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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. | 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. | ||
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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 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 of 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.
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.
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.
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 organises each year the International Heritage Photographic Experience (IHPE) that is supported by The Council of Europe.