FOTOFEST 2012 PROGRAM 15 September 2012 Saturday Cumhuriyet Street 16.00 Festival March | Opening Ceremony Ertugrul Bey Square - Bursa Commodity Exchange 17.30 Exhibition Opening Coşkun Aral | Where The Words End | Turkey Zaman Photographers | The Arab Spring Serdar Kuşku | Traces of Past in Bursa | Turkey Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.30 Cocktail 20.00 Masters Ara Güler | Creators of the 20th Century | Turkey 21.00 Slideshows | Traces of Past İrfan Yalın Collection | American Tin-types 1860-1880 | Turkey Muharrem Akgün | Films From The Hayloft | Turkey Ezio D'agostino | 14.644 | Italy Hajime Kimura | Man And Dog | Japan Dana Popa | Our Father Ceaucescu | Romania Mila Teshaieva | Promising Waters | Ukraine Joao Pedro Marnoto | Faith In Donkeys | Portugal Xenia Nikolskaya | Kolyma Mother | Russia Engin Guneysu | Hasankeyf | Turkey Brigitte Grignet | Patagonia, The Damned And The Beautiful | Belgium
16 September 2012 Sunday Fidan Han 12.30 Exhibition Opening • European Borderlines Project Koza Han 13.00 Exhibition Opening 1.0 Ara Güler | Creators of the 20th Century | Turkey Pirinç Han 13.45 Exhibition Opening Jeremy Sutton Hibbert | Satra, The Roma of Sintesti | Scotland Amy Elkins | Elegant Violence | USA Jake Price | Unknown Spring: Found Portraits | USA Philip Toledano | Days with My Father | England Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 14.00 – 16.00 Book Signings
Merinos ACCC Seminar Rooms Seminer 1 Room 14.30 Tevfik Fikret Uçar | Techniques for Preparing and Presenting Portfolios | Turkey 15.30 Coşkun Aral | Where the Words End | Turkey 16.30 Ken Light | Education of a Documentary Photographer | USA 17.30 Fred Ritchin | After Photography | USA Seminer 2 Room 15.30 Sadegh Tirafkan | Human Tapestry | Iran 16.30 Yumi Goto | Searching for Truth in Photography: Photojournalism in Japan | Japan 17.30 Noriyuki Asahi | Journalism & Risks & Photography | Japan Seminer 3 Room 15.30 Melanie Light | The Role of the Critic as an Educator | USA 16.30 Olivia Arthur | The Jeddah Diary | England 17.30 Phillip Toledano | Days with my Father | England Merinos ACCC Exhibition Area and Galleries Zeki Müren Gallery 18.30 Exhibition Opening Curators; Cengiz Karlıova & Merih Akoğul | Traces of Turkey | Turkey Engin Gerçek | The Nobles of The Nobilification | Turkey Silva Bingaz | The Spirits in the Deep | Turkey Müzeyyen Senar Gallery 18.30 Exhibition Opening Mary Ellen Mark | Prom | USA Charles Harbutt | Departures and Arrivals | USA Yıldırım Gürses Gallery 18.30 Exhibition Opening Antonin Kratochvil | Incognito | Czech Republic Bruce Gilden | Go; Photos from Japan | USA Jeffrey Wolin | Written in Memory | USA Merinos ACCC Exhibition Area 18.30 Exhibition Opening Ergün Turan & Süreyya Yılmaz Dernek | We | Turkey Group Exhibit | Time in Turkey Merinos ACCC Maze 18.30 Exhibition Opening Li Zhensheng | Culture Revolution of China | China Shahidul Alam | My Journey as a Witness | Bangladesh Emine Ceylan | For My Father | Turkey Indian Photo Collective (Kulwant Roy) | The Pilgrimage | India Kristin Capp | Horse Latitudes | USA Michael Ackerman | Selected Works | USA Nadire Günday | In the Wake of Light | Turkey Newsha Tavakolian | Listen | Iran Olivia Arthur | The Jeddah Diary | England Özcan Ağaoğlu | İranabak | Turkey
Sadegh Tirafkan | The Human Tapestry | Iran Stephen Dupont | Raskols | Australia Nazan Gökkaya | Live Free | Turkey Hai Zhang | Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost! | China Arjen Zwart | Zift | Holland Tuğba Yüksel | Bus | Turkey
