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| 1st JULY 2010 |
Photo-Festivals On the Road programme at PARATY EM FOCO 2010 is cancelled
More about the programme here.
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| 17TH JUNE 2010 |
Selection Panel announced for Photo-Festivals On the Road
- Martin Parr: Magnum Photographer, presently Curator of Brighton Biennial 2010
- Iatã Cannabrava: Photographer, curator of Paraty Em Foco 2010 and Sao Paulo Forum of Latin American Photography 2010
- Tim Clark: Director and editor of 1000Words Photography Magazine
- Yasmina Reggad: Photo-Festivals' Director and curator
More about the selection panel here
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| 15TH JUNE 2010 |
Photo-Festivals launch Photo-Festivals on the Road: Calling all young talents
Photo-Festivals calls for submissions for our first international expedition for photographers, bringing Photo-Festivals On the Road off the beaten track to PARATY EM FOCO International Photo Festival in Brazil.
Photo-Festivals On The Road is a hassle-free, productive way to experience overseas photo festivals with likeminded up-and-coming photographers and to meet the world's best established talent. Our tailor-made trips are designed for emerging photographers, photography students, enthusiasts and professionals in the field. Our aim is to bring YOUR work to THEIR eyes — exposing you to one of the best international photography festivals in the world. We'll help arrange your travel, set you up, assist you to network and once you've found your feet, we'll leave you free to customise your trip to your own dream itinerary - whether that be working on a new project, researching on a future photo story, jungle trekking, eco-exploration or beachcombing.
We've been travelling to photography festivals around the world for several years now. And we want to bring YOU with us* - but only the best applicants will be successful — we're inviting young photographers to submit work to a jury including Magnum photographer Martin Parr, photographer and curator Iatã Cannabrava, 1000Words magazine director and editor Tim Clark, and Photo-Festivals' director and curator Yasmina Reggad. The best will be selected to travel as part of the Photo-Festivals On the Road group to Paraty Em Foco, the best international photography festival in Brazil.
To find out more, and to submit your work, click here.
* Selected applicants must be able to fund their trip (flight + the programme itself), either through self-income or a third party / grant.
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| 14TH JUNE 2010 |
Photo-Festivals is thrilled to announce the 3rd Crossing Point Residency!
Nestor Da (Burkina Faso / West Africa) will undertake 8-day residency during Les Rencontres d'Arles, from 4th to 12th July.
More here.
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| 10TH JUNE 2010 |
Photo-Festivals will attend les Rencontres d'Arles again this year!
We are really looking forward to being there from 4th to 12th July and we are already working on 2 nice projects.
Do not hesitate to get in touch if you want to me up!
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| 7TH-10th JUNE 2010 |
Yasmina Reggad is chairing the panel discussion 'Meet the collectives' on 9th June during Photodebut celebrations at Host Gallery!
photodebut celebrates its succesfull end!
Join them at HOST Gallery from 7th-10th June with special fun exhibition, talks, debate and a big friendly book launch party with far too much to drink!!
They also published a book!
Wednesday June 9th
10am Gallery open
4-6pm Meet the collectives
Photodebut has invited a handful of exciting and varied photographihc collectives for an informative debate. This event will be chaired by Yasmina Reggad, independant curator and Director of Photo-festivals.
Check out the full programme on Host Gallery/ Foto8 website.
ABOUT PHOTODEBUT:
Photodebut was a non-profit organization with a goal of supporting, promoting and connecting ambitious photographers.
Formed in 2002 by Jan von Holleben, Esther Teichmann and Andy Porter, photodebut encouraged the sharing of ideas, imagery and informating amongst photographers and cultivated a positive and powerful photographic community. Drawing from its members’ collective strength, photodebut used the framework of collaborative projects to develop a large professional network within the photographic industry. These ranged from group exhibitions, publications, editorial and commercial commissions, conferences, workshops, forums and portfolio reviews.
photodebut will endure as a happy network of likeminded photographers who fondly remember all the fun and important projects they collaborated on.
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| 18TH MAY 2010 |
Photo Forum Beirut #3 with 'RELATIONSHIP' as a theme
International Selector: Yumi Goto (Thailand / Japan)
Selected photographers:
Roubaye Korab
Bryan Denton
Odette Makhlouf
Read more here...
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| 16TH MAY 2010 |
Photo Forum Beirut launches Open Forum with Eugenie Dolberg and Open Shutters: Irak
© Lu'lu'a, Kirkuk /Index On Censorship/Open Shutters
Open Forum will be a spontaneous evening events hosting talks by photography practitioners and projection of photography artworks.
