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Kolkata, with her rich history of art, culture, politics and persona has been a photographer’s Mecca not for decades, but two whole centuries. Myriads of lensmen around the world have been drawn to this city for its heady mix of tradition and expression.
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With that in mind, Kolkata is all set to house the largest repertoire of works from the heart of Europe to the end of Africa at the Kolkata International Photography Festival 2019 to celebrate the entire photographic community in its whole – the amateurs, the enthusiasts, the professionals, the critiques - to represent photography as an art form.
For the first time ever,under the aegis of Maya Arts studio, this 7 day festival shall bear witness to the works of the world's greatest masters –some never-seen-before photographs celebrating Kolkata and its craft of visual storytelling.
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Starting February 28th, 2019, KIPF looks forward to being a first of its kind and intends to give the veterans their due and serve as a networking ground for both national and international talent. See you there!

The group exhibition entitled Memory. Imprints of Destruction and Rebellion of Life focuses on the phenomenon of memory encoded in the genetic code of all living creatures – also trees. Trees (can) live for centuries, much longer than humans, and therefore they often end up being silent witnesses to historical events. The memory of trees is stored in their bodily structure, however, it is impossible to read and interpret with our means. Their memory is as ambivalent as an image without a given context.


The works of three artists, Jaka Babnik, Masaki Hirano and Bojan Radovič, refer to indelible traces that humanity has left on its immediate, natural surroundings. They testify to the fragility and pettiness of humans compared with the grandiosity of nature, as well as human blindness and addiction to their supremacy on the planet. But trees are mysterious beings and humanity does not know much about them – despite immense scientific and technological development. It is, therefore, relevant to pose these questions: Can trees record and store their memories, like they leave traces of their growth in the concentric circles of their trunks? And, if they can, is it possible to read their memories from their internal structure? All three artists touch on these issues from profoundly different perspectives while questioning the very nature of the photographic medium. They utilise photography’s unconventional principles, far removed from classic photographic representation, and hence their images pose more questions than they offer clear answers.


Curator of the exhibition: MIHA COLNER
Texts: Miha Colner & Marina Gržinić


The exhibition will be open until 26 May (from 8pm to 11pm) and on 27 May (from 10am to 2pm)
Venue : DUM Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia [address: Kolodvorska ulica 6]




Produced by: DUM (Društvo umetnikov) / Zavod Sektor / Rostfrei Publishing / Hiša fotografije Slovenija

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