Applications are open for the FestFoto 2023 Call for Proposals.
With the theme “Free Frame”, meaning a free theme, about any subject or any language. We want to know and see what you are producing and what visual reflections are being generated in your creative process. Entries will be accepted until May 21st and can be submitted on the festival’s website in two categories: Portfolio and Multimedia (video up to 3 minutes).
An international jury will select ten finalists and indicate one winner for the Portfolio category and one for the Multimedia category. The winners get a free passport to the FestFoto 2023 Portfolio Readings that will take place online on June 13 and 14.
Ana Sabiá (Brazil): PATIENCE GAME, Sonia Do Couto Corrêa (Brazil): THE PAIN OF PANDEMIC PANDEMIA, Bruno Alencastro (Brazil) and collective of authors: OBS.CU.RA, Igor Cavalcante (Brazil): NO DAY WILL BE EQUAL TO ANOTHER
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Thiago Guimarães Azevedo, from Belém/Brazil, with the work “Where dreams hide,” is the winner of the Portfolio Category.
Madame Pagu, from São Paulo based in Italy, with the work 3 x 4, is the winner of the Multimedia Category.
Both win the Free Passport prize for the FestFoto Brazil 2021 Portfolio Reviews.
See the list of the TOP 20 finalists that will be part of the Free Photogram Program of FestFoto Brazil 2021.
Thiago Guimarães Azevedo (Brazil) – Where dreams are hidden Madame Pagu (Italy) – 3 x 4 (Multimedia)
Ana Sabiá (Brazil) – PATIENCE GAME Valeria Sacchetti (Italy) – Journey to the Lowlands Helena Siemsen Giestas (Brazil) – Quebrada (Multimedia) Tommaso Vitiello (Italy) – ARCHÈO Sonia Do Couto Corrêa (Brazil) – The pain of the pandemic Bruno Alencastro (Brazil) – Obs.cu.ra Márcia Charnizon (Brazil) – Hunting for Words Mateus Morbeck (Brazil) – GUARDIANS (Multimedia) Flavio Edreira (Brazil) – Placebo Ulla Czekus (Brazil) – Surroundings Igor Moura (Brazil) – No day will be the same (Multimedia) José Roberto Bassul (Brazil) – Urbe Fernanda Chemale (Brazil) – Diary of Memories Renata Saad (Brazil) – Women in pink and blue Laura Aidar (Brazil) – Crossing and Constellation Marina Guitti (Brazil) – “Emerge” Submission Mateus Morbeck (Brazil) – NEMO NON VIDET ” Nathalie Bohm (Brazil) – Voice of silence
Registrations are now open for the FestFoto Brazil 2021 Call with the theme Photography and Silence – Listening Clouds. Registration is until January 10, 2021. For more information and registration, access the link in the menu on the left side.
The social, cultural and political emergencies of societies in the countries of the southern cone: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Bolivia throughout 2019. Curated by Cora Gamarnick, faces that have always visited tourist postcards and created the imaginary from this part of the planet they now appear in protests and confrontations with the State and show a protest above all with the face of the South American woman.
The narratives are in Portuguese. English subtitles must be activated on Youtube.
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Several events around the globe seem to have put us in a state of suspension from reality. Logic is no longer the root of speeches, campaigns or worldviews. Many arguments distort or simplify realities that involve the sustainable development of this planet, the movement of vulnerable populations and many other topics that should be discussed in depth and not with slogans and ill-considered proposals.
Banana Republic is a response to this state of political and social disillusionment and disenchantment. The show’s surrealist realism is based on real facts, but extrapolated to the same level of fantasy as so many recent speeches. The state created by Shinji Nagabe finds itself under the grip of a cruel and populist dictator, while part of its people remains blind or building fragile facets accepted by this society, which quickly break down and reveal unacceptable aspects in this controlled environment. On the other side of this narrative is a rebellion that uses the same banana that blinds and censors to build its weapons and homemade bombs. This visceral, guerrilla response opens the way for direct confrontation with an absolutely backward and conservative view.
Central elements of the social and political transformations recently experienced in so many countries are present in the work: violence, extreme religiosity and a return to the control of customs in a marked setback in the guarantee of individual freedoms. In portraying this universe in a satirical way, Nagabe exposes its contradictions and connections with the reality we live in or fear to live in. The plunge into this fictitious republic and its acid tropical fantasy calls for a reflection on the role of each one in the directions chosen for our communities and those that we will still choose.
Felipe Abreu – Curator
The narratives are in Portuguese. English subtitles must be activated on Youtube.
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