About The Show

The Photographers' Gallery has launched its new digital programme with Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, an exhibition devoted to this overlooked image format native to the web and the computer screen. The exhibition features over 40 GIF images by practitioners from a range of creative disciplines. For many, this was their first opportunity to experiment with the medium. The resulting GIFs range from the graphic to the photographic, the subtle to the psychedelic, and demonstrate a wide diversity of approaches which respond to the GIF's particular history and aesthetic qualities. The GIFs on this website are also viewable on The Wall, a 2.7 x 3m Sharp Video Wall located on the ground floor of our gallery in Ramillies Street, London. From 17th June, these works will be joined by a rotating selection of submissions from the public. Instructions on how to contribute can be found here. More information and images of The Wall can be found here.

The Gif Makers

This is a low-res version of this work where frames might be missing. Please click on the image to see a high-res version. Nooshin Farhid Nooshin Farhid is a video artist and her work includes digital photography, animation and text work. Her video work employs the use of found and original time based imagery in the form of critically edited fragmented  narratives that explore contemporary political and social themes She was born in Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in London. She has shown widely both nationally and internationally.  Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition ‘Shallow Water, Deep Skin’, at The Agency Gallery, London, 2012 and ‘The Politic of Amnesia’, at the Cafe Gallery, London 2012. Her work ‘Borderline’, 2007 was shown at the Marrakesh Biennale 2012 and during 2011 she has participated in the ‘1st International Video Art Festival’ at Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, ‘Rencontres Internationales’, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, video library, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.  A  solo exhibition of ‘Conic Trilogy’ ( 2010)  was presented at the art and media gallery, Beaconsfield London as well her contributions to ‘Gaming in Waziristan’, at the same venue. Exhibitions also include ‘The Pavement and the Beach’, Paradise Row Gallery, London, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam and Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

This is a low-res version of this work where frames might be missing. Please click on the image to see a high-res version.

Nooshin Farhid

Nooshin Farhid is a video artist and her work includes digital photography, animation and text work. Her video work employs the use of found and original time based imagery in the form of critically edited fragmented  narratives that explore contemporary political and social themes

She was born in Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in London. She has shown widely both nationally and internationally.  Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition ‘Shallow Water, Deep Skin’, at The Agency Gallery, London, 2012 and ‘The Politic of Amnesia’, at the Cafe Gallery, London 2012. Her work ‘Borderline’, 2007 was shown at the Marrakesh Biennale 2012 and during 2011 she has participated in the ‘1st International Video Art Festival’ at Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, ‘Rencontres Internationales’, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, video library, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.  A  solo exhibition of ‘Conic Trilogy’ ( 2010)  was presented at the art and media gallery, Beaconsfield London as well her contributions to ‘Gaming in Waziristan’, at the same venue. Exhibitions also include ‘The Pavement and the Beach’, Paradise Row Gallery, London, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam and Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

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