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Mark your calendars for two weeks of outstanding world-class street photography
During the festival, the calendar includes numerous exhibitions, special meetings with the public and lessons, in a setting of musical entertainment.
Here’s the run-down of events you will not want to miss.
Thursday 6: Keef Charles (UK), Martin Agius (Malta);
Friday 7: Niklas Lindskog (Sweden), Britta Kohl-Boas (Germany) Anna Lohmann (England / Germany);
Saturday 8: Pia Parolin (Germany / France) Nadia Eeckhout (Belgium);
Tuesday 11: In connection Zoom John Gill (Yorkshire) and Kevin Lim (Ireland)
Wednesday 12: Batsceba Hardy, Livio Senigalliesi, university professor and documentary maker
Thursday 13: Stefania Lazzari (Italy), Andrea Ratto (Spain),
Friday 14 Mario Mencacci Bandini, Elisa Santoro and Salvatore Uccello
Saturday 15 the Alnico 2.
All portfolios submitted to us will be evaluated for possible publication on our website and / or in our magazine.
ProgesFestival
Progressive Street is proud to announce the launch of its first International Street Photography and Art Festival. This is a prelude to more ambitious plans, and starting in 2023 this annual Festival event will be staged in various cities around the world.
We can't reveal much about this inaugural Festival for now. Yet we can take enormous pride in Progressive Street and all that we’ve accomplished in just three and a half years.
Our Festival is not for profit. The goal is to discover and show images that are true testimonies of our time, without cultural stereotypes. Images that are not clichés. Images by photographers who document meaningful examples of life, stripped of all artifice. Images that awaken connections, provoke insights and inspire optimism.
We turn to photographers who are actively involved in daily life - yet specifically pursue street photography, documentary photography, and photojournalism without distinction between professionals and non-professionals.
We appeal to all photographers with a soul, because this trait is the impetus for all important forms of artistic, political and social expression. And all serious photographers reflect this trinity in their craft.
The winning photos from the Festival will be published on our website and exhibited in the Galleria gli Eroici Furori located in the centre of Milan, and will have visibility on the various social networks.
https://www.progresfestival.com/competition
Hey, for those of you who aren’t so sure about what you need to do, here’s a reminder about the Progressive - Street and Art - PhotoFestival:
To participate: you must send photos/images to the email addresses for each category shown below, no later than September 5.
These will be considered by our distinguished panel of judges and the winners will form part of our exhibition that will run from the 5th to the 15th October in Milan.
Your jpgs must be labelled with your name and a title or just with your name.
The resolution of each photo must be 300 dpi with the longer side consisting of at least 4000 pixels.
The theme is SOLITUDES. This is your opportunity to show the loneliness and sense of isolation experienced by people in this increasingly dystopian modern world of ours.
Within the STREET CATEGORY:
–Single colour photos should be sent to BL8265@gmail.com
–Single B/W photos should be sent to correlodelfim@gmail.com
–A series of 3 to 8 photos (that tell a story) should be sent to frans.kemper@mac.com
The ARTISTIC CATEGORY is for those of you wishing to do something more creative with your images, where you are free to edit with greater freedom, make composites and so forth.
–Single images should be sent to keithprebble9@gmail.com
–Projects of 3-8 related images should be sent to streeteyephoto@gmail.com
The YOUNGS section is also open for people up to 22 years of age in 2022.
–For those younger participants, photos/ images should be sent to photopalis@gmail.com
You can submit up to 5 images or series or projects –, all are free, but remember to send only your best work. Even though you are not restricted by the cost of entrance fees, remember that we are looking for beautiful images, with soul.
«It is the distance between the photographer and the rest of the people that allows the artist to notice what is overlooked and under-loved. This precise statement confirms my thoughts: “...if love belongs to the poet, and fear to the novelist, then loneliness belongs to the photographer. To be a photographer is to willingly enter the world of the lonely because it is an artistic exercise in invisibility." – Hanya Yanagihara, Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer, The New Yorker.
The photographer feels and represents the loneliness of humanity. Our high-tech society has turned us into monads, and street photographers remind us daily about the loneliness of humanity through the narrative power of their images. And that’s why words are superfluous in this realm. Only by looking at photographs can we understand this on a global scale. At this moment – post-pandemic and in a world teetering toward armed conflict and war, speaking of loneliness is vitally important.» B.H.
Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer
I don't think I'm essentially a street photographer. I guess Photography is just the way for me to express how I see things. It has something to do with a philosophical approach to reality. I have always had this way of observing reality, dwelling on details, on scenes that tell me something. Early on in my life, I felt inspired by what was around me. Eventually, I got into street photography. It was a slow process. And this happened in a city that was not my hometown, where my view got released from all the parameters and preconceptions that you naturally develop in known places. What I perceived in that new urban landscape and became the ghost I kept freezing everywhere and in everyone’s face with my shots was an intense feeling of loneliness. As a photographer, I am already used to entering the world of loneliness because I must be able to become invisible. So I found myself breathing in my own loneliness and the solitude of those around me. It is the distance between the photographer and the rest of the people that allows the photographer to notice what is overlooked and under-loved. I found this particular statement that confirms my thoughts: "...if love belongs to the poet, and fear to the novelist, then loneliness belongs to the photographer. To be a photographer is to willingly enter the world of the lonely because it is an artistic exercise in invisibility." - Hanya Yanagihara, Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer, The New Yorker. The photographer feels and represents the loneliness of humanity. This society is turning us into monads... and Street photographers are those who daily tell us about the loneliness of mankind through their shots. And that’s why words are superfluous in this realm. Only by looking at photographs we can understand this.
AMERICANS
ProgressivE-zine is not just a magazine featuring the work of street photographers, it is a magazine that combines street photography, documentary photography and photojournalism. In this issue, we are not pretending to show the thousand facets of life in the United States, but a select few, small and condensed. The variety and curious nature of the selection seeks to present this huge, vibrant, melting pot of a country in a different way, offering insight into aspects often overlooked.
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