Photo Festivals
New York Photo Festival
•The New York Photo Festival was founded in 2008 by Daniel Power (Director and Producer 2008 and 2009, Producer 2010) and Frank Evers; Sam Barzilay, Exhibitions Coordinator in 2008, was Director and Producer of the 2011 edition.
•Designed to be an American counterpart and thematic successor to the prestigious European photo festivals Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoEspana, and Visa pour l’Image, the New York Photo Festival creates an international atmosphere of inspiring visual installations, professional and aficionado fellowship and camaraderie, and news-worthy staged presentations, awards ceremonies, and live events over the course of four-and-a-half days during the busiest photography month in New York City.
Format International Photography Festival
• Established in 2004 by Louise Clements and Mike Brown, the biennale festival celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography and is now one of the UK’s leading non- profit international contemporary festivals of photography and related media.
• The theme of FORMAT13 centres on the FACTORY and mass production. This can be understood literally and creatively in terms of process and the transformation of material, live site of production, the products, workers, analogue process, and documentary and so on.
• Derby, the city where FORMAT is based, holds a significant World Heritage Status as the birthplace of mass production and the world’s first factory.
PhotoEspaña International Festival
• PHotoEspaña, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, set out to become a Festival generated by popular demand in 1998, and today it has earned its place as one of the most relevant visual arts events in the world.
• PHotoEspaña is one of the central international forums for photography. Each year the Festival attracts more than six hundred thousand people and receives acclaim from prestigious critics, making it the most popular cultural event in Spain.
• PHotoEspaña is organized by La Fábrica www.lafabrica.com, a company dedicated to arts management. The Festival is made possible thanks to the support and collaboration of private companies and public institutions
Fotofestiwal
• Fotofestiwal was born in 2001 as one of the first photography events in Poland. Since then, both photography and the ways of organising cultural events have changed. Fotofestiwal has always been up to date with these changes. It is intended as a space for various forms of photography and a forum for discussion on art and society, but also as a search for alternative methods of talking about photography and presenting it.
• What is it? An annual contest which enables photographers to take part in Fotofestiwal. The form of the contest is open and does not involve any limitations in respect of the theme, age or geography, thanks to which a variety of works and personalities may be presented.
• The winner will receive a monetary award and the title of Grand Prix Fotofestiwal 2012. His/her project will be presented in an individual exhibition during Fotofestiwal.
• The main organiser of Fotofestiwal is the Foundation of Visual Education which has been cooperating with Łódź Art Center, Art Factory and the City of Łódź Office for a number of years.
Photomonth in Krakow
The Foundation for the Visual Arts is a non-governmental organisation, established in 2001 in Krakow to promote and popularise the visual arts in Poland. Our speciality is photography, and our mission to seek new definitions for it in the context of contemporary art, history and sociology. The Foundation is the organiser of the international Photomonth in Krakow festival. Over the period 2007-2011, it ran the ZPAF i S-ka Gallery. It also publishes, focusing on publications on the theory and history of photography, and the popularisation of niche and collector publications. The FVA cooperates with cultural institutions in Poland and abroad, is a member of the international co-operation networks, and takes part in many photographic events around the world.
