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BLIPFEST 2010: VISION • PASSION • EXPRESSION
BLIPfest (Bali Photography Festival) is a major international photography event hosting an array exhibitions, workshops and seminars in Bali, Indonesia.
BLIPfest will first take place during the last week of September into the first week of October 2010. The events of BLIPFEST 2010 will be spread over venues around Denpasar, Kuta, Nusa Dua and Ubud, Bali.
BLIPfest sets it’s sights on bringing together domestic and foreign photographers, editors, art critics, cultural observers, industry stakeholders and the general public to help put Indonesia in its rightful place as a domain of diverse and outstanding creativities. BLIPfest aims to be a stimulus for cultural interaction and collaboration among Indonesian and foreign photographers of the world.
BLIPfest was conceived of by Indonesian photographer Rio Helmi as a platform for Indonesian photography, as a creative impetus for artistic and aesthetic energies, and as a venue for intercultural interaction fostering the advancement of Indonesian photography within a global milieu. Rio’s enthusiasm met with swift response from some resourceful minds in related fields – including Rudolf Dethu, Arief ‘Ayip’ Budiman, Soma Helmi, Robin Malau and Marlowe Bandem, all adding their personal touch to the establishment of BLIPfest.
BLIPfest curators will include Indonesian photographers Darwis Triadi, Firman Ichsan, Oscar Motuloh, Rio Helmi and Tara Sosrowardoyo. At this early date we have already had enthusiastic response and sincere interest in participation from several foreign photographers including San Francisco of Fine Arts lecturer Linda Connors, VII agency photographers John Stanmeyer and James Nachtwey, as well as Magnum’s Raghu Rai.
BLIPfest has a special mission to provide access and inspiration for young and upcoming Indonesian photographers
BLIPfest’s 2010 festival theme: VISION • PASSION • EXPRESSION
VISION • PASSION • EXPRESSION not only embodies a sincere desire to celebrate the creativity of photography, it is a warm-hearted, open-minded attitude allowing oneself to be embraced by the art form and to be captured by the moment.
”There is no perfect camera, there is no perfect lens, no perfect technique. There is only the perfect moment, and the perfect heart for it”
Rio Helmi
Photographer
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Hey I am a photographer from India.and I am interested to participate in this festival.Can you tell me what’s the criteria?
Hey Abhishek, I’m Dethu. Actually the criteria is not very difficult. We prefer to have the semi-professional or quite-professional or fully-professional photographers. As long as not very amateur. If you’d like to join, of course you can. Just e-mail us your portfolio, e-mail us, like, 5 to 10 photos. Or if you have your own blog/Flickr which shown your photos, we can just look at them on the internet and let you know.
The second stage is to registrate and then transfer the workshop fee.
Here’s the schedule (subject to change):
Day 1: 23 April, 2010
12.00 – 13.00 Participants arrival and registration
13.00 – 13.15 Welcome
13.15 – 14.45 Introduction of the workshop:
1. State of the industry:
- a few general rules (ethics, respect, names etc)
- How they are assigned in the real world, what questions to ask from the assigning editor, how to deal with time/deadlines
2. Professional Photographer
3. Q&A
15.30 – 15.45 Tea/Coffee Break
15.45 – 17.15 Portfolio comments
17.15 – 17.30 The assignments:
1. Explaining what the participants should do
2. List of subjects – for 20 photographers to shoot xxx different stories/topic subjects
Day 2: 24 April, 2010
08.00 – 08.30 Explaining the assignments as needed then wait for all participants to come back.
12.00 – 12.30 Return to Class and handing their results to organizing committee
12.30 – 13-30 LUNCH BREAK
13.30 – 15.30 Editing:
- Participants are asked to select of 25 photos of whatever they shot based on given subjects
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee/tea break
15.45 – 17.15 Participants alongside with the Presenters are cutting down photos to 10
17.30 WRAP UP
Day 3: 25 April, 2010
08.30 – 10.00 Continue editing – how to pick one best out of the ten.
10.00 – 10.15 Coffee/tea Break
09.45 – 13.00 Continue editing and announcement of the best photo
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00 – 16.00 (continue with coffee break)
- workflow and archiving/metadata principles,
- Photoshop techniques, Sending pictures by FTP
16.00 – 17.00 Slideshow and open discussions
17.00 – 17.15 WRAP UP & CLOSING
I think what Abhishek meant is how to submit for the festival in Sep-Oct this year.
From my experience entering festivals, the submission (if intended open for public) should have started from around this time. There is still no fixed program and what kind of activities to be held in the festival, sound so mysterious. I just hope you guys have plans…