About Find Your Eyes

Combining photography, choreography and theatre to make striking and surreal images, Benji Reid is an artist like no other.

For MIF23, Benji drew from the well of his life experiences – exploring vulnerability, tragedy and triumph through the photographers’ lens. Now Find Your Eyes returns to Manchester after a string of international dates.

Find Your Eyes takes you behind-the-scenes, on an emotional rollercoaster where conflict meets beauty and the stage becomes Benji’s studio. Watch as he opens up on some of the most moving episodes of his life, and uses them to inspire his art.

Find Your Eyes draws on Benji’s work both as an award-winning photographer and pioneer of hip hop theatre – bringing dancers and photography into the fold to create images in real time in front of his audience.

Journeying through highs and lows, Find Your Eyes explores how we make sense of the world through our stories and our art.

Producers of extraordinary art from world-renowned figures to Manchester’s rising stars.

Whether you’re into music, dance, performance, theatre, exhibitions or gaming, we’ve got something for you. But don’t expect your run-of-the-mill programme – we pride ourselves on bringing different artists and types of art together. This is Manchester, after all – a city with a history of innovation that’s hard to beat.

With our vision to invent tomorrow together, we’ve always got an eye on the future. We’re all about new ways of creating and collaborating to bring you unforgettable art and experiences. At our new home Aviva Studios, you’ll find a year-round programme that does just that.

Every two years we run Manchester International Festival (MIF) – the festival of brand new artistic work known world-over, that’s animated and captivated our city since 2007. We’re also training the creative workforce of the future through the Factory Academy, supporting artists to realise their potential, and working with local communities to build our programme.

And we don’t stop at Manchester – we take our work to partner venues and festivals all around the world and create extraordinary digital experiences – inviting everyone to play in our virtual world.

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