To launch our first Open Forum, we have invited photographer Eugenie Dolberg and filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi to talk about the photography project Open Shutters Iraq and read from the eponymous photo book published in March by Trolley Books.
More here...
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| 12TH-16TH MAY 2010 |
Madrid Foto 2010 and E-co, Collectives Encounter in Madrid
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| 7TH-9TH MAY 2010 |
Yasmina Reggad is speaking at the National Photography Symposium, the gathering place for ideas and discussion about photography
This year NPS2 teamed up with Format International PhotoFestival and will take place at Quad in Derby.
Friday 15:30 to 17:00
Choice of:
New media, new opportunities Considers how photographers have benefited, or could do, from social media and other digital tools and online possibilities. With practical suggestions to help photographers build this area of their work. Speakers: Christian Payne, Yasmina Reggad; Chair: Nick Dunmur
Check out full programme here.
What is the National Photography Symposium:?
Redeye, the Photography Network, established the National Photography Symposium in 2009, as a place for photographers to gather and talk about the most important issues of the moment.
It takes place in a different venue, with a key partner organisation, each time. In 2010 Redeye is working in partnership with Format International Photography Festival.
It consists of a range of keynote presentations, panel discussions and practical sessions. There are also plenty of opportunities to meet and chat informally, and look at photography.
Francis Hodgson, the writer and photography critic of the Financial Times, called it "The most important forum in UK photography."
Who is it for?
It's aimed at photographers at every level, and those working in other fields who are interested in photography - curators, writers, students, academics, buyers, editors and collectors.
It covers every type of photography: fine art, photojournalism and documentary, community, editorial and commercial; museums, galleries and archives, libraries, higher education and agencies. You can choose just to attend sessions relevant to your specialist field, or mix it up - one of the interesting by-products that we've learnt from feedback is that people appreciate the opportunity to meet colleagues from completely different areas that they wouldn't normally encounter in their work.
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| APRIL 2010 |
Yasmina Reggad on research trip in Brazil
Yasmina Reggad is working with Sao-Paulo-based photo collective Cia de Foto on a book project.
Cia de Foto at work in their lovely studio
She visited several art spaces in Sao Paulo, Florianopolis and Porto Alegre and had meetings with artists.
Yasmina attended the 4th FesFotoPoa (Porto Alegre) international photo festival and was a reviewer during the portfolio reviews sessions.
Photo-Festivals will partnership with Paraty Em Foco (State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) photo Festival on the Photo-Festivals On the Road project and we are closely working with photographer and curator Iatã Cannabrava from Estudio Madalena.
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| 16th MARCH 2010 |
Meanwhile in Beirut (Lebanon), the Photo Forum Beirut holds its 2nd session which theme was 'THE CITY"
International Selector: Cia de Foto (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Guest-speaker: Samuel Le Coeur (France)
Selected photographers:
Fernando Borges
Elias Moubarak
Matias Nordahl Carlsen
Read more here...
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| 12th-18th MARCH 2010 |
March Meeting 2010 and Art Dubai 2010
Yasmina Reggad has been invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation and ArteEast to participate in this year March Meeting to talk about her ongoing projects related to the Middle East.
The March Meeting is an annual gathering of global art professionals and institutions concerned with the production and dissemination of art in the Arab world. An open-access event, the March Meeting encompasses presentations by key speakers, as well as a programme of colloquia, seminars and debates.
Download the March Meeting 2010 programme here.
© from Art Dubai Journal
Art Dubai 2010 has become a defining platform for contemporary art practice across the Middle East region. Art Dubai welcomed over 70 galleries from 30 countries and an extensive programme of collateral events including the Global Art Forum, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, special projects curated by Bidoun Projects and The Poetry of Time presented by Van Cleef & Arpels. Art Dubai has become the essential gathering place for collectors, artists and art professionals from across the Middle East, South Asia and beyond.
Download the Global Art Forum programme here.
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| 8th MARCH 2010 |
One week at Musée Nicéphore Niépce
© Museum Nicephore Niepce
Yasmina Reggad travelled to Chalon-sur-Saône to reserach on the magazine VU. The Musée Nicéphore Niépce hosts the complete collection of the magazine. One week was very short though, but thanks to the conversations and the help of Émilie Bernard, the Museum librarian, and her team, this research trip has been more than productive.
We highly recommend you to visit the Museum if you are around Lyon.
The Niepce Museum is one of the oldest museums devoted to photography and its history.
