IDOMENI, LA VERGUENZA DE EUROPA - Benito Pajares 20 MAYO - 19 JUNIO 2016 CENTRE CÍVIC -AV. HISPANITAT S/N PUERTO DE SAGUNTO El cierre de la frontera de Macedonia ha convertido en los últimos meses a Idomeni, un pequeño pueblo en plena frontera con Grecia, en un enorme campo de refugiados en el que sobreviven cerca de 19.000 personas. Benito pajares, fotoperiodista freelance [...]

NIGHT OF PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS SCREENINGS PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016 Saturday 7th May - 22.30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Cloister -outdoor, free entry Maria Mann - EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) Judith Prat Georgi Lichovsky Gianfranco Tripodo Ernesto Piovano Daniel Ochoa de Olza Gervasio Sánchez MARIA MANN – EPA – PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016 PORTFOLIO REVIEWER GRANT PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016 Maria Mann is director for international relations [...]

Friday 6th may 2016 22.30h. Cloister of Centre Cultural La Nau. Free entry. Finalists Grant PhotOn Festival 2016 – Patrizia Fagiani PATRIZIA FAGIANI VARSOVIA / POLONIA PROJECT: RETURN Every year a significant number of Hassidic Jews travel from Europe, Israel, Canada, USA, Ukraine, towards small villages in the South of Poland. They travel with a small paper in their hands, [...]

CONFERENCE GERVASIO SÁNCHEZ Thursday 5th May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry BIOGRAPHY: Born in Cordoba in 1959, soon he went to Barcelona with his family to settle in Hospitalet del Infante, a town where his grandfather lived. He began working with just 11 years and combined his education with several jobs. At 15, he worked as [...]

RETRATOS DEL ALMA Sandra Balsells MIÉRCOLES 4 MAYO 2016 22.30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. CLAUSTRO - ACCESO LIBRE Retratos del Alma Cuando una guerra termina, desaparecen los soldados y quedan las personas. Retratos del Alma sucede en los Balcanes pero, por desgracia, esta historia podría situarse en cualquiera de los lugares del mundo donde siguen los conflictos armados. La idea [...]

3 MAYO 2016 22.30 h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. CLAUSTRO- ACCESO LIBRE FRAME BY FRAME Sinopsis Frame by Frame – Versión original Inglés con subtítulos en inglés When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops [...]

XIX LUIS VALTUEÑA AWARD May 3rd – July 17th PALAU DE CERVERÓ Luis Valtueña Humanitarian Photography Award, created by the organization “Médicos del Mundo”, has been putting light on the reality lived by millions of people for 19 years. Humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflict, natural disasters, refugee populations, immigrants and excluded groups are always [...]

NIGHT OF SPANISH PHOTOGRAFY SCHOOLS SCREENINGS PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016 Thursday 5 May - 22:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry Photon bets another year on new talents in this screening night, dedicated to reportages of students of Spanish photography schools. The screening night will show works both students who are still studying and students who have gone through different schools. These [...]

FISHSHOT  - Javier Corso Ganador Beca Photon Festival 2016 3 MAYO  - 5 JUNIO 2016 SALA LAMETRO ESTACIÓN DE METRO DE COLÓN Inauguración Miércoles 4 de mayo a las 18.30, con presencia del autor. LA CARA OSCURA DE FINLANDIA FISHSHOT es un proyecto documental que trata sobre la soledad, el aislamiento emocional y la represión de sentimientos que padece la sociedad finlandesa. Problemas [...]

CONFERENCE JUDITH PRAT Friday 6 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry Judith Prat, Photographer Right after graduating I began to study documentary photography and photojournalism. In recent years I have photographed different topics as living conditions of prisoners in jails in Panama, the armed conflict in DR Congo, the living conditions of the Syrian refugees in neighboring [...]

CONFERENCE DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA Friday 6 May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry Son of a writer and a History of Art teacher Daniel Ochoa de Olza was born in Pamplona, on October 22, 1978. His interest turned from painting to photography in 2001 when he started studying artistic photography in Pamplona and later in Barcelona. He became [...]

CONFERENCE GIANFRANCO TRIPODO Thursday 5 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry BIOGRAFÍA: Gianfranco Tripodo, fotoperiodista (Manila, 1981) Gianfranco Tripodo is a freelance documentary photographer based in Madrid, Spain. His work is represented by Contrasto. He was born in 1981 in Manila, the Philippines, and grew up in Naples. He has a degree in media science and semiotics from Bologna [...]

CONFERENCE GEORGI LIKOVSKY Saturday 7th May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Free entry BIOGRAFÍA: Gjorgji Lichovski. 1964. Bitola, Macedonia.  My beginnings are tied with taking pictures on weddings which was very profitable, but after a short period i decided to try and enter in the news photography because it was an attractive challenge for me. In two years [...]

REFUGEES - Marco Risovnik & Georgi Licovsky 3 MAY - 5 JUNE CLAUSTRE Y SALA OBERTA CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU Europe is experiencing the greatest humanitarian tragedy since the Second World War. Millions of people cross the continent looking for asylum and running away from the war. In this exhibition, Photon Festival shows the refugees situation migrating through the Balkan route through the eyes [...]

CONFERENCE P. ERNESTO PIOVANO Saturday 7 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free access BIOGRAFÍA: Pablo Piovano nació el 7 de septiembre de 1981 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Desde los 18 años de edad trabaja como fotógrafo de staff en el diario Página/12. En 2011 fue nominado para el Joop Swart Masterclass del World Press Photo. En  el año 2005 [...]

EL COSTO HUMANO  - Pablo Ernesto Piovano 3 MAY - 24 JUNE 2016 COL·LEGI MAJOR RECTOR PESET (Plaza Horno de San Nicolás, 4, 46001 València) CONFERENCE - P. ERNESTO PIOVANO: Saturday 7 April - 17:30h During the months of November and December 2014, the Argentine photographer Pablo Ernesto Piovani toured rural areas of the provinces of Entre Rios, Chaco and Misiones to portray [...]

WORKSHOP PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT JAVIER CORSO WINNER GRANT PHOTON 2015 (#awardollerosphotonfestival) DAYS: 4 & 5  may 2016 4 may 2016: 10.00 to 13.00 & de 15.00 to 18.00 5 may 2016: 10.00 to 14.00 Price: 120€ Maximum number of attendees: 15 Place: Centre Cultural La Nau C/ Universitat 2 + info at Efedephoto If you are interested in this workshop, send an email to; efedephoto@photonfestival.com The work of a photographer [...]

Workshop related to the Exhibition "Borders of Europe" The workshops have been created and are coordinated by Estrella Terrades Saturday, April 2, time 11:30 a.m. + Guided tour with Mila Font, head of MSF in C.V. Sunday, April 10, time 11:30 a.m. (Guided tour with workshop) + Mila Font, head of MSF in C.V. Saturday, April 16, time 11:30 a.m. (Guided tour with workshop) Sunday, [...]

BORDERS OF EUROPE  - Colectivo 5w 10 MARCH - 8 MAY 2016 MUSEU VALENCIÀ d'ETNOLOGIA CENTRE CULTURAL LA BENEFICÈNCIA. GUIDED TOURS Sunday 27 March, 11:30 a.m. (no workshop) Saturday, 2 April, 11.30 a.m. with Mila Font, responsible of MSF  in CV Sunday, 10 April, 11:30 a.m. (with workshop) + Mila Font, responsible of MSF in CV. Saturday 16 April, 11:30 a.m. (with workshop) Sunday 24 April, 11:30 [...]