Merinos ACCC Exhibition Rooms 18.30 Exhibition Opening Young Photography Initiative | Group Exhibit Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.00 Masters Mary Ellen Mark | Prom | USA 20.00 Slideshows | Traces of Present Frans Hoffmeester | Portrait of Lotte | Holland James Mollison | Where Children Sleep | England Anastasia Taylor – Lind | Siberian Super Models | England Kevin C. Downs | The Iron Triangle | Ireland Varial Nadjari | Traces of Time | France Frederick Lezmi | Poor Politics | Germany Fanny Sarri | Muslims in Europe | Greece Lina Palotta | In and Out of Mexico | Italy Alejandro Cartagena | Car Poolers | Dominic Republic Yasin Akgül | Surreal-ist | Turkey Isabelle Eshragni | Women of Isfahan | Iran Cihan Karaca | Remain Behind | Turkey Cihad Caner | 7.2 | Turkey Daichi Koda | Fallout | Japan
17 September 2012 Monday Bufsad House – Gurebahane-i Laklakan Culture Centre 10.00 – 12.00 Workshop | Samuel Bollendorf | France Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall 10.30 – 15.00 Movie and Slideshow Screenings Koza Han – The Photographers Cafe 10.30 – 12.30 Portfolio Reviews Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 12.30 – 14.00 Round Table Discussion The Future of the Photobook | Mary Ellen Mark, Antonin Kratochvil, Dewi Lewis, Ken Schles, Jake Price, Frederic Lezmi Geyve Han 13.00 Exhibition Opening Bufsad | Artist Portraits from Bursa
Tuz Han 13.45 Exhibition Opening Ömer Orhun | Both | Turkey Merinos ACCC Seminar Rooms Seminer 1 Room 14.30 Murat Germen | Is Education Necessary? | Turkey 15.30 Dewi Lewis | Print Publishing in Digital Age | England Seminer 2 Room 14.30 Özcan Agaoğlu | İranabak | Turkey 15.30 Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay | Photography and Visual Methods | Turkey Seminer 3 Room 15.30 Anna Shpakova | Contemporary Photography in Belarus and Russia | Russia Ressam Şefik Bursalı Art Gallery 16.30 Exhibition Opening Group Exhibit | Time in Turkey Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 16.30 Panel The Future Photography Education in The Digital Age | Ken Light (Moderator), Fred Ritchin, Melanie Light, Susie Linfield, Murat Germen, Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay, Merih Akoğul * The panel will be open to discussion from the audience. 18.30 Exhibition Opening Selanik Museum | Centennial of Balkan Immigration | Greece 19.00 Masters Li Zhengsheng & Hai Zhang in Conversation with Robert Pledge | Chinese Photography 20.00 Slideshows | Traces of Ritual • Gera Artemova | Kosmach | Ukraine • Gali Tibbon | Journey to Jerusalem of Africa | Israel • Chae Kihn | Fragmented Evidences | USA • Caroline Suzman | Jews in Johannesburg | South Africa • Berge Arabian | Pehlivan | Canada • Sultan Aslan | Fall in Istanbul | Turkey • Gael Turine | Voodoo | Belgium • Birol Üzmez | Cortege Houses | Turkey • Stephen Dupont | The Rituels of Death | Australia
18 September 2012 Tuesday Bufsad House – Gurebahane-i Laklakan Culture Centre 10.00 – 12.00 Workshop | Samuel Bollendorf | France 14.00 – 16.00 Workshop | Gael Turine | Belgium Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall 10.30 – 15.00 Movie and Slideshow Screenings Koza Han – The Photographers Cafe 10.30 – 12.30 Portfolio Reviews
Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 11.00 – 12.30 Round Table Discussion • Photography Education in Turkey | Ergün Turan (Moderatör), Aykan Özener, Ömer Orhun, Mehmet Koştumoğlu, Osman Ürper, Seçkin Tercan 13.00 – 14.30 Round Table Discussion • Making a Photo Book from Design to Paper Selection | Savaş Çekiç & Alparslan Baloğlu Merinos ACCC Seminar Rooms Seminer 1 Room 15.30 Jake Price | Unknown Spring | USA 16.30 Samuel Bollendorf | Time in Turkey | France 17.30 Jeffrey Wolin | Written in Memory | USA Seminer 2 Room 15.30 Susie Linfield | Confused About Photography | USA 16.30 Robert Stevens | Captured: Favourite Photos from the Time Magazine | USA 17.30 Newsha Tavakolian | Listen | İran Seminer 3 Room 15.30 Ömer Orhun | the Lie in the Mirror | Turkey 