This year, the Paraty in Focus exhibitions will be ten: four artists invited four artists selected by invitation and two that are the result of community work developed in Paraty.

The guests this year are Maureen Bisilliat (Brazil), Cris Bierrenbach (Brazil), NOOR (photo agency in the Netherlands) and Georges Rousse (France).

Both Cris Bierrenbach Georges Rousse and will develop their exhibits during the festival, following the occupation of spaces proposed. Cris will mount a photographic installation Forgotten in the cemetery located behind the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows. The work is an outgrowth of experience when the photographer in the earthquake that devastated parts of Haiti. Click here to learn more .

The French artist Georges Rousse arrives in Paraty ten days before the opening, to build a facility to be presented in the Historic Center of Paraty, in the old Mercadinho Pier. The space was disabled and Rousse will interfere architectural and painterly. At the end of this process, the shop will be photographed with a large-format camera and the result will be displayed during the event. Rousse is the guest of honor and will be interviewed at the opening of the Festival . This is the first time the artist comes to Brazil to mount an intervention, but his works have been exhibited here last year, the expo "The invention of the world" at Itaú Cultural. Learn more about Rousse here .

Photo: Georges Rousse

Mauren Bisilliat, which this year had their works displayed in a monumental exhibition in Sao Paulo ( Juan Esteves spoke on the subject! ), brightens the programming of the PEF. Zoom In Gallery, she has black skin. Click here to learn more .

Photo: Maureen Bisilliat

The Dutch agency NOOR Consequences brings the series, the Tent of the Matrix. The series is part of a project begun in 2009, which shows the consequences of climate change on the planet. The agency is comprised of photographers from around the world. Here, learn about consequences .

Photo: Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

The Young Itae coordinated by Giancarlo Mecarelli and Maxime Delmotte, is a social inclusion project that uses photography as a starting point. At this point, participants are developing the pictures, which will be presented during the festival, the House of Culture. Click here to learn more about the Youth Itae .

Also coordinated by Mecarelli and Maxime, the School House is a project that works the same way that Young Itae, offering cultural education for young photographic community of Paraty. Click here to learn more .

The exhibition program of the PEF is coordinated by Elizabeth Beloved.