INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Fujairah, 29 April - 1 May 2018
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL is a three days festival to celebrate student creativity in contemporary photography. The festival was funded by ADMAF (Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation) and it is the first in the region. The festival received more than one hundred student submissions from UAE, India, China, Indonesia, Australia, UK, and Serbia. The screening panel lead by Scott Shanley selected 35 works to be printed and framed in gallery grade and then exhibited during the festival.
The festival host seven international speakers: Ian Gwilt (Professor of Design-UNISA, Australia), Leslie Glem (Macro Black & White photographer, Hawaii-USA), Guy Brooksbank (Travel & Music photographer, Florida-USA), Lee Browning Ezell & Christina Maraziotis (Fine Arts photographers, Texas-USA), Steven Benson (Professor of Photography at Daytona State College, Florida-USA), Mubarak Mahboub (Portrait photographer, Fujairah-UAE), and Robert Lie (Photographer & National Geographic Magazine contributor, Jakarta-Indonesia)
My role is divided into two parts:
Management role: I was the initiator of the idea and laid the foundation plan to executed the event. These include securing the funding, negotiating with commercial sponsors, local community government bodies, and participating institutions.
Design role: oversee the exhibition visual design: space layout, interiors, posters, banners, invitation, and the final festival catalog.
Acknowledgment
Great thank you to Ms. Safia AlRaqbani, the campus director for supporting all the way from the idea to the final event inauguration. | Carine Alwane Rizk (ADMAF) | Catherine Abbott (British Council Dubai) | Muna Amlteiri, Fatmah Yaaqeib, & Nourah Alyileili (Marketing team) | Ivana Ercegovac, Adele Myers, Aisha Alhammadi, Julian Stone, Marco Sredejovic, Meznah Alyammahi, Shabeer Kochubava, Zahoor Khan, Outi Katajamäki, & Tina Gates (Visual Communication Faculty team) | Scott Shanley & Team (Submission screening) | Heidi Bouguezzi (Life music) | Margo Tummel (Overseas submission) | Lamis Mawafi (Arabic translation) | Husen Wadha (Carpentry) | Jovin Job (event photographer)
Thank you!
