Research - Festivals

Photo Month Krakow (2013 May-June)

• Focused on fashion mainly. 
• Looking at what we wear. 
• And why we chose to wear it.
• How we present and represent the clothes we wear.

The Limits Of Fashion

• 20 projects analysing the leading theme.
• Variety of overviewing fashion photography.
• F.C Gundlach Collection
• Ghislain Dussart 

Presented into a fashion periodical, May Magazine.

Financial Support

• European Regional Development Fund.
• Municipality of Krakow.
• Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
• Malopolska 

Photo Espana Madrid (2013 5 June- 28 July)

• Eros and Politics
• The the focal point for the 16th edition of the Madrid International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, bringing together over 70 exhibitions at different venues around the city, all attempting to decipher the body/message relationship.

Location:

• Madrid - The Fine Arts Circle is one of the main venues for PHotoEspaña. 

Photographers: 

• Zbigniew Dlubak
• Fernando Brito
• Laura Torrado
• Shirin Neshat
• Violeta Bubelyte
• František Drtikol
• Manolo Laguillo
• Azucena Vieites
• Darren Almond 
• Mark Shaw

Financial Support:

• Ministry of Culture 
• Regional and Municipal Governments of Madrid. 
• La Fábrica, a cultural management entity.

Brief

• Regional, National and International understanding of markets and contexts.
• To develop, adapt and transfer skills.
• Evaluate and understand international photographic practice.

• Define the location and theme.
• Identify a practitioner who will work well in the festival.
• 500 word critique on the chosen practitioner.
• Individual body of work, based on the festival theme.
• 500 word evaluation on own work with the festival.