Speaking in a loud voice: kwietnia 2013

poniedziałek, 8 kwietnia 2013

Workhops in Chisinau

fot. Agnieszka Rayss

Documentary Photography Workshops for emerging moldovan photographers and photojournalists will be held in April 12-14 in Chisinau.

Workshop will be held in the framework of "Speaking in a loud voice" project. It aims to conduct workshops for emerging photographers and journalists from Armenia, Georgia and Moldova, which will contribute to a collective work by photographers and civil society activists.Workshop will deal with such topics as: What is a contemporary documentary photography and how photographers from other countries work within this genre, and how to work on a long term project, how to look for funding, and how to combine photos and text, how to work together with a journalist or a writer, how to work on group projects.Maximum number of participants 15. Those wishing to participate should send A portfolio (8 photos in low resolution), a little information about yourself and also write down why you want to participate in this workshop. Complete information about yourself to send until March 29 to the address tfiodorova@gmail.com.

Selected participants will be informed by e-mail after 5 April.

fot. Andrej Balco

The project is designed by a team of photographers "Sputnik Photos" from Central and Eastern Europe. Within the workshop in Chisinau members of this collective will talk about their activities: Agnieszka Rayss, Andrej Balco and a journalist Agnieszka Wójcińska. http://www.sputnikphotos.com

Project partners: ARMENIA: PanARMENIAN Network NGO, CZECH REPUBLIC: People in Need, GEORGIA: Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, HUNGARY: Studio of Young Photographers, MOLDOVA: MediArt Dialog, MOLDOVA: ART PLATFORMA, SLOVAKIA: Open Society Foundation.
Project supported by the Visegrad Fund
Project partners in Chisinau:

MOLDOVA: MediArt Dialog
Mediart Dialog facilitation in strengthening of capacities of traditional mass media, development of digital technologies and network communications in promotion of classical and modern arts, assisting in creation of common platform in presenting, popularization, dissemination, propaganda of cultural issues.
mediartdialog.wordpress.com

MOLDOVA: ART PLATFORMA
ART PLATFORMA is an NGO promoting and strengthening cultural resources in Moldova through lounching and developing a unique cultural space that would cover different aspects of art and culture, such as literature, photography, visual arts, cinema, music. Our aim is to support and promote cultural diversity, especially bringing social aspect into artistic life of Moldova.
www.artploshadka.wordpress.com
Project Coordinator in Moldova Tatiana Fiodorova. To contact us at this address: tfiodorova@gmail.com

About the project

Project will focus on workshops for emerging photographers and journalists in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova, that will facilitate the unique know-how collective work among young artists and civil society activists.
We would like to act through bringing together renown photographers and journalists from V4 countries as well as through building a vast network of NGOs, companies, scholars, artists around EaP and V4 countries.
Project supported by Visegrad Fund.

Photographers participating in the project:
Adam Pańczuk
Agnieszka Rayss
Andrei Liankevich
Andrej Balco
Ilkin Huseynov
Jan Brykczyński
Michał Łuczak
Rafał Milach

Partners of the project

Let us present the great partners of the project, both from V4 countries and from Caucasus:

ARMENIA: PanARMENIAN Network NGO
Established in May of 2009, PanARMENIAN Photo is the leading news & creative photography agency in Armenia with its coverage, efficiency, level of expertise, diversity and recognition. The photo agency not only covers all major social-political, business, cultural and sport events happening in the country, but also presents reports from all around the world via its international photographers.
www.panarmenian.net

CZECH REPUBLIC: People in Need
The People in Need foundation was established in 1992 by a group of war reporters and foreign correspondents who were no longer satisfied with bringing back information to the Czech Republic; instead, they began sending out aid. It gradually became established as a professional humanitarian organisation focused on providing aid to crisis areas and supporting adherence to human rights around the world. Over the past 20 years, it has grown into one of the biggest non-profit organisations in Central Europe and has also become active in the field of education as well as helping those living in social exclusion.
www.clovekvtisni.cz

GEORGIA: Center of Contemporary Art – Tbilisi
Center of Contemporary Art –Tbilisi (CCA-Tbilisi) is an independent, nonprofit organization. The main goal of CCA-Tbilisi is to support the development of contemporary art in Georgia and in Caucasus region as well. CCA-Tbilisi works on contextualization of contemporary visual culture and help Georgian and international artists to effectively present creative production to local and international audiences.
www.facebook.com/CCA.Tbilisi

HUNGARY: Studio of Young Photographers

MOLDOVA: MediArt Dialog
Mediart Dialog facilitation in strengthening of capacities of traditional mass media, development of digital technologies and network communications in promotion of classical and modern arts, assisting in creation of common platform in presenting, popularization, dissemination, propaganda of cultural issues.
mediartdialog.wordpress.com

MOLDOVA: ART PLATFORMA
ART PLATFORMA is an NGO promoting and strengthening cultural resources in Moldova through lounching and developing a unique cultural space that would cover different aspects of art and culture, such as literature, photography, visual arts, cinema, music. Our aim is to support and promote cultural diversity, especially bringing social aspect into artistic life of Moldova.
www.artploshadka.wordpress.com

SLOVAKIA: Open Society Foundation
www.osf.sk