NonFiction Photo Festival 2021
The NonFiction Photo Festival is back for round two! The festival features the renowned World Press Photo Exhibition presenting the ‘stories that need to be told’. Colorful portraits, gripping documentary series, and impressive nature photography will be displayed. The exhibition will be supported by a local exhibition on fair fashion, the Academy event program, and International Student Night.
Held at the Synagogue Groningen from November 12 to December 5 the festival is offered in both Dutch and English. Tickets are available via www.nonfictionphoto.nl or directly via https://erfgoedpartners.podiumnederland.nl/mtTicket/program/10103758?stlt=egp
The main exhibition will be supported by a local ‘answer’, focusing on fair fashion, and taking a ‘solutions‘ approach to this complex concern. Various photographers, designers, and artists are working together to create today’s story of fast versus fair fashion. Atop of the exhibitions, the Academy program offers tours and talks on photography as well as the issues represented.
The winner of the ‘World Press Photo of the Year’ is Mad Nissen from Denmark with the photo ‘First Embrace’. After months of no contact in a country ravaged by the Covid pandemic, this theatrical portrait shows two people embracing each other through an angelically shaped plastic sheet. Another impressive visual story shows the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States of America. Evelyn Hockstein captured a confrontation between two protesters in the midst of a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC, creating a highly symbolic portrait of the times.
