FOTOFEST 2010 BIENNIAL Contemporary U.S Photography
24/02/2010
The International citywide celebration of art and ideas.
The Thirteenth International Biennial of photography and photo-related art.
March 12th - April 25th 2010 HOUSTON, TEXAS
Visit www.fotofest.org for further information on Exhibitons, Forums and Workshops.
Call for entries, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2010
17/02/2010
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Theme announced for the 2010 Noorderlicht Photofestival
Noorderlicht takes the contemporary countryside as its theme for the Photofestival in 2010. The festival is held from 5 September through 31 October (opening Sept 4th) with the Fries Museum as it's central location. In a continuation of the Frisian Noorderlicht tradition, the exhibition will focus primarily on topical developments in the non-Western world, as visualised by non-Western and Western photographers. Submissions are welcome starting 15 February through 12 April 2010.
Theme: non-Western rural areas
For its upcoming photo festival Noorderlicht wants to research the contemporary changes in non-Western rural areas. UN reports sketch a sombre picture of rural life in the non-Western world. The prospects for its inhabitants are even worse than those of the slum-dwellers in the cities. Poverty is rampant and there is a lack of schooling. Social mobility is limited to an exodus of the young to the city, so that the countryside is ageing. It is expected that by 2030 only 40% of the world's population will be living in rural areas. In that year 80% of the urban population will be outside of the West, which means that particularly what are now smaller cities in Asia and Africa can expect rapid expansion by natural growth.
How is rural life changing in the current urbanised and global economy? Is it possible, against all economic logic, to find new values for rural life?
Photographers and curators who are currently working on this topic are most welcome to send in their proposals.
In 2011 Noorderlicht will shift its attention away from the rural life to the city-life. Submissions on this topic are also welcome.
For more information please visit our website:
Theme 2010
http://www.noorderlicht.com/en/photofestival/theme
Conditions for submitting
http://www.noorderlicht.com/en/photofestival/submitting-for-the-2010-photofestival/
NOW ON SHOW
Through 28 February
Popview 2010 and Dennis Duijnhouwer with ‘Popular work’
Double exhibition on pop photography
THE EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
17/02/2010
The European Publishers Award for Photography, now in its 17th year, is a major initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography.
We are delighted to announce that the 2010 Award will again be sponsored by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The company is known world-wide for its Heidelberg printing presses which are recognised as being synonymous with the highest quality of offset printing.
The 2010 Jury will be held in Athens. Apeiron Photos will be the Project Leader.
Open to photographers worldwide, the competition is a unique collaboration between six European Publishers – Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (United Kingdom), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).
The competition requires the submission of a substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project. The winning project is then published in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country and in their own language, resulting in perhaps the most extensive cultural collaboration currently existing in Europe.
The winning book will be published in autumn 2010
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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE AWARD ARE
Klavdij Sluban
Jacob Aue Sobol
Paolo Pellegrin
Ambroise Tézenas
Lorenzo Castore
Harri Kallio
Haris Kakarouhas
Simon Norfolk
David Farrell
Dean Chapman
Alfons Alt
Jeff Mermelstein
Toni Catany
Bruce Gilden
Shanta Rao
Dario Mitidieri
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