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Foto8 reporting from photography festivals worldwide.

Click the links to see reports from these recent festivals:
New York Photo Festival 2008
PhotoEspaña 2008

Upcoming festivals:
Les Rencontres d'Arles (July 08)
Visa Pour L'Image (Sep 08)
Brighton Photo Biennial (Oct 08)
Colophon (Mar 09)


Les Choses Comme Elles Sont... à Arles: Foto8 coverage of photo festival 8-13 July
Arles 08
03 Jul 2008

roosters.jpgThe photography festival "Les Rencontres d'Arles " begins next week as will Foto8's coverage.  Our guest bloggers include  photographer George Georgiou, who will be sending us photo-haikus from the festival, and Caroline Niemant of Peeping Tom Gallery, Paris who will be  sending  us her thoughts, (possibly in haiku format- we'll see).  And Vanessa Winship will be launching her new book, Sweet Nothings , published by Foto8, at Arles as well...

 
PHoto España - The last day so soon...
Photo Espana 08
08 Jun 2008
lodz2_200.jpg Our first stop of our final day, Saturday, was Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, to see Buried Memories: The Photographs of Henryk Ross. We were familiar with the photographs through the Chris Boot book Lodz Ghetto, so were hoping for an innovative approach to exhibiting. Although the photographs were displayed in thoughtful groupings, not a single caption (beyond the obligatory explanatory panel outside the show) was to be found. Context is everything in such a body of work, and although we knew important facts – Ross was the official photographer of Lodz Ghetto’s statistics department, who took extra-curricular photographs to document daily life in the ghetto and then buried his archive which he later recovered – we wanted more. We didn’t need to know every name, or precise date, but an explanation of some kind would have been beneficial or a copy of the book to reference. (read more...)
 
Photo España Day 3: From Abattoirs to Goya
Photo Espana 08
07 Jun 2008
abatoir3.jpg Day three dawned sunny at last (did we mention the rain?) and we set off to see Robert Smithson. His work, at the Reina Sofia, was displayed as a slide-show with his voice-from-beyond-the-grave as spoken captions. Hotel Palenque was clearly absolutely compelling, driven, brilliant work, but unfortunately, the laconic voiceover was delivered or recorded at a pitch difficult to discern coherently. We could make out bits and pieces but we were straining so hard to hear it tarnished our experience. (Just read in the catalogue that it was a lecture given in Utah and Smithson was believed to be ‘a little drunk on whiskey’ at the time!) ,,,
 
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