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FotoFreo is a month long international photography festival held every two years in Fremantle, Western Australia. The festival is organised and managed by FotoFreo Inc. To date there have been four successful festivals, the last of which was held in ... Lire la suite

 
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FotoFreo is a month long international photography festival held every two years in Fremantle, Western Australia. The festival is organised and managed by FotoFreo Inc. To date there have been four successful festivals, the last of which was held in late March early April 2008. The next festival will be held in 2010, from the 20th of March through until the 18th of April. Since the first FotoFreo festival in 2002, the event has more than doubled in scale and scope each time it has been held. The festival has established a national reputation and is also now well known throughout the international photographic community. The 2008 festival attracted more than 68,000 visitors, 16% of whom were from interstate and overseas. The FotoFreo 2010 festival will be comprised of a series of photographic exhibitions curated by FotoFreo Inc in dedicated venues including the Fremantle Arts Centre, the Western Australian Maritime Museum, the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Fremantle Prison. The festival will also host evenings of audio visual projections, panel discussions, lectures, conversations between professionals, a series of forums and lectures, floor talks, book launches, screenings of films about photography and a number of workshops including 3 run by photographers of Magnum Photos. Venues for the conference, seminar, lectures, workshops and films will include the Notre Dame University of Australia, Kulcha Club, the Film and Television Institute and the WA Maritime Museum. The FotoFreo 2010 Festival Programme was launched on November the 4th at KULCHA, a music venue in the centre of Fremantle and one that has had a long association with the Festival. Most of the events that involve visiting photographers and speakers will occur during the first week of the month long festival period. A report on the 2010 Festival Programme Launch, along with programme details, can be viewed by clicking here Participation in the core events of the Festival, ie. those organised and funded by FotoFreo Inc is by invitation only. The festival aims for a mix of Western Australian, interstate and international photographers and speakers. Photographers who have already confirmed they will exhibit in and visit Fremantle for FotoFreo 2010 are from Australia, USA, France, India, Korea, Slovakia, The Netherlands and China. Speakers who have agreed to take part in the festival are from Australia, USA, UK and Spain. The overall structure of the 2010 festival will be similar to that of the 2008 festival, but after a rigorous post mortem of the 2008 event, a number of obvious improvements will be incorporated into FotoFreo 2010. However, the main priority will be to develop the audience while maintaining the standard of the festival. Running at the same time as FotoFreo is the FotoFreo Fringe Festival a series of photographic exhibitions organised by individual photographers in venues across Fremantle and Perth. To date the 2010 FotoFreo Fringe committee has approved applications for more than 100 exhibitions and includes photographers from interstate and overseas. FotoFreo Inc is not responsible financially for any of these exhibitions. FotoFreo Inc, the organiser of the FotoFreo Festival, is a non profit community organisation managed by Bob Hewitt, June Moorhouse (Programme Manager), Laura Beilby (Festival Manager) & Amelia Twiss (Marketing Manager). The board of FotoFreo Inc consists of David Blenkinsop, June Moorhouse, Felicity Johnston, Jude Savage and Bob Hewitt (chair) To date, the major sponsors of the festival in 2010 include: The City of Fremantle, Eventscorp and the Department of Culture & the Arts. In terms of the big picture, the board of FotoFreo continues to position the festival as a cultural link between Europe and Asia. Western Australia is geographically and culturally well placed to do this. FotoFreo Inc is an incorporated non profit association established as a community based organisation for the purpose of organising and running the FotoFreo Festival of Photography in the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. You may read a summary report on FotoFreo 2008 by clicking here Why Fremantle? Always something to see in Fremantle: BP Achiever berthed behind the railway station. Photograph courtesy of Jean-Pierre Hericher. The port city of Fremantle is a popular destination for visitors to Western Australia. It is a very interesting and visual place, with a bustling port, a substantial fishing industry, surrounded by beaches and with a city centre (the West End) containing an outstanding collection of Federation and other historic buildings. Fremantle is also renowned for its coffee houses, small restaurants, numerous museums as well as significant historical landmarks such as the Round House and the Fremantle Prison. But, from the point of view of an arts festival, there is substantial exhibition infrastructure and the town is compact, making it easy to get around on foot or on the free public transport. Participation Participation in FotoFreo is by invitation only. The Future of FotoFreo Photographic festivals are now important cultural events in many countries, particularly in Europe and North America. It is the intention and the hope of the board of FotoFreo Inc that the FotoFreo festival will continue to grow as a significant photographic and cultural event both nationally and internationally. A Little Bit of History In 1996, a group of photographers and other interested people tried to establish FotoFreo Mark 1. This group put together the outline of an event very much along the lines of FotoFreo 2006. But this first attempt was a much more ambitious project and probably, with hind sight, ahead of its time. Subsequently, the inaugural FotoFreo festival took place in late March, 2002. This festival was more of a pilot and did not include any dedicated exhibition venues. It was considered a qualified success despite the many problems encountered. It ran at a loss that was covered by some of the organisers all of whom were volunteers. However, the consensus was that to grow the festival it could only be done as a biennale. FotoFreo 2004 was three times bigger than the inaugural festival and included a number of dedicated exhibition venues and a fringe festival. All agreed that this event was an unqualified success. One of our sponsors, Fremantle Ports, won an award from the State Government for "The most innovative partnership" with a cultural organisation or event. The event broke even. FotoFreo 2006 was more than twice the size of the 2004 festival and was again entirely organised and run by volunteers. For the first time during this festival there was a full range of the activities envisaged for the event besides the exhibitions and audiovisual projections - a conference, a seminar, lectures, floor talks, films and workshops. While very similar in scope and structure to the previous festivals, FotoFreo 2008 proved to be a significantly bigger and better attended event than any previous festival.