Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012
The Helsinki Photography Biennial begins in March 2012.
HPB12 is a series of events showcasing Finnish and international lens-based contemporary art. The theme of the 2012 biennial is urbanity and the city. The biennial is organized by the Finnish Union of Artist Photographers.
The HPB12 main exhibitions are organized in cooperation with the Helsinki City Museum; the venues are the Hakasalmi Villa (19 artists) and the Sederholm House (13 artists), as well as the union’s own Photographic Gallery Hippolyte (2 artists).
The works in the main exhibitions offer perspectives on the kind of urban space we construct for ourselves and the changes that are taking place in cities across the world. However, inhabitants of cities are also in focus: how they experience the urban space, how they use it, and perhaps also mould it for their own needs.
The featured artists’ subjective viewpoints on the city offer viewers very different experiences, borrowing for a moment different ways of thinking about and living in the urban environment. In his work Urban Flow, the Hungarian-born Adam Magyar explores the motion and rhythm of the city by using a technology familiar from finish line photos in sports competitions.
The Finnish artist Noomi Ljungdell constructs urban topographies in which she has reinterpreted and transposed photographs into abstract landscapes of floating words. Current and global issues are also addressed by many artists.
The Paperless by the Finnish photographer Katja Tähjä showcases immigrants living in European cities without papers.
The protagonists in the works of the Romanian documentary photographer Dana Popa are women who leave their poor home country to become prostitutes in European cities.
The main exhibitions also feature moving image works, such as the video installation J. Street Project by Susan Hiller. The project searches for signs of the history of Jews in contemporary German cities. The result is not a historical document, but a work of art which transports the viewer into a landscape of forgetting and remembering.
No Exit – Urban Space, 2 March – 22 April 2012, Helsinki City Museum, Hakasalmi Villa, Mannerheimintie 13
Isidro Blasco, Chad Gerth, Stephen Gill, Anthony Haughey, Susan Hiller, Simo Karisalo, Kalle Lampela, Jukka Lehtinen, Noomi Ljungdell, Adam Magyar, Peter Margonelli, David McMillan, Sohei Nishino, Jiang Pengyi, William Raban, Abigail Reynolds, Jani Ruscica, Christina Seely, Christopher Thomas.
No Exit – Urban Being, 2 March – 29 April 2012, Helsinki City Museum, Sederholm House, Aleksanterinkatu 18
Juha Allan Ekholm, Nina Berman, Tuukka Kaila, Enrique Metinides, Jukka Onnela, Sami Perttilä, Salla Pesonen, The Pier (Nils Petter Löfstedt, Erik Vestman), Dana Popa, Nicolas Provost, Roskakaupunki (Sirpa Kinnunen, Emilia Kurila, Teemu Lehmusruusu), Maija Saksman, Sanni Seppo, Katja Tähjä, Michael Wolf.
In addition to the main exhibitions, HPB12 also expands in a series of events into the museums, galleries and other venues as well as public spaces in the Helsinki metropolitan area. HPB12 mobilized an unprecedented number of cultural actors in the greater Helsinki area, with more than 60 individual events having already been submitted. Events in the HPB12 programme either address the themes of the biennial or are otherwise linked to photographic or moving image art. The events include exhibitions, discussions, workshops and participatory performances and works in the public space.
The roots of HPB go back to the early 1980s, when the event went by the name Valokuvataide – Arkitaide (Photographic Art – Everyday Art). From 2000 to 2009 it was known as Helsinki Photography Festival. The Union of Artist Photographers has organized the event about once every three years, alternating with the Triennial of Finnish Photography. From 2012 and beyond, these two events are combined into one extensive urban festival, the Helsinki Photography Biennial, organized in April in even-numbered years. The mission of the biennial has from the beginning been to bring photographic art to the great public.
For the full programme, please visit www.hpb.fi
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HelsinkiPhotographyBiennial
Baltic Wedding and Portrait Photography Contest 2012
Nikon and Hewlett-Packard Estonia present a photo contest “Baltic Wedding and Portrait Photography Contest 2012“.
The third wedding and portrait photo contest includes two categories and ten subcategories:
I Wedding photo
Photo of the wedding couple
Photo of the bride or the groom
Reportage photo
Wedding details
Last years winner in wedding category - Photographer Annika Metsla
II Portrait photo
Children
Persons/individuals
Groups
Animals/pets
Glamour/boudoir
Reportage photo (not wedding)
The Best Baltic Portrait Photograph 2011 "NotTouch for DisAbility -Algimantas Aleksandravičius
The participation fee of the contest is 25 euros for every presented photo. It includes the contest participation fee, the entrance fee to the final event on 31st March in Trakai, the bus ticket and the printing of the photos. There are no limits to the number of photos one participant can present to the contest. The period of presenting photos to the contest is 01.02-29.02 2012.
