SOLUM solo photographic retrospective and public talk (in French)

SOLUM The title of Dr. Jim Brogden’s retrospective photographic exhibition, SOLUM, evokes both the meditative solitude of the photographer’s creative research practice and a profound engagement with terrain—its strata, and the often-unseen narrative palimpsests embedded within. It speaks to what lies beneath: the overlooked histories and the fragile weave of personal and collective memory. This curated selection of works, created between 2007 and 2025, traces the evolution of Brogden’s longitudinal iterative practice across a range of resonant landscapes: the eroded coastlines of East Yorkshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk; the literary terrains surrounding Haworth; and the often-neglected urban environments of Lille and Leeds. Together, they reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours. “His curious tenacity in seeing the development of these connected regions provides important insights into how we value and use space that might be seen as an edgeland. It is in these spaces, as with all aspects of life, that creativity, and different ways of being flourish, and need to be recognised as valuable and important to our cultural ecosystem.” Haley Dixon Yorkshire Contemporary 2025

SOLUM : Jim Brogden photographs 2007-2025 » will run from the 24th of February until the 16th of March 2026. Dr Jim Brogden FRSA is Associate Professor in Creative Practice in the School of Media and Communication. For further information contact: j.w.brogden@leeds.ac.uk The Galerie website, www.galerielavieilleposte.org , Instagram @galerie_la_vieille_poste