Poznan Photo Award 2023 is launched - The first edition of the nationwide annual press and documentary photography contest. Adult photographers from all over the country are invited to participate. PNF 2023 consists of two competition categories: a Poznan-based and a nationwide one.
1. In the first one, the maximum will be evaluated 30-photo sets of event photos from Poznan and its agglomeration taken after 2005. The organizers are waiting for stories that are a photographic, synthesis of the modernity of the capital of Wielkopolska.
2. In the second category - nationwide - will be evaluated at most 30-photo photo-essays, photo-reportages or photo-documentaries, which in the theme or attitude of the photographer will be "tender narratives" and which were created contemporaneously (after 2005) in Poland.
All works should be submitted from May 1 to September 4, 2023. Also in September, a professional jury, composed of prominent representatives of the photographic and artistic community: photographers, curators, visual artists - will select the best works. The chairman of the first edition will be a Poznan-born writer, reporter and photographer -. Filip Springer.
Winners in both categories can expect financial prizes of 10,000 zlotys, as well as publication of their works in the form of a photobook. The winning and commended sets will be shown at the competition exhibition, which will open in March 2024, during the PNF 2023 final gala.
The Poznan Photography Award has the ambition to become one of the most important photography competitions in Poland, as well as a new Poznan-based collection documenting everyday life, social and economic changes in Poland. It is a response to the development of reporter and documentary photography, the growing number of photographers who are socially sensitive, creatively describing our contemporary times with their photos.
PNF 2023 is organized by Posnania City Publishing House. Mayor of the City of Poznań Jacek Jaskowiak has taken the initiative under its honorary patronage. The partners of PNF 2023 are Foundation for the Development of the City of Poznań, Raczynski Library, as well as Old Brewery.
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Contact:
Grzegorz Dembinski - curator of PNF2023