From 1972, its creation onwards, the museum, thanks to an abundance of gifts and an active policy of acquisition, gave itself the objective of telling the story of photography in all its aspects, from technical and artistical considerations to social and popular usage. It is through the eclectic and non-specialist nature of this collection, that it can be considered as unique in Europe.
Thanks to its laboratory, its ‘photo-shoot’ studio and its multimedia and audiovisual workshop, the Museum is also a resource centre, a production centre for works and exhibitions and a place of residence for artists.
The Museum also publishes catalogues of works and exhibitions devoted to photography, and provides a book shop area open to the public. Equally, it has a large library dedicated to photography which can be consulted on request.
In the coming years, the Niépce Museum will be at the heart of a new cultural and scientific project for the development of a ‘Centre for the Image’ at Chalon-sur-Saône.
Special thanks to François Cheval, Curator of the Museum, Émilie Bernard, librarian and the Niépce Museum staff.
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| 19th JANUARY 2010 |
Photo Forum Beirut #1
Selected photographers:
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Lara Zankoul
Nadim Bou Habib
Christina Rahme
Federico De Nardo
More here...
Pictures of the first session:
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| 11th JANUARY 2010 |
Portfolio reviews in Damascus (Syria)
On behalf of Photo-Festivals, Yasmina Reggad invited Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Ivor Prickett, Delphine Leccas to review Syrian photographers' portfolios during the evening session we organised in collaboration with All Art Now. 10 Syrian photographers attended this session.
More about the Damascus portfolio reviews soon here.
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| 3RD JANUARY 2010 |
Photo-Festivals and Zico House are thrilled to launch the first session of Photo Forum Beirut
Photo Forum Beirut is an evening event offering and promoting a critical space within the photography community in Beirut.
Once ever two monthes, established and emerging photographers will have the opportunity to project and discuss their work with their peers and specialists in a public environment at Zico House.
Everyone is welcome to attend, get involved in the discussion and discover new bodies of work.
**Format of the sessions
Selected photographers will have a chance to experience speaking about their work in public, to articulate concerns, aims and plans for their photography and to ask opinions in an open environment.
We strongly encourage feedback from the attending audience.
The session will begin at 19.00 on 19th January 2010 giving all photographers 5 minutes to present their work, followed by a discussion with the attending public.
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Every month, Photo Forum Beirut at Zico House will also invite a local or visiting host to speak about a specific issue related to photography practice.
For the first session, Photo Forum Beirut will host a special screening of Cia de Foto's artwork "Caixa de Sapato".
The screening will be followed by a short presentation of the concept of photo collective by Yasmina Reggad.
Cia de Foto is a photo collective created in 2003 and based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Yasmina Reggad is a London-based curator, founder and director of the not-for-profit organization Photo-Festivals.
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| DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 |
Yasmina Reggad on a research trip in the Middle East
Yasmina Reggad visited the following venues in Cairo: Darb Contemporary Art Centre, The Town House Gallery and Contemporary Image Collective; Art's Palace and Horizon One which are the main venues of the next Cairo Biennial.
She spent a Muslim Christmas in the Egyptian desert with friends and renowned artists Moataz Nasr, Adel Abidin, Nadia Kaabi, and art historian Khadija Hamdi.
She visited Lebanon where she undertook two-weeks residency at Zico House during which she co-founded Photo Forum Beirut. She visited the following venues: Arabe Image Foundation, Beirut Art Center, Sanayeh House. She also reviewed the portfolio of very talented photographers Dalia Khamissy, Rima Maroun and Randa Mirza among others. Photo Forum Beirut is also a great way to discover Lebanon-based photographers though!
More about the Photo Forum Beirut here.
Then in Syria, she visited Issa Touma, brave founder of Le Pont Gallery, first art space dedicated to photography in the Middle East, and Aleppo Photo Festival. Local photographer Nazem Jawish kindly took her on a tour of Aleppo and Madinatuna, the festival's main venue in 2009.
Back in Damascus, she stayed at Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Ivor Prickett's, British and Irish photographers currently based in the Middle East. Photo-Festivals invited them and Delphine Leccas to review portfolios together with Yasmina Reggad during the evening session we organised in collaboration with All Art Now. 10 Syrian photographers attended this session.
More about the Damascus Portfolio Reviews here.
On her way back to Beirut to organise and chair the first session of the Photo Forum Beirut, Yasmina Reggad attended the opening of Ahlam Shibil, Doa Aly and Raed Ibrahim's show at the magical Darat El Funun (Amman, Jordan).
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