AWARD: Abbie Trayler-Smith: Still Human, Still Here

Abbie Trayler-Smith (UK) is the winner of Nikon Thursday Award 2009! For her story "Still Human, Still Here" the jury (Pep Bonet, E; Meta Krese, Slo; Rok Gašparič, Slo; Chris de Bode, NL - Jury president) felt was the best and have awarded her the prize. Chris de Bode stated for the jury: "Abbie has shown a very personal story, where she went out and met people on her own doorstep and brought their stories to the public. She exposed ...

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Thursday, 30th July, 4pm, Cultural center Janez Trdine

Tribune is a space and opportunity to discuss photography and since Fotopub is oriented in documentary photography, the topics are from the field of photojournalism. Every year we try to find a current and interesting topic for this public discussion. This year we wil be asking a question whether photography is a global language. Do photographers from different parts of the world speak a different tongue in their pictures or is photography a universal medium where globalization is a natural ...

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Events and exhibitions

All exhibitions are open from 27th July – 15th August 2009; we are preparing special events at the galleries in the first week. From 27th July – 1st August, opening times are from 11am – 9pm. From 2nd August – 15th August, opening times are from 4pm – 8pm. Evening screenings – Story telling Fotopub workshops mentors will prepare lectures and presentations of their work, every evening from 9pm. These lectures are open to the public. Tribune Tribune is a ...

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Nikon Thursday Award

Thursday, 30th July 2009, at 21.00 // Museum Gardens, Novo mesto, Slovenia Thursday Award is presented at Fotopub Festival for the best submitted documentary photo story. Photographers can enter their stories through an open call by filling out the form. Please follow the guidelines stated in the form. Thursday Award is open to all photographers without restrictions. All applications will go through a selection jury (Fotopub Festival). The final selection will be presented on 30th July 2009, when the prize ...

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Hometown - Otto Snoek

Although I was born and raised in Rotterdam, a traditional working-class harbour town, I ended up alienated in my hometown. Floods of new, immigrant faces arrived, creating big changes in a town that was already in a process of endless reconstruction – an inherited neurosis from the memorable and disastrous bombardment of the city’s centre and harbours. These rather turbulent local developments fit remarkably well with popular cultural recreation in Dutch society. The growing commercialization of leisure has far-reaching consequences ...

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Still Human, Still Here - Abbie Trayler-Smith

Abbie Trayler-Smith has photographed men and women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Zimbabwe and other troubled states who have fled torture and persecution in their own countries. They hoped they'd be safe in the UK but instead they are enduring a new kind of torment here - destitution. The vast majority of refused asylum seekers in the UK are denied any government support and are not allowed to work to support themselves. All the individuals ...

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Neither here nor there - Ahmet Polat

Photographer Ahmet Polat (Roosendaal, 1978), born to a Turkish father and a Dutch mother, has always been motivated by a quest for identity. Continuously commuting between The Netherlands and Turkey he has become familiar with the question of what it means to be at ‘home’. This undefinable, sometimes uncanny feeling of growing up within two cultures has been translated photographically in a perpetual motion between the frustrated relations with the known and the unexpected understanding found in the gaze of ...

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Homeland - Nina Berman

Nina Berman was one of the first photographers in the US to turn her lens towards her own country, whilst all eyes were on Iraq. She was awarded international prizes in photojournalism from World Press Photo (2005, 2007) and DAYS Japan (2005) for her work on young American veterans coming back from war, widely exhibited and published in the book ’Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq.’ Nina Berman in ‘Homeland’ has captured further the unsettling and surreal in her own ...

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Old Dhaka - Belonging, Munem Wasif

I had arrived to this world at just past noon on an overcast, rainy day some seventeen years before the new Millennium. Following my birth, my mother moved back to our ancestral home in provincial Comilla. My real growing up was to start there. This move would lay the foundation of the person I would become. Like any other boy of my age, growing up in a small town, everyday carefree life coupled with a complex web of friends and ...

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This day of change - projection

About this project On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the President of the United States of America. Nobody knew if he would be the answer to all our questions, but it was no doubt a day of history, a day of change. COURRiER Japon has decided to launch its biggest project ever, we have assigned 132 photographers in 79 countries to document this day. Asking them to show what hope means to them. Over 1,000 pictures have been submitted ...

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9th Fotopub: 27th July to 1st August 2009

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, small in the warmest sense of the word. Fotopub is taking place every summer in Novo mesto, Slovenia, the juncture of Eastern and Western European cultures. In July Novo mesto offers a pleasant and peaceful shelter with its historic town’s ...

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Evening lectures and screenings

Fotopub mentors will prepare lectures and presentations of their work, every evening at 9pm. These lectures are open to the public. Weekdays, at 9pm, Club LokalPatriot.

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