16.30 Levend Kılıç | Opinions on State of Photography Education in 21st Century | Turkey 17.30 Jeremy Sutton Hibbert | Sutra, the Roma of Sintesti | Scotland Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.00 Masters • Antonin Kratochvil | Incognito | Czech Republic 20.00 Slideshows | Traces of Conflict • Yevgeny Khaldae | Berlin WWII | Russia • Agata Skowrenek | Iraqi Marshlands | Poland • Diana Markosian | Chechnya | Russia • Agata Pietron | War Songs | Poland • Glenna Gordon | Liberia Reaching | USA • Ed Giles | West Side Story | Australia • Kiana Hayeri | Your Veil is Your Battleground | Iran • Ivor Prickett | Left in Limbo | Ireland • Donald Weber | Interrogations | Canada • Justyna Mielnikiewicz | Shared Sorrows, Divided Lines | Poland • Mijail Vallejo | Yachacs | Ekvador • Kürşat Bayhan | Way to Revolution | Turkey • Guy Martin | Lost | England
19 September 2012 Wednesday Bufsad House – Gurebahane-i Laklakan Culture Centre 10.00 – 12.00 Workshop | Massimo Mastrorillo | Italy 12.00 – 16.00 Workshop | Gael Turine | Belgium Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall 10.30 – 15.00 Movie and Slideshow Screenings Koza Han – The Photographers Cafe 10.30 – 12.30 Portfolio Reviews
Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 14.00 – 16.00 Book Signings Merinos ACCC Seminar Rooms Seminer 1 Room 15.30 Kristin Capp | Horse Latitudes | USA 16.30 Aditya Arya & Kulwant Roy | The Pilgrimages | India 17.30 Selahattin Sevi | Time in Turkey | Turkey Seminer 2 Room 14.30 Beyhan Özdemir | Photography Education as a Synthesis of Science and Art | Turkey 15.30 Joan Liftin | About Editing a Photo Book | USA 16.30 Massimo Mastrorillo | Time in Turkey | Italy Seminer 3 Room 14.30 Michael Ackerman | Selected Works | USA 15.30 Andrei Polikanov | Photojournalism in Russia Today | Russia 16.30 Sarah Leen | Visual Storytelling in National Geographic Magazine | USA Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.00 Masters • Charles Harbutt | Departures and Arrivals | USA 20.00 Slideshows | Traces of Humanity • Kate Louise Peterson | Color Study: Closed Eyes | USA • John Trotter | Emmy | USA • Doug Rickard | Google Street Scenes | USA • Peter Andrew | Highway | Kanada • James Whitlow Delano, Teru Kuwayama, Jake Price | Effluvium • James Whitlow Delano, David Guttenfelder, Kyoko Hamada, Takahashi Munemasa, Domnic Nahr, Kosuke Okahara, Jake Price, Q. Sakamaki | Dispatch From Tohoku • Jules & Jim ft. Shimpei Takeda | Natura Morta
20 September 2012 Thursday Bufsad House – Gurebahane-i Laklakan Culture Centre 10.00 – 12.00 Workshop | Massimo Mastrorillo | Italy 12.00 – 16.00 Workshop | Gael Turine | Belgium Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall 10.30 – 15.00 Movie and Slideshow Screenings Koza Han – The Photographers Cafe 10:30 – 12.30 Portfolio Reviews Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 13.00 – 15.00 Round Table Discussion • Is Film Dead? | Ed Keating, Jason Eskenazi, Mary Ellen Mark, Antonin Kratochvil Merinos ACCC Seminar Rooms Seminer 1 Room 15.30 Merih Akoğul & Cengiz Karlıova | Traces of Turkey | Turkey 16.30 Ahmet Öner Gezgin | Notebook of an Educator | Turkey
17.30 Gael Turine | Time in Turkey | Belgium Seminer 2 Room 15.30 Amy Elkins | Elegant Violence | USA 16.30 Zaman Photographers | Arab Spring Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.00 Exclusive Program • Robert Pledge | From The Berlin Wall to The Twin Towers 1961–2001 | USA 20.00 Slideshows | Turkish Photo Associations
