Format 21

Following the successful 3D virtual presentation of FORMAT21 International Photography Festival, selected exhibitions will be shown across Derby in the city’s cultural institutions and retail spaces. If you are in or visiting Derby come and enjoy the face to face experience of seeing some amazing photography.

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The Derby Museum and Art Gallery will host the instagram based project #massisolationFORMAT, inspired by the 1937 Mass Observation project and providing a global visualization of Covid19.

This international response of over 50,000 images from 90 countries has created an immensely important archive of images of life under lockdown; chronicling our common and shared experiences, capturing the tragedy of illness and death, documenting the heroic struggle of working on the frontline and offering the opportunity for creative and surreal expressions of the pandemic across the world.

FORMAT is the UK’s leading international contemporary festival of photography and related media. It organises a year-round programme of international commissions, open calls, residencies, conferences and collaborations in the UK and Internationally and welcomes over 200,000 visitors from all over the world to its biennale.