Futures Digital Festival

Futures Photography presents details on the programme for its upcoming third event, which will take place online entirely. From the 5th to the 31stof October,

Futures Digital Festival celebrates and supports the new names of contemporary photography with talks, exhibitions and other activities. Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme ofthe European Union, this edition brings together the international photography community, including all of the artists and institutions who have joined the talent platform since its beginning in 2018. For a month,the festival unfolds in 5 programme elements under the theme RESET – discussing the rapid changes today’s world faces and how art responds to them. The Expos, The Assembly, The Conversations,The Open Mic, and The Studio Visit explore whether and how this year’s developments will influencethe way we produce and experience art.

The Expos

This year’s selected artists will be presented in two online exhibitions. The first being Futures Talents 2020, a collective showcase in which, like previous editions, all of the 59 talents will be joined and introduced to the public. Accessible at all hours during the festival, Futures Talents 2020 is a place to reflect upon Europe’s contemporary visual landscape as this expo discusses what emerging artists in Europe are talking about today. The simultaneous exhibition, RESET, is curated by visual artist Salvatore Vitale, and investi- gates this year’s main theme within the projects of seven artists who have all been selected for Futures over the years: Ana Zibelnik, Dávid Biró, Ela Polkowska, Eva O’Leary, Garry Loughlin, Julie Poly and Sanne De Wilde.

AboutFutures

Futures is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. Since 2017, it aims to add long term value in empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets and audiences.

Futures seeks to encourage new and adventurous ways of enhancing the vital relationship between artists and the industry by creating an ecosystem that allows and stimulates cross-pollination, whilst simultaneously becoming the go-to source for emerging photography worldwide. Futures works as a growing international network of influential organisations operating in the field of photography, bringing together a wealth of resources, expertise and talent programmes to pool from. Each year, they nominate a group of rising photography talents to join the platform and co-host a series of events to increase their capacity, mobility and visibility. Synchronously, the platform aims to reveal new and exciting photographic approaches, by celebrating a diversity of stories, encouraging upcoming artists to present their most challenging work, and providing insights into their world and most recent projects.

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