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Part of Swiss photobook today: from Amazon to the Vienna ball | | | PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 | | | | exhibitions | lectures | master-classes | workshops | portfolio review | | | | | | | | | | May 17 — September 2, 2018 | | | | | | | until June 24, 2018 | | | | | | | 23 – 27 May 2018 | | | | | | | | | | until 20 May 2018 | | | | | | | May 22 – June 24 | | | | | | | 23 May – 3 June 2018 | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |
| | | | | It is the second time the international festival of emerging photography PHOTOBOOKFEST takes places in Moscow gathering experts in photography and book design from all over the world. The exhibitions open on April, 20 and will run through June, 3. The exhibitions will also be followed by lectures, master-classes, workshops for photographers and a portfolio review session by experts and the results of the Photobook Dummy contest will be revealed. The main venue for the event remains the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography.
The mission of PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 is to look at photography in the context of modern media, to decide what it is capable of and how it can reach the audience, including the potential of the modern photobook to exist as an independent art form.
Apart from photographic exhibitions, there will also be books on display. In the Small Hall of the Center the visitors will be able to see shortlisted photobooks of the Unseen Dummy Award organized by the biggest festival pf photography in Europe, Unseen.
During the festival, an expert jury will decide on the results of the Photobook Dummy contest which took place from February till April. Photographers from all over Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and CIS countries participated in it hoping to win the main prize – getting their photobooks published.
Information about the educational programme and portfolio review will be available on the official web site photobookfest.com
The exhibition programme will feature following projects: | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR, Libya, Ras Lanuf, 11 March 2011
Rebels flee under fire from the Libyan army. | | | | | | | | | | May 17 — September 2, 2018 | | | Moscow international contemporary photography and photobook festival PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 presents a new project «NOOR. Come and see», the first exhibition in Russia by NOOR photo agency, which has been sending the shockwaves across the photo journalism community for the last 10 years. The unique cooperative NOOR provides honest and unbiased comments on the modern world, shows the hottest problems of the last decade in photography, multimedia projects and journalist materials.
When, in 2007, at the international festival «Visa pour L’Image» in Perpignan the photo community first raised the problem of the crisis in journalism, a conceptually new agency NOOR based in Amsterdam was announced to have been set up. 9 renowned photographs including Pep Bonet, Stanley Greene, Francesco Zizola, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen and the first managing director Claudia Hinterseer joined forces to and pulled all the strings to throw the light on facts which the world just «had to see». And so, from the moment it started, NOOR, which incidentally means «light» in Arabic, has always strived to tell the world unbiasedly and comprehensively about what is happening, and thus contribute to change in the society and people’s minds. Being fully aware of the fundamental force of photographic image as an evidence of goings on in the world, Eugene Smith said: “Photography could be that little light that could modestly help us change things”. | | | | | |  | | | Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR, Nigeria, Lagos, 27 January 2017
A man carries a huge back of pet bottles collected for recycling at the Olusosun landfill. The Olusosun landfill in Lagos receives between 3-5000 tons per day and is about 45 ha in size. About 5000 scavengers work here and often also live. They collect anything that is recyable like plastics, textiles, electronics, paper etc. The problem is that the landfill is full and the city wants to close it down. The question is where it will go, there are no incinerators and the infrastructure to formally recycle is lacking. There is one other landfill, but it needs to close as well. Remarkable is that the landfills in Lagos smell less compared to other landfills in the world: Nigerians throw away less food, because they either finish their plate or feed it to the animals. | | | | | | | NOOR focuses on profound photographic research and long-term documentary projects on civil and political uprisings, social upheavals, wars, natural disasters and private stories of people which present an example of social injustice and human rights violations. «Our images have been our form of resistance. We create them with a shared respect for the courage and humanity of those fighting to live free and fair lives everywhere” (Clément Saccomani, managing director NOOR). Alongside with award-winning particular projects (awards such as World Press Photo, Visa d’or Awards, W. Eugene Smith Awards, Bayeux-Calvados Awards, POYi Awads, Prix Pictet) the exhibition will display large-scale group projects by NOOR photographers. | | | NOOR lets its journalists remain independent and choose topics they want to speak about, work on long-term projects, which many printed press do not dare embark upon, they also tell stories underreported by other photographers. “I am interested only in those, who the purpose of life lies in photography. And such are the people I am currently working with for the agency” (Yuri Kozyrev) For now, the agency's staff comprise 16 photographers from 13 countries in the world: Nina Berman, Andrea Bruce, Stanley Greene and Jon Lowenstein (USA), Pep Bonet and Sebastián Liste (Spain), Benedicte Kurzen (France), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Francesco Zizola (italy), Alixandra Fazzina (UK), Kadir van Lohuizen (Holland), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Robin Hammond (New Zealand, Arko Datto (India), Sanne De Wilde and Leonard Pongo (Belgium). The exhibition will also include an educational programme featuring NOOR’s members and photography experts from the Netherlands.
Read more information on the web-site photobookfest.com | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Małgorzata Stankiewicz | | | | | | | | | | 23 – 27 May 2018 | | | The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography and PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 present an exhibition of Małgorzata Stankiewicz "Cry of an Echo".
Małgorzata Stankiewicz is a Polish-Swiss photographer. She mainly works with black-and-white hand-printed and experimental photography. In 2017, Stankiewicz became the winner of Unseen Dummy Award, an international contest of book dummies for young photographers and designers, where the winner gets a unique opportunity to publish and present his photo- book before the public. As part of "Weekend with UNSEEN", is being held an exhibition and the presentation of Małgorzata's photo-book "Cry of an Echo".
