12.09 – 13.10.2024 / Bydgoszcz / Pomerania and Kuyavia
Will artificial intelligence replace analog photography?
This question will be answered The 10th edition of the Vintage Photo Festival, the International Festival of Analog Photography Enthusiasts.
- One of the oldest and largest festivals dedicated to analog photography in Europe.
- Exhibition of legendary French model and photographer Sarah Moon
- Special guest Magdalena Wosinska - One of the most respected young photographers in the US
- Photo exhibition Agnieszka Osiecka
- Meet & Mix conference With the participation of representatives of analog photography festivals from around the world (including Australia, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy)
- A rich program of accompanying events: workshops, film screenings, meetings with filmmakers, in total. about 40 events
- The main festival space in Gallery of Modern Art of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz (8 Mint Street, Bydgoszcz)
Modern and ancient faces of analog photography, which is the 10th anniversary edition of the Vintage Photo Festival in Bydgoszcz. The city has for years boasted rich photographic traditions, as well as contemporary efforts to rediscover analog photography. It was here that for decades the famous Foton Brom papers for black and white photography were produced, on which Polish artists created their art. And it is here that the whole world descends in nostalgia for old photography.Meanwhile, in the past more than a year and a half, there have been about 15 billion images created with the help of AI, which is about as many photos as were taken during the first 150 years of photography's existence. The presence of artificial intelligence in photography can also be seen in photo contests. Nevertheless, we are still seeing a growing the trend for analog photography, which, paradoxically, is experiencing a renaissance precisely thanks to advances in digitization. Therefore, the motto of this year's festival is "Legacy" understood as a legacy of various traditional photography techniques, photographic archives or concepts that shape contemporary trends, and will provoke a look at the desire to preserve heritage in the face of rapidly developing technologies.
SARAH MOON MAGDALENA WOSINSKA
AGNIESZKA OSIECKA
BERRY PRZYBYLAK GRZEGORZ PRZYB PRZYBOREK
ZOFIA KULIK
JOZEF ROBAKOWSKI
CATHERINE KOZYRA
ANDRZEJ RÓŻYCZKI
NATALIA LL
MICHAEL WAÑSKI
LISEN STIBECK
The 10th Vintage Photo Festival features, as befits an anniversary edition, big names. In cooperation with Rezo Agency, the exhibition "The Red Thread" on loan from Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm will visit Bydgoszcz. Sarah Moon, who began her career as a model, quickly transferred her passion to the other side of the lens, becoming a photography icon. She has created for some of the most famous fashion houses such as. Dior, Yohji Yamamoto, Chanel, Comme des Garçons and Cacharel. Her unique style and approach to fashion photography have won her worldwide recognition. At the festival's opening gala, she will receive the "Golden Roll" statuette for lifetime achievement.
Another exhibition not to be missed is the photo show Magdalena Wosińska. One of the special guests of the 10th edition of the festival will be Magdalena Wosinska one of the most respected photographers in the United States, who has been creating most of her work on film since the beginning of her career. She has worked with some of the world's biggest stars, such as Helen Mirren, George Clooney, Ben Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix. An important place at the festival is occupied by the works of contemporary artists, who turn to old photographic techniques as a means of expression. As every year, the finalists of the competition will present their works Vintage Grand Prix, which aims to show The latest and most interesting trends in analog photography. Individual exhibitions will also be presented by finalists from previous years in the program, we will show, among others "Limfa" project awarded at the 20th edition of Catherine Krynski's prestigious Julia Margaret Cameron Award, an analog photography enthusiast who works with light-sensitive materials and experiments with 19th-century photographic processes. In turn Iwona Germanek will show his latest series "Scent," in which he combines photographic archives with original painting techniques.
Exhibition by Swedish artist Lisen Stibeck, Interwoven Visions, presented at the Dimbola Museum as part of the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Victorian photographer's home opening to the public, Julia Margaret Cameron, consists of a selection of photographs that enter into a dialogue with the craft and artistic vision of one of the most revered artists of the 19th century. Lisen Stibeck's photography employs traditional and modern photographic techniques, exploring the theme of universal female experience and the manifestation of oneiric reality.
An outdoor exhibition will appear in the city space. At the slab of the old market able Photoplasticon, presenting an exhibition of archival photographs of Bydgoszcz in cooperation with the National Digital Archive.
The renaissance of analog photography is also reflected in festivals dedicated to traditional photography emerging around the world. During the 10th edition of the festival, the public will have the opportunity to participate in the "Meet and Mix" conference, which will feature representatives of festivals from Australia, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Finland, among others. This will be a unique opportunity to present their work in front of an international jury during the planned portfolio review.
A particularly strong point of the Vintage Photo Festival is the popularization of the archives of women artists who created valuable phenomena in Polish and foreign contemporary art after 1945. Undoubtedly, among this group can be counted Jagoda Przybylak. In cooperation with the Arton Foundation, the following will be presented The first posthumous exhibition of the artist's works.
There will also be a theme of photography as a form of note-taking, an exhibition of photos Agnieszka Osiecka. The artist, a great observer, treated photography as a tool for looking at others.An exhibition of Osiecka's work will be shown during the Bydgoszcz festival courtesy of MOCAK.
In addition, the main partner of this year's edition, the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum, will present a fragment of its extremely rich collection of photographs, Among the authors are: Grzegorz Przyborek, Tadeusz Wanski, Zofia Kulik, Józef Robakowski, Andrzej Różycki, or Joanna Rajkowska, Natalia LL, Katarzyna Kozyra.
Unique materials from the archives will also be presented Mariusz Hermanowicz from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, under the care of the Archeology of Photography Foundation. The exhibition combines the author's photographs and previously unpublished notebooks, mailers, poetic works and typescripts, bringing out the relationship between words and images in his work.
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Partners: Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum, Rother's Mills, Museum of Photography in Bydgoszcz, FUJI, Bydgoszcz Art Center, Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, REZO Agency, Nardowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, MOCAK, Social Archivist Center, Municipal Cultural Center in Bydgoszcz,
Media Patrons: VOGUE, Artinfo.pl, fotopolis.pl, Contemporary Lynx, Digital Camera Polska, Kwartalnik FOTOGRAFIA, RMF Classic, Encounters with Monuments, Wysokie Obcasy, TVP Bydgoszcz
The project is co-financed by the City of Bydgoszcz and the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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