Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography

Launched in 2000 by LokalPatriot Institute, the Fotopub - Documentary Photography Festival has since developed into an annual photography festival which hosts about 50 participants every year. They are working on selected themes as journalistic photography, aesthetics vs. ethics and the situation of Slovene journalistic photography in the European media space.

First three years the festival featured just a workshop involving Slovene and international tutors, afterwards the festival become richer for exhibitions, guest lectures, and the Photography Experience, the photography course for young people (from 10 to 20 years old). Exhibitions are prepared in the local institution for visual arts as in the Simulaker Gallery, but also in the public space as the cosmetics shop. The festival also includes a series of forums (called Tribunal) which offer an arena for photographers, tutors, curators, editors, enthusiasts and experts to meet in discussion.

Workshops of the nineth edition had tutors as Ahmet Polat (Netherlands/Turkey), Abbie Trayler-Smith and Steve Forrest (both from Great Britain), Nataša Košmerl and Uroš Abram from Slovenia, and Pep Bonet (Spain), who has been working with the master class of 6 participants and themed the identitiy. 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 as Borut Peterlin, Arne Hodalič, and Meta Krese to name just some of them.

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, a staff photographer from IPAK - Photographers and Journalist Agency, and Brane Kovič, a Slovene photography theoretician. The sixth edition strengthened the connections with London College of Communication and questioned the Dilemmas of the Documentary Photography; the workshops were for the first time divided (beginners, advanced, master).

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Fotopub website (in English)

Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography

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