Small File Photo Festival

Award Ceremony

06:15pm - 08:00pm, Sat 28 Jan 2023

An award ceremony and launch of the Small File Photo Exhibition

A clamp holding box that contains a photograph of landscape. "Small File Photo Festival" surrounded by award laurels

Small File Photo Festival

Award Ceremony

6:15pm, Sat 28 Jan 2023

An award ceremony and launch of the Small File Photo Exhibition

This event is part of our Past Programme

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Award Ceremony

28 January, 18.30–20.00 (doors open at 18.15)

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Following an Open Call for Small File Photo's from over 400 entries, the jury – Antonio Roberts, Roel Roscam Abbing, Clare Strand and Marloes de Valk – shortlisted 38 submissions for an online exhibition.

This evening we host an award ceremony and launch of the Small File Photo Exhibition. Join us for a drink and the announcement of the winning entries, and get your portrait taken on a Game Boy camera by Antonio Roberts. Find out more.

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The Shortlist

Ágota Krnács, Anusha Alamgir, Apostolos Zerdevas, Berta Ibáñez, Christopher Graves, Dina Kelberman, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Devika Pararasasinghe, Dook, Enrico Modena, Eva Roth, Geraint Edwards, Jeanyoon Choi, Jocelyn Allen, John MacLean, Josh Spindler, Jérémie Nuel, Kaye Axon, Lauren Mason, Lian Chan, Maxim Zmeyev, Mateus Domingos, Nasrah Omar, Niamh McBratney, Nika Sandler, Philippa Bloomfield, Polocho, Rachel Hiu Yin, Renaat Nijs, Sabrina Tirvengadum, Sasha Silberman-Hanks, Sergio Ximenez, Sophie Sherwood, Sofia Lee, Steffi Drerup, Tanya Boyarkina, Willa Bury, William J. Brooks.

A pixelated black and white close up photo of a mantis A glitched landscape photograph of a nuclear power plant A pixelated and glitched photograph of a landscape A green toned and pixelated landscape photograph of a river leading to mountains A black and white image of a small unidentified object, held to a bigger white background with a small tab of green tape A glitched black and white landscape video still A plain white image A close up photograph of an orange flower taken on an old digital camera A glitched portrait of a woman holding a headpiece A very colourfully glitched and pixelated photograph of three firefighters in front of a fire A black and white close up photograph of the hands of two people pointing to printed graphs on a table A close up photograph of two fingers holding a jewel A yellow and red toned and finely pixelated close up portrait A photograph of a person laying their head against a glass window covered in condensation A close up photograph of blue tinted aluminium foil shaped to resemble the peak of a mountain A photograph of several screens showing the same person holding a phone in front of their face A heavily pixelated close up photograph of the head of a llama A photograph of several dark haired horses Five black and white pixelated photographs of an alien and a UFO A black and white photograph of a fox in the snow at night A screenshot of an Instagram live featuring the poll function asking "Would you delete an unflattering photograph of yourself?" 73% replied yes and 27% no. Below, two photographs of a person with a mask and sunglasses on. An animated image showing dots of different sizes and colours. A washed out photograph of a wheat field with a very subtle glitch. A black and white pixelated portrait of a man lying down on the bed. A colour photograph of a horse-drawn carriage in movement. A colour photograph of a shiny pink pole on top of a cliff in the night. An abstract blue and green toned image with some subtle texture A photograph of a road with a red bus and some cars, taken from above through glass with condensation A black and white screenshot of a cowboy themed video game showing a person laying on the ground and two people looking at the camera in front of a church A close up pixelated and green toned photograph of an eye, framed in black with "Nintendo" on top and "GAMEBOY" on the bottom. A photograph of a mast over an overcast sky A screenshot of a person on an online video meeting A glitchy TV screen capture with a person raising their hand toward the camera over a black background A glitchy photograph of an urban flowerbed with yellow flowers A colourful and very contrasted portrait of a person lying down on the floor A pixelated colour photograph of a field and the shadow of the head of an animal A photograph of a girl smiling and jumping in front of a blue sky

Small File Photo Festival

Talks & Events An illustration of a clamp, compressing an image in a frame - the logo for the Small File Photo Festival.

Small File Photo Festival

2:00pm, Sat 28 Jan 2023

Talks Programme

Artists, developers and researchers Laura Marks, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou & Giacomo Mercuriali and Øyvind Kolås will give short presentations on their work looking into the environmental impact of networked images.