"There are more than 100 photo festivals around the world where professionals can swap ideas and gain contacts. But where does the newly qualified photographer fit in?
With more than 100 photo festivals around the world to choose from, and new ones springing up each year, their popularity shows no signs of waning. For the industry professional and professional photographer alike, photo festivals are often crucial for making valuable contacts, keeping up with trends and creating a space where ideas can be exchanged away from the pressures of daily deadlines. But what do they offer the newly qualified photographer with fewer contacts and even less experience of networking? Are they really worth the airfare? Or would the money be better spent adding finishing touches to that newly designed website? To answer this, I looked at three European photo festivals."
Useful insight to photography festivals and a good read prior to researching them individual. Another broad article on photography festivals was found on the telegraph and helped initially source some festivals to further investigate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7634593/International-Photography-Festival-Round-up.html
Derby, UK
08 March - 07 April 2013
This year's programme will be under the theme FACTORY.
MOPLA
Los Angeles, USA
2013 dates to be announced (31 March - 30 April 2012)
MOPLA was established and exists to advance the celebration of Photography through a variety of events and programs designed to inspire and invigorate the photography professional, enthusiast, emerging professional and collector.
World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards
Somerset House, London, England
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 20 May 2012)
A link to the daily schedule of events can be seen here
Hyeres Fashion and Photography Festival
Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France.
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 27 May 2012)
Diverse exhibitions, professional panel discussions and two competitions showcasing 10 photographers and 10 fashion designers selected by a jury of professionals in each field.
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
Toronto, Canada
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 31 May 2012)
Full programme to be announced
Diffusion Photography Festival
Cardiff, Wales
1 - 31 May 2013
A month long festival of exhibitions, discussions, screenings, performances, events and celebrations in both physical and virtual spaces and places.
Liverpool Look
Liverpool, England
16 May - 15 June 2013
Taking place in venues across the city, it will present an exciting mix of events, exhibitions, participative projects and public realm works. LOOK13 asks 'who do you think you are?'. It looks at what happens when we turn the camera on ourselves and others, to explore or project images about identity, subjectivity and the self. The theme will be developed through a wide range of material, from historical archives to cutting-edge contemporary work by photographers from Liverpool, the UK and beyond.
Photomonth in Krákow
Krákow, Poland
2013 dates to be announced (May 17 - June 17 2012)
Programme yet to be announced
International Festival of Photography Łódz
Łodz, Poland
2013 dates to be announced (May 10 - 20 2012)
Workshops, meet the authors and portfolio reviews.
New York Photo Festival
New York, USA
2013 dates to be announced (16 - 20 May 2012)
The goal of the New York Photo Festival is to identify and document the future of photography in all its forms.
Every year, a select group of internationally-respected curators are called upon to deliver their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography, each exhibited in their own pavilion and promising to draw the attention of the entire photographic community.
Guernsey Photography Festival
Channel Islands, UK
2013 dates to be announced (24 May - 22 June 2012)
The annual festival offers a variety of indoor and outdoor photography exhibitions throughout St Peter Port as well as a month-long programme packed full of talks, workshops, film screenings and competitions. This year's festival is centred around the theme of 'journey' and will feature work by world-renowned photographers as well as a host of emerging talent.
Many of the participating photographers will visit Guernsey to discuss their work in a series of talks.
Photomed
Sanary-sur-Mer (South of France)
2013 dates to be announced (24 May - 17 June 2012)
Second edition of the Mediterranean Photography Festival: Massimo Vitali, Morrocan photography, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Bernard Faucon, Bernard Plossu, Walter Carone, Martine Voyeux, Gérard Rondeau, Nermine Hammam, Massimo Cristaldi, Scarlett Coten.
Tbilisi Photography Festival
Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 dates to be announced (29 May - 4 June 2012)
The festival aims to showcase the best of world photography—with renowned photographer Stanley Greene as this year’s honoured guest—as well as making a name for itself as a central meeting point of photography from a variety of different worlds—Asia, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Russia and the Arab world.
Flash Forward Festival
Boston, USA
2013 dates to be announced (7 - 12 June 2012)
Emerging photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Photo España
Madrid, Spain
2013 dates to be announced (6 June - 22 July 2012)
Photoespaña attracts over 600,000 visitors each year. The heart of the festival is located along the Paseo de Castellana, Madrid, that runs through the city centre. Organised by La Fábrica.
