programme-photon-festival-2017

CONFERENCE // NATALIA SANCHA Saturday 6th May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Natalia Sancha is a journalist and political scientist specializing in the Arab world. She collaborates with several media such as El País, Egypt Independent; Afkar / Ideas, Foreign Policy, Jadaliyya and Esglobal. Previously she worked as an analyst in Spanish think tanks like Fundación Alternativas or [...]

CONFERENCE // JOSEPH EID Saturday May 6th - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Joseph Eid is a Lebanese photojournalist working for Agence France Presse (AFP) as photo-coordinator and photographer for Lebanon-Syria and Jordan. In recent months, his photograph of a Syrian man listening to music on his gramophone has circled the world and has become a representative icon of [...]

CONFERENCE // SANTI PALACIOS Friday May 5th - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Santi Palacios was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1985 and is currently based in Barcelona, but works mainly outside of his country as a freelance photojournalist, contributing to international news agencies and media outlets such as the Associated Press, among others. Trained sociologist, during the past [...]

THOSE WHO STAY // Joseph Eid and Natalia Sancha 02/05/17 - 28/05/17 CLAUSTRE. CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU SATURDAY MAY 6TH // 17.30H. CONFERENCE NATALIA SANCHA AULA MAGNA . CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU SATURDAY MAY 6TH // 19.30H. CONFERENCE JOSEPH EID AULA MAGNA . CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU In 2016, PhotOn Festival analyzed the situation of the migratory crisis towards Europe and the situation [...]

TRIBUTE JOAQUÍN COLLADO // Joaquín Collado Since May 2nd. URBAN EXHIBITION CIRCUIT - EMT Like every year, PhotOn Festival pays homage again to historical photojournalists or photodocumentalists from Valencia. In 2017, PhotOn Festival shows the work of Joaquín Collado, banker and great photographer who used his free time to immortalize the life of the old Valencia. Always close to the street and looking [...]

VERA Y VICTORIA //Mar Sáez 2nd May to 1st June RAILOWSKY Vera confessed to Victoria that she was transsexual the day they kissed for the first time. It was in a park. It did not change anything. For the four years that they were together, they loved each other as they had never loved anyone before. For that part of their [...]

MARTES DE PHOTO // Ana Yturralde May 2nd. 22h CLAUSTRE. CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. Free access. Martes de Foto (MdF) is a cultural photographic proposal created by the photographer Ana Jiménez in Valencia that satisfy the necessity of being in contact with partners of profession in a physical and interactive way, avoiding the social networks to know personally each other. [...]

CONFERENCE // CLEMENTE BERNARD Wednesday May 3rd - 17:0h OCTUBRE CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA. Títtle: Documentary photography and its context Organizes: Máster en Fotografía UPV Collaborators: PHOTON and Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània Graduate in fine arts (UCB) and 'Dea' in sociology by UPNA. Photographer and independent documentary filmmaker since 1986, with a strong interest in social and political issues within [...]

CONFERENCE // JUAN MANUEL CASTRO PRIETO Thursday May 4th - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Free Acces Juan Manuel Castro Prieto began his photographic career in a self-taught way although he had a degree in economy. At the beginning of the 80s, he joined the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid and since then his career has not stopped growing until [...]

SCREENINGS // NIGHT OF NEXOS. Wednesday May 3rd - 22:00h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Claustro. On Wednesday night, PhotOn Festival will host the screening of "NEXOS. NEW VIEWS IN EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY " a project of ENMap (European Network of Master Studies in Photography) in which an international team of European students of photography masters reflect on the concept of [...]

HOME // Colective since may 2nd CIRCUIT METROVALENCIA Campanar La-Fe Turia Plaza España Patraix Jesús Hospital Nou de octubre Mislata-Almassil Machado Benimaclet Av. Cid Xátiva A. Guimerá Marxalenes Mediterrani Photon Festival has left the building and is taking over public spaces in València , transforming the city into one enormous exhibition in dialogue with daily life. The exhibition HOME, a collective [...]

