Category Archives: Photography – International Festival

An Insider’s View of the Arab World

07 Friday Mar 2014

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Fotofest 2014 two

A spectrum of special exhibitions, cultural events and academic symposia will put the spotlight on Arab artists and the Arab world at the 15th edition of the FotoFest Biennial, to be held in Houston, Texas, from March 15th to April 27th 2014. FotoFest is the oldest photographic arts festival in the United States, and one of the leading photography biennials in the world. Art lovers can look forward to more than 100 independently organised art exhibitions and events at various museums, art spaces, universities and public spaces across Houston at FotoFest 2014 Biennial. But the centrepiece of the event is View from Inside, which comprises four exhibitions showcasing video, photography and mixed-media art by contemporary Arab artists from the Middle East and North Africa.

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Fotofest Brings Unprecedented Collection of Arab Photographic Art to U.S.

17 Sunday Nov 2013

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Fotofest 2014

Between Lord Byron’s ecstatic Orientalism, with its colorful harems and whirling dervishes, and the more recent Western views of the Middle East, with their mostly blinkered focus on images of conflict or rapturous oil wealth, the Arab world as seen and decoded by Arab eyes still seems amazingly absent from the Occidental gallery, especially the American one. The upcoming Fotofest photography biennial, which will take place in early 2014 in Houston, will offer Americans a serious opportunity to become familiar with this important and well-established body of work by contemporary Arab photographers.

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From Bangladesh, a Photo Festival Builds Bridges

21 Monday Jan 2013

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Photography Festival BangladeshThere are well over a hundred photo festivals around the world, and new ones pop up almost daily. Many claim to be international, usually exhibiting a few local photographers alongside some international — read Western — photographic luminaries. What sets apart the Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is that it is not only truly international, but is also perhaps the world’s most demographically inclusive festival. Running this year from January 25th through February 7th, it will feature photographers from 23 countries, with a focus on photography from China, Russia, Nigeria, Latin America and the Middle East as well as Bangladesh.

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