PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018.
Festival of emerging photography
April 20 — June 3
The Lumiere brothers Center for Photography, Moscow

Information about the educational programme and portfolio review will be available on the official web site photobookfest.com

It is the second time the international festival of emerging photography PHOTOBOOKFEST takes places in Moscow gathering experts in photography and book design from all over the world. The exhibitions open on April, 20 and will run through June, 3. The exhibitions will also be followed by lectures, master-classes, workshops for photographers and a portfolio review session by experts and the results of the Photobook Dummy contest will be revealed. The main venue for the event remains the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography.

The mission of PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 is to look at photography in the context of modern media, to decide what it is capable of and how it can reach the audience, including the potential of the modern photobook to exist as an independent art form.

The exhibition programme will feature four projects:

Looking for Lenin (April 20 — June 24). The Small Hall. A photographer Niels Ackermann and journalist Sebastien Gobert document the «Leninfall» in Ukraine reflecting upon the decommunisation process in the country.

I, Oblomov (April 20 — May 20). The White Hall. The Dummy contest of Photobookfest 2017 winner IkuruKuwajima will present a series of self-portraits depicting him trying to immerse into Oblomovschina (Oblosmovism) and study the post-Soviet territory.

Noor. Come and see (May 17 — September 2). The Big Hall. The exhibition will display works of photo journalists from a Dutch photo agency Noor, which specializes in reporting from war zones.

Apart from photographic exhibitions, there will also be books on display. In the Small Hall of the Center the visitors will be able to see shortlisted photobooks of the Unseen Dummy Award organized by the biggest festival pf photography in Europe, Unseen.

During the festival, an expert jury will decide on the results of the Photobook Dummy contest which took place from February till April. Photographers from all over Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and CIS countries participated in it hoping to win the main prize – getting their photobooks published.

Information about the educational programme and portfolio review will be available on the official web site photobookfest.com