Fotodoks Festival

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Fotodoks is a festival for current documentary photography that was founded in 2008 and has been taking place every two years in October in Munich since 2013 .

Conception

The aim of the festival is to shed light on author photography in a changing partner country, to promote dialogue between photographers from all over the world and to discuss future models of documentary photography. For each festival, in addition to German-speaking positions, a different partner country or region is invited and a corresponding festival theme is reflected on. The festival consists of a group exhibition and a one-week supporting program with lectures, panel discussions, guided tours, workshops and screenings. Fotodoks is organized by the non-profit association Fotodoks eV and supported on a voluntary basis by helpers.

exhibition

At the center of the group exhibition in the Munich City Museum are photographic works from the respective partner region and the German-speaking area on the relevant festival theme. The exhibiting photographers are on site for the duration of the festival, design the structure of their exhibition together and take part in the festival program in the form of lectures, workshop discussions and panel discussions. The exhibition can be seen beyond the festival and is accompanied by regular tours. A catalog is published for each exhibition, which brings together and documents the photographic positions from the exhibition in a new form.

ZEITmagazin photo award

Every year one of the works presented in the Fotodoks group exhibition is awarded the Fotodoks Prize - since 2012 in cooperation with ZEITmagazin . The ZEITmagazin photo award is endowed with € 5,000 and enables the implementation of a photo report developed jointly with the editorial team of ZEITmagazin. In 2015, the TIROL audience award was also awarded for the first time.

Winner of the Fotodoks Prize:

  • 2008: Sabine Schründer
  • 2009: Armin Smailovic
  • 2010: Gordon Welters
  • 2011: Bruno Pulici
  • 2017: Annie Flanagan

Winner of the ZEITmagazin photo award:

  • 2012 Edmund Clark
  • 2013 Linn Schröder
  • 2015: Merlin Nadj-Torma

Winner of the TIROL audience award:

  • 2015: Tanja Kernweis

Supporting program

During the festival week in October there will be a supporting program with lectures, panel discussions, guided tours, workshops and satellite exhibitions.

The following photographers have been guests in the past festival years : Anders Petersen , Moises Saman, Christopher Anderson, Paolo Pellegrin , Thomas Dworzak , Jacob Holdt , Franco Pagetti, Christopher Morris, Edmund Clark, Simon Norfolk, Valerio Spada, Anastasia Taylor-Lind , Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Kai Wiedenhöfer , Andrea Gjestvang, Gerry Johansson.

The following were invited to talks or symposia: Eva Leitolf , Valeria, Burgos, Mirko Borsche , Andreas Wellnitz, Marcus Rasp, Ralf Zimmermann , Ulrich Pohlmann, Maurice Weiss, Gürsoy Dogtas, Lars Willumeit, Timm Klotzek , Paul Lowe, Heidi Specker , Thomas Seelig, Martin Fengel , Florian Ebner , Peter Lindhorst, Michael Obert .

Since 2013, a photo docs think tank has taken place every year between two festivals . Over three days, a group of international experts, photographers and artists will reflect on relevant issues and topics from the partner country already selected for the following year.

history

2008

Fotodoks took place for the first time in 2008 in Bad Aibling near Munich . As part of the Nonfiktionale documentary film festival, Fotodoks took part with an exhibition curated from an open competition on the subject of “Really funny”. Eight works were presented that reflected the varieties and border areas of humor within documentary photography.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Wolfgang Dürr
  • Barbara Hartmann
  • David bracket
  • Julia Kruger
  • Christoph Mukherjee and Silke Wernet
  • Kathrin Ollroges
  • Sabine Schründer
  • Gordon Welters

2009

Once again in the context of the Nonfiktionale, Fotodoks with the topic of "real time" thematized the legibility of time within documentary photography and examined the question of how the past or the future, standstill or rapid change, the fixed or the fleeting can be documented and when an image can be documented as credible testimony is perceived.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Bernd Arnold
  • Ines Dümig
  • Andrea Engelke
  • Dominik Gigler
  • Kirill Golovchenko
  • Karl Kempf
  • Wilfried Petzi
  • Armin Smailovic

