A week ago, along with the Dom Norymberski, we were delighted to invite you to a series of film portraits of famous photographers. Today we start another movie marathon with a three part series of films from the BBC, The Genius of Photography. Over the next three days, at 19 in the Cheder Cafe you can see films in sequence part 4 Paper Movies, Part 5 We Are Family and Part 6 Snap Judgements. 

Photo Aaron Babel. Podgórze

It was a weekend of meetings, presentations, books, and consultations! Perhaps you participated in the sixth Portfolio Review, photojournalism workshops, the Archaeology of Photography Foundation campaign, or discussions about collecting and the state of photojournalism. You could have met and talked with the authors of: IS (not), Congo in Limbo, and Rough Cut. A lot happened! And thank you for being with us.

Photo by Basia Budniak

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. 

The coming Saturday will be extremely photographic: and no wonder, since it’s 9 May and the 9 Photomonth in Krakow festival is running! All the Main Programme and ShowOFF Section are now open, and are waiting for you all round Krakow. But that's not all that’s waiting for you.

If you’d like to see our exhibitions in a nighttime atmosphere, come along to Museum Night. Tonight’s museum marathon includes the following Aliases at the National Museum, Stanisław Wyspiański Museum at the Szołayski townhouse, the Museum of the History of Photography, the Ethnographic Museum, MOCAK, and at Bunkier Sztuki.

All the openings are behind us now, but remember that you can continue to view in a multitude of places around Krakow. To help you plan your weekend of exhibition exploring, Photomonth in Krakow has put a map marking all the places where this year's exhibitions are being held on our website.

What have we planned for you today? Something for the mind and something for the body. A meeting, a lecture, and a party! Boring, it won’t be!

Photo by Luka Łukasiak

In the dense programme for the second weekend of Photomonth in Krakow, don’t forget about the unique social campaign we’ll be hosting on Saturday as part of our dedicated block on collecting. “Dusting off family archives” is a campaign carried out by the Archaeology of Photography Foundation as part of the Fotorejestr programme, addressed to everyone who has family photographic archives, and so, in fact, for everyone.

Rafał Milach – photographer, member of the curatorial board of this year’s ShowOFF Section (protégés Bartłomiej Lurka and the duo of Thomas Liboska and Michał Jędrzejowski) has won a slew of awards on the New York Photo Festival, including the most important: the Jury's Choice Grand Prize for In the car with R. In addition, the project received an Honorable Mention in the category Book Project for In the car with R. Milach also won first prize in the Advertising category for his clothing campaign for House. 

In the car with R, Rafał Milach

Three, two, one and... off we go with the exhibition Madeleine Sante at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK). At 18:00 the grand opening is scheduled for this new prestigious Krakow exhibition space – a contemporary art gallery built totally from scratch.