Free entrance

WHAT IS PHOTO-MATCH?
The PHOTO-MATCH model brings new life into the traditional formula of portfolio reviews by placing  special emphasis on a series of open networking events and public presentations. PHOTO-MATCH is based on a democratic and inclusive model, free of charge, in which experts and artists have the same space for sharing and pitching their experience, work and motivations.

１ DAY: PRESENTATIONS + MATCHING 
It’s a day dedicated to both photographers and experts to introduce themselves, their work and practice through short live presentations. This moment takes place not only for Photo Match participants, but also for anyone from Fotofestiwal’s audience who wants to attend the event, therefore ensuring that artists and reviewers can widen their group of spectators..

Based on these introductions and their own impressions, each participant will choose 4 reviewers (in case of photographers) or 4 artists (in case of experts) with whom they would like to meet and share their work. The matching process will happen through a specific digital system, where all the participants will be connected, therefore allowing them to either invite people and/or be invited to meet. By the end of this day each attendee will have 4 meetings scheduled for the next day.

REVIEWERS 
The list of reviewers below includes magazine editors, book publishers, photography festivals’ directors, museum curators, gallery owners, independent art consultants:

→ Agata Stoinska  Blow Photo & D-Light Studios, Dublin
→ Agnieszka Olszewska  MuFo Museum of Photography, Krakow
→ Ana Berruguete  Photo España, La Fábrica, Madrid (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Ana Guimarães and Virgílio Ferreira, Ci-CLO, Biennial of Photography, Porto (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Bettina Freimann, Âme Nue, Hamburg
→ Christina Töpfer, Camera Austria, Graz
→ Constanze Müller, f/stop Festival, Leipzig
→ Daniele de Luigi, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
→ Giangavino Pazzola, Camera Torino, Turin (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Grzegorz Jarmocewicz, Interphoto, Białystok
→ Ilaria Campioli, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
→ Ingo Taubhorn, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
→ Jan Hladoník, Fotograf Festival and Magazine, Prague
→ João Linneu, VOID (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Johan Nane Simonsen, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
→ Julia Bunnemann, Photoworks UK, Brighton
→ Julija Berkovica  ISSP, Riga (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Kateryna Radchenko  Odesa Photo Days
→ Katrin Trautner  GEO Magazine, Hamburg
→ Lara Huck Die Zeit, Hamburg
→ Lea Vene  Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Copenhagen Photo Festival (Futures Photography Platform)
→ Maja Kaszkur, Sopot Photography Festival
→ Monika Szewczyk-Wittek, Independent curator, Warsaw
→ Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo, Independent curator, Arles

Photo Match is co organized by Futures Photography Platform and supported by UE in the frame of Creative Europe Program.