2010

In the third year, Fotodoks organized an independent festival for the first time, which focused exclusively on current documentary photography. In 2010, in the rooms of the temporary cultural site Puerto Giesing in Munich, the topic “Inner Worlds” and the question of how photographers bring the hidden to the surface in pictures. The spectrum ranged from making individual emotional worlds visible to dealing with topics that are considered social taboos or are generally excluded from public perception.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Inessa Dolinskaia
  • Esther-Judith Hinz
  • Hadley Hudson
  • Bettina Koller
  • Andrei Krementschouk
  • Thomas Meyer
  • Andreas Mueller
  • Lene Münch
  • Corinna Sauer
  • Katrin Trautner
  • Gordon Welters
  • Franca Wohlt

Guests in discussion groups and lectures

2011

In 2011 Fotodoks invited Italy to its first partner country. The exhibition on the festival theme “Incredible - Incredibile. Sensationslust, Document, Reality ”took place in the rooms of the Munich City Museum , highlighted the tension between credibility and sensation and examined the question of how convincing documentary photography between information, infotainment and illustration can still be. The festival center with lectures, discussions and a book table in Hamburg's Deichtorhallen moved to the MaximiliansForum art passage . Other components of the five-day festival program were workshops with photographers from the Magnum Photos agency , a cooperation with the Munich documentary film festival DOK.fest and exhibitions in partner galleries, including the Paolo Pellegrin retrospective in the art foyer of the Bavarian Insurance Chamber .

Exhibiting photographers

  • Giuseppe Carotenuto
  • Maurizio Cogliandro
  • Alberto Dede
  • Jörg Gläscher
  • Paul Kranzler
  • Julia Kruger
  • Lorenzo Maccotta
  • Franco Pagetti
  • Bruno Pulici
  • Julian Röder
  • Valerio Spada
  • Heinrich Völkel
  • Kai Wiedenhöfer
  • Michael Wolf
  • Antonello Zappadu
  • Alexander Ziegler

Guests in discussion groups and lectures

  • Christopher Anderson
  • Valerie Burgio
  • Gursoy Dogtas
  • Thomas Dworzak
  • Verena Hein
  • Timm Klotzek
  • Eva Leitolf
  • Mi-Camera team
  • Ulrich Pohlmann
  • Moises Saman
  • Thomas Steinfeld
  • Gaia Tripoli
  • Maurice Weiss
  • Andreas Wellnitz
  • Lars Willumeit
  • Ralf Zimmermann

2012

In the fifth year of its existence, Fotodoks and its partner country Great Britain discussed the surveillance of places and people, the dividing line between public and private spaces, and the photographer's responsibility towards his medium. With the exhibition on the festival theme “Attention ?! - Respect, Control, Change ”, Fotodoks was once again a guest at the Munich City Museum . The festival center with lectures, discussions and a book table in Hamburg's Deichtorhallen was again located in the Kunstpassage Maximiliansforum . In addition to the renewed cooperation with the Munich documentary film festival DOK.fest , a workshop with the photographers from the agency VII Photos Christopher Morris, Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Jocelyn Bain Hogg took place during the festival week. For the first time, the ZEITmagazin photo prize endowed with 5,000 euros was awarded to one of the exhibited works.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Polly Braden
  • Marcus Brandt
  • Edmund Clark
  • Thomas Galler
  • Jocelyn Bain Hogg
  • Kai Spoonbein
  • Robin Maddock
  • Henrik Malmström
  • Dawin Meckel
  • Simon Norfolk
  • Dana Popa
  • Simon Roberts
  • Gregor Schlatte
  • Kai Wiedenhöfer
  • Matthias Ziegler

Guests in discussion groups and lectures

  • Martin Fengel
  • Jule Hillgärtner
  • Jacob Holdt
  • Liz Johnson-Artur
  • Paul Lowe
  • Christopher Morris
  • Thomas Seelig
  • Heidi Specker
  • Anastasia Taylor-Lind

2013

Together with the partner region "The North" (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), Fotodoks illuminated the "Stranger World" of current documentary photography and asked about the forms of representation of a world that is supposedly out of balance and becoming more alienating. In addition to the group exhibition in the Munich City Museum and the supporting program in the Kunstpassage Maximiliansforum , the outdoor partner exhibition On Solid Ground by Panos Pictures was shown at the Marienhof . Cooperation with the bookstore of the Hamburg Deichtorhallen , the magazines Die Nacht and Der Greif as well as the Munich documentary film festival DOK.fest enriched the festival program.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Nanna Debois Buhl
  • Christoph Draeger
  • JH Engstrom
  • Andrea Gjestvang
  • Jan Grarup
  • Pepa Hristova
  • Gerry Johansson
  • Margaret M. de Lange
  • Sara-Lena Maierhofer
  • Henrik Malmström
  • Hannah Modigh
  • Anne Morgenstern
  • Leifur Wilberg Orrason
  • Linn Schröder
  • Helge Skodvin
  • Bettina Camilla Vestergaard

