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Launched in [[established::2000]] by [[LokalPatriot Institute]] as an international summer photography workshop, the [[Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography]] has since developed into a significant annual event dedicated entirely to documentary photography, with up to 10 exhibitions, a set of workshops, lectures, and screenings of photo-stories. Taking place in Novo mesto, a vibrant cultural centre of the Dolenjska region in south-east Slovenia, an intimate and vital festival has succeeded to bring to the city a summertime influx of international visitors interested in photography, acclaimed professionals, as well as photography lovers of all generations.  
 
Launched in [[established::2000]] by [[LokalPatriot Institute]] as an international summer photography workshop, the [[Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography]] has since developed into a significant annual event dedicated entirely to documentary photography, with up to 10 exhibitions, a set of workshops, lectures, and screenings of photo-stories. Taking place in Novo mesto, a vibrant cultural centre of the Dolenjska region in south-east Slovenia, an intimate and vital festival has succeeded to bring to the city a summertime influx of international visitors interested in photography, acclaimed professionals, as well as photography lovers of all generations.  
  
The theme of the Fotopub 2011 was ''The Private Eye'', tackling trends within the photo documentary society such as the power of narrow narratives thriving on the Facebook platform.   
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The themes in 2009 were identity, the urn of Novo mesto, belief, social life, love, tribulation, and fishing, while the theme of the Fotopub 2011 was ''The Private Eye'', tackling trends within the photo documentary society such as the power of narrow narratives thriving on the Facebook platform.   
  
 
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Fotopub festival features up to 10 exhibitions of documentary photography and multimedia projects. The exhibitions are set in the local visual arts institutions such as the [[Simulaker Gallery]] or [[Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki]] as well as in other public and commercial spaces.  
 
Fotopub festival features up to 10 exhibitions of documentary photography and multimedia projects. The exhibitions are set in the local visual arts institutions such as the [[Simulaker Gallery]] or [[Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki]] as well as in other public and commercial spaces.  
  
Fotopub is also an arena for photographers, tutors, curators, editors, enthusiasts, and experts to meet in discussion.
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Fotopub is also an arena for photographers, tutors, curators, editors, enthusiasts, and experts to meet in discussion. The festival has collaborated also with the London College of Communication.
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The workshops are often set in an informal environment – in parks, local cafés, and pubs – where tutors, students, local community members, and visitors mingle, looking for less obvious stories. The workshop participants work on selected themes such as journalistic photography, aesthetics vs. ethics, etc.
 
The workshops are often set in an informal environment – in parks, local cafés, and pubs – where tutors, students, local community members, and visitors mingle, looking for less obvious stories. The workshop participants work on selected themes such as journalistic photography, aesthetics vs. ethics, etc.
  
Past guest tutors have included Miguel Rosales, a fashion photographer from Paris; [[Evgen Bavčar]], a Slovene conceptual photographer; Bjorn Steinz, a documentary photographer from Frankfurt; Jean Christoph Queto, an art photographer from New York; Marko Pršina, a natural science photographer; [[Bojan Brecelj]], photo journalist; and [[Brane Kovič]], a Slovene photography and art critic. The 6th edition strengthened the connections with the London College of Communication and questioned the dilemmas of documentary photography.
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Past guest tutors have included Miguel Rosales, a fashion photographer from Paris; Bjorn Steinz, a documentary photographer from Frankfurt; Jean Christoph Queto, an art photographer from New York; Pep Bonet (Spain), Ahmet Polat (Netherlands/Turkey), Abbie Trayler-Smith and Steve Forrest (both from Great Britain). Further tutors of those workshops were some established Slovene photographers such as [[Borut Peterlin]], [[Arne Hodalič]], and [[Meta Krese]], [[Evgen Bavčar]], a Slovene conceptual photographer living in Paris; [[Marko Pršina]], a natural science photographer; [[Bojan Brecelj]], photo journalist; [[Nataša Košmerl]] and [[Uroš Abram]] and [[Brane Kovič]], a Slovene photography and art critic.  
  
Tutors for workshops of the 9th edition included Ahmet Polat (Netherlands/Turkey), Abbie Trayler-Smith and Steve Forrest (both from Great Britain), [[Nataša Košmerl]] and [[Uroš Abram]] (both from Slovenia), and Pep Bonet (Spain), who worked with a master class of 6 participants with the theme of identity. Further themes of 2009 were the urn of Novo mesto, belief, social life, love, tribulation, and fishing. Further tutors of those workshops were some established Slovene photographers such as [[Borut Peterlin]], [[Arne Hodalič]], and [[Meta Krese]] to name just a few of them.
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In 2011 tutors for workshops were: young Slovenian photographer [[Uroš Abram]], Lithuaninan photographer Vilma Samulionyte, Espen Rasmussen from Norway, well-known American documentary photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, Robert Knoth from Netherlands, Rebecca Harley and Mike Lusmore from UK, a young Canadian photographer Ed Ou, known as a wonderboy of photojournalism, Jean Christophe from San Francisco and Chris de Bode.
  
