Metropolis - city life un the urban age

Since the beginning of the 21st century, more than half of the world’s population live in urban areas. In two successive exhibitions Noorderlicht is examining the consequences of this development for both the countryside and the city. After Land – Country Life in the Urban Age in 2010, from 11 September through 9 October 2011 the photo festival Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age will be seen in Groningen. This multifaceted and innovative exhibition will provide insight int...

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Noorderlicht invites photographers and curators to submit proposals for the 2010 Photofestival. This year Noorderlicht is focusing on changes in the contemporary countryside.

Today only a minority of the world's population still lives in rural areas. The demands of the modern global economy have created a major divide between rural areas and city life in terms of standards of living. While conditions tend to deteriorate at the countryside, life in urban areas seems to increase rapidly. This change has been a gradual process in the Western world, and an explosive one in the non-Western world. The divide will only get bigger i...

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It has been said that conflict is what gives life its meaning. It is what feeds progress and lays the foundations for self-conquest. At the same time conflict has left a trail of destruction through history. It is a phenomenon with many faces: the tormented face of inner conflict, the bloody face of war, the empty gaze of hunger, poverty and oppression.

In an ambitious and probing photo festival Noorderlicht curator Wim Melis and five guest curators - a first for the photo event - offer their personal views on themes that define the human condition. Stuart Franklin, Lauren Heinz, Simon Njami, Marc Prüst and Bas Vroege t...

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NOORDERLICHT WELCOMES SUBMISSIONS FOR PHOTO FESTIVAL 2009

Photographers and curators from all over the world are welcome to send in their work and proposals to participate in the Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2009.
Deadline: April 3rd, 2009
 
       

SUBMITTING - CONDITIONS AND DIRECTIVES

WHO

Noorderlicht welcomes proposals by professional photographers and photography curators from all over the world. Noorderlicht is in principle a platform for documentary photography, but within this genre we like to push back t...

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A new Eastern Europe arose after 1989. The Iron Curtain disappeared, the street scene changed unrecognizably. Some countries disintegrated, a majority have become members of the European Union. After four decades of Communism, capitalism is the new ideology. Individualism has replaced collectivism, opposition politics is again permitted. The heroic worker has had to become a critical consumer.

As a mirror held up to Behind Walls, a second exhibition, Beyond Walls, provides a picture of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Left opposes right, nostalgia for the old days faces off against the blessings of capitali...

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