Welcome to ORGAN VIDA Portfolio Review 2017, held annually in the framework of our Festival program in Zagreb.
As in previous years, we invite photographers and visual artists to show their work to experts from around the globe, in order to receive useful feedback and opportunities for exhibitions and publications. The Portfolio Reviews are aimed at committed photographers with a developed and serious approach to their work, open to everyone from students, recent graduates and all generations are welcome.
One artist with the most outstanding portfolio will be awarded the Organ Vida Portfolio Prize— a solo show in the official exhibition programme during Organ Vida Festival 2018. The Organ Vida Portfolio Prize will be awarded by the jury of all the invited reviewers. The winner will also be featured in YET magazine.
Former winner is Sheng Wen Lo who will exhibits his work White Bear this year at Organ Vida New Citizens edition.
On September 7th the participants will have a chance to meet the invited reviewers, curators, editors, and other professionals and have their practice and work discussed. Each artist will be designated a time frame in Gallery Forum (festival center) where he/she will have the opportunity to present their work. Please contact Lucija at [email protected] for any queries.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Date: September 7th 2017
Place: Gallery Forum, Teslina street 17, Zagreb
Time: 10.00–15.00
Cost: Selected candidates have to pay the participation fee of € 60 for all the reviewers.
Croatian residents have to pay the participation fee of € 40 for all the reviewers.
Please note, your reviews are not confirmed until you have paid.
All Open Call New Citizens registered authors will receive a discount to the Portfolio Review in the amount of 30% (42€).
Deadline for applications: 1st September. Successful candidates will be notified by 3rd September.
INSTRUCTIONS
Each entrant may present one, two or more portfolios in a form one by one. The portfolio shall consist of a photographic project on any chosen subject.
You may include as much text as you wish, however we recommend a short statement on the project and your practice, as a part of your submission.
At the Portfolio Review, all projects shall be presented on paper or your laptop. You will meet with all reviewers.
Please send your submission (Name, Surname, Email, Your work/portfolio) directly to email [email protected]
>> Do not miss out on having your work seen by some of the great professionals in photography. Places are limited, so book your place now to avoid disappointment!
List of Reviewers 2017 (we will announced the rest of reviewers soon)
Karen McQuaid
Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Karen McQuaid has curated exhibitions including Jim Goldberg, Open See; Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, London; Andy Warhol, Photographs: 1976–1987; Lorenzo Vitturi, Dalston Anatomy and Rosângela Rennó, Río-Montevideo. She has co-curated Geraldo De Barros, What Remains with Isobel Whitelegg and Made You Look, Dandyism and Black Masculinity with Ekow Eshun. She inaugurated the FreshFacedandWildEyed graduate programme and is currently working on the Bar Tur First Book Award. Karen has curated external exhibitions at The Moscow House of Photography and The National Gallery of Kosovo. She regularly participates in international portfolio reviews, guest lectures across the UK, writes for international photography publications and edits artists’ books.
Paola Paleari
Deputy Editor of YET magazine
Paola Paleari is an Italian free-lance author, editor and curator, currently living in Copenhagen. She has curated exhibitions in many countries including Italy, Denmark, Latvia and Slovenia and her writings have been published internationally. Among her main projects, she is Deputy Editor of YET magazine, a publication dedicated to international photography, and member of artnoise, a web portal and curatorial collective focussed on contemporary art and culture. Her main area of interest is the photographic language and its relations with the visual art practices. www.paolapaleari.net
Jelena Blagović Pavičić
Croatian photographer and an assistant professor
Jelena Blagović Pavičić finished photography programme at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Arti Visive in Padua, Italy. Her education continued in United Kingdom where she completed the Undergraduate (BA) study of Photographic Arts, and Graduate (MA) study of Photographic studies at University of Westminster in London in 2007. Since 2010, she has been working at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, as an assistant professor, at the Department of Cinematography – Chair of Photography. She has won several awards and exhibited her work on numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Sophia Greiff
FOTODOKS Festival
Sophia Greiff is an author and curator for photography and currently working as a Research Assistant in the study program “Photojournalism and Documentary Photography” at the University of Applied Siences and Arts in Hanover, Germany. Since 2011 she co-organizes the Fotodoks Festival for Contemporary Documentary Photography in Munich, Germany – a festival that aims at highlighting auteur photography in a changing partner country, enhancing dialogue between photographers worldwide and discussing the future of documentary photography. Sophia Greiff is interested in long-term projects, crossmedia storytelling and documentary works that indicate an inner attitude of the author, a narrative element as well as societal relevance.
Speaking languages: English, German
http://www.fotodoks.de; www.sophiagreiff.de; www.fotostudenten.de
Miha Colner
Independent curator, writer and editor
Miha Colner (1978) is an art historian who works as a curator and programme coordinator at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. He is also active as a publicist, specialised in photography, printmaking, artists’ moving image and various forms of (new) media art. In the period 2006-2016 he was a curator at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana. Since 2005 he has been a contributor of newspapers, magazines, specialist publications, and his personal blog, as well as part-time lecturer. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.