Exiit festival brings together photography from Nottingham Trent BA graduates. Work is being displayed at various off-site exhibition spaces and galleries until 13 June, and makes for a good day out around Nottingham. More quirky locations include The Furniture Shop on Canal Street, Victoria Court Interiors, 9 – 11 Glass House Street and The Club Kemet, a partially restored, derelict venue on Station Street.

Some outstanding images include work by Emma Streeter who delivers a series of delicate, painterly landscapes, reminiscent of early daguerreotypes, as well as Michael Meyboom's skilfully manipulated panoramas that capture familiar cityscapes, devoid of any human presence. In his work an unsettling, filmic atmosphere is created that echo’s many recent disaster movies -think 28 days later! Both photographers' works can be seen at The Surface Gallery on Mansfield road. Other gems include work by Luke Sprague at The Kemet Club, whose work is a series of large, abstract prints, created by combining analogue and digital photographic techniques. Stunning photo-documentary work by Emily Serrell and Kirsty Brodest can be seen at The Furniture Shop. Also worth checking out is Kimberly Weinreich at View From the Top Gallery. She has produced a telling and poignant body of work charting the physical and social effects of smoking in young people.

There is some interesting and innovative work to be seen, but the quality overall is varied, with a wide range of subject matter. Some of the exhibitions could have done with a stronger curatorial approach. Rather than friends getting together to exhibit, the work may have benefited from being presented as genre specific shows. Fashion photography presented together, photo documentary, portraiture and so on. The eclectic mix of work in some venues made for slightly disjointed viewing, with different visual styles competing, as well as detracting from one another, in some cases. However, overall a very enjoyable set of viewing, with plenty to see and a real indication of how broad ranging the photography course at Nottingham Trent really is.

Exiit photo festival, showing at various locations in and around Nottingham, 3 – 13 June 2008

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