The Athens Photo Festival 2018 brings together over 120 emerging and established international artists with the aim to reflect the diversity of contemporary photography, and to create opportunities for exchange of ideas, artistic expression and international engagement.
The 2018 main exhibitions will take place until July, 29th 2018, at the Benaki Museum (Pireos St. Annexe).
This year plainpicture creative director Roman Härer participates as an expert for the Rencontres d'Arles Festival and a portfolio reviewer at the Voies Off Festival.
He will stay in Arles from July 2nd - 7th.
f/stop Leipzig is one of the most important photography festivals in Germany. Exhibitions and symposia conceived by guest curators offer a platform for artistic, curatorial and academic work that explores social issues utilizing the resources and potential of photography. The main exhibition, f/stop Print, the f/stop Symposium, and other programme sections take place at the historical Baumwollspinnerei (cotton mill) in Leipzig. Various Leipzig-based organizations, project spaces, and galleries enhance the festival with their own events
ongoing until July, 1st 2018
plainpicture photographer Heiko Hellwig has been awarded for two work series at the Prix de la Photographie, Paris (p×3), a competition to introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris.
Gold in the category Fine Art / Abstract for Silicon Cities
Honorable Mention in the category Nature / Domestic Animals for KOI
See more of his work here.
RITES SYMBOLES LIBERTÉ
Land, country, forty-eight photographers. The festival was founded in 2014 in the Basque Country, an area between France and Spain with a strong identity and a rich culture.
It presents the diversity of beliefs and myths within the region as the driving principle of human communities showing images of both the plurality of the interpretation of the sacred.
Les chemins de la Photographie d'Ascain - Azkaingo Argazki bideak, Ascain, France
09.06. - 09.08.2018
This group exhibition is part of the Triennal of Photography in Hamburg. plainpicture photographer Andrea Diefenbach is taking part with her project "Land ohne Eltern - Country without parents". She portrayed children who are left behind in Moldova by their parents, who earn their money in Italy - laboriously and sometimes illegally.
Exhibition to be seen at the: Pavillon 3 – Große Bergstraße / Ecke Altonaer Poststraße, Altona
Find more information on: http://phototriennale.de/en/exhibitions/home/
unlearning x rethinking x restarting - The Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2018 is intended to engage audiences, inspire action and invoke change.
It is a time to reflect, unlearn, rethink and restart. Photography is a powerful tool to convey the message.
June - September 2018
Find more information on http://www.phototriennale.de/en/
Featured on www.bookofthemonth.com!
Beautiful portrait cover image by plainpicture photographer Sarah Toure:
photo basel brings together galleries from around the world in a unique, authentic setting. For its collectors, visitors or buyers – photo basel is an active platform which fosters the dialog between all actors of the photography community and beyond.
During Art Basel week 2018.
Public show days: June 12 - 17, 2018 at the Volkshaus Basel
A fantastical dream trip into the heart of the Japanese metropolis - an exhibition by plainpicture photographer Florent Drillon at the Maison Moustache in Paris, June 16th - 17th, 2018.
Opening evening: June 14th, 2018