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 dates to be announced (7 - 17 June 2012)
This year's program will expand and take the interaction of contemporary art, photography and urban space a level further by launching exhibitions in all subway trains, on central squares, and a large scale exhibition will again this year transform most of the old brewing area of Carlsberg in to a big Photo City with more than 5000 square meters of photography. Add lots of different and independent events, artist talks and exhibitions at galleries and museums through out the Capital.
Internationales Fotografiefestival F/Stop
Leipzig Germany
2013 dates to be announced (23 June - 1 July 2012)
Features workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and portfolio reviews.
PhotoIreland
Dublin, Ireland
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 31 July 2012)
Celebrating its 3rd edition in 2012, PhotoIreland Festival will explore the theme 'Migrations: Diaspora & Cultural Identity', showcasing some of the finest national and international contemporary photography in and around Dublin city, highlighting the importance of Photography & Image Culture in Ireland.
Rencontres d’Arles
Arles, France
2013 dates to be announced (2 Jul—23 September 2012)
The programme will be announced at a press conference in Spring 2013. Portfolio review registration begins end of April, email photofolio@rencontres-arles.com for details.
Each year thousands descend on the small town of Arles in the south of France for a week-long photographic celebration. Photography is everywhere – in churches and ruins, in old factories and swish lobbies, official town buildings and stately palais.
Fotopub
Novo mesto, Slovenia
2013 dates to be announced (23 July - 18 August 2012)
Belfast Photo Festival
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Next festival in 2013 (4 - 14 August 2011)
Margate Photo Festival
Margate, Kent, UK
2013 dates to be announced (10 -12 August 2012)
A contemporary photography festival which promotes socially engaged art. Curators are given £250 pounds, irrespective of status or experience, to print and design their space. Effectively this levels the playing field, creating a reliance on conceptual content and curatorial innovation rather than the name of the artists or quality of the prints. Funding is also reduced to a minimum to keep as much control in the hands of the festival and the people we work with. It’s our ultimate intention to become completely self-funded.
Visa pour l’image
Perpignan, France
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 16 September (Professionals week 3 – 9 Sep 2012))
Taking place in the winding streets of old-town Perpignan, this festival features many exhibitions from photographers reporting on wars, nature, the environment, people, religious issues, and social phenomena. The festival is mostly photojournalistic in nature, and many photographers attend during professional week, which costs €60 for accreditation and allows entrance to portfolio reviews. Failing that, just sit in the Café de la Poste all day and meet everyone there.
Internationale Photoszene Köln
Köln, Germany
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 30 September 2012)
Special events on the main weekend and a photo exhibition covering all themes. Also on the agenda is a Portfolio Review for ‘young photographers’ and podium discussions in cooperation with various associations, other organisations and publishers. Nearest airport is Hamburg or Lübeck, with regular trains to Kiel.
Noorderlicht International Photofestival
Groningen, Netherlands
2013 dates to be announced (2 September - 7 October 2012)
Photoquai Biennial
Paris, France
Next festival 2013
A biennial exhibition of world images organised by the musée du Quai Branly along the quays of the Seine, at musée du quai Branly and in the museum’s gardens.
Brighton Photo Biennial
Brighton, England
2013 dates to be announced (6 October - 4 November 2012)
Brighton Photo Biennial is the largest photography festival in the UK and with 60,000 visitors in 2010, one of the best attended in the world. Previous editions have been curated by Martin Parr (2010), Julian Stallabrass (2008) , Gilane Tawadros (2006) and Jeremy Millar (2003) Following the merge with Photoworks in 2011, the fifth edition of the Biennial will be curated & delivered by Photoworks, presenting new commissions and working in partnership with national organisations and partners across the city.
Hereford Photography Festival
Hereford, England
2013 dates to be announced (26 October - 24 November 2012)
Hereford Photography Festival has always been a photographers’ project; started by enthusiasts and sustained by artists happy to see their work reach new audiences outside of predictable city spaces. It has maintained an open submission show alongside the curated exhibitions, with many of those photographers invited back in subsequent years.’
Paris Photo
Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013 dates to be announced (15 - 18 November 2012)
With 135 galleries and publishers coming from twenty or so countries and more than 50,000 visitors, Paris Photo presents the best of photography from its origins to today. Heightened by its arrival at the Grand Palais, the Fair displays the richness and vitality of historical and contemporary photographic creation.
