Photography Day 2022 - Queer edition

Welcome to Photography Day 2022 - Queer edition Saturday August 27 at Preus Museum and Artilleriverkstedet!

Photography Day celebrates Queer Culture Year with exhibitions, lectures, screenings and activities!

A night of party and pleasure - open to all - on Friday 26 August in the Artilleriverkstedet. More here!

Open call - juried exhibition: The list of the exhibitors is official! see it here

This year's festival exhibitor is Paulina Tamara! Read about her, and her brand new project Marie & Bolette + Paulina here

Curious? Get to know more about Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg

Program

When	What	Who	Where
11:30—11:45	Opening of Photography Day	Mayor Are Karlsen, Director Cecilie Øien, The Royal Norwegian Navy Band	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
12:00—12:40	Marie & Bolette + Paulina	Festival exhibitor Paulina Tamara in discussion with curator Hilde Herming	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
12:30—12:40	Short & Sweet: daguerreotype	Museum host Johannes Bærhaugen	Preus museum/The exhibitions
12:45—13:15	Conserving the rainbow	Photo conservator Jens Gold	The Laboratory/The White House
13:00—13:30	Jakten på Bolette	Photo archivist Kristin Aasbø	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
13:20—13:40	Short & Sweet: daguerreotype	Museum host Johannes Bærhaugen	Preus museum/The exhibitions
13:40—14:10	The portfolio prize of the Fotografi Magazine	Editor Pål Otnes presents previous winners: Marte Gundersen and Felix Falck-Næss	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
13:30—14:00	Treasures in the library	Librarian Maja Holst Svendsen	Preus museum/The library
14:00—14:45	Guided tour in Over the Rainbow	Curator Hilde Herming	Preus museum/The exhibitions
14:30—15:00	Conserving the rainbowPhoto conservator	Photo conservator Jens Gold	The Laboratory/The White House
15:00—15:40	Awards Ceremony Juried Exhibition - live streaming	Head of Communications Ingri Østerholt	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
15:30—15:40	Short & Sweet: daguerreotype	Museum host Johannes Bærhaugen	Preus museum/The exhibitions
16:00—16:30	Lusty@Preus	Artist and photographer Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
16:30	Awards Ceremony Photomaraton	Horten photo club	The Barscene Artilleriverkstedet
17:00	Kiss & good night!

Activities

Make photograms in the darkroom with Stig Marlon Weston
Paint the rainbow with light
Make cyanotypes with Marie and Bolette
Second-hand market with Foto.no
Photomaraton and exhibition with Horten fotoklubb

Background

In 2022, it is 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalized in Norway, which is celebrated all over the country through various exhibitions and events connected to the Queer Culture Year. At the Preus Museum, the suffrage activists, and photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944) invite to the exhibition Over the Rainbow, salon programs and other activities, and Photography Day this year is a "queer edition" with this as an underlying theme. The Photography Day 2022 is a "queer edition" with this as an underlying theme.

Photography has a central place in staging, documentation, and experimentation around the concept of identity. With the aid of the photograph, the photographer can take control of his/her own representation. For Marie and Bolette, photography was more than a technique; it was a safe space that created an intimate public. How can we use photography today to explore different forms of identity? Can we still be inspired by Marie and Bolette?

Berg & Høeg, Marie Høeg with moustache, 1895-1903. Preus Museum's collection

(A color filter is applied to the original image, and the background is removed)