Derby has a long history of innovation in industry and, more recently, as a centre for photography. This month sees the Derby Photography Format Festival back in town again, filling exhibition spaces with a huge range of subject matter, photographic styles and methods of presentation. Since the late 1970s Derby has attracted photographers from across the UK and further afield, primarily to the Derby Photography degree course offered by the University – one of the first courses of its kind, and the reason I now live in the City. [Read more…]