Angkor Photo Festival
Siem Reap, Cambodia
2013 dates to be announced (1 -8 December 2012)
This year, the week-long festival will showcase the work of 125 photographers, including 55 from Asia. Created in 2005, the festival is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, and seeks to be a platform to discover (or, re-discover) photographic talent from all over the world.
Los Angeles, USA
2013 dates to be announced (31 March - 30 April 2012)
MOPLA was established and exists to advance the celebration of Photography through a variety of events and programs designed to inspire and invigorate the photography professional, enthusiast, emerging professional and collector.
World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards
Somerset House, London, England
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 20 May 2012)
A link to the daily schedule of events can be seen here
Hyeres Fashion and Photography Festival
Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France.
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 27 May 2012)
Diverse exhibitions, professional panel discussions and two competitions showcasing 10 photographers and 10 fashion designers selected by a jury of professionals in each field.
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
Toronto, Canada
2013 dates to be announced (27 April - 31 May 2012)
Full programme to be announced
Diffusion Photography Festival
Cardiff, Wales
1 - 31 May 2013
A month long festival of exhibitions, discussions, screenings, performances, events and celebrations in both physical and virtual spaces and places.
Liverpool Look
Liverpool, England
16 May - 15 June 2013
Taking place in venues across the city, it will present an exciting mix of events, exhibitions, participative projects and public realm works. LOOK13 asks 'who do you think you are?'. It looks at what happens when we turn the camera on ourselves and others, to explore or project images about identity, subjectivity and the self. The theme will be developed through a wide range of material, from historical archives to cutting-edge contemporary work by photographers from Liverpool, the UK and beyond.
Photomonth in Krákow
Krákow, Poland
2013 dates to be announced (May 17 - June 17 2012)
Programme yet to be announced
International Festival of Photography Łódz
Łodz, Poland
2013 dates to be announced (May 10 - 20 2012)
Workshops, meet the authors and portfolio reviews.
New York Photo Festival
New York, USA
2013 dates to be announced (16 - 20 May 2012)
The goal of the New York Photo Festival is to identify and document the future of photography in all its forms.
Every year, a select group of internationally-respected curators are called upon to deliver their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography, each exhibited in their own pavilion and promising to draw the attention of the entire photographic community.
Guernsey Photography Festival
Channel Islands, UK
2013 dates to be announced (24 May - 22 June 2012)
The annual festival offers a variety of indoor and outdoor photography exhibitions throughout St Peter Port as well as a month-long programme packed full of talks, workshops, film screenings and competitions. This year's festival is centred around the theme of 'journey' and will feature work by world-renowned photographers as well as a host of emerging talent.
Many of the participating photographers will visit Guernsey to discuss their work in a series of talks.
Photomed
Sanary-sur-Mer (South of France)
2013 dates to be announced (24 May - 17 June 2012)
Second edition of the Mediterranean Photography Festival: Massimo Vitali, Morrocan photography, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Bernard Faucon, Bernard Plossu, Walter Carone, Martine Voyeux, Gérard Rondeau, Nermine Hammam, Massimo Cristaldi, Scarlett Coten.
Tbilisi Photography Festival
Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 dates to be announced (29 May - 4 June 2012)
The festival aims to showcase the best of world photography—with renowned photographer Stanley Greene as this year’s honoured guest—as well as making a name for itself as a central meeting point of photography from a variety of different worlds—Asia, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Russia and the Arab world.
Flash Forward Festival
Boston, USA
2013 dates to be announced (7 - 12 June 2012)
Emerging photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Photo España
Madrid, Spain
2013 dates to be announced (6 June - 22 July 2012)
Photoespaña attracts over 600,000 visitors each year. The heart of the festival is located along the Paseo de Castellana, Madrid, that runs through the city centre. Organised by La Fábrica.
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 dates to be announced (7 - 17 June 2012)
This year's program will expand and take the interaction of contemporary art, photography and urban space a level further by launching exhibitions in all subway trains, on central squares, and a large scale exhibition will again this year transform most of the old brewing area of Carlsberg in to a big Photo City with more than 5000 square meters of photography. Add lots of different and independent events, artist talks and exhibitions at galleries and museums through out the Capital.
