ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY AS DOCUMENT
The Paraty in Focus reaches its eighth edition, acclaimed as one of the 10 largest festivals of its kind in the world, adding professional, amateur photography and interested in cultural production and photography in general.
Since its inception, the Festival has raised discussions about photography as art and its place in the artistic market. The next edition repositions the discussion in a broader sense, returning to the documentary character of photography, without neglecting other aspects imagery, which contain and guide the international production. The organizers undertake to discuss the future of photojournalism and the resumption of documentary photography in its various aspects.
Amid the images and simulacra true, come the questions: what iconography become a reference in the future? What images will help future generations understand our complex and eclectic history? What protocols will set the value of a document image and its different contexts? These are some of the issues that Paraty in Focus, with the help of a large cast of collaborators, will help support.
The current scenario of the photograph is marked by many changes in technology. Among them is the irreversible expansion of the cameras and the number of amateur photographers and professionals, as can be seen, still excel in the quality of their work. Discover and discuss the "new document" will bring a very timely discussion, contributing to this revolution should be accompanied by a new culture, documentaries adding the modus operandi of contemporary photography, creating the possibility to revisit Brazil and at the same time, build a consistent visual memory of our future.
THE RESULT OF PARATY FOCUS 2011
The Festival spoke of # FUTURE, think about the world that photography will find ahead. The event took place between 21 and 25 September in Paraty - RJ and amassed great names in photography nationally and internationally. The festival sought in these five days, working as a stage for many different ruminations and reflections to our own, vast, universe image itself, the future.
_ Public estimated 6000 persons [Convention Bureau estimate of Paraty = 95% occupancy]
_15 meetings | interviews packed house with [at least 250 people, maximum 600] accounting for nearly 30 hours of debate] transmitted over the Internet
_19 exhibition galleries between the circuit [8], occupation [4] and the circuit night [7], free admission. The exhibition received nearly 2,000 visitors during the festival
_3 nights projection matrix of the tent with a full house and a schedule of more than 10 hours of projections [3 documentaries, 4 projections of trustees and guests, a social project, the biennial Fotoclube material and a projection on the interaction of Chinese artists and Brazilians]
_ 28 workshops with participation of 460 students [10% of these vacancies are scholarships]
_3 Nights launching of books, portfolios and journals virtual cocktail, about 200 people per night [about 300 books sold]
_ Paraty Disclosing :: Instagram - 1714 photos were posted by 241 users for 5 days, compounding the vignettes instant festival
_6.147 Pageviews on Blog Paraty in Focus during the festival [Google Analytics]
_Cerca Of 2000 daily visits in the Facebook Paraty in Focus during the festival [Google Analytics]
_ Auction of Paraty in Focus with storage record [over 110 thousand dollars]
_ Lojinha of Paraty in Focus with exclusive products and limited [posters, tote bags, moleskines], over 50 titles signed by the authors, works, and items signed by artists, special prices for the festival and more than 2000 products sold
_ Library of Paraty in Focus , started with donations last year, received 84 titles during the festival forming a collection of 137 books
_Atividades extra and parallel throughout the city
FOCUS ON PARATY 2011
The seventh edition of Paraty in Focus comes with título_tema # FUTURE, a deliberate twitiana formatting (which comes from the tweet) approaching a world of images that sacramentam digital as a means of production, distribution and as language. Concepts of today and tomorrow at the hands of different and influential professionals from Brazil, England, Holland, South Africa, United States, Peru, Italy, Spain, France and Argentina.
An eclectic and heterogeneous group has been discussing the new multimedia platforms, the preservation of images, the philosophy of photography and how we can understand and make the tour of these guidelines and paradoxes that determine a future already present among us and that is becoming almost past !
This year's program brings news on your format: the projection Nights gained body with activities that start every night at 22:30 in Media Space . This year we will also be two nights of Release : books, portfolios, and of course, in a festival that comes to the future, virtual magazines.
The schedule of exhibitions that breaks it into two. Throughout the day up to 22h visitors can go to one of the shows from the traditional circuit of galleries and occupations in the city, composed of two guests, Penelope UMBRICO and Michael WHITE RIVER , two social projects, Boys ITAE and Extract 2.8 , an exposure the work of the puppet theater of Paraty and selected six of our convocation program that aims to stimulate production of young Latin American photography.
The second set of exposures is what we call the Circuit Night composed of projections on the streets of cities, from 19h to 23h, with videos and photographs of works chosen by the organization discussed so far, the future, photography and image.
Among the lectures, interviews and projections you can find a variety of looks ranging from one extreme to another of our country: South Wind brings the table by gauchos Luiz lucky and Leopoldo Plentz Curitiba with John Urban , the Mesa Contemporary Diary brings the Para Mariano Klautau , Roberta Carvalho and Ricardo Macedo . Both groups (north and south) are within the proposed Festival show held each edition production outside the Rio-Sao Paulo.
