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{{Infobox
| name                = Fotopub - Documentary Photography Festival
| localname           = Fotopub - festival dokumentarne fotografije
| mailing address     = LokalPatriot, P O Box 100, SI-8001 Novo mesto, Slovenia
| telephone           = 386 (0) 7 337 4371
| email               = program@lokalpatriot.si, fotopub@fotopub.com
| website             = http://www.fotopub.com
| proprietor          = LokalPatriot, Novo Mesto
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Borut Peterlin 
| role                = Head
| email               = borut@borutpeterlin.com
}}{{Contact
| name                = Katarina Žunič 
| role                = Co-ordinator
| email               = katarina.zunic@lokalpatriot.si
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Launched in 2000 by [[LokalPatriot, Novo Mesto]], Fotopub has since developed into an annual photography festival which hosts about 50 participants every year. It features a workshop involving Slovene and international tutors, exhibitions, guest lectures, a photography course for young people (from 10 to 20 years old) called the 'Photography Experience', and a thematic competition.
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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).

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; themes in recent years have included journalistic photography, aesthetics vs ethics and the situation of Slovene journalistic photography in the European media space.

During the Festival LokalPatriot also offers a platform for everyone interested in showing their documentary photographic stories.

[[Category:Festivals]]
[[Category:Visual arts festivals]]