21 September 2012 Friday Bufsad House – Gurebahane-i Laklakan Culture Centre 10.30 – 15.00 Movie and Slideshow Screenings Koza Han – The Photographers Cafe 10.30 – 12.30 Portfolio Reviews Bursa Commodity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore 12.30 – 14.00 Book Signings Merinos ACCC Orhangazi Hall 19.30 Festival Closing Ceremony • Photo Contest and Dummy Book Award Ceremony 21.00 Exhibition Opening • Photo Contest Exhibition Opening Local Exhibition | Osmangazi District Governorship Square Bülent Suberk Erdem Cantürk Gürsel Egemen Ergin Mehmet Dağ | Waste Collector’s Bazaar Belgesel Çalışma Grubu | Symphony Local Exhibition | Nazım Hikmet Culture Centre Square Murat Sait Tuban | Cuba Tarık Zafer Kocabey Ebru Civan, Levent Tezcanlı, Serap Özkan | Cup Local Exhibition | Press Culture Centre Square Bekir Bilbey Zafer Gülmen Belgesel Çalışma Grubu | Roman Local Exhibition | Emirsultan Square Ahmet Çetintaş Aylin Kırgözoğlu Atilla Oral, İlknur Akcan, Özgür S. Doğan | Crayons Belgesel Çalışma Grubu | Shelter Canan Sönmez | Doors
Local Exhibition | Hause of Armistice of Mudanya Square Erol Sesi | Torakçılar Local Exhibition | Gemlik Seaport Square Gürkan Açıkgöz, Ömer Dindar, Serkan Saygılı, Umut Becene | Graphic Traces From Life Local Exhibition | Kestel Square Ahmet Çağlar Local Exhibition | Gürsu Square Zeynep Başkurt Documentaries and Other Slideshows The next morning, along with other slideshows not screened in the Orhangazi Hall and films by and about photographers both fiction and documentary will show at Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall. Please see daily schedule at Bufsad Cave – Güven Aktaş Hall or in Bursa Commidity Exchange FotoFest Bookstore window. Selected documentary films: PROM – Mary Ellen Mark | Marin Bell about MediaStorm ft. Maggie Steber & Phillip Toledano Purim | Nancy Siesel MJ Bad 25 | Anders Goldfarb Muertes | Martino Chiti Between Us | Joao Pedro Marnato Afghanistan | Stephen Dupont Les Films Lumiere The Adventure of Photography The Genius of Photography | BBC Shooting Robert King | Richard Parry Beyond Assignment | Jim Virga Ken Schles: Lectures, Invisible City, Oculus Traces of a Diary | André Principe Born into Brothels | Zana Briski Heimat Deutschland | Mehmet Ünal Contacts | Raymond Depardon War Photographer | Christian Frei Last Fishery of Istanbul | İsa Şimşek Sipa | Gökşin Sipahioğlu ft. Coşkun Aral Valley of Shadows & Dreams | Ken & Melanie Light Smelterville | Ken & Melanie Light Coal Hollow | Ken & Melanie Light Fictions: Blow-up | Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Palermo Shooting | Director: Wim Wenders Fur | Director: Steven Shainberg The Bang Bang Club | Director: Steven Silver Rear Window | Director: Alfred Hitchcock The Cameraman | Director: Buster Keaton
Man with the Movie Camera | Director: Dziga Vertov
Other Slideshows: Zehra Güveli | Tribute to My Grandfather | Turkey Sema Özevin | Dockyard Cross the Sea | Turkey Tuğba Kırallı | Child Boxers | Turkey Yusuf Aslan | Mourn of a Photograph | Turkey Davin Ellicson | Romania’s Liminal Spaces | Romania Luca Nizzoli Toetti | Almost Europe | Italy Sam Harris | Postcards From Home Australia | Australia Emily Pederson | Remembering Chiapas | USA Monique Jaques | Libya After Gadaffi | USA Temo Bardzimashvili | The Unpromised Land | Georgia Graham Macindoe | Self Portrait | Scotland Nancy Siesel | Solitary Dancer | USA Matteo Bastianelli | A Silent Scream For Life | Italy William Coupon | American Portraits | USA Bojune Kwan | Neurosis in The City | South Korea Shane Solow & Jonathan Schwartz | Journey to The Land of The Cloud Rovers | USA Vlad Sokhin | Crying Meri Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea | Russia Lucie & Simon | Silent World | France / Germany Viviana Perretti | Babel, The Urge to Pray | Italy Jonathan Hollingsworth | Left Behind | USA Marika Dee | Not My Country | Belgium Esra Tolga | The Clown is Me | Turkey Stephanie Gengotti | Along the River | Italy Özkan Arıkantürk | Behind of Loss Time | Turkey Oğuz Nusret Bilik | Myth | Turkey