The main prize of the wedding photo division, Nikon D4, Nikkor 24-70mm f / 2.8G ED AF-S lens and SB-910 speedlight, shall be given concerning all wedding photo categories. The winner shall be awarded with the title Best Wedding Photograph 2012.
Main prize of the portrait photo division, Nikon D3X, Nikkor 24-70mm f / 2.8G ED AF-S lens and SB-910 speedlight shall be given concerning all portrait photo categories. The winner shall be awarded with the title Best Portrait Photograph 2012.
The three best photos out of each category and the best wedding photo and the best portrait from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania get noted.
An all-day event is held on 31st March, in Trakai for all the participants during which they can observe the international jury evaluating the contest works, listen to lectures by professionals and take part in the award ceremony that night.
The contest is sponsored by Nikon, Hewlett-Packard Eesti, ArtPrint, Fotoakadeemia Pro Shop, Sony, Zeiss, Profoto, Manfrotto and Igepa Group.
Oficcial site: http://wppb.iamphotographer.eu/
Stockholm Photography Week
Stockholm Photography Week is a week-long celebration of photography that takes place at the Swedish Museum of Photography (Fotografiska).
WHEN IS IT?
May 28 – June 3, 2012.
WHERE IS IT?
Stockholm Photography Week is organized by and held at The Swedish Museum of Photography (Fotografiska).
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
On the schedule you will find an international portfolio review, a photography feedback review, an open portfolio night, seminars and workshops as well as exhibitions. This is an event for both professional photographers and amateurs, as well as for the regular photographic exhibition visitor.Ticket sales and registration for the reviews open in February 2012!
The Portfolio Reviews are one of the main events during Stockholm Photography Week 2012. This year, the reviews are divided into two sections: Selected Portfolio Reviews and Photography Feedback Reviews.
SELECTED PORTFOLIO REVIEW
The Selected Portfolio Review is for established or up-and-coming photographers, wanting to expand their international contacts with world-renown institutions, galleries and book publishers. In this section, 15 internationally renowned experts from the field of photography (gallery owners, curators, editors, etc.) all of whom can make a difference to working photographers, will review the portfolios of 40 photographers over the course of two days. Participants will be scheduled to have eight 25-minute one-on-one reviews with these experts. Applicants will be pre-approved by a jury.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY FEEDBACK REVIEW
The Photography Feedback Reviews are open for all photographers. Photographers can choose among professional photographers, art directors and photo agencies to present their photographs for. You choose yourself which reviewers to see, how many reviews to attend and when. The reviewers are well-established photographers as well as professionals with extensive experience of working with images within different genres. You book each review session separately thereby creating your own schedule based on your particular interests.
FOTOGRAFISKA BEST PORTFOLIO AWARD – 2500 EUR CASH PRIZE
2500 EUR will be awareded to the best and/or most promising portfolio presented during Stockholm Photography Week 2012. Reviewers from both the Selected Portfolio Review and the Feedback Review will each nominate 1-3 of the photographers taking part in the reviews during Stockholm Photography Week 2012. A jury then decide who gets the 2500 EUR cash award for Best Portfolio 2012.
OPEN PORTFOLIO NIGHT
For one night, photographers put their portfolio on display for the general public to see. The Open Portfolio Night is open for all photographers of all levels.
WORKSHOPS
Anders Petersen and Sarah Moon will give a three-day Masters of Photography Workshop each during the week. More information on the workshops
ARTIST TALKS & SEMINARS
Join us in discussions and talks focusing on the frontlines of photography, and be inspired by various Artist Talks and lectures.
MEETING PLACE
Stockholm Photography Week is also a place for meetings - formal and informal ones – with photographers and international experts from within the field of photography. Make new valuable career contacts, hang out and have fun! We expect this week will attract an international crowd made up of professional photographers, photo enthusiasts and a wider public interested in photography.
Website: http://spwk.eu/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StockholmPhotographyWeek
Eestifoto Stuudio – Rental Studio in Tallinn, Estonia
Eestifoto Stuudio is our first featured rental studio.
Eestifoto Stuudio is the biggest photo studio in central Tallinn and one of the biggest in Estonia. The studio is divided into the bigger Studio A and the smaller Studio B. The total floor capacity is 180 square meters and the height of the ceiling is 470 cm. Our studio has been used by many professional Estonian photographers as well as amateurs. The studio rent includes all of the studio inventory: backgrounds, camera lights, softboxes, make-up corner, etc
Studio equipment:
10 Elinchroms (400, 800 and 1200w)
Softboxes: Rota Octa and Strip
In addition, softboxes, umbrellas, barn doors, reflectors, studio tripods and boom, fullsized textile backgrounds, paperbackgrounds, and many more fabrics
Rent:
Studio A first hour 38€, following hours 32€
Studio B first hour 29€, following hours 22€
Rent for contractual client:
Studio A first hour 32€, following hours 26€
Studio B first hour 26€, following hours 19€
Used background running meter: 10€
Assistance fee per hour: 25€
Make-up artist: 25€ person
Broken pilot bulb: 13€
* - prices exclude VAT.
