Thomas Farkas is the honoree of the 2010 FestFotoPoA
The photographer Thomas Farkas will be honored in the International Photography Festival in Porto Alegre - FestFotoPoA 2010, taking place 19-25 April. The photographer Thomas Farkas is the honoree of the International Photography Festival in Porto Alegre - FestFotoPoA 2010, taking place from 19 to 25 April 2010. For the first time also, the festival will present an exhibition of his honored. A partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles will bring the Porto Alegre show with 36 images that are part of the institute homage to this master of Brazilian photography. One of the biggest Brazilian references in modern photography, Thomas Farkas's work goes beyond photography, breaks the borders of Brazil in documentary film and inserts the freshness of discovery in photographic discourse that refers to as if it were film. At 83 years, the Hungarian raised in Brazil remains restless and attentive. And humbled by the scope of his photographic look and your energy in order to appear to be always in a state of pure joy caused by the game of capturing an image. In a recent tribute on the 5th Paraty in Focus, after the heated palms received a packed auditorium, Farkas stood up and shouted loudly: Live Camera! In the words of journalist and critic of photography Simonetta Persichetti, "the most fascinating in their photographs is the sense of fun, as the discovery of the unseen was a big joke to Farkas, as if he was happy to offer to each image in a detail that surprise us. " Service: FestFotoPoA 2010. From 19 to 25 April 2010. More Info Here
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