Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography

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Fotopub - festival dokumentarne fotografije

Dilančeva ulica 1, SI-8000 Novo mesto

http://www.fotopub.com

fotopub@fotopub.com

Phone386 (0) 7 337 4371

Organised byLokalPatriot Institute

Katarina Žunič, Programme Manager

katarina.zunic@lokalpatriot.si

Frequencyannual

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. The participants work on selected themes such as journalistic photography, aesthetics vs. ethics, and the situation of Slovene journalistic photography in the European media space.

For the first 3 years the festival featured only a workshop involving Slovene and international tutors, afterwards the festival became enriched with exhibitions, guest lecturers, and the Photography Experience, a photography course for young people. Exhibitions are prepared in the local visual arts institutions such as the Simulaker Gallery, but also in other public and commercial spaces such as a 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 and tutors

Tutors for workshops of the ninth 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 as Borut Peterlin, Arne Hodalič, and Meta Krese to name just a few 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 and art critic. The sixth edition strengthened the connections with London College of Communication and questioned the dilemmas of documentary photography.

See also

• LokalPatriot Institute
• Simulaker Gallery

External links

• Fotopub website