Mardi 26 Mai 2015 10:49:52 par Laure Chastant dans Festivals

On Thursday, 6 p.m. starts Fotofestiwal 2015 – 14th International Festival of Photography in Łódź. The oldest and one of the biggest photo festivals in Poland. At the same time almost twenty exhibition will open and winner of Grand Prix Prize will be announced. And during next nine days great amount of events will take place: slideshows, workshops, photowalks, photo auction, artist talks (with Simon Norfolk and Christopher Rauschenberg, curated by Alisson Nordstrom) and another twenty opening nights of great exhibitions (like Moments before the flood by Carl De Keyzer).

FOTOFESTIWAL is already 14 years old… and it is growing up like a teenager! Many things have changed from the first edition in 2001, but not the important ones: the variety of exhibitions and activities and the presence of remarkable photographers from around the world. Open up in Łódź (Poland) on May 28th for watch, celebrate, listenand discuss until 7th of June.

ART_INKUBATOR, main festival center in Tyminieckiego 3, will be holding a total of eighteen exhibitions. Rooms will be filled with projects of Fotofestiwal’s 2015 Grand Prix finalists and with works of award winning photographers such as Mateusz Sarełło (with Swell), Anna Grzelewska (with Julia wannabe – about her daughter’s growing up process); Cyrill Costilhe, with a dark, lynchian work on Diego Suarez in Madagascar; Patrick Willocq, in a colorful project on tribal rituals in Republic of Congo; or Sarker Protick, depicting Dhallywood film sets in Bangladesh.

OFF-PIOTRKOWSKA, the second festival center in Piotrkowska 138-140, will be also a must-see: the former industrial complex will be hosting three projects of Fabrica –Benetton communication research center in Italy – and the pictures of Dougie Wallace on English nightlife. On the top floor, an new concept of portfolio review – PORT-OFF-FOLIO – will bring together more than thirty international well know names in the photographic field (artists, curators, historians) with selected applicants, in order to discuss and get feedback about personal projects. The call to participate is open until April 24th and you can find in our http://www.fotofestiwal.com/2015/en/".

FOTOFESTIWAL
International Festival of Photography in Łódź
28.05.2015 – 07.06.2015
Łódź, Poland
More information at http://www.fotofestiwal.com/2015/en/"