Friday, 25. July 2008 • news

The Nikon Thursday Award is selected!

On Thursday, 24th July, the Nikon Thursday Award was selected. The winner is Jean-Christophe Cuet (France) for his story Western Sakartvelo, a story on youth prisons in Georgia and Abkhazia (2008).

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Wednesday, 4. June 2008 • news

Thursday Award call for entries!

You can enter your work for the Thursday Award, a competition for the best documentary photostory. You will find more information at the Thursday Award link. Deadline for entries is 17th July 2008. Screenings are open the the public. Thursday, ...

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Wednesday, 30. April 2008 • newsWorkshop

Registration to Fotopub 2008 is now open

Find the information on programs of the workhops on this website and the mentors we recommend for each level. Application is possible through filling in the registration form. For all additional information send an e-mail to fotopub@fotopub.com.

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Tuesday, 8. April 2008 • newsFestival of documentary photography

8th Fotopub: 21st - 26th July 2008

Fotopub is entirely dedicated to documentary photography, bringing together photography lovers with internationally renowned professionals, offering workshops at various levels, showing a selection of exhibitions and evening screenings of photo-stories. We have established Fotopub as a small and intimate festival, ...

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Monday, 7. April 2008 • news

Chris de Bode, new artistic director

The biggest news of 2008 is that Fotopub's program is guided by a new artistic director. Our friend Chris de Bode has graciously accepted our invitation to take over the reigns from Borut Peterlin, previous artistic director, founder and brain ...

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Monday, 7. April 2008 • news

Human Footprints

The »human footprint« signifies a global map of our influence on the surface and suggests that we are nature’s keepers, whether we want the job or not. A long-term imprint on the nature depends on our readiness to take responsibility ...

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news

, 30. April 2008

Registration to Fotopub 2008 is now open

Find the information on programs of the workhops on this website and the mentors we recommend for each level. Application is possible through filling in the registration form. For all additional information send an e-mail to fotopub@fotopub.com.

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mentors

, 30. April 2008

Robert Knoth (NL)

WORKSHOP I am as much a storyteller as I am a photographer; photography for me is just a tool to tell stories I am interested in. Whether you write, are a filmmakers or photographer, you always need a good narrative. ...

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mentors

, 30. April 2008

Steve Forrest (UK)

WORKSHOP I am very concerned with issues that effect society as a whole. However, I am only interested in ‘environmental’ issues if they directly affect the economic lives of the poorest countries and the poorest people within those societies. Behind ...

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mentors

, 30. April 2008

Chris De Bode (NL)

WORKSHOP After a small lecture about my approach in building a story I will give my students a small assignment. In a few days I will comment and guide them in their work. Finding a subject, approaching it, what is ...

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mentors

, 29. April 2008

Yann Mingard (CH)

The workshop will rejoin the main theme of the festival, “Human Footprints”. The students will be invited to pick up a subject that is linked to this theme and use the time and experience of the workshop to build a ...

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mentors

, 28. April 2008

Dieter Telemans (B)

WORKSHOP My workshop will mainly be about storytelling through photography. A very important part of a photographer’s job is the research and analysis of his/her subject. Before starting, photographers have to think about the message they want to transmit and ...

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mentors

, 27. April 2008

J.B. Russell (ZDA)

WORKSHOP My workshop will focus on the importance of visual story telling. Whether covering a major news event, photographing daily life or working on long-term projects, the process of discovering and understanding the significance of the subject and building a ...

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mentors

, 26. April 2008

Uroš Zagožen (SLO)

BIO A member of photoclub Anton Ažbe from Škofja Loka (1996 – 1999). During this time he has participated at many exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad where he received several awards. He has trained with various well known Slovenian photographers ...

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mentors

, 25. April 2008

Uroš Abram (SLO)

BIO After finishing high school for design and photography, he has started his studies in Prague at the Academy of fine arts, where he is currently finishing his diploma.

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thursday award

, 25. July 2008

Nikon Thursday Award goes to France!

On Thursday, 24th July, the Nikon Thursday Award was selected. The winner is Jean-Christophe Cuet (France) for his story Western Sakartvelo, a story on youth prisons in Georgia and Abkhazia (2008).

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exhibitions

, 3. June 2008

Kadir van Lohuizen - Diamond matters

The exhibition “Diamond Matters” follows the path of the illegal blood diamonds from source to destination through nine countries and is currently being shown around the world. From the mines in Angola and Sierra Leone, through the markets in India ...

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exhibitions

, 2. June 2008

Robert Knoth - Nuclear devastation in the former Soviet Union

Since the first nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk in 1949, the Soviet military and civilian nuclear programmes grew until they reached across the Soviet Union. A long line of grave accidents, incidents and disasters have not slowed down plans to further ...

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exhibitions

, 2. June 2008

Yann Mingard - Kazakhstan's Oil Rush

Kazakhstan is undergoing an extraordinary transformation fuelled by a 21st century oil rush. The discovery in 2000 of a massive oil field under the Caspian sea, the largest deposit found anywhere in the world for thirty years, has changed the ...

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exhibitions

, 2. June 2008

Steve Forrest - Paranoid Britain: A walk through the Surveillance Society.

This photo-essay is intended to stimulate debate on the impact that CCTV cameras have on British Society. I have focused on my regular walk to work from my home in South London, to my office in Central London (4.3 km). ...

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exhibitions

, 2. June 2008

J.B. Russell - Crude Conflicts in Iraq

Since 1991 there have been two major wars in the Persian Gulf involving the United States, its allies and Iraq - both under a Bush presidency. Although many reasons were advanced to justify these military interventions: the liberation of Kuwait, ...

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exhibitions

, 1. June 2008

Chris de Bode - Solar cookers

Sourcing fuel has been a major problem for the 106.000 Bhutanese refugees living in southern Nepal. The forest in the Jhapa and Morang districts where they live could never sustainably provide the firewood needs for such a large population and ...

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exhibitions

, 19. May 2008

Dieter Telemans - Troubled Waters

Over 1 billion people have no ready access to drinking water, the fundamental source of life. There is now a high probability that in the year 2020, when the world population reaches approximately 8 billion human beings, the number of ...

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news

, 8. April 2008

8th Fotopub: 21st - 26th July 2008

Fotopub is entirely dedicated to documentary photography, bringing together photography lovers with internationally renowned professionals, offering workshops at various levels, showing a selection of exhibitions and evening screenings of photo-stories. We have established Fotopub as a small and intimate festival, ...

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winners

, 4. June 2008

Winners 2008!

All entries were reviewed by the jury: Chris de Bode (NL), photographer, art director of Fotopub Festival Iztok Hotko, Simulaker Gallery curator Alenka Lamovšek, ethnologist and cultural anthropologist Young photographers have photographed drying racks (kozolec) all over Slovenia. This device ...

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competition

, 4. June 2008

Photographic Experience – Experience Of Heritage

Cultural heritage are components of culture deriving from its wider ethnological comprehension. It represents achievements of the past ages in material, social and spiritual areas of culture which are foundations of preserving the cultural identity of Slovene people. Cultural heritage ...

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FOTOPUB: 21. - 26. 7. 2008