Belfast Exposed

Exhibitions

3rd Aug - 16th Sep

Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5

In partnership with the British Journal of PhotographyBelfast Exposed is delighted to be hosting the British Journal of P...

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1st Jun - 22nd Jul

Else Time | Ulster University MFA Photography Exhibition 2023

In this unique time that we find ourselves in, the things that once were so certain, are no longer so.Else Time is an 'ot...

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Community

21st May - 22nd May

Showing the faces of dementia with Alzheimer’s NI

Ahead of the Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference 2019 (ASAC19), Belfast Exposed was commissioned by Alzheimer’s NI to w...

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4th May - 20th May

Coronation Generation 2023

Bringing together young people from across communities for Coronation GenerationIn April 2023, Belfast Exposed worked wit...

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Topography of Titanic

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Author

Kai-Olaf Hesse

Publisher

Belfast Exposed Photography and ex pose verlag

Cost

£10.00

ISBN

978-0-9524217-8-8

About The Book

In 2003, Belfast Exposed commissioned Kai-Olaf Hesse to photograph Belfast’s shipyard Harland & Wolff on Queens Island, and various sites related to the building of HMS Titanic. Through the legacy of Titanic, Hesse attempts to create a continuous visual line between the past and the present. He has photographed key historic buildings and sites, many from the same viewpoints from which they were photographed at the turn of the century. Hesse is interested in historical resonances and how they might find a place in the new tourist orientated function of the site. Plans for a ‘Titanic Quarter’ in Belfast are underway, it is proposed that these developments will create a tourism destination of world stature based on the legacy of the Titanic and Belfast’s industrial heritage. Hesse is interested in how the legacy of Titanic and the confidence and optimism that it once represented can be made visible through both the historic topographies and the built environment of the island, and through less tangible emblematic suggestions and anecdotal accounts.

Belfast Exposed is now delighted to have an opportunity to launch a publication of Kai’s work accompanied by historic photographs from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s photographic collection of work by R. J. Welch, W. A. Green and Alexander Hogg documenting the modern shipbuilding project during the city’s industrial height in the early part of the 20th century. The book will also feature essays by David Bate, John Stathatos and Ian Walker and quotes from interviews conducted by Ruth Graham with former shipyard workers and members of the Ulster Titanic Society.

Supported by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.