Mardi 09 Juin 2015 11:47:25 par Laure Chastant dans Festivals

Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival will be represented at The Triennial of Photography Hamburg as a warm up for this year’s edition of celebration of XXV edition and is pleased to invite you for the opening of The Container City in front of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, on Thursday, 18 June at 10 pm.

Since 1999, The Triennial of Photography Hamburg has taken place every third year in Hamburg, Germany, as an initiative of the photographer and collector F. C. Gundlach and together with the city's major museums, cultural institutions, galleries and other organizers. The Photo Festival has become an important festival of international reputation. Besides a great variety of exhibitions under a common motto, this year, the FUTURE, the festival is presenting the whole range of photographic actions.


Encontros da Imagem will be represented by Edgar Martins, Mário Macilau and Pauliana Valente Pimentel


Edgar Martins | The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite (2014) is the most comprehensive photographic survey ever produced about a leading scientific and space exploration organization and the result of a long-term collaboration with the European Space Agency. In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to ESA and its partners’ programs, including the microgravity, human spaceflight, lunar, Mars and Mercury exploration programs. Over the past two years, he has travelled to 20 locations across the UK, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Kazakhstan and French Guyana to shoot in classified facilities such as test centres, robotics departments, space simulators, laboratories, launch sites and platforms, astronaut training centres and satellite assembly rooms.


Mário Macilau | Moments of Transition

Every Sunday, most Mozambicans like to mix the new urban and traditional fashion trends dressing up in outstanding customized outfits. Revisiting the past to the period of postindependence, after 1975, we can see the influence of the younger generations that where sent to study in Europe and came back to the country with new concepts of fashion and body. Also, the appearance of enormous quantities of used clothes sent by the United States and Europe, in the informal markets, caught the attention of many people. Now, the Mozambicanʼs taste in fashion is changing and the mixture of urban cloths and accessories with Capulana, the primary item of the African wardrobe, seems to be the perfect solution for a Sunday walk… In this ongoing project MOMENTS OF TRANSITION Mário Macilau focusses on identity and culture and presents a kind of homage, as continuation of / inspiration in Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keïtaʼs work and other African photographers.

Pauliana Valente | Quel Pedra

“Quel Pedra”, Creole name for “That Stone” – a stone to be found in the “Font Flip” neighbourhood in Mindelo. According to the legend, whoever sits on it turns Gay. In this neighbourhood the artist Paulina Valente met Gi, better known as Dery Steven Lima and seven of her friends. With ages between 16 and 22, they are trans people, transgender in the sense that they like to wear dresses and makeup and be called by woman’s names. This project was inspired by the idea of transformation and transgender to represent a community that is generally discriminated, target of exclusion and prejudice. People whose identity and expression is different from what society expects, regarding the gender assigned to them. “Quel Pedra” intends to confront the spectator with his own prejudice, challenging conventions and standards on identity and the human.

2015 is the year of celebration of the 25th edition and Braga will host the new edition of the Festival Encontros da Imagem, this time with the motto "Power & Illusion" which provides and impetus for contemplation regarding the ways in which the technical images relates to reality, the authencity and the illusion of the medium. The Festival will take place in Braga and happens from 25 september until october 31st 2015.