Kraków Photomonth Festival launches tonight, at 6pm, with the Grand Opening at the ‘Things: The Object in Polish Photography’ exhibition, Starmach Gallery, ul. Węgierska 5, Podgórze.

The theme for Photomonth 2017 is ‘From the outside, looking in’  and is curated this year by Gordon MacDonald, a  Scottish curator, artist, writer and publisher, based in Brighton.

Since 2001 Kraków Photomonth has grown from humble beginnings to one of the main photo festivals in Europe.  The Main Programme consists of exhibitions, meetings, workshops and other accompanying events, together with Show Off , Portfolio review, master series, parties and more.

Tonights opening events include:-

19.05 Friday

18.00
GRAND OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL
opening
Things: The Object in Polish Photography (18th edition of the Fotografia Kolekcjonerska project)
Starmach Gallery, ul. Węgierska 5

20.00
ShowOFF Section opening
Don’t Bite Your Lips. You Have Blood on Them Already
Winners: Terje Abusdal, Jan Cieślikiewicz, Polina Karpova, Lucie Khahoutian, Flor Maesen, Viacheslav Poliakov, Kaja Rata, Karolina Wojtas
Curators: Krzysztof Pijarski, Szymon Rogiński, Katarzyna Sagatowska, Salvatore Vitale
Centrum Filmowe Kraków – Creative Arts Center, ul. Lipowa 7

21.00
SURPRISE CONCERT
Centrum Filmowe Kraków – Creative Arts Center, ul. Lipowa 7

22.00
Opening party
MLDVA DJ set
INDUSTRIAL resto & bar, ul. Lipowa 4C

You can find out more about Kraków Photomonth Festival by visiting the following links:

    www.photomonth.com (English)

    ShowOff

   Event Calendar 

 Festival Programme & Map (PDF Download) 

You can also use the ‘Eventory’ Festival App to get the most of your festival experience.

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