In previous years we invite a contingent of photography Pernambuco (2009) Mining and Photography (2010). Escaping the country continue at the extremes, bringing the extreme south, direct from Cape Town, South African photographer Pieter Hugo , who shows us an Africa little known and that the intriguing images, confronts us with a question: "Is there a future possible? ".
With a wry and incisive look at the same time not lose the simplicity and poetry, the campaign incorporated the festival / proposal What's next? developed by important contemporary Dutch photography magazine FOAM. Will be present Marcel Feil (curator of the magazine) and Constant DULLAART visual artist with his irreverent multimedia work.
Meanwhile, put the idea for deciphering the future thinkers like the curator Chiodetto Eder and researcher Mauricio Lissovsky , Phew! Does not end there, where our partner Magnum Photos will the young Englishwoman Olivia ARTHUR and current with its beautiful essay on women in the Arab world and completing the international vision of the future, Evan Baden throws the wave of self-portraits on the Internet, with its trials Techicnicalle Intimate and Illuminati. Baden addresses part of this future illuminated by the screens of cell phones and smartphones. But ... there is no future image that can be discussed without talking about appropriation, recycling and reframing ... It's time for North American Penelope UMBRICO that made her cauldron Flickr photos!
Stuffing more, this true-babel imagery after the festival reflects the diversity of photography - we have two photojournalists Gustavo PELIZZON and COIMBRA Custodio , who will show us how the day-to-day in the era of "Shoots and Shoots" of the journalism world while artists Claudia JAGUARIBE and Caius Reisewitz , both on the walls of galleries in and outside Brazil, tell us about their work in this transitory moment of the landscape and photography.
For further focusing the discussions on Future and Art bring you the curator and critic Paulo Herkenhoff interviewing multimedia artist Miguel Rio Branco , one of our producers always connected to the future, after all, good photography is good photography.
Giving voice to a concern that attends our environment, bring to Paraty an unusual debate that we had no doubts in programming: Memory of the Future brings the American David RIECKS , specialist vocabulary; Sergio Burgi IMS, Patricia DE FILIPPI the Cinematheque Brazilian; CLICIO Barroso and mediating the Fototech Carlos Carvalho of RPCFB. With this table we want to make clear that we are concerned with our memory!
Besides all, more than 500 vacancies out of 28 workshops attest to the force that has the range of photography in today's society and the importance of festivals like Paraty in Focus, Photo Rio Fest Photo Poa, Devercidade, dentists, and many others (they are 16 festivals in all). The Paraty believes and works for the Festival are true structures of expanding NETWORKS diffusion of Brazilian photographic production inside and outside the national territory.
Personals | Interviews will :: 14 ::
We invite big names in photography nationally and internationally. Happen in the auditorium of the Casa de Cultura , the main cultural center of the city. There will be four rounds daily: 10:30, 15h, 17h and 19h. Everything will be relayed live to the Multimedia area (a large tent that sets up the festival in Cathedral Square) for NIKON Lounge and also for the site.
Exhibition Galleries and occupations Circuit :: the city is taken by photography ::
The shows will be scattered among the city's galleries [Gallery Zoom, Trace Atelier Gallery Iphan, among others] and unusual places, such as the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows (2nd floor), the Mercadinho the pier, the fences (behind the church Santa Rita), the Powder House and others. The exhibitions that are formed by the works of guest artists and works selected via Call the result of social work who use photography as a platform.
Exhibition Circuit Night :: novelty of this edition ::
Program of exhibitions designed in the streets of Paraty, which will happen every night, from 19h to 23h.
Projections ::
Every night in the famous tent happen Nights projection with photographic works, documentaries, short films, always from 22.30.
Workshops are :: 28 ::
The courses last for one, two or three days and will be led by renowned professionals, national and international. Prior registration is required which can be made via website or during the festival [there are vacancies remaining].
Reading Portfolio ::
Establishes contact between curators, festival directors, editors and young photographers. Held in the Lounge of the visitor.
Laçamentos ::
This year the festival has prepared two nights with a cocktail of book launches, portfolios and webzines.
Auction photos ::
Created in conjunction with the Festival in 2005 values brings more inviting than the normal galleries. With big names of Brazilian photography is a way to encourage hoarding.
Collector Paraty in Focus ::
Another novelty this year is another incentive to collecting photography. Those who participate in it can contribute, through an annual contribution to the revenue of the festival, while they can initiate or further enhance your collection with a piece numbered and signed. The first author of the program is the carioca photographer Claudia Jaguaribe (who have works in important collections such as the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Inhotim Collection).
