The Backlight Photo Festival is focused on photography, but it also accepts photography-based projects that are combined with other media. The festival is rooted in documentary photography and still open to different artistic approaches. It promotes intercultural dialogue by focusing on revealing the hidden, the veiled, the lost and forgotten. Each Backlight forms a new, unique entity. The 9th edition of the Photo Festival in Tampere/Finland opens the doors 17th September 2011. The Tampere-based Photographic Centre Nykyaika has organised the international triennial since 1987.
Backlight 2011 Photo Festival theme and working title has been “Migration and Nomadic Living in 21st Century – Rural Traditions and Urban Hypes”. Specialists in European countries incl. Russia were invited to nominate art- and documentary-positions, rooted in diverse cultural backgrounds and speaking authentic languages in order to stimulate an intercultural dialogue on Migration and Nomadic Living in 21st Century. Artists were also welcome to submit directly to Backlight.
Näytä Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika suuremmalla kartalla
- Date(s): 2014
- Location:Tampere
- Genre:Art
- www:http://www.backlight.fi/