Address:
Lauteri 7c,
Tallinn
Estonia
10145
The International Street Photography Award
The International Street Photography Awards are now open! Photographers anywhere in the world are invited to submit images that capture, explore or question contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their surroundings.
There will be an overall winner, a runner up, and ten finalists. The international winner will receive £2000, a solo exhition in London, and an all-expenses paid trip to the exhibition launch and awards ceremony in London in June 2012 – total value £10,000. Selected finalists will be exhibited in the same gallery and one image from each entrant will be showcased in a digital display. All photographers who enter will receive a £28.95 voucher to print their own book with Blurb.
The International Street Photography Award is looking for exceptional, international photographers that display a unique style and depth of work in the genre of street photography. The genre crosses over into portraiture, documentary and art photography, see the 2011 finalists for inspiration and a guide to what defines street photography.
The International Awards are open to photographers from anywhere in the world and photographs may be taken anywhere in the last 10 years.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thursday 5 January 2012.
First 500 applicants (to sign-up and pay the entry-fee, you can upload images later) go into a special draw.
PARIS PHOTO 2011 AT THE GRAND PALAIS
Held this year from 10 to 13 November, Paris Photo celebrates its 15th anniversary by moving to a new location, the Nave of the Grand Palais, a spectacular venue like no other in the French capital for presenting works by photographic artists, thus marking a major turning point for this important international event.
Paris Photo 2011 takes African photography as its special theme, paying tribute to the rich breadth and diversity of work produced by the continent’s creative talent in this field, from Bamako to Cape Town. A total of 118 international galleries, representing France and 29 other countries, have been selected to present the best of nineteenth-century, modern and contemporary photography in the heart of Paris.
Last year, Paris Photo 2010 welcomed some 38,000 visitors, ranging from amateur and professional photographers to photography enthusiasts and collectors. Taking on greater prominence with its move to the Grand Palais, Paris Photo continues to develop activities for all of its visitors, always with the objective of making a vital contribution to, and exploring interconnections with, the city’s cultural programming. For example, Paris Photo organises personalised itineraries for its VIPs through the city’s cultural institutions and other venues so as to treat them to the best of what the current Paris arts scene has to offer. Again this year, Paris Photo aims to welcome the participation of over thirty cultural institutions, organisations and patrons. The Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art Français (ADIAF), La Maison Rouge, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Metz, the Photographer’s Gallery and the Tate in London, the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO) in Geneva and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne have already announced their presence at Paris Photo 2011.
More Information:
http://www.parisphoto.fr/
Steve McCurry Wins Leica Hall of Fame award.
Steve McCurry is the recipient of the 2011 Leica Hall of Fame award.
The prize is awarded to photographers who have rendered outstanding service to the Leica brand and to the genre of photography.
For more than three decades, 61-year-old McCurry has been on the road as a documentary photographer at the world’s trouble spots and has obtained many awards for his work. Since 1986, Steve McCurry has been a member of Magnum Photos, the renowned photographic agency.
Tallinn Month of Photography
October is photography month in Tallinn, Estonia.
Tallinn (Photographer: Rasmus Jurkatam)
Main Opening events:
October 5
Solo show Freedom Square by Jaan Klõsheiko
Where: Gallery Vabaduse
October 6
BEYOND
(Look at my face: my name is Might Have Been;
I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell)
Where: Kumu Art Museum
Participating artists:
Helena Almeida, John Baldessari, Becky Beasley, Iñaki Bonillas
Stefan Burger, Miriam Böhm, Banu Cennetoglu, Sunah Choi, Haris
Epaminonda, Geoffrey Farmer, Dénes Farkas, John Gerrard,
Jack Goldstein, Caroline Heider, Anette Kelm, Elad Lassry,
Tatiana Lecomte, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Marlo Pascual, Alexandre Singh.
October 7
A Lecture by Liz Wells (the editor of Photography Reader)
Supported by British Council
Where: Kumu Art Museum
ReSearching Baltics
Curated by Vytautas Michelkevicius
Where: Tallinn Art Hall
Download the Month of Photography schedule (pdf) Contact: info@fotokuu.ee Website: www.fotokuu.ee
STOCKinRUSSIA 2011
An international stock photography conference will be held in Moscow on September 30, 2011 and October 1, 2011.The organizer of the Conference STOCKinRUSSIA is traditional microstock agency PressFoto. The two days are filled with presentations, seminars and workshops.
