Festival Fotopub
Dilančeva ulica 1, SI-8000 Novo mesto
Organised byFotopub Association for Contemporary Culture
Frequencyannual
Festival dates30.7.2018 - 4.8.2018
Depot:Fotopub Festival
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Past Events
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1 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016
Fotopub Festival at Brighton Photo Fringe 2016, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
Background
The Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography established in 2000 was originally conceived as an international summer photography workshop but it soon developed into an important annual event dedicated entirely to the documentary and reportage photography. Festival’s first creative director was the renowned photographer Borut Peterlin.
In 2014 the then-already traditional festival was cancelled due to unsuccessful application to the public tender. However, it was soon re-established again with a new team of young photographers, Fotopub Association for Contemporary Culture, and with a new concept that replaced the emphasis on documentary and reportage photography with the critical questioning of current contacts of photographic with contemporary arts.
Concept
Today Festival Fotopub focuses on contemporary art photography and aims at promoting the younger generation of Slovene and foreign photographers and building bridges between professionals and amateur audiences. It continues to extend the artistic, curatorial and geographical dialogues, and in particular the concept of photography. “Fotopub deals with contemporary photo art, not with photography itself”, explained Dušan Josip Smodej, festival’s managing director for the daily Delo. “We do not want to separate photo art from fine arts. Photographic practices can be unpredictable, they can act as installations, videos, graphic works or high-tech practices. We refuse demarcations between the media and are open to any experimental practice that approaches the photographic”.
Programme
Fotopub festival brings to Novo Mesto around 40 well-known and respected artists, curators, editors, publishers and directors from a dozen countries working in various fields of contemporary art with an emphasis on researching and spreading the boundaries of contemporary photography, presents a series of newly commissioned projects that critically disturb, question and react to the artistic and socio-political rituals, power structures, antagonisms and processes of knowledge production. Festival organises a series of formal and informal events, including 8 exhibitions, a few projects and panel talks, music programme and Fotopub Portfolio Review. The programme is presented in unconventional and/or abandoned spaces across the city centre, with site specific installations and performances happening across the streets of Novo Mesto.
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The international festival of contemporary photography Fotopub Festival was founded in 2000 by LokalPatriot Institute and it is based in Novo Mesto, a city in southeastern Slovenia. +
The international festival of contemporary photography Fotopub Festival was founded in 2000 by LokalPatriot Institute and it is based in Novo Mesto, a city in southeastern Slovenia. +
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