About FORMAT International Photography Festival

© Joel Meyerowitz, FORMAT11 Patron

FORMAT is one of the UK’s leading non-profit international contemporary festivals of photography and related media, based in Derby, UK.

Established in 2004 by Louise Clements and Mike Brown, the biennale festival celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is focused on developing opportunities to platform the work of international photographers and to provide links for local/national practitioners to show work, exchange opportunities, skills and knowledge and for audiences to see, debate, develop and engage in the best of what photography is and can be.

FORMAT is curated by Louise Clements, QUAD & FORMAT Artistic Director, and organised by QUAD in partnership with: Derby City Council, University of Derby & Derby Museums.

FORMAT11 welcomed Joel Meyerowtiz as it’s theme Patron, alongside long-standing FORMAT supporter and Patron, Brian Griffin.

To find out more about individual events, past and present, see our archive.

Visit our website for more information about FORMAT and how to get involved in our 6th edition of the festival, which will take place from 8th March - 7th April, 2013.