The Photobook Club at the RPS: Kirsty Mackay
Event info
The Photobook Club and the RPS present a monthly series of talks from photographers and artists. Curated by Tom Broadbent the series features members of The Photobook Club during the course of 2022. Books, zines and postcards from 26 Photobook Club members are available from the RPS at each event and during normal opening hours. Each speaker will be signing books after their presentation.
This event is live and online (a Zoom link will be provided on the morning of the event)
Kirsty Mackay will be discussing the book-making process of The Fish That Never Swam and My Favourite Colour is Yellow.
Kirsty is a photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport.
Her latest book The Fish That Never Swam, considers class and discrimination against working-class people. Combining first-person narratives with photographs, it takes Glasgow as a case study, looking at the root causes of the city’s poor health outcomes and lower life expectancy.
Examining the relationship between the environment, government policy, historical trauma, and public health. It shifts the emphasis from individual life style choices to the effects that political policies have on our bodies. In 2021 it was published as a book.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the Facing Britain group show, an observation of British Documentary Photography since the 60’s alongside works by Martin Parr, Anna Fox & David Hurn, Museum Goch, Germany.
https://twitter.com/KirstyGMackay
https://www.instagram.com/kirstygmackay/
Event Organiser
- Name
- Michael Pritchard
- michael@rps.org
- Tel
- 0117 316 4474
Location
- Venue Information
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All areas are fully accessible with a lift, ramps and restrooms on each floor. If you have any specific requirements, please contact us on RPSHouse@rps.org so we can assist you during your visit.
There is public parking in Paintworks. We also have reserved parking spaces we can make available for those with accessibility requirements. Please contact us in advance if you would like to reserve a space. From ground level there are lifts to reach RPS House on the raised ground floor.
- Cancellation policy
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This is a live event. The RPS will do its best to ensure that it keeps to the published timings and runs as planned. In the unlikely event that the event has to be cancelled all registrants will be advised by email at the earliest opportunity and a full refund made. No responsibility will be accepted for any consequential losses.
- Address
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RPS House
337-340 Paintworks
Arnos Vale
Bristol
BS4 3AR
- Website
- RPS website