Coming to Cape Town soon, from the good people of The South African Centre for Photography:
MoP4
The Cape Town Month of Photography 2008
a triennial festival
Thurs 2 October - Sat. 1 November 2008
Cape Town’s ongoing photographic triennial celebrates the photographic image as a unique space where the real and the metaphor engage and stimulate exploration and self expression. It is a festival which provides a rare platform for communication between local photographic communities, inviting inter-regional exchange, circulation and dialogue. It also aims to compete within the global photographic arena and to support the current positioning of South Africa as a world cultural site and hub of photographic vision and practice.
The festival will be presented as a series of exhibitions, events, seminars, workshops and master classes in photography and related themes, the core program running in Cape Town with the possibility of satellite exhibitions and events taking place in other parts of the country. For, although a local event, the month-long festival encourages and welcomes the participation of photographers, galleries, museums and photographic centres elsewhere.
The opening of the principal event in Cape Town will take place at 6pm on Thursday October 2 at the Castle of Good Hope, which will host a number of solo and group exhibitions. Other events and exhibitions will open at a variety of venues on different occasions throughout the month. The festival catalogue will showcase not only the core exhibitions, but also the fringe and satellite items.
MoP4 promotes opportunities for South African photographers to gain both local and global exposure. It will play a pivotal role in giving prominence to photography as a valuable cultural resource promoting cultural tourism. This festival hopes to continue the tradition of presenting an evolving collective vision of our contemporary life, and creating a comprehensive network between diverse photographic communities, including documentary, commercial and fine art practitioners, amateur associations and learners, all of whom are given a forum for expression.
MoP4 October 2008
Deadline for submission Friday 1 August 2008
Emergence and Emergency, the theme of MoP4, suggests the paradoxical character of societies in transition: growth and destruction, calamity and opportunity. South Africa is still extricating itself from the tenacious hold of apartheid and its ramifications, emerging from its isolation to become part of a globalised world. Both locally and internationally, we are faced with unprecedented crises that demand new and extraordinary ways of being and doing in order to meet the challenges we are confronted with. We are, in many ways, ‘on the brink’ with both its positive and negative implications. In this terrifying and exciting landscape, fresh, dynamic photographies have been emerging. MoP4 sets out to give them exposure.
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