OBSCURA is Malaysia’s premier photography festival that celebrates photography from Asia and around the globe in its 6th edition. Each year, the festival hosts a series of exhibitions, talks, workshops, portfolio reviews and slide shows. The aim of the festival is rooted in education, understanding and togetherness through premier events that take place throughout the festival. This year the curatorial topic of OBSCURA will be
multiplicity. OBSCURA Festival is embedded within The George Town Festival, a major international festival of the arts and culture in South East Asia.
We are pleased to announce that German photographer
Peter Bialobrzeski will host a talk and a presentationduring the OBSCURA festival 2018. Peter Bialobrzeski is a leading documentary photographer and professor of photography at the University of Arts in Bremen, Germany, who is well known for his photography of Asian metropolises. He won the World Press Award twice. During his stay in Penang he will also continue working on his own photography, creating his Penang Diary.
http://www.bialobrzeski.de/books.html
Peter Bialobrzeski
Talk: At Home and Abroad – Photography as Cultural Practice by Peter Bialobrzeski
Peter Bialobrzeski is going to give an overview about his career starting as a newspaper photographer in Wolfsburg/Germanys in the eighties, leading up to a career as an internationally exhibited and collected artist. The focus will not only be on his well known books NEONTIGERS, HEIMAT, and PARADISE NOW but also include lesser known works from the early 1990s, as well as so far unpublished pictures from 2018. For more information please log on
https://www.obscurafestival.com/talks/
For more information about the OBSCURA festival program
http://www.obscurafestival.com/ and Peter Bialobrzeski’s work please log on to
http://www.bialobrzeski.de/
The OBSCURA festival of photography is supported by the Goethe-Institut Malaysia.
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