with the slogan Let’s celebrate! photoAlicante going to her this year tenth anniversary with a double goal: to celebrate ten years of shared images, and also stop to gain momentum and pressing new air this international contemporary photography festival happening every month March in the city. So far, because one of the goals for the future is cTurn the festival into a brand While most of the events, which identify photography with Alicante, will continue in March, “the idea is that the programming was reduced a bit in those days because it was so extensive. keep working all yearexplains the festival’s director, Leonidas Spinelli “We’ve had a lot of activities so far focused on a single month, but as we look to this future, we need to go further,” he adds. dynamic, flexible and spaced in time, so The festival is identified with the city and the countryside”.
Among these events, in addition to exhibitions or talks outside of much of the festival, Spinelli points out: Collaborations with other festivals and institutionsparticipation publications or mediation with other artistic disciplines dance, painting or audiovisual. One of those offerings includes collaborating with creative photography and audiovisual guesthouses launched this year. cigarettesas well as the continued existence of schoolsalready started with the program Create, care and collaboratefor the dissemination of photography among schoolchildren.
“In March, we will hold the main exhibitions, street interventions and conversations that will determine the line of the festival at its climax, but after that we want to hold an event. stronger online presence and digital meeting with the public“Given the transformation this field has undergone, it offers a more interactive and cross-cultural dynamic”, states the director.
own collection
One of the biggest innovations is that the festival will start from this tenth edition. own photo collection through the purchase of works by artists and photographers who have participated in or have participated in previous editions. As Spinelli explains, about ten percent of the budget will go this year Acquisition of works by new authorsthose who need support with their projectors and help with other projects such as editing photo books.
public tender
On the other hand, for the first time this year, a public call for elections was opened. exhibitions It will host the Las Cigarreras cultural center, the nerve center of the festival. Thus, the projects that will occupy this area have already been selected and are as follows: Mato Grossorelated to Rachel Bravo; How far is a light year?related to joel jimenez, false communionrelated to Easter + Vincent; (brackets)related to Jorge Perez Higuera; The country that was neverrelated to vanessa rock Y Wealth and rural childrenrelated to Virginia Villacisla.
Appointments
However, PhotoAlicante will continue to celebrate its tenth anniversary. from 3 to 26 March in its usual form, although smaller, approx. a dozen exhibits with some pictures thirty writers, and urban interventions will be limited to these. three At Casa de la Festa, in the Central Market and on the steps of IES Jorge Juan.
BePhoto international congress, 23-25 Marchcompetitions such as the Vila de Sant Joan Award, which received nearly 500 bids last year, with six speakers and various workshops remained intact.
Source: Informacion
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