CONFERENCE // NURIA LÓPEZ Thursday May 4th - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Nuria López Torres, Barcelona (Spain). She studied for three years at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia and later a master’s degree in photojournalism at the School of Graphic IDEP Barcelona. Documentary photographer. Focuses her work on issues related to women, gender, identity and sexuality. [...]

ETIOPÍA // Juan Manuel Castro Prieto 02/05/17 - 18/06/17 OCTUBRE CENTRO DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA THURSDAY MAY 4TH // 17.30H. CONFERENCIA JUAN MANUEL CASTRO PRIETO AULA MAGNA . CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU This exhibition is the result of four trips to the African country carried out by Juan Manuel Castro Prieto between 2001 and 2006. The characters travelling through his photographs show [...]

CONFERENCE // JAVIER ARCENILLAS Friday May 5th - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Humanist, freelance photographer and member of Gea Photowords, Javier Arcenillas develops with his camera humanitarian essays. His reports have been published in numerous national and international media such as Time, or Der Spiegel. Winner of many international awards, including the World Photography of the Year, the Luis Valtueña [...]

SCREENINGS // NIGHT OF LENSCULTURE and PHEN (PHOTO EUROPEAN FESTIVALS NETWORK) Thursday May 4th- 22:00h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Claustre al aire libre. PhotOn Festival presents next Thursday, May 4th a night of screening with the collaboration of its European partners. On one hand, PhotOn Festival begins in 2017 a collaboration with Lens Culture magazine, one of the main international photographic magazines about [...]

SCREENING // NIGHT OF PHOTON GRANT FINALIST 2017 FRIDAY 5TH . 22.00h. Claustre Centre Cultural La Nau Friday night is dedicated to multimedia works of the finalists of the PhotOn Festival Grant. The finalists will personally show and present their work to the public on the night before the delivery of Grant PhotOn 2017.

CUBAN MUSLIMS, TROPICAL FAITH Joan Alvado MAY 2nd to JUNE 30th LA FNAC SAN AGUSTÍN Cuba is one of the last countries in the world where Islam has been introduced. Although it is a quite unknown phenomenon, the number of converted Cubans has increased in last years. This growth is related to political opening scenario in Cuba, which has also [...]

SCREENINGS // NIGHT OF PROFESSIONALS  Saturday  May 6th - 22:00h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Claustre Outdoor. As every year, Saturday night is dedicated to the projection of the multimedia works of the professionals who have conference in each edition of the festival. Joseph Eid Natalia Sancha Nuria López Santi Palacios Juan Manuel Castro Prieto Javier Arcenillas

SELECT LIST ·        ALBA DE LA ASUNCIÓN ·        ALBERT MARTINEZ ·        ALEJANDRO CRESPO ·        ANA JIMENEZ ·        CARLES BIXQUERT MUÑOZ ·        CESAR DEZFULI ·        DAVID ALVAREZ ·        ELENA CASTRO ·        FRANCESCA REMORINI ·        GUILLEM SARTORIO ·        IGNACIO MARÍN ·        ISMAEL MARCO CARRILLO ·        IVAN NAVARRO ·        JONATHAN FAUS ·        JOSE ANGEL CALVE JARQUE ·        JOSÉ LUIS CARRILLO RECHE ·        JOSÉ [...]

Awards FIRST PRIZE.- A prize consisting of a Polaroid snap touch + case and a monthly EMT Bonus SECOND PRIZE.- Monthly EMT bonus THIRD PRIZE.- Monthly EMT bonus FOURTH PRIZE NEW! #PhotonambEMT #ValenciaConCollado RULES PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST "VALENCIA OF COLLADO IN BLACK AND WHITE" Object of the competition The contest consists of photographing 'Valencia in Black and White' through the windows of [...]

NEXOS Nuevas miradas en la fotografía documental europea APRIL 7TH FUNDACIÓN LA POSTA Calle Pintor Fillol, 2 46003 Valencia (Spain) www.fundacionlaposta.org "Beatus ille" ("Blessed is he"), with this expression commenced one of the verses of the Roman poet Horace in which he praised the simple and secluded life in the countryside as opposed to the frenetic pace of the city. [...]