Here is a new U -turn

From May 12 to 28, Moscow will host the 1st International Festival Photo Affairs PhotoBookFest, which organizes the photo center named after the brothers Lumier. Photobookfest, which includes the presentations of books, lectures, master classes and workshops, round tables and meetings with authors and publishers-this is not only the first attempt to loudly declare the photo book as an actual and self-valuable genre, but also a panorama of occurring in modern Russian photography. According to the curator of the festival Katerina Zueva: “The book is an occasion. The reason to collect talented professionals entering the photograph on one or another, so I hope that the festival will become an event, electrified communication with different people from different spheres of artistic activity, very saturated in educational and exhibition planes. The festival will give an easy review of what was before and is now, giving visitors the opportunity to quickly identify themselves among these stages and deal with what is happening. ” The full Photobookfest program is available on his website , and we offer you to pay special attention to the 10 events of the festival.

The educational program of the festival is opened by the lecture by the editor -in -chief of the German journal PhotoPaper Diter Neibubert, who is the co -founder and director of the Kasselsky festival photo book, which this year is taking place for the ninth time. This year, the festival first went on a trip around the world, and Moscow will become the second stop in its path, immediately after Istanbul. All 49 books of Kassel Fotobookfestival , including the work of Ilyas Hajji , Ikura Kuwajima , Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko, will be represented in the exhibition block of the festival from May 12 to 28.

“The photo book is not just a group of pictures united in one edition. Its meaning is much deeper. By and large, this is an autonomous work of art, versatile, affordable and democratic, ”Deter Neubert answers the question of why the photo book is worth the attention of the public.