23.09 – 02.10.2022
International Festival of Analog Photography Lovers - Vintage Photo Festival - is a cyclical event born in 2015 out of a passion for traditional photography and a deep conviction that old photographic techniques are experiencing a renaissance today. Despite the great revolution and evolution in digital photography, we can see a return, or even a rebirth, of traditional so-called analog photography. Film cameras are returning to favor, as evidenced by the observations of photographic film manufacturers such as Kodak, which in recent years has reinstated the production of several types of negative films withdrawn from the market. Increasingly younger artists are making so-called analog photography their medium of expression.
The idea of the festival is based on the rich photographic traditions of Bydgoszcz, where, until the 1990s, the country's second largest factory producing photographic materials, FOTON, operated. On the basis of this cultural heritage, we have created a precursor festival dedicated to traditional photography, whose strength is a modern educational and animation platform. The aim of the festival is to promote traditional photography and present current trends in this field.
The Vintage Photo Festival is the only such opportunity in Poland, and the first in the world, to have access to so many exhibitions, author meetings and photography workshops on old photographic techniques in one place and time. Guests of the festival so far have included Ewa Rubinstein, Tadeusz Rolke, Laurent Benaïm, Amy Friend, Rie Yamada, Eric Schütt, Teresa Gierzynska, Wojciech Prażmowski, Marja Pirilä, among others. In addition, we presented works by Masha Ivashinova, Tomasz Gudzowaty, Bogdan Konopka, Tonje Bøe Birkeland and many others.
Read more at: https://www.vintagephotofestival.com
