The first international festival for experimental photography is taking place in Barcelona, Spain in January 2020 and I was lucky enough to be selected to attend the festival. I recently found out one of my photos will be exhibited at the festival. The exhibit will feature selected photographers picked from the limited number of people attending this small festival. The photo exhibit will be shown in Barcelona from January-February 2020 and is in talks to have the show extended for a year and travel to Poland, England, Argentina and Mexico. I’m really excited to go meet with artists and attend workshops and talks about the field of experimental photography.
The festival is organized by BADEM and being sponsored by the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya and the Pati Llimona cultural center. The festival had the goal of achieving gender equality, joining the protocol of No Sin Fotógrafas which pledges to having at least 40% of women participating in the festival. The final numbers updated on November 14 show 50/50 male and female speakers at the festival with 55.5% of women participating overall in the festival to 44.5% men! Despite the fact that women are the overwhelming majority in art schools across the US, we are still underrepresented in the art world. I hope exhibitions will continue to strive for greater gender equality.
The festival was originally open for 80 photographers from around the world, and an application and portfolio were necessary to apply. There was such interest the festival has now opened up to 200 international photographers, with myself being among the 30 people further selected to exhibit photographs. Participants are coming from 24 countries. In order of most participants photographers are coming from England, France, The US, Germany, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Argentina, Poland, Greece, Australia, Colombia, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Singapore, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Kuwait and more!
For more information on the festival: https://www.experimentalphotofestival.com/?lang=en