Internationales Fotografiefestival F/Stop
Leipzig Germany
2013 dates to be announced (23 June - 1 July 2012)
Features workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and portfolio reviews.
PhotoIreland
Dublin, Ireland
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 31 July 2012)
Celebrating its 3rd edition in 2012, PhotoIreland Festival will explore the theme 'Migrations: Diaspora & Cultural Identity', showcasing some of the finest national and international contemporary photography in and around Dublin city, highlighting the importance of Photography & Image Culture in Ireland.
Rencontres d’Arles
Arles, France
2013 dates to be announced (2 Jul—23 September 2012)
The programme will be announced at a press conference in Spring 2013. Portfolio review registration begins end of April, email photofolio@rencontres-arles.com for details.
Each year thousands descend on the small town of Arles in the south of France for a week-long photographic celebration. Photography is everywhere – in churches and ruins, in old factories and swish lobbies, official town buildings and stately palais.
Fotopub
Novo mesto, Slovenia
2013 dates to be announced (23 July - 18 August 2012)
Belfast Photo Festival
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Next festival in 2013 (4 - 14 August 2011)
Margate Photo Festival
Margate, Kent, UK
2013 dates to be announced (10 -12 August 2012)
A contemporary photography festival which promotes socially engaged art. Curators are given £250 pounds, irrespective of status or experience, to print and design their space. Effectively this levels the playing field, creating a reliance on conceptual content and curatorial innovation rather than the name of the artists or quality of the prints. Funding is also reduced to a minimum to keep as much control in the hands of the festival and the people we work with. It’s our ultimate intention to become completely self-funded.
Visa pour l’image
Perpignan, France
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 16 September (Professionals week 3 – 9 Sep 2012))
Taking place in the winding streets of old-town Perpignan, this festival features many exhibitions from photographers reporting on wars, nature, the environment, people, religious issues, and social phenomena. The festival is mostly photojournalistic in nature, and many photographers attend during professional week, which costs €60 for accreditation and allows entrance to portfolio reviews. Failing that, just sit in the Café de la Poste all day and meet everyone there.
Internationale Photoszene Köln
Köln, Germany
2013 dates to be announced (1 - 30 September 2012)
Special events on the main weekend and a photo exhibition covering all themes. Also on the agenda is a Portfolio Review for ‘young photographers’ and podium discussions in cooperation with various associations, other organisations and publishers. Nearest airport is Hamburg or Lübeck, with regular trains to Kiel.
Noorderlicht International Photofestival
Groningen, Netherlands
2013 dates to be announced (2 September - 7 October 2012)
Photoquai Biennial
Paris, France
Next festival 2013
A biennial exhibition of world images organised by the musée du Quai Branly along the quays of the Seine, at musée du quai Branly and in the museum’s gardens.
Brighton Photo Biennial
Brighton, England
2013 dates to be announced (6 October - 4 November 2012)
Brighton Photo Biennial is the largest photography festival in the UK and with 60,000 visitors in 2010, one of the best attended in the world. Previous editions have been curated by Martin Parr (2010), Julian Stallabrass (2008) , Gilane Tawadros (2006) and Jeremy Millar (2003) Following the merge with Photoworks in 2011, the fifth edition of the Biennial will be curated & delivered by Photoworks, presenting new commissions and working in partnership with national organisations and partners across the city.
Hereford Photography Festival
Hereford, England
2013 dates to be announced (26 October - 24 November 2012)
Hereford Photography Festival has always been a photographers’ project; started by enthusiasts and sustained by artists happy to see their work reach new audiences outside of predictable city spaces. It has maintained an open submission show alongside the curated exhibitions, with many of those photographers invited back in subsequent years.’
Paris Photo
Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013 dates to be announced (15 - 18 November 2012)
With 135 galleries and publishers coming from twenty or so countries and more than 50,000 visitors, Paris Photo presents the best of photography from its origins to today. Heightened by its arrival at the Grand Palais, the Fair displays the richness and vitality of historical and contemporary photographic creation.
Angkor Photo Festival
Siem Reap, Cambodia
2013 dates to be announced (1 -8 December 2012)
This year, the week-long festival will showcase the work of 125 photographers, including 55 from Asia. Created in 2005, the festival is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, and seeks to be a platform to discover (or, re-discover) photographic talent from all over the world.
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