Event Info
Fri 17 – Sun 19 October 2025
If you need accessible seating, please contact the Box Office on 01970 623232.
Created in 2012 and now in its twelfth year, the biannualEYE International Photography Festivalis the longest-running in photography event in Wales and one of the largest independent photography festivals in the UK, attracting audiences spanning aspiring students to recognised professional photographers from around the globe.
Schedule
Friday
7pm Philip Hatcher Moore
Saturday
10am Denise Maxwell
11.30am Simon Norfolk
1 – 4pm Lunch, workshops, curated visits to National Library
Portfolio sessions, exhibition time
4pm Harry Borden
6.30pm Film Screening: ' Portraits of Paradise'
Sunday
10am Joel Goodman
11.30am Eileen Perrier with Daniel Meadows
1 – 2pm Lunch
2pm Jenny Matthews
3.30pm Panel Session with Guest Speakers
About the Speakers:
Harry Borden
Harry is one of the UK’s finest portrait photographers. His work has appeared in many of the world’s foremost publications, including The New Yorker, Vogue and Time.
Borden was a World Press Photo prize winner in 1997 and 1999, subsequently participating as a jury member for the awards in 2010 and 2011. He had his first solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2005, with the institution currently holding over 100 of his prints in its permanent collection. In 2014, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
In 2017, his book, Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust, was published by Octopus. Described by Martin Parr as “something really to behold…”, and by Alain de Botton as “A masterpiece and deeply moving”, it was also judged one of the 10 best photography books of 2018 by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Borden’s second book, Single Dad, came out in 2021. His third, On Divorce, was released by The School of Life in 2023.
Jenny Matthews
Jenny is a documentary photographer and film maker working on issues of dispossession and human rights with a particular emphasis on the lives of women and girls. She has worked all over the world for NGOs and on editorial assignments, covering momentous historical events including the guerrilla war and Independence of Eritrea, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the genocide in Rwanda.
Her book 'Women and War' chronicling 20 years of women worldwide affected by conflict was published in 2003 and exhibited widely. She is working on a second volume entitled ‘Stories of Love and War’ as well as documenting life in her community in Hackney, East London.
Denise Maxwell
Internationally recognised photographer Denise Maxwell was born and bred in Walsall and has risen to prominence in a number of public and third sector roles.
Denise first started her career in event and portrait photography. Years later her portfolio has expanded to cover many genres including sports (The Diamond League Athletics), fashion (London Fashion Week), weddings, red carpet, portraits, music, food and events. To date, her varied successful career has led Denise to have photographed some of the most well-known people and events in the world including people such as Barack Obama, Usain Bolt, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey. She has covered events such as London Fashion Week, The Brits and the BAFTA's and has a client list that now includes The BBC, Gumtree, Wates Construction and Armani. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The Independent, The Guardian and other leading publications. She has been featured on the BBC twice this year.
Denise balances out her professional life with teaching at Sandwell College and The University of Birmingham
Joel Goodman
Joel Goodman is a freelance photojournalist, working in news, features and documentary, in the UK, directly for clients and news outlets. HIs photos are also represented by the agency London News Pictures. His work has been published in press, magazines and on television around the world. He’s a member of the British Press Photographers’ Association and believes strongly in a free and open press, in which the witness of photography plays a critical role both in current affairs and in documenting our world. As a photographer he is self-taught. In addition he is NCTJ (National Council for the Training of Journalists) trained. The NCTJ was the internationally recognised, reference training for all photojournalists in the UK. Alongside his experience on the road, covering news stories and events in all sorts of environments, he’s worked as a Picture Editor for news agencies and the Manchester Evening News
Phillip Hatcher Moore
Phil Hatcher-Moore is an independent, British photojournalist, currently based in North Wales.
He was named as a PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographer in 2014. His work from eastern D. R. Congo was exhibited at the Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France in 2013, and the same year he was awarded the Special Prize by the 9th Days Japan jury. He was based for five years in Nairobi, Kenya.
Phil has regularly freelanced for Agence France-Presse (AFP), as well contributing to international publications including the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Libération, the Guardian, and Vanity Fair (Italia).
Simon Norfolk
Award winning Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer, who has dedicated himself to document some of the most serious contemporary war zones and refugee crisis, often depicting the aftermath of the conflicts and its results on land and people.
He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. He lives and works in Brighton and has also lived in Kabul. His work is featured regularly in National Geographic, the New York Times Magazing and The Guardian Weekend.
Eileen Perrier
Eileen Perrier is a British portrait photographer, living in London. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and The Photographers Gallery in London and her work is held in the collections of Tate, Light Work and UK Parliament.
Perrier was a senior lecturer in Photography between 2005 - 2022 at University of Westminster and is currently an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London (UAL).
Q&A sessions led by:
Sophie Batterbury
Sophie Batterbury is Picture Editor of The i Paper. She was previously Head of Pictures at The Independent.
Emyr Young
Emyr Young is a professional photographer with a passion for rugby and football. Before turning professional in 2002 he worked as an actor, presenter and voice artist
Film
Portraits of Paradise
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/842784466
The audio-visual story of the existential journey of Tom Weedon, an English photographer, tireless traveller, unique observer and authentic street photographer. From his migration to Australia at age 20 to try his fortune, to his untimely death in Mallorca at age 51, Weedon captured the world he knew with his camera. Places like Egypt, the Middle East, Ceylon and half of Europe were the protagonists of his images and graphic reports of him.
Chance made it so that in 1956 he was recommended to visit Mallorca and a town in particular: Fornalutx. The love for the place was so intense that the Weedon family bought a house in the town where they spent the following summers. Tom's fragile health meant that only three years later he died prematurely, but during this period, between 1956 and 1959, his 16 mm photography and film cameras left us unrepeatable images of an island still intact.
Exhibitions:
TBC
