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The bedroom is our refuge, the place where we feel safest. As a rule, we don't even let close friends into it. Our bedroom is a mirror of ourselves. Barbara Peacock has visited bedrooms across the United States, armed with a camera, respect and empathy, and portrayed the inhabitants in their small private worlds. Her extensive documentary series is a celebration of human diversity, intimacy and love.
Although he graduated from a military academy and works in the Greek army, Anthimos Ntagkas, who goes by the alias Daganth on Instagram, has become a phenomenon of street photography in recent years. His remarkable talent for spotting and instantly capturing the humorous and unbelievable interactions between people and their surroundings has fired the amateur photographer among the photographic elite.
"I mostly try to tell something about the restless nature of the time when a girl transforms into a woman," says the Polish artist. "However, her body is not the main subject of this project. It is something more, indeed, that I am trying to convey through photography. My photos are careful observations and tender attempts to capture those moments which seem decisive."
The author has been capturing a curious Czech phenomenon: DIY hunting outposts – modest or perfectly equipped, hidden or ostentatiously speaking of human presence in the landscape. The sculpture-like constructions and the variety of materials, styles and locations almost makes the viewer forget their primary purpose: to let people shoot animals.
A street photographer with a signature style who manages to discover hidden and mysterious connections in places that are in plain sight. He allows the viewer to pause and reflect on his cleverly composed photographs, proving that it often takes only a slight change of perspective to begin to understand the world quite differently than before.
"For me, photography is much more than a tool, it is a kind of intuitive communication with the things that surround me, where the process of 'making' a photo is a way to understand how all things are interconnected," says the Czech-born artist about his way of capturing the reality around him. Machač is based part-time in Berlin, Germany, part-time in Georgia.
Seven photo albums, bought over the internet. Sixteen years of the fates and stories of one family. Black-and-white images of characters that the album seller has consistently stripped of their faces and no one knows why. Random snapshots from trips, parties and weddings become, thanks to the anonymous actors, a universal (and weirdly funny) account of everyday life in socialist Czechoslovakia.
Although Frank Kunert's works might seem formally closer to, say, train modelling than to photography, they can actually be placed somewhere on the axis between humour, nostalgia and metaphysical insight into the mysterious corners of human existence. The carefully crafted scenes function at times as metaphors of our desires and fears, at other times they humorously reveal the universal paradoxes of life we all have to face.
What has nature become for the urban dweller? What position has he condemned it to? Do these living organisms still have at least a decorative role for us, or are they losing that, too? Neglected and cared for, in plain sight but overlooked, planted in absurd places and subjugating the surrounding environment - the urban greenery in the seemingly ordinary photographs of the Bratislava artist leaves us with many unanswered questions and provokes us to think about the role of nature in the life of the so-called "civilized" man.
“Growing older has occasioned a gradual letting go of things I’ve taken for granted all my life: my youth, figure, memory, mobility, hearing,” says Marna Clarke, born in 1940 in Louisiana, USA. “So much is out of my control; perhaps it always was, but I was blind to it.” Since 2010, she has been photographing herself and her partner, whom she met in 2003, as they’ve navigated getting older. “I embrace these images as a tribute to not just my life but also to the demanding task of aging with grace and humor.”
Through photographs that are as humorous as they are terrifying, the Russian-born Berlin photographer gives us a glimpse behind the curtain of the global arms industry. His cheeky documentation of military trade fairs speaks volumes about how the bureaucratic and commercial side of armed conflict is not only a lucrative enterprise, but also a perverse phantasmagoria of the powerful.
The aerial images, which are united by the theme of human influence on the Czech landscape, offer us a not entirely pleasant view of things we have come to regard as ordinary: endless yellow fields, sprawling highways, satellite towns. The visually impressive images cannot deny the authorship of an experienced and versatile photojournalist.
Karel Novák (1925-2007) was a football striker who played for several clubs and even represented Czechoslovakia twice in the national team. After his sporting career, he became a renowned photographer and cameraman, documenting eight Olympic Games. Thanks to the kindness of the Czech Olympic Foundation, which bought the photographer's estate, our festival can introduce the audience not only to the unique work of an almost forgotten author, but also to a time when sport was more of a passion and a hobby than a profession.
Barbara Peacock
Magdalena Wywrot
Nikita Teryoshin
Peter Korček
Anonymous family photos, Czechoslovakia 1968–1984
Filip Machač
Dan Materna
Marna Clarke
Nadav Kander
Synchrodogs
Libuše Jarcovjáková
Tavepong Pratoomwong
Filip Singer
Fabricio Brambatti
Luca Zanier
Alain Laboile
Soňa Maletz
Andrew Moore
Daniel Hušták
Lisa Krantz
Marja Pirilä
Susana Blasco
Viviane Sassen
Benoit Paillé
Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti
Asger Carlsen
Robbie Augspurger
Jan Pohribný
The archive of the former communist secret police of Czechoslovakia
Tamas Dezso
Dorothée Smith
Mike Brodie
Paolo Patrizi
Peter Bialobrzeski
Elena Chernyshova
Chris Jordan
Alexander Gronsky
Sergey Maximishin
Tomasz Tomaszewski
Akos Czigany:
Skies (version 1)
Skies (version 2)
Erwin Olaf
Nikos Economopoulos
Reiner Riedler
Maciej Dakowicz
Geoffrey H. Short
Nils Jorgensen
Iren Stehli
Václav Jirásek
Anders Petersen
Bára Prášilová
Vanessa Winship
Bill McCullough
Kitra Cahana
Rafal Milach
Antonín Kratochvíl
Chema Madoz
Mitra Tabrizian
Michal Novotný
Tomki Němec
Jean Revillard
Miro Švolík
Bohdan Holomíček
Michal Macků:
Gelláges
Carbon prints
Michael Ackerman
Zoltán Vancsó
Michał Szlaga
Marcin Stawiarz
Tomáš Pospěch:
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An Aimless Walk
Look at the Future
Jean Revillard
Soňa Goldová
Milan Krištůfek
Rafal Milach
Martin Kollár
Pavel Černý
Barbora Krejčová
Milan David
František Weyda
Kamila Musilová
Tereza Vlčková
Petr Willert
Martina Mládková
Radka Doležalová
Jan Mahr
Fotojatka is organized by Jan Flaška, who communicates with the authors, produces their slideshow, does all the graphics and web, presents the evening and takes care of all the organizational and technical matters around the festival. So for anything, please contact him.
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