FestFoto Brazil 2020 Call for Entry
Global South Emergencies
Emergency [s.f.] State of what emerges. Appearance, emergence
FestFoto 2020 will bring to the debate the economic, social and environmental relations that occur in the so-called global south – a region without precise geographical boundaries marked by sharing a condition of the emergence of possibilities.
Registration begins December 1, 2019.
With the title “Emergencies of the Global South”, FestFoto’s 13th edition proposes a programming focused on contemporary visual reflection on the processes that throughout history has limited visibility and the exercise of citizenship and the emergence of movements that claim the opening up new possibilities for the construction and exercise of social, economic, environmental and cultural rights.
The FestFoto Brazil Call is open to all photographers from all over the world. Twenty finalists will be selected and the winner will be awarded with an individual exhibition in one of the FestFoto 2020 Galleries at the Ibere Camargo Foundation. The top 10 finalists will have their work published and reviewed on the FestFoto Blog throughout 2020. During the selection process we will also be exhibiting on our website a gallery of entries that caught the attention of our jury.
The FestFoto Brazil 2020 Call maintains a partnership with the LensCulture platform, one of the world’s largest online destinations for the discovery and dissemination of contemporary photography with a global audience of over 2 million people. You are welcome to use the LensCulture platform to register for the FestFoto 2020 Call.
The deadline is January 31, 2020 and portfolio entries with up to 20 images will be accepted. The registration fee is US$ 30.00.
The selected works will be exhibited during FestFoto, March 27-31, 2020. To subscribe read the rules by clicking the Rules button and then clicking the REGISTER LensCulture button. Good luck!




Daniel Sosa – Uruguai
Director of CDF
Centro de Fotografia de Montevideo
Daniel Sosa Debenedetti

Sinara Sandri – Brazil
Co-Coordinator of FestFoto Porto Alegre, in Brazil
Sinara Sandri
Journalist, History Specialist (UFF), Master in History (UFRGS), PhD in Communication and Information (UFRGS). Co-Founder and coordinator of FestFoto and coordinates the International Portfolio Reviews Platform of FestFoto since 2015.
Coordinated the team that developed the project of the Palacinho Cultural Center - Photo Library of Rio Grande do Sul.
Has research related to photography and urban reform, with a Case on the work of the Italian photographer Virgílio Calegari.
She is a contributor to OF Magazine, FestFoto's online magazine.
Interested in themes such as urban landscapes, environment and photojournalism.

Gwen Lee – Singapore
Director of the International Photography Festival of
Singapore
Gwen Lee

Irina Chmyreva – Russia
Co-founder and art director of PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography in Krasnodar region, Russia.
Irina Chmyreva
She is the author of three-volume Russian chapters (1900-1939; 1940-1969 and 1970-2000) on the history of European photography of the twentieth century. She is the author and co-author of several books on the history of Russian photography; her latest book Collection of essays on the history of Russian photography was published in 2016.

Patricia Veloso/Brazil
Director of Galeria Imagem Brasil. Creator of the photo festivals Encontros de Agosto and VerboVer, in Fortaleza.
Patricia Veloso
She has been working in the photography segment since 1985 as a cultural producer, curator and editor. Founded and manages the companies Terra da Luz Publishing and Image Brazil Gallery in Fortaleza, northeast o Brazil.
She was the creator and director of the Encontros de Agosto Festival, an initiative held in Fortaleza / CE from 2011 to 2017, with the main objective of promoting Ceará photography and exchange with contemporary Brazilian and international production.
In 2018, it continues this program with a new proposal, the Ver Ver Festival of Photography, expanding partnerships and intensifying circulation and training actions. Participated in selection committees at national and international festivals.

Jim Casper/Amsterdan
Holand
Editor-in-chief of
LensCulture