Brighton Photo Biennial, 'New Documents' combined with Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2010 two hot contemporary photo shows on at mo

The dates for these two events are in the sidebar under 2010/2011 events. Martin Parr curates New Documents, Brighton Photo Biennial, one of the UK's main international photography biennials, this year proud to announce that it's the first 'frame-free' festival in which audiences move from gallery space to space across Brighton on foot with photographs 'pinned' to the walls. The Taylor Wessing Prize is announced Nov. 9th then the exhibition shown from Nov. 11th covering 60 works plus the winner and four shortlisters to be viewed at the National Portrait Gallery. My personal taste focuses on shortlisters, Jeffrey Stockbridge for, ' Tic Tac and Tootsie (twin sisters Carroll and Shelley McKean)', an eerie, surreal capture. Together with David Chancellor's depiction of his daughter on their hunting trip, 'Huntress with Buck', it's extroadinarily powerful and majestic with aspects of Van Dyck and the portraiture of regal pasts yet luminous with youth.