archival images of her mother with self-portraits mimicking yoga postures. Her work uses the metaphor of the 'motherland' to explore time, place, and identity.
What was the theme?
'We select a theme for each festival we produce and exhibitors who choose to do so are free to respond to the theme however they wish. Finding common ground is a starting point for positive change.
Like photography, common ground can bridge divides, challenge stereotypes and create space for collaboration and connection. We want this year's festival to disrupt traditional hierarchies and encourage a mutually beneficial exchange of perspectives, skills and ideas.
Our theme was inspired by acts of reciprocity between generations of women farming together in Haringey, photographed by Arpita Shah for our recent We Feed The UK co-commission with The Gaia Foundation, on show at ONCA 25 September to 6 October 2024.'
Exhibition
Photographs by Paul Bevan & Thaïs Verhasselt