 
== ''Photography Experience'' competition ==
 
== ''Photography Experience'' competition ==
  
 
Fotopub is a national coordinator of the ''Photography Experience'', a photography competition for young people related to cultural heritage. The initiative is conducted as a part of the European Cultural Heritage Days by the autonomous Community of Catalonia, which each year organises the International Heritage Photographic Experience (IHPE), which is supported by the Council of Europe.
 
Fotopub is a national coordinator of the ''Photography Experience'', a photography competition for young people related to cultural heritage. The initiative is conducted as a part of the European Cultural Heritage Days by the autonomous Community of Catalonia, which each year organises the International Heritage Photographic Experience (IHPE), which is supported by the Council of Europe.
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==See also==
 
==See also==
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*[http://www.fotopub.com/ Fotopub website]  
 
*[http://www.fotopub.com/ Fotopub website]  
 
*[http://vimeo.com/search/videos/search:fotopub/st/38b5205d/ Fotopub videos at Vimeo]  
 
*[http://vimeo.com/search/videos/search:fotopub/st/38b5205d/ Fotopub videos at Vimeo]  
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/Fotopubfestival Fotopub workshop participants portfolios at YouTube]
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*[http://www.youtube.com/user/Fotopubfestival Fotopub video at YouTube]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyeERFd9hgo An interview with Rebecca Harley and Mike Lusmore, by Borut Peterlin]  
  
 
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Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography 2010 Residues of the Cold War.jpgMartin Roemers exhibition, Ostanki hladne vojne (Residues of the Cold War), Simulaker Gallery, Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography 2010

Launched in 2000 by LokalPatriot Institute as an international summer photography workshop, the Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography has since developed into a significant annual event dedicated entirely to documentary photography, with up to 10 exhibitions, a set of workshops, lectures, and screenings of photo-stories. Taking place in Novo mesto, a vibrant cultural centre of the Dolenjska region in south-east Slovenia, an intimate and vital festival has succeeded to bring to the city a summertime influx of international visitors interested in photography, acclaimed professionals, as well as photography lovers of all generations.

The themes in 2009 were identity, the urn of Novo mesto, belief, social life, love, tribulation, and fishing, while the theme of the Fotopub 2011 was The Private Eye, tackling trends within the photo documentary society such as the power of narrow narratives thriving on the Facebook platform.



Exhibitions

Fotopub festival features up to 10 exhibitions of documentary photography and multimedia projects. The exhibitions are set in the local visual arts institutions such as the Simulaker Gallery or Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki as well as in other public and commercial spaces.

Fotopub is also an arena for photographers, tutors, curators, editors, enthusiasts, and experts to meet in discussion. The festival has collaborated also with the London College of Communication.


Fotopub workshops

Fotopub can cater up to 80 students who work with 10 to 15 internationally acclaimed tutors. The programme consists of 6 days of intensive educational process at different levels: individual work, guided work on stories, level lectures in technique and composition, lectures in history of photography, mentor consultations, studio and field photography. Each participant produces her or his personal photo-story or a multimedia story under the guidance of a chosen tutor. The results of the workshops are presented in a final group presentation.

The workshops are often set in an informal environment – in parks, local cafés, and pubs – where tutors, students, local community members, and visitors mingle, looking for less obvious stories. The workshop participants work on selected themes such as journalistic photography, aesthetics vs. ethics, etc.

Past guest tutors have included Miguel Rosales, a fashion photographer from Paris; Bjorn Steinz, a documentary photographer from Frankfurt; Jean Christoph Queto, an art photographer from New York; Pep Bonet (Spain), Ahmet Polat (Netherlands/Turkey), Abbie Trayler-Smith and Steve Forrest (both from Great Britain). Further tutors of those workshops were some established Slovene photographers such as Borut Peterlin, Arne Hodalič, and Meta Krese, Evgen Bavčar, a Slovene conceptual photographer living in Paris; Marko Pršina, a natural science photographer; Bojan Brecelj, photo journalist; Nataša Košmerl and Uroš Abram and Brane Kovič, a Slovene photography and art critic.

In 2011 tutors for workshops were: young Slovenian photographer Uroš Abram, Lithuaninan photographer Vilma Samulionyte, Espen Rasmussen from Norway, well-known American documentary photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, Robert Knoth from Netherlands, Rebecca Harley and Mike Lusmore from UK, a young Canadian photographer Ed Ou, known as a wonderboy of photojournalism, Jean Christophe from San Francisco and Chris de Bode.

Photography Experience competition

Fotopub is a national coordinator of the Photography Experience, a photography competition for young people related to cultural heritage. The initiative is conducted as a part of the European Cultural Heritage Days by the autonomous Community of Catalonia, which each year organises the International Heritage Photographic Experience (IHPE), which is supported by the Council of Europe.


See also

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