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Image Credit - Sharbendu De

INDIAN PHOTO FESTIVAL 2018

The Indian Photography Festival (IPF) - Hyderabad, a Not-For-Profit initiative of Light Craft Foundation, is an international photography festival, showcasing a wide range of photography from India and around the globe with a series of events, including talks and discussions, portfolio reviews, book launches, screenings & workshops. The IPF creates a platform for the professional and aspiring photographers, the photography lovers and the public where the festival promotes the art of photography at the same time address the social issues through the medium of photography. The IPF 2018 will take place at the State Gallery of Art - Hyderabad, from 6th September - 7th October.

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Aquin Mathews


SELECTION PANEL - OPEN CALL EXHIBITIONS
Mags King - Managing Picture Editor / Fairfax Media
Reza Deghati - Photographer & National Geographic Explorer
Alison Zavos - Founder and Editor-in-Chief / Feature Shoot
Q. Sakamaki - Documentary Photographer & Co-founder / Everyday Japan & Hikari Creative
Sudharak Olwe - Photojournalist
Gurinder Osan - Photo Editor / Press Trust of India
Deepak John Mathew - Professor & Head of the Dept. of Design - IIT Hyderabad
Yuezhuo Su - Editor / Photointer
Luca Venturi - Founder & Art Director / Siena International Photo Awards


FESTIVAL TEAM
Vikas Nama | Ananya Sinha | Nishanth Kumar Biderkote | Vishal Chakraraj | Praveen Kumar Reddy | Shweta Pradhan | Vikash Sinha | Mahanth Babu | Rohith Kumar Reddy | Satyanarayana Gola | Neha Saravanan | Nihal Reddy | Swastik Rout | Priyanka Gowa

 

SPEAKERS

Nick Ut
Photographer

James Wellford
Senior Photo Editor - National Geographic

Anush Babajanyan
Photographer - Vii Photo

Pep Bonet
Photographer - Noor

Sandro Miller
Photographer & Director

Robin Schwartz
Fine Art Photographer

Rohit Chawla
Photographer - Open Magazine

Mark Edward Harris
Travel & Documentary Photographer

Tasneem Alsultan
Photographer

Uzma Mohsin
Photographer

Ismail Ferdous
Documentary Photographer

Prabhakar Kusuma
Photographer

Vineet Vohra
Photographer

Melissa Golden
Editorial Portrait & Documentary Photographer

Boris Eldagsen
Photo & Video Artist

Ritesh Uttamchandani
Photographer

Enrico Fabian
Documentary Photographer

Giles Clarke
Photojournalist - Getty Images Reportage

Mahesh Shantaram
Photographer - Agence Vu

Sina Niemeyer
Photojournalist

Viinod Nair
Knowledge Partner With Conceptual Pictures Worldwide & Former Ceo At Getty Images, India

EXHIBITIONS

Nick Ut | VIETNAM
Vietnam War 

Robin Schwartz | USA
Amelia and the Animals 

Mark Edward Harris | USA
North Korea 

Rohit Chawla | INDIA
The Quiet Portrait 

Women Photograph | VARIOUS
INSIDER|OUTSIDER 

APF | VARIOUS
Street Photography Showcase 

Prabhakar Kusuma | INDIA
Destitute 

Alexia Foundation| Gabriel Scarlett | USA
Flock of Doves 

Giles Clarke | USA
Yemen in Crisis 

Boris Eldagsen &Tanvir Taolad  | GERMANY | BANGLADESH
The Other Side 

Feature Shoot | VARIOUS
The Print Swap 

Alain Schroeder | BELGIUM 
Living for Death

Sina Niemeyer | GERMANY    
Fur mich

Sharbendu De | INDIA
Imagined Homeland 

Gilles Nicolet | TANZANIA
Six degrees south 

Anup Shah | INDIA
The Mara 

Gao Peng | CHINA
The illusion 

Sara Bennett | USA
Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project 

Tan Qiumin | CHINA 
Between Peeping and Watching

Benedicte Desrus | MEXICO
THE WOMEN OF CASA XOCHIQUETZAL (2008-2018) 

Hiro Tanaka | JAPAN
Bathukamma 

Barbara Davidson | CANADA
Bathukamma 

Shoot the Face | VARIOUS
Portrait Prize 2018

Shoot the Land | VARIOUS
Landscape Prize 2018

Shoot the Wild | VARIOUS
Wildlife Prize 2018

IPF Portrait Prize | INDIA
Portrait Prize 2018

Prudhvi Chowdhary | INDIA
Travel Tales

Mahesh Shantaram | INDIA
Matrimania 

SIPA | VARIOUS
SIPA 2018

IWPA | VARIOUS
IWPA 2018

Photobooks 2018 | VARIOUS

Enrico Fabian | GERMANY
everyman

Students Exhibition | INDIA

Suri Vasireddy | INDIA
Abandoned Vehicles

Antonio Aragon Renuncio | SPAIN

Koglweogo | Defenders of Nature 

DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS 

Ashfika Rahman | BANGLADESH
The power box

Amy Friend |CANADA
Dare alla Luce

Kathy Shorr | USA
SHOT 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America

Indrajit Khambe | INDIA
Reflections of Life 

John Feely | AUSTRALIA
The Outsider

Abhinav Kakkar | INDIA    
A Journal

Karolina Jonderko | POLAND
Reborn

Pavel Romaniko | USA
Project Nostalgia

Jennifer Ray | USA
In Range

Ezio Ratti | ITALY
Birdmen 

Dmitry Khovanskiy | RUSSIA
Keep the Cages Open Before You Leave

Kai Loeffelbein | GERMANY
Gentlemen Of Brazzaville

Margarita 

 


Makarova | RUSSIA
Reflection

Frederic Aranda | SWITZERLAND
Groups

Mirko Lamonaca | ITALY
Catabasis - The prison of dreams

Wipplay | VARIOUS
I love India

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