Guests in discussion groups and lectures

  • Florian Ebner
  • Eiko Grimberg
  • Daniela Hinrichs
  • Courtship Isler
  • Michael Klein
  • Peter Lindhorst
  • Paul Lowe
  • Michael Obert
  • Niclas Östlind
  • Kurt Salchli
  • Shantanu Starick

2014

The seventh year of Fotodoks brought the decision for a biennial festival cycle. In order to get to know the countries and the role of photography as a medium of documentation and communication in the respective upcoming partner region, to make contacts, to research and to discuss, a photo docs think tank took place for the first time in 2014 with a group of international experts, photographers and artists instead of. Over three days, the festival team spoke to speakers from the former Yugoslavia, the partner region 2015, about neighborhood and friendship, changing territories and identities, about time, memory and forgetting, individual narratives and collective history. During a public evening lecture in the RROOM der Lothringer13, Paul Lowe and the photographers Zita Gafić and Sandra Vitaljić talked about current documentary photography in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and gave insights into their artistic work.

Guests of the think tank

  • Jan Babnik
  • Haris Bilalović
  • Sue Folger
  • Ziyah Gafic
  • Paul Lowe
  • Vedrana Madžar
  • Andrea Palasti
  • Sandra Vitaljić

2015

In 2015 the Fotodoks Festival took place from October 13th to 18th in the Munich City Museum, the MaximiliansForum, the Lothringer13 Halle and the IFOG Gallery. Together with the partner region ex-Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia), Fotodoks highlighted the status quo and the potential of yesterday in today under the title “Past is Now”.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Jaka Babnik
  • Roman Bezjak
  • Collaboration project
  • Jörg Gläscher
  • Ziyah Gafic
  • Ibro Hasanović
  • Tanja Kernweiss
  • Borut Krajnc
  • Saša Krajl
  • Tom light
  • Anne Morgenstern
  • Vladimir Miladinović
  • Merlin Nadj-Toma
  • Dragan Petrovic
  • Hrvoje Slovenc
  • Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber
  • Michael Wesely

2017

In 2017 the Fotodoks Festival was held from October 11th to 15th in the Lothringer13 Halle, theme 'ME: WE'. Together with the host country USA, Fotodoks 2017 was dedicated to the tension between “I” and “we” on a personal, political and media level. The connection between the individual and the collective describes a dynamic movement in both directions - if you manage to find a balance, there is enough room for everyone to develop. What if not? Annie Flanagan wins the Fotodoks Prize for her work 'We Grew Up With Gum In Our Hair'.

Exhibiting photographers

  • Endia Beal
  • Michael Danner
  • Tim Davis
  • Thomas Dworzak
  • Annie Flanagan
  • Gregory Halpern
  • Zara Katz
  • Paul Kranzler
  • Kristin Loschert
  • Mike Mandel
  • Harris Mizrahi
  • Stefanie Moshammer
  • Andrea Ellen Read
  • Richard Renaldi
  • Lisa Riordan Seville
  • Ruddy Roy
  • Sofia Valente
  • Christina Werner
  • Chantal Zakari

2019

This year too, Fotodoks will deal with contemporary documentary photographic works. The festival is planned for October 16-20, 2019.

Cooperations

Fotodoks works regularly with other Munich galleries and since 2011 with the DOK.fest - Internationales Documentary Film Festival Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://fotodoks.de/de/festival-2015/agenda/Preisverleihungen
  2. ↑ http://fotodoks.de/de/news/Zeit-Merlin
  3. ↑ http://fotodoks.de/de/news/Tirol-Tanja
  4. ↑ http://www.zeit-verlagsgruppe.de/presse/2012/10/zeitmagazin-verektiven-erstmals-fotopreis-im-rahmen-des-fotodoks-festivals-in-munchen/
  5. ↑ https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/news_view_web.php?nid=412