For more information visit: http://www.stockinrussia.ru/
Baltic Nature Photography Festival 2011
Press Release:
Photography is one of the most fast spreading hobbies. This is due to cheaper and cheaper camera prices, the large number of photo contests and the fast growth of social media, which makes people to present more and more and even better pictures.
According to the latest data, there are 6.83 million people living in the Baltic States and 2.5 million households out of whom, 100 000 people have reflex cameras and more than 1 million people have compact cameras.
Thinking of those people, we have created a website I AM Photographer (www.iamphotographer.eu), which aim is to develop, motivate and offer entertainment for the amateur photographers of the Baltic States as well as for the professional photographers. I AM Photographer aggregates contests and exhibitions, camps and summer days, conferences, seminars and tuitions – organised by ourselves or whoever would like to introduce their events on our website. Presenting photos on the website through different events enables you to introduce yourself and your pictures to other members or to all the people around the world. Becoming a member of I AM Photographer website is free of charge and we also do not have a membership fee. Members always get the most updated information about the photo events of the Baltic States.
I AM Photographer is organising the next big pan-Baltic event – Baltic Nature Photography Festival 2011
The festival includes three different events:
- Baltic Nature Photography Contest 2011
- Baltic Farm Photography Contest 2011
- Baltic Nature Conference 2011
The aim of the nature photo contest is to introduce the Baltic and worldwide nature. After the contest, it is possible to look at all the presented photos from the exhibition gallery of the organiser’s web page.
There are two categories and eight subcategories in the contest:
1. Baltic Nature
- Baltic landscape
- Baltic animals
- Baltic birds
- A creative sight of the Baltic nature
2. World nature
- World landscape
- World animals
- World birds
- A creative sight of the world nature
Two Grand Prix are given out – the best picture of the Baltic nature and the best picture of the world nature. The main prize in both categories is Nikon D3s body, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED lens and SB-900 speedlight. There are special prizes for the winners of subcategories, and three best photos of each category get noted.
To take part in Baltic Nature Photography Contest 2011, you can upload pictures to the organiser’s web page from 1st September to 3rd October 2011.
The contest fee is 25 Euros; each contestant can upload up to ten photos.
The aim of the Baltic Farm Photography Contest is to introduce the Baltic farm life. After the contest, it is possible to look at all the contest photos from the exhibition gallery of the organiser’s web page. In addition, we are organising a travelling exhibition of the 25 best photos, which is put up in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There is more information about the places of exhibitions on the organiser’s web page.
There are three categories the Baltic Farm Photography contest:
- Farm life
- Farm landscape
- Farmer portrait
A Grand Prix is given out – the Best Baltic Farm Photo. The main prize is Nikon D7000 kit 18-200mm VR II. There are special prizes for the winners of subcategories and for the best picture from each country. The three best photos from each category get noted.
To take part in Baltic Farm Photography Contest 2011, you can upload pictures to the organiser’s web page from 1st September to 3rd October 2011.
The contest is free of charge, and each contestant can upload up to ten photos.
On 4th and 5th November, the Nature Photo festival takes place in Riga, who celebrates its 810th birthday. The winner of “Baltic Farm Photo 2011“ and the winner of “Baltic Nature 2011“ are announced and the nature photography conference is held.
The main talker of the conference is a photographer and the executive director of Wonders of Europe, Staffan Widstrand, who, in addition to performing on the conference, also carries out a seminar to where, only a limited amount of tickets are available. In addition, one of the best Estonian nature photographers Sven Začek and English photogaphers David Hosking and Dennis Orchard take part in the conference.
The ticket to the conference costs 15 Euros and it can be bought from the organiser’s web page from 1st September.
In the evening of 5th of November, there is a prize ceremony, which is hosted by the television and stage star Mart Sander. At the festival gala dinner, the prizes for the winners of both contests are given. All the contestants of the nature photography contest and the authors of 25 best photos from the farm photography contest are welcome to the gala dinner.
The organiser organises a buss transport Tallinn-Riga-Tallinn and Vilnius-Riga-Vilnius for the participants of the conference. The two-way bus ticket is 5 Euros.
Festival partners are Nikon, Epson, Estonian Farmers Federation, Latvian Agricultural Organization Cooperation Council (LAOCC), Latvian Farmers Parliament (LFP) and Lithuanian Farmers’ Union.
Additional information from the organiser:
Anne-Ly Mitt
phone: +372 6411 502
e-mail: annely@instituteofphotography.eu
MTÜ Institute of Photography
www.iamphotographer.eu