International Photography Festival is an international art fair of photography and multimedia art held annually since 2012 in

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and produced by PHOTO IS:RAEL.

History

Each year, Israeli International Photography Festival is held in different venue and chooses different main theme. Usually it consists of main exhibition, curated by Festival organizers and several small exhibitions, presented by guest galleries from around the world or curated by guest curators. The festival of 2014, which was held in

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, contained about 1000 pictures by 265 photographers. The displays were divided into 25 exhibitions.

Festivals

* 2009 Hatachana Complex.

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. Theme: Point of View. * 2012

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Port. Theme: Sustainability. * 2014

. Theme: Photographic Memory. * 2016

Port. Theme: Safe Space. * 2017 Midtown Tel Aviv.

. Theme: Identity. * 2018 "Golf" Complex.

. Theme: Relations. * 2019 " Azrieli Sarona".

Photo Is:Rael

Photo Is:Rael is a non-profit public company behind the International Photography Festival. Founded in 2012, it started its activities with the festival, but gradually expanded to different projects. The organisation's motto is “better society through the language of photography”. Photo Is:Rael is working on social outreach and dialogue between art and various communities across Israel. Since its formation, the organization has offered different platforms for exhibition and research in photography. The organization developed method, called Photo is Voice, which is based on the belief that every individual in society has the right to represent themselves, their worldview and their message in a direct and unmediated way. The members of PHOTO IS:VOICE program are social activists, volunteers, and professionals in the fields of photography and special education. The majority of program participants are coming from marginalized communities - addicts, people with disabilities, women, and youth-at-risk, different minority groups, the elderly, youth on the autism spectrum and more. They photograph themselves, crafting a direct message of their community.

Notable participants

Over the last 10 years, a lot of notable photographers and curators have been involved or associated with the International Photography Festival at some point in their careers, including

Roger Ballen Roger Ballen (born April 11, 1950) is an American artist living in Johannesburg, South Africa, and working in its surrounds since the 1970s. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, began with the documentary photography field but evolved into the ...

Angélica Dass Angélica Dass (born 1979) is a Brazilian photographer based in Madrid, Spain and the creator of the photographic project Humanæ. With this project, she has created portraits of many different people from all over the world, showing a wide ran ...

Paolo Pellegrin Paolo Pellegrin (born March 11, 1964) is a photojournalist. He was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of architects. He is a member of the Magnum Photos agency and has won ten World Press Photo awards. Biography Pellegrin studied architecture a ...

Raghu Rai Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in the mid 1960s, soon ...

, Angelika Sher, Nissan N. Perez,

David Adika David Adika () is an Israeli photographer and educator. Biography David Adika (דוד עדיקא) was born in Jerusalem in 1970. He lives and works in Tel Aviv. Adika graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1997, receiving BFA. H ...

, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Igor Zeiger.

Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography

The Zvi and Ofra Meitar Foundation and "PHOTO IS:RAEL" started to award Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography in 2017. Twenty finalists and winner are exhibited during the International Photography Festival. The 2018 Meitar Award Finalist exhibition will also be exhibited at the international Head On Festival in Sydney, Australia in May 2019.

References

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External links

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