| | | |  | | | | | | | | PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 | | | | exhibitions | lectures | master-classes | workshops | portfolio review | | | | April 20 — June 3, 2018 | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR, Iraq, Baghdad, 10 April 2003
A boy looks in amazement at a Barbi-doll picture on a wardrobe door looted by his father from the villa of Saddam Hussein's step-brother Watban Al-Hassan. | | | | | | 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: | | | | | | |
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© Niels Ackermann/Lundi 13 | | | | | | Looking for Lenin | | | | 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. | | | | | |  | | | Shabo, Odessa region. 21 November 2015
© Niels Ackermann/Lundi 13 | | | | | | 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. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Ikuru Kuwajima | | | | | | I, OBLOMOV | | | | April 20 – May 13 2018 | | | Moscow international contemporary photography and photobook festival PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 presents an exhibition «I, Oblomov» by a young photographer Ikuru Kuwajima (Japan/Russia).
«One morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokhovaia Street, the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in bed a gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov» 1. With the very first line of the novel a Japanese documentary photographer Ikuru Kuwajima begins his journey in time and space in search of the key to the «mysterious Russian soul» and into the depths of his own night dreams.
The project called «I, Oblomov» both offers a photographic interpretation of Russian classics and attempts to discover a new cultural identity. In other words, Ikuru tells a story of himself and at the same time, all of us. This series of self-portraits, made to Japanese standards so scrupulously and precisely, is important not only because of the geographical spread of the photos (Kazan, Simferopol, Moscow, Kirov, Almaty, Kiev, Bishkek, Samara, Morki village etc.), but also thanks to the various very detailed spaces in which IkuruOblomov finds himself sleeping: spaces for introspection, solitude and thoughts about life and its frailty. | | | | | |  | | | | © Ikuru Kuwajima | | | | | | Self-portraits in modern photography are a remarkable phenomenon well worthy the attention. Take, for instance, YasumasaMorimura who has a created a whole series of self-portraits reinterpreting the mass culture and the world history of art. Liu Bolin, on the other hand, paints himself into various settings, blending with them and thus highlighting the situation and surroundings.
Ikuru Kuwajima combines both the approaches to work with the self-portrait. He comments on the post-soviet “Oblomovshchina” (Oblomovism) putting himself inside it, but he also offers the viewer the possibility to take a fresh look at Goncharov's classical novel so familiar to many of us from school.
The exhibition features about 40 works from the «I, Oblomov» series and also includes Kuwajima's photobook of the same name in six variations of the pillow-like cover. The book was published in 2017 with support from PHOTOBOOKFEST.
The curator of the exhibition is Кaterina Zueva. | | | | | |  | | | | © Ikuru Kuwajima | | | | | | Ikuru Kuwajima studied journalism at the University of Missouri (Columbia, USA), for the last five years he has been actively travelling and working in Romania, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia. His works have been published in such magazines as «National Geographic»,«Wired Magazine Photo Blog», «Newsweek Japan», «Le Monde», «Russkiy Reporter» («The Russian Reporter»), «Marie Claire», «New York Times Lens Blog», «Forbes Magazine», «Guardian» and «Esquire Russia».
Kuwajima's works were shown at the Venice Biennale in the Central Asia pavilion (Italy, 2013), at the festival Noorderlicht «Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age» (Holland, 2011), as part of the projects «The Mari. Research. / The Chuvash. Research» (the Triupmh gallery, Moscow, 2015), «Metageogrpahy» (the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2015), «Every Day of the Winter» (Metenkov House Museum, Yekaterinburg, 2015 and many others.
Ikuru also actively works with the photobook format and his projects have received such international awards as «Kassel Dummy Award», «Self Publish Riga» and «Vienna Photobook Award», while the «I, Oblomov» project won the photobook dummy contest which was part of the PHOTOBOOKFEST 2017 festival.
Read more on photobookfest.com and www.lumiere.ru. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Alexander Bondar, Moscow 2015 | | | Kapsula. Zoopark publishing | | | | | | | April 20 — May 6, 2018 | | | | PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 presents the Kapsula project, an exhibition by young Russian artists Tatyana Palyga and Alexandr Bondar, members of the Zoopark Publishing team aka just Zoopark. The project is about Saint Petersburg, winter, which has finally left us and which we will (not) miss, and also about our hopes for the future. | | | | | |  | | | | Tatyana Palyga, Saint Petersburg 2013 | | | | | | | The exhibition is based on a text from a time capsule hidden in the wall of a Novosibirsk community centre in 1967 and taken out and open in 2017 to mark 100 years since the Russian revolution. The authors manage to bring together various language norms by combining the text of the official message and direct analog photography, playing with and blurring the boundaries of photographic language norms. | | | | | |  | | | | www.zooparkpublishing.com | | | | | | Zoopark has actively worked with amateur photography aesthetics, using mainly a film camera to take shots. Since 2010 the team has realised all its projects (more than 10 already) in the form of small edition publishing actively using all the opportunities this format offers. The exhibition is opening on the 20th of April in the Small Hall of the The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography.
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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Nina Berman / NOOR USA, New Jersey, 4 July 2013
July 4 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. | | | NOOR. Come and see | | | | | | | 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. | | | | | |  | | | Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR, Libya, Ras Lanuf, 11 March 2011
Rebels flee under fire from the Libyan army. | | | | | | 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.
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