FOTODOKS, home office edition.

Munich based inter­na­tion­al pho­tog­ra­phy fes­ti­val FOTODOKS will take place online in 2021 – but as well on site (Lothringer13 Halle) – every­one is hope­ful, that the declin­ing num­ber of Covid infec­tions will make this pos­si­ble. FOTODOKS takes place every two years, and this year’s edi­tion will car­ry the title “A house is a house is a house”. Well, maybe we feel a lit­tle despair in the choice of this title, as our hous­es, our flats are the one place that some of us maybe start­ed to hate dur­ing this pan­dem­ic – even if they loved it before. I see bored pho­tog­ra­phers tak­ing pho­tos of their TV sets, their chil­dren, their beds etc. I see clichés of pan­dem­ic pho­tog­ra­phy (like all those pho­tos of emp­ty streets I’ve seen to many of already). I see pho­tog­ra­phers that try to catch every glimpse of light enter­ing their liv­ing room win­dows.

But there’s hope: The cre­ativ­i­ty of the cho­sen pho­tog­ra­phers and the spir­it of the cura­tors and orga­niz­ers of the fes­ti­val should pre­vent us from being con­front­ed with bor­ing pho­tographs. The pho­tog­ra­phers of the big group show in Munich will be: Emine Akba­ba (Ger­many), Dan­nielle Bow­man (USA), Cyprien Clé­ment-Del­mas & Lin­dokuh­le Sobek­wa (France, South Africa), Buck Elli­son (USA), Nan­na Heit­mann (Ger­many, Rus­sia), Sohrab Hura (Indi­en), Jochen Lem­pert (Ger­many), Noelle Mason (USA), Drew Nikonow­icz (USA), Now You See Me Moria (Spain, Afghanistan, Syr­ia), Arzu San­dal (Ger­many) and Henk Wild­schut (NL).

Dur­ing the 5‑day fes­ti­val, a series of sup­port­ing events in a live­ly and per­son­al atmos­phere will offer lec­tures, artist talks and pan­el dis­cus­sions with the exhibit­ing pho­tog­ra­phers, oth­er experts and dia­logue part­ners.

The exhi­bi­tion can be seen beyond the fes­ti­val peri­od and is accom­pa­nied by reg­u­lar guid­ed tours. The inde­pen­dent fes­ti­val is curat­ed col­lec­tive­ly by pho­tog­ra­phers and aims to look at a broad­er field of posi­tions in doc­u­men­tary pho­tog­ra­phy and the envi­ron­ments it illu­mi­nates.

The Fes­ti­val is orga­nized by Frank Bauer, Sima Dehgani, Dominik Gigler, Lisa Hörter­er, Ver­e­na Kathrein, Tan­ja Kern­weiss, Nadine Loes and Jakob Schmitt.

FOTODOKS
June 7^th to July 4^th, 2021
https://www.fotodoks.de/