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The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 - Act of Faith
© David Farrell

The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 - Act of Faith

Abbas » Abir Abdullah » Eve Arnold » Andreas Böhmig » Raymond Barthes » Pablo Bartholomew » Manuel Bauer » Hans-Georg Berger » Christel Boertjes » Ben Bohane » Tommaso Bonaventura » Nabil Boutros » Thomas Brenner » Patrick Brown » Linda Connor » Denis Dailleux » Prabuddha Das Gupta » James Whitlow Delano » Tiane Doan na Champassak » Nicola Dove » Alena Dvoráková » David Farrell » Viktor Fischer » Mariusz Forecki » Andrea Frazzetta » Ziyah Gafić » Terri Garland » Shadi Ghadirian » Arlene Gottfried » Elijah Gowin » Edward Grazda » ZHOU Hai » Nermine Hammam » Ron Haviv » Johannes Hepp » Andreas Herzau » Claudio Hils » Robert Huber » Gert Jochems » Ed Kashi » Antonín Kratochví » Ingar Krauss » Georg Kürzinger » Nate Larson » Gillian Laub » Lisdebertus » Massimo Mastrorillo » Yann Mingard » Fernando Moleres » Jackie Nickerson » Nick Nostitz » Jukka Onnela » Jan Pohribny » Michael Rauner » Dagmar Schwelle » Michael Shaowanasai » Christopher Sims » Lana Slezic » John Stanmeyer » Gordon Stettinus » Andreas Teichmann » Andrew Testa » Diana Thorneycroft » Sadegh Tirafkan » Philip Toledano » Nazif Topcuoglu » Gaël Turine » Brian Ulrich » Judith van Ijken » Guy Veloso » Paul Weinberg » Francesco Zizola » & others

Exhibition: 16 Sep – 28 Oct 2007

Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht

Akerkhof 12
9711 JB Groningen

Noorderlicht | House of Photography

Akerkhof 12
9711 JB Groningen

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www.noorderlicht.com

The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 - Act of Faith
© Sadegh Tirafkan, WHISPERS OF THE EAST (Iran, 2006-2007)

Act of Faith On faith and conflict, ecstasy and excess Belief: indispensable for one, unthinkable for another. Experienced individually but lived out collectively, it binds together communities of faith, and separates them. In the world called faith, truth very quickly becomes one's exclusive possession. In a blistering and extremely timely exhibition 130 photographers from all over the world offer a probing documentary image of this veritable Tower of Babel - and its consequences. Their photographs were made in front of the gates of Paradise - and Hell. Sometimes they are very personal, sometimes detached. At one moment they are confrontational or critical, another loving or surprising - but never indifferent. At the same time the exhibition illuminates the versatility of photography today as a socially engaged, narrative medium. With photographs varying from portraits to landscapes, diaries to documentation, Act of Faith is a journey through the world and through photography: a double intention that has characterized the Noorderlicht Photofestival from its very beginning. Is faith permissible? Or is faith compulsory? How sacred is the line separating church and state today, long the unquestioned foundation of Western democracy? How firm is the theory of evolution? How conceivable is unbelief? Belief: indispensable for one, unthinkable for another. Experienced individually but lived out collectively, it binds together communities of faith, and separates them. In the world called faith, truth very quickly becomes one's exclusive possession. In a blistering and extremely timely exhibition 130 photographers from all over the world offer a probing documentary image of this veritable Tower of Babel - and its consequences. Their photographs were made in front of the gates of Paradise - and Hell. Sometimes they are very personal, sometimes detached. At one moment they are confrontational or critical, another loving or surprising - but never indifferent. At the same time the exhibition illuminates the versatility of photography today as a socially engaged, narrative medium. With photographs varying from portraits to landscapes, diaries to documentation, Act of Faith is a journey through the world and through photography: a double intention that has characterized the Noorderlicht Photofestival from its very beginning.

The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 - Act of Faith
© Michael Shaowanasai, PORTRAITS OF A MAN IN HABITS (Thailand, 2003)
The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 - Act of Faith
@ Abbas / Magnum Photos
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM