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The International Photography Festival, Israel’s largest photography event, will be taking place this year for the seventh time. From 28th November to 7th December, the festival will feature 250 photographers from around the world in 40 international exhibitions as well as performances, video art, music events and more.
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The theme of this year’s festival is Fantasy. Exhibiting artists will present a wide array of interpretations of this topic, from works which challenge the boundaries between imagination and reality to documentary stories with fantastical elements.
Festival events include: a public photography marathon, lectures and discussion panels, night events, dance and music events, gallery talks, guided tours and activities for the whole family.
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Jan Brykczyński, photograph from the ‘Primary Forest’ series, 2011, photo: courtesy of the artist / Grand Press Photo 2012 promotional materials
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Jan Brykczyński, photograph from the series Primary Forest, 2011, courtesy of the artist / Grand Press Photo 2012 press materials
This year, the festival will celebrate five years of social outreach work using the PHOTO VOICE method – based on the belief that every individual in a community has a right to sound their own voice. Participants in the social outreach programmes come from a variety of communities across the country: at-risk youth and women, sober addicts, people with disabilities, senior citizens, youth on the autism spectrum and more. By documenting their own daily reality, participants express their authentic personal stories and craft a direct message about the individual and the community – a message which promotes social change and is transmitted to the public through the platform of the International Photography Festival.
Jan Brykczyński, photo: promotional materials
In collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the festival will include a solo exhibition of Jan Brykczynski's The Gardener series. The project focuses on the worldwide phenomenon of urban farming. It features guerrilla farming sites in low-income neighbourhoods in New York, Nairobi, Warsaw and Yerevan. The cities' residents use their imagination, fantasy and inventiveness as well as all kinds of available re-used materials to build structures for cultivation.
Brykczyński has received many awards for photojournalism (Grand Press Photo, Newsreportage), as well as for art photography (Sony Award). He has also been a grantee of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage and of the Young Poland programme, organised by the National Centre for Culture. He is represented by the Anzenberger Agency, based in Vienna.
The Festival is an initiative of PHOTO IS:RAEL, a non-profit public benefit company founded in 2012 in order to realise its vision of ‘a better society through the language of photography’, social activism and the fostering of a dialogue between art and various communities across Israel. The company offers platforms to showcase, research and highlight artistic and social topics through the language of photography. PHOTO IS:RAEL believes that photography is a universal language which transcends cultural and gender boundaries and is understood by all. It is a language which bridges the central and the marginal and connects marginalised communities to the public at large.
Jan Brykczyński, photograph from the ‘Primary Forest’ series, 2011, photo: courtesy of the artist / Grand Press Photo 2012 promotional materials
The venue for this year’s festival was carefully selected. The Azrieli Sarona Tower, designed by Moshe Tzur, is the tallest building in Israel and will showcase the festival’s exhibitions on one spacious floor.
- Founder and Artistic Director – Eyal Landesman
- Chief Curator – Maya Anner
- Partners: Azrieli Sarona, Tel Aviv Municipality, The Polish Institute, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Czech Centre, Embassy of the United States, Embassy of Norway, Embassy of Spain, Embassy of Austria, Embassy of Argentina, Meitar Family Fund, Enosh Association, JDC Israel, ADAMA, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Delta, Sarona Complex, The Print House, ChromaLuxe, Tambur, Bookworm, Link Hotel, Jugend, Erlich, Lupa, Artik, Galitz and many more.
