UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR
18th September – 21th Semptember 2014 will take place Third International Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam, which is focused on undiscovered photography talent and unseen work by established photographers. Organizers traditionally pay much attention to the photobooks. The Unseen Book Market is an integral part of Unseen’s festivities. It celebrates the independent publisher, beautiful books and their creators, and provides a meeting place for book makers and book lovers. It is the place to meet the artists and will provide a stage to present new publications.
FotoDepartment’s stand with Russian self-published books will be presented at UNSEEN - Photography Fair Amsterdam Book Market for the first time. Here will be presented about 20 newest editions of Russian authors from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Chelyabinsk including several mentioned books of young Russian photographers:
- Kirill Savchenkov. Iceberg / Short list MACK First book award 2014;
- Elena Kholkina. Did we ever meet? / Winner of the Rock Your Dummy Prize at a fringe event Le Photobookfest 2013 in Paris;
- Jana Romanova. Shvilishvili / Selected for the shortlist of the 50 books in the International Photobook Festival 2014, Kassel, Germany;
- Julia Borissova. The Farther Shore / Selected for the shortlist of the 50 books in the International Photobook Festival 2013, Kassel, Germany
Some books will launched for the first time:
- Sergey Artemyev / St-Petersburg. “Olympia” - on example of Sochi Olympic games aggressivly media translation artist noticed the loss of influence of media;
- Irina Zadorozhnaia / St-Petersburg. “The drill charted a point…” - abstract-philosophic photobook, attempt to catch a thinking process through image;
- Katya Yushkevich / St-Petersburg. “Four letters. First - L.” - project in which the artist makes experiments on himself, reflect on our society and on the surrounding reality;
- Anna Vahitova / Kazan. “Marker” - examining the notion of trace in literal and metaphorical sense through the features of photographic medium;
- Fedor Shklyaruk / Moscow. “On Aether” - how intangible appears through the photography;
