Photobookfest will take part in Cosmosсow Automatic translate

The first PHOTOBOOKFEST photo book festival in Russia will be presented at the Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair. From September 8 to 10, at the PHOTOBOOKFEST stand, you will be able to find out the results of the main photobook event of the year, as well as see the publications included in the final of the festival’s competition program, including “I, Oblomov” by Ikuru Kuvadzhima.

The debut PHOTOBOOKFEST was held in May 2017 at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography and included competitive, educational and exhibition blocks, as well as a portfolio review for photographers. For the period of the festival, the Center of Photography has become a platform for international communication. More than thirty specialists delivered lectures and master classes, including: Leslie A. Martin (USA, art director of Aperture Publishing House), Dieter Neubert (Germany, curator of the Kassel Fotobook Festival), Peter Puclus (Hungary, artist), Salvatore Vitale )Switzerland, artist, editor of Yet Magazine), as well as Igor Mukhin (Moscow, photographer), Nadezhda Sheremetova (St. Petersburg, curator of the Photo Department), Yana Romanova (St. Petersburg, photographer) and many others.

The mission of PHOTOBOOKFEST is to open a photo book to a wide audience as an actual format for artistic expression, to provide the opportunity for horizontal connections, international exchange of experience and live communication.

The next PHOTOBOOKFEST will be held in the spring of 2018, will present an equally brilliant program and will bring together Russian and foreign experts, artists, curators, designers, publishers! However, throughout the year, the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography plans exhibition and educational projects aimed at supporting and promoting modern photography and the photographic book in Russia.

Follow the news on the festival’s official website http://photobookfest.com/ and on the website of the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography www.lumiere.ru

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