This Sunday’s marathon of meetings and workshops kicks of very early. Academy of Photography workshops start at 10:00, led by Saul Robbins and Katarzyna Majak, devoted to effective self-promotion strategies. The next workshop starts an hour later, also organised by the Academy of Photography – this time participants will be introduced to the secrets of photo reportage by Jarek Praszkiewicz. The events are for pre-registered participants. 

However, the meeting held at the Festival Office at Camelot Gallery is free and open to all. Łukasz Gazur will present photobooks published as part of the ShowOFF Section. The set of five photobooks, numbered and signed by the authors, can be picked up from the Festival Office at any point during the Festival at a promotional price of 119 zlotys (individual books 29 zlotys). The dust jacket of each book is also a photo poster! The books are authored by Yulka Wilam, Tomasz Liboska and Michał Jędrzejowski, Karol Kaczorowski, Bartłomiej Lurka, and Piotr Zbierski. The photobook meeting kicks off at 14:00.

 

The discussion panel on press photography, entitled “From Photo Reporter to Photographer”, starts two  hours later. We have invited photographers and photo editors who don’t fully agree with the notion of the end of photo reportage in print media due to changing work environments and the appearance of new media. Methods of obtaining funds for photography projects, and what it’s like to work at agencies, collectives and foundations, will be introduced by Michał Kołyga from the Association of Photo Reporters, Beata ŁyĹźwa-Sokół (photo editor at “Gazeta Wyborcza” and author of the blog “Exercises in Seeing”), Marek Szczepański (former photo editor of the weekly “Przekrój”, photographer), Łukasz Trzciński from the Visavis.pl Agency, Jan Brykczyński representing the Sputnik Photos Collective, and Paweł Supernak (photo reporter at the Polish Press Agency). The discussion will be led by Krzysztof Pijarski.

We’ll be staying at Camelot Gallery until the evening: at the end of the discussion, at 18:00, together with the Academy of Photography we’d like to invite you to the presentation of Cedric Gerbehaye’s multi-award winning book Congo in Limbo (inc. World Press Photo prize, Amnesty International Media Award and the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America), presented by Rafał Milach, winner of the New York Photo Award. The author is a member of Agence VU. The book was created during the artist’s stay in the Democratic Republic of Congo; supplemented with a commentary from Stephen Smith, journalist, writer and expert on Africa, and Andrew Philip, Amnesty International’s researcher on the Democratic Republic of Congo, it presents the conflict in this African country from within. 

The action-packed day will close with another presentation by the Academy of Photography, this time on the book Rough Cut, combined with a multimedia projection with the participation of the authors. Rough Cut is a project presenting seven young photographers describing their own everyday stories, finding something unique in each one. The meeting will take place at the Festival Office at Camelot Gallery at 20:00.

 

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