leeds: talk with rik moran and emma bentley fox, 27th april ’22

This month, we are joined by Rik Moran and Emma Bentley Fox, while they make very different work, both are committed to their story telling. They will be sharing what motivates them and why they tell the stories they do.

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Wednesday 27th April, 2022. Doors at 6pm, kicks off at 7pm

Headrow House (first floor), Leeds

Free Entry

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Rik Moran

Rik Moran is a UK born, New York based, photographer focused on environments and spaces, the memories that inhabit them, and the residual stories and emotions left behind. He’s studied at Central Saint Martins in London, alongside a lengthy career in design and branding.

His work has been featured in The Guardian, Dazed, Creative Review, Port magazine, and Umbrella magazine amongst others, and he has published a series of photobooks under the Flâneurism imprint since 2014.

He has recently completed a long-term project about a Policeman who claimed to be abducted by a UFO.

Contact rik@rikmoranphoto.com

Emma Bentley Fox

Emma Bentley Fox, she/her, is an artist & producer based in Leeds. Interested in image making as community making, she has a deep commitment to creating caring & accessible spaces, informed by her own experiences of exclusion. A Party Mom with, and co-founder of, Party Mom Society, she has been creating and documenting alternative queer party spaces in Leeds since 2018. Her photography is soft, personal and intimate, though not sometimes without edge or silliness. She uses photography as a way to explore gender expression & identity, Disability and her relationship to those around her, using joy, care & radical togetherness as acts of resistance. Shooting on 35mm film, she also has an interest in personal and historic photographic archives, and analogue film techniques. She has recently released a new zine, ‘To _______, Thanks for Everything! Emma’.