Portfolio Review
Once again, a Portfolio Review will be organised in the framework of the 6th European Month of Photography (MdF Berlin), to be held this year in collaboration with the BTK University of Applied Sciences of Berlin. Forty national and international experts are available for discussion with freelance photographers, artists, and photography students in advanced semesters.
Short Overview
Where: BTK, Bernburger Straße 24/25, 10963 Berlin
When: November 1–2, 2014
Participation fee: Three talks for € 75.00, six talks for € 130.00
Application deadline: September 12, 2014 // EXTENDED until September 24, 2014
Prices
First Prize: A solo exhibition in the dat Galerie as well as a 1,500.00 € voucher for exhibition prints with the Grieger company in Düsseldorf
Second Prize: 1,000.00 €
Third Prize: 500.00 €
Here you find detailed information for applicants and the eligibility requirements.
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Pavel Banka
Editor-in-chief of FOTOGRAF – international magazine on photography and visual culture
Pavel Banka
Editor-in-chief of FOTOGRAF – international magazine on photography and visual culture
Pavel Banka is an artist-photographer. In 2002 he co-founded FOTOGRAF Magazine and has been editor-in-chief since that time. FOTOGRAF is a semi-annual, comprehensive 120-page magazine publishing the work of photographers and other artists working in photography and related arts, with two language versions (Czech/English). Each issue is focused on one common theme and features a wide range of both emerging and established Czech and international artists. An electronic version of FOTOGRAF Magazine was recently launched for tablet computers.
The FOTOGRAF Gallery was founded in 2009 in central Prague and the FOTOGRAF Festival, an annual photo festival based in Prague, started in 2011. All of these activities are open for artists working in the field of photography and related media. FOTOGRAF Platform is an umbrella organisation encompassing all three parts of the program – magazine, gallery and festival. Pavel Banka was a FOTOGRAF Platform co-founder and currently a chairperson of the organisation.Interested in:
Seeing work that is personal, innovative and attempts to open the range of photography towards a perspective of contemporary art. There are no restrictions for the subject of work; only the originality and the freshness is important. Pavel Banka looks forward to seeing the artists who will bring a new vision into the contemporary photography art scene.
Offer:
Innovative work might be published in FOTOGRAF Magazine.
Categories:
Festival makers, Newspaper, Gallery
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Reinout van den Bergh
Photographer and curator for the BREDAPHOTO Festival, Breda (NL)
Reinout van den Bergh
Photographer and curator for the BREDAPHOTO Festival, Breda (NL)
Reinout van den Bergh studied photography and audiovisual design at the St Joost Academy for Visual Arts Breda, the Netherlands. Since 1982 he has worked from Breda as freelance photographer and audiovisual designer. In this capacity he has travelled through Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the USA, and Latin America. Besides his own photography, he worked for the dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, the Royal Tropical Institute, various ethnographical museums, and development cooperation projects. He is mainly inspired by recurring daily events in the lives of ordinary people, how they live, eat and drink, work, sleep, dream, and love. As photographer he captures the feelings of others in an honest, stylish, and respectful way. His work has been exhibited in various museums throughout Europe and Africa and published in various books and publications.
Since 2007 Reinout van den Bergh is curator of the international BREDAPHOTO Festival.Interested in:
photographers who work with passion.
Categories:
Curators, Festival makers, Photographer
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Michaela Bosakova
Curator and Project Manager for the European Month of Photography in Bratislava (SK)
Michaela Bosakova
Curator and Project Manager for the European Month of Photography in Bratislava (SK)
Michaela Bosakova studied art history at the Comenius-University in Bratislava. She was Head Curator of CEHF. She was also the production editor of the first volume of the encyclopaedia The History of European Photography 1900–1938. She will also be the project manager for the next two volumes. Michaela Bosakova co-produces The European Month of Photography festival in Bratislava. Furthermore she cooperates with several cultural magazines.
Interested in:
something more than just a photograph.
Offer:
support for young talent with future cooperation and exhibiting.
Categories:
Curators, Festival makers