distURBANces in Paris

From September 5th to November 4th, 2012 : Cédric Delsaux is exhibited in the context of distURBANces at MEP - Paris

Mutations II in Ljubljana

From June, 8th to July 20th, 2012, a short list of Mutations II artists are exhibited in Ljubljana.

Participating artists: Peter Aerschmann / Christoph Brech / Elina Brotherus / Ori Gersht / Tuomo Rainio / Jutta Strohmaier

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In 2011 Photonic Moments festival became a full member of international association European Month of Photography (EMOP, since 2004), a network now connecting seven European capitals into common platform. Therefore Photon Gallery will present a previous EMoP project Mutations II – Moving Stills. Mutations was a joint project of European Month of Photography (EMOP) association, which was realized in three editions in 2006 – 2010. It is a three-part comprehensive survey of relations in the fields of photography and video.

Budapest new member of EMOP

The European Month of Photography is developing and welcomes Budapest as a new member!

Budapest is following Ljubljana that has joined the network last January.
In 2005, the Photon Gallery established a Photo Festival in Ljubljana, this summer “Photonic Moments 2012” (Month of Photography) is celebrating its 6th edition with the accession to the European Month of Photography and the presentation of a very special show: “MUTATIONS II – Moving Stills” was the second joint project curated by the network’s curators and presented in the cities within their festivals in 2008 and 2009.
Fotóhónap Hungarian Month of Photography has been founded on a biennual basis in 2000 and is organized by the Association of Hungarian Photographers.

Due to the pleasant enlargement it was necessary to change our common corporate design and find a new convincing logo. Among several proposals the concept of a Berlin based graphic designer convinced most:
Marion Ivory Meyer from “m.eye.r visuelle kommunikation” has designed the new logo of the European Month of Photography.


A short statement of the designer:

“The open “E” as an initial of the term “European” in the name of Europe’s biggest Biennial of Photography (…) adopts this idea. The logo’s form quotes a filmstrip which is typical for traditional photography and refers to the tool of photographers.
The colours being used are derived from the herald ic colours of the partner countries and their capitals. They also stand for the festival’s internationality. The blue colour of the European Union locates the festival geographically.”

Ljubljana new member of EMOP

The European Month of photography welcomes Ljubljana as a new member of the board.
During a recent meeting in Berlin the board restated its intention to continue its common projects including a major exhibition to be shown in Berlin, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, and Vienna in 2012/2013 entitled distURBANces. The exhibition showcases photographic works dedicated to mostly urban landscapes and future worlds.

A short history
In the context of the European Month of Photography first held in 2004 and which included festivals in Paris, Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Moscow, Rome, and Vienna, it was both legitimate and necessary to look collectively at the profound changes afoot in the world, and in particular those taking place in the field of contemporary images. This was the motivation behind the 2006 exhibition entitled 'Mutations I', an exhibition focusing on technological and artistic change in the area of photography.
The second edition of the exhibition project, 'Mutations II', aimed to pursue this line of thought on the subject of video, this time exploring the productive relationships that have developed between fixed and moving images and providing a sense of where contemporary art stands in Europe today.

In a context where all means of communication and artistic media are affected by globalization and digital convergence, the era of "post-medium" we are entering is a period characterized by the exploration of hybrid technology, in which artists combine and recombine photography and video with a wide variety of other materials. Whereas in the 80s, we saw photography pushed to new heights of popularity by impressive large and high quality prints, one can not always even speak of photography today but rather of images. Pictures have become massware and everybody is putting his personal shot on Facebook, Twitter or any other platform and personal blog. Everyday shots have become commonplace in art and the issue is no longer one of aesthetic excellence but of weaving networks of significance. By putting enough images - of yourself or your neighbourhood on the net - by giving a true or staged insight into your own life or of others you can build a network of participants that will eventually contribute more images and address topics of social and political meaning. Naturally the use of images today goes well beyond our own private sphere. Found or contributed images become a medium of social concerns by allowing artists to construct new geographical, political or social realities. Artists or non-artists redefine the use of the image in post-modern society where the borderline between private issues and public image are increasingly blurred when the individual becomes an element of group dynamics.
The people behind 'Mutations III' have chosen to showcase European artists who share a taste for experimenting with new forms of expression concerning the net and its plethora of pictures and are aware of these new approaches to photography.