Online Group Exhibition - "Photography Out of Control!” December 2021
Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 37 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Photography Out of Control! New Approaches to Experimental Photography,” curated by Pablo Giori, photographer and the Co-Director of EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography in Barcelona!
Pablo had this to say about this month’s exhibition:
We have received 145 projects, much more than what we have expected, and it was really hard to select just 37. In this selection, we tried to celebrate the diversity of experimentation looking for those special images that open the doors to the future of photography. We want to give a place to all the presented techniques and also to respect gender equality, as we do with all the activities of the Experimental Photo Festival. As you know, the photography industry has shaped a unique way of seeing the world: Kodak has built us a homogeneous visual culture. We have internalized an industrialized visual culture so limited that when we think we are