"Cry of an Echo" is the project dedicated to Białowieža Forest, Europe's last primeval forest. Two years ago, a threat loomed over the National Park: the government approved a large-scale logging project on its territory, and now the area of Białowieža Forest is rapidly declining with every passing day. Despite the fact that today it is talked so much about the need to save and protect such monuments of nature all over the world, the environmental community is in no hurry to intervene in this situation, watching as the unique nature reserve is irretrievably disappearing from the map of Europe. In that way, "Cry of an Echo" becomes a personal protest of the artist, her silent voice of opposition.
The project is being presented by large-format author's prints in mixed technique specially created for the exhibition in Moscow.
As part of artist-talk on May 27 at 18:00, Małgorzata Stankiewicz is going to tell more about the project that she touches on in the series "Cry of an Echo", and introduce to the audience all the stages of work on the project - from documentary shooting to experiments with development, masking, printing on rare Japanese paper (sumi-e paper) and other techniques that the photographer uses in her exhibition. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Shabo, Odessa region. 21 November 2015
© Niels Ackermann/Lundi 13 | | | | | | | | | | April 20 — June 24, 2018 | | | Moscow international contemporary photography and photobook festival PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 presents «Looking for Lenin» – a project by a Swiss photographer Niels Ackermann and a French journalist Sebastien Gobert. The exhibition will be open from April, 20 till June, 24 in The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography.
In December 2013 Niels Ackermann witnessed the Lenin monument being demolished on the Bessarabia square in Kiev. What was it: a public execution or maybe legalized vandalism? Or was it a natural process of people parting with the past, of reinventing and amending cultural and political patterns? After the Euromaidan Ukraine the government launched an official, reinforced by presidential decrees decommunisation process. By 2015 there were five times less Ilyiches in the country, and today there is not a single one left.
Niels Ackermann’s and Sebastien Gobert’s project features photos of toppled down statues of the leader. The authors of the project tracked them down in the backyards of museums, at auctions or in private collections. Of some statues there were only fragments left, some have been repainted, beheaded, demolished or abandoned in industrial areas, forests or dumps. Some statues have been transformed to resemble Taras Bulba or even Darth Vader. | | | | | |  | | | Odessa. 21 November 2015
© Niels Ackermann/Lundi 13 | | | | | | Having finished «looking for Lenin» the journalists published a photobook which also included interviews with local people. Thus, Ackermann and Gobert have created a portrait of present-day Ukrain and reflected upon how contradictory the «Leninopad» (“Leninfall”) was. The search for Lenin turned out to be a thorough research of a “complex situation of the country dealing with its past”, hence, its present and future. What is the right way for post-Soviet countries to treat the USSR’s legacy? Follow Ukraine’s lead and wipe out all that reminds of Lenin or choose the Russian way where the past is inseparable from the present?
Sebastien Gobert on upcoming exhibition in Moscow: «Through the diversity of the situation that it shows, the project takes a neutral stance: it aims at fostering understanding and framing the public debate. We believe it may build new bridges - at least new channels of communication - between countries and peoples».
The project was first presented to the public in the summer of 2017 at the main photo festival in Europe «Les Rencontres d’Arles» in Arles (France). The exhibition was a great success and was visited, among others, by the French president Emmanuel Macron. Later the project was shown in Switzerland, the UK, Lebanon and in April 2018 the exhibition will open in Moscow as part of the PHOTOBOOKFEST festival.
During the exhibition there will also be a guided tour with the authors, a panel discussion and a three-day photography master class by Niels Ackermann.
The exhibition and educational programme are supported by the Swiss Council for Culture Pro Helvetia.
Read more on photobookfest.com and www.lumiere.ru. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | 23 May – 3 June 2018 | | | PHOTOBOOKFEST presents an exhibition of finalists of Unseen Dummy Award 2017, which is held in the White hall of the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography from May 23 until June 3, 2018.
Unseen Dummy Award is a Dutch book dummies contest, giving young photographers and designers from all around the world a unique opportunity to express themselves in the international photography industry. The winner gets an opportunity to publish a photo- book in collaboration with Lecturis. The award is coordinated by Daria Tuminas (Russia/Netherlands).
During the six years of its existence, the Award has gathered a jury of important personalities from the world of contemporary photography, including curator of C/O Berlin Ann-Christin Bertrand, editor-in-chief at The Eyes Magazine Rémi Coignet, chief curator of photography department at the London Gallery Tate Modern Simon Baker. The contest has also become a starting point for many young artists who chose a photo-book as their way to express creative ideas.
As part of the festival PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018, 33 books from the short-list of Unseen Dummy Award 2017 are being presented, and among them, the photo-book of the 2017 winner Małgorzata Stankiewicz "Cry of an Echo" dedicated to Białowieža Forest, the last primeval forest in Europe, which can disappear from the face ofEarth by human's fault. The exhibition also includes the project of Japanese artist Miki Hasegawa ""Internal Notebook" ", revealing the subject of domestic abuse. This book was awarded a Special Mention (Separate Mention).
The short-list of Unseen Dummy Award 2017 is presented by the coordinator of the contest Daria Tuminas on May 25 as part of an educational program of the "Weekend with Unseen". And during an artist talk on May 27, the last season winner Małgorzata Stankiewicz is going to share her personal experience, talk about working on the project starting with the development of an idea to its implementation in the book format.
The exhibition has been prepared by PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 along with Unseen Amsterdam with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. |
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