Rovinj Photodays - a national photographic festival
Rovinj Photodays - a national photographic festival and an annual contest for the best photo taken during the previous year. The festival attracts the best Croatian and European photographers and, in addition to themed events, an attractive photo tour will be organized with several art shows held at different venues.
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Photodays, the Rovinj Festival of Photography, is a
Rovinj Photodays - a national photographic festival and an annual contest for the best photo taken during the previous year. The festival attracts the best Croatian and European photographers and, in addition to themed events, an attractive photo tour will be organized with several art shows held at different venues.
Rovinj Photodays - program 2013.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7th
12:00 MULTIMEDIA CENTER:
official opening ceremony and press conference / festival launch, exhibitions launch:
MULTIMEDIA CENTER / Rovinj Photodays 2013 – exhibition of photographs by the finalists and the winners of the annual competition
12:45 CVU BATANA: “A Face Lit by Moonlight” – opening of the premiere exhibition by Ivan Posavec, a master of contemporary photography.
13:30 CHURCH OF ST THOMAS: opening of the exhibition of the Life Achievement Award winner: “Josip Klarica - photographs 1976.-2011.“ Exhibition produced by the Museum of the city of Split (curator: Nela Žižić)
14:30 COUNTY MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF ROVINJ: official opening ceremony of the exhibitions: “Mario Giacomelli - Italian Neorealism” - A retrospective in collaboration with CRAF Spilimbergo (curator: Walter Liva)
“Sin_tesis“ Si FEST (Savignano immagini festival): photographic project exhibitions by curators: Stefania Rössl & Massimo Sordi
14:30 PUBLIC OPEN UNIVERSITY ROVINJ (press centre building, 2. floor): Lecture: Michael Diemar: Contemporary Photography & The Photographic Market – vol 1
17:00 THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN ROVINJ, The Campitelli Square: Presentation: Adobe Photoshop - New Tools for Digital Photographers, Danijel Berković (presentation sponsored by HMS informatics)
19:00 ADRIS GALLERY: opening ceremony of the exhibition “Brothers Brkan: Making a dream come true – photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art“
21:00 - 23:00 Welcome grill party by ReFoto, Photodays & vina Cossetto - in front of the Hotel Adriatic for accredited music by Livingstone Mediteraneo duo/projections in the open:
• Mladen Grčević: Great Croatian Actors 1946.-1950.
• ReFoto: Our first one hundred
• Friends of the Sea: The greats of Croatian photography from 1950s
• Fotogard: annual exhibition
• Pixsell: annual exhibition
22:30 HOTEL ADRIATIC TERRACE: introductory workshop of night photography by Nikon - before going on a field trip
23:00 FOTOIZAZOV – night photography (applications in the tent on the square)
21:00 Hotel Lone - Gloria GLAM & Photodays exclusive party – accreditations only
EXHIBITIONS IN THE OPEN:
Friends of the Sea:
The greats of Croatian photography from 1950s
Pixsell
ReFoto Fotogard
SATURDAY, JUNE 8th
10:00 DIVING CLUB ROVINJ
A workshop on underwater photography (sponsored by Olympus): by Danijel Frka & Marino Brzac
11:00 HOTEL ADRIATIC TERRACE: having coffee with Ivan Posavec and Josip Klarica
11:00 FOTOIZAZOV (applications in the tent on the square) - other competing categories the largest gathering of photography lovers in Croatia offering valuable awards such as Adobe, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, in collaboration with the Algebra Academy.
11:00 HOTEL LONE, MASTERCLASS WORKSHOP: Fashion & Beauty photography: by Michael David Adams one-day workshop for a group of advanced participants in consultation with the accredited participants
11:30 THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN ROVINJ, The Campitelli Square:
Workshop Olympus: “No mirror - no problem” (mirrorless cameras) by Boris Kretonić, Art Studio Mah
13:00 THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN ROVINJ, The Campitelli Square:
Presentation Epson: “Why do digital prints in MicroPIEZO technique on EPSON printers give results of the highest quality?”
by Renato Vincenti, Marketing Development Manager and Ladislav Jonak, Product Specialist for Balkan region, Epson Italia S.p.a.
14:30 THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN ROVINJ, The Campitelli Square:
Presentation Canon: NEW Canon DSLR products, professional Canon photographic and video products
by Ivan Matić, Canon Partner Manager and Zoran Osrečak, Sales and Marketing Director for the Kodak Centre, a Croatian distribution for CANON
14:30 PUBLIC OPEN UNIVERSITY ROVINJ (press centre building, 2. floor):
Lecture Michael Diemar: Contemporary Photography & The Photographic Market – vol 2
14:30 -17:00 MULTIMEDIA CENTER: Portfolio review (according to a pre-arranged protocol and applications)
Leila Topić - MCA
Stefania Rössl - SIFEST
Massimo Sordi - SIFEST
Milan Živković - Refoto
21:00 Hotel Lone: Ceremony of presenting awards to the winners of this year's annual competition Rovinj Photodays (with invitations and accreditation)
23:30 AFTER PARTY: Night club Lone/ DJ Mare Milin(nuns with guns)
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ROVINJ PHOTODAYS – THE 6TH FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY OPENS
Rovinj – the Regional Center for Quality Photography
Photodays, the Rovinj Festival of Photography, is a compelling and important art event in Croatia and the wider region. For the sixth edition of the event Rovinj, the town whose patron saint is St. Euphemia, has opened its exhibition halls, galleries and other venues featuring fifteen different locations to showcase the best works from around the world.
The reasons for such a large number of exhibitions are many, and one of them is that as many as 400 authors entered the competition, presenting 7500 works in nine competition categories,leaving an unenviable task to the Festival Jury – the choice of the three finalists. Markita Franulić, president of the Jury, said that most of the works this year were from the following categories: Landscape, Architecture and Conceptual Art. However, the competition was fierce in other categories as well and the best works were chosen only after several evaluation stages.Festival Director Denis Redić pointed out that all nominated and rewarded pieces will become part of the Museum of Contemporary Art collection in Zagreb. He also drew attention to the significance and international dimension of the event visited by many renowned world artists and photography theoreticians from New York, London and Paris.
Along with numerous interesting exhibitions a very attractive exhibition by Josip Klarica, the winner of the Life Achievement Award, opened in the St. Thomas’s Church, where the authorpresented his life’s work with photos taken between 1976 and 2011. Equally exciting was an exhibition by one of the best contemporary Croatian photographers Ivan Posavac, who hadpresented his work at the Batana Gallery with the exhibition “Lice obasjano mjesečinom” (“AFace Lit By The Moonlight”).
International contemporary photography art could be seen and experienced at the exhibition “Sin_tesis” at the Heritage Museum where the best works of the four-year-long photography project “SI FEST” (the Savignano Immagini festival) were presented. The retrospective exhibition of the neorealist Mario Giacomelli opened there as well, demonstrating why Giacomelli is considered the “Fellini of photography”.
The Rovinj promenade hosted an open air exhibition “Prijatelji mora – velikani hrvatske fotografije 50-ih” (“Friends of the Sea – the Masters of Croatian Photography in the ‘50s”) again this year, featuring a wonderful selection of works by the greatest Croatian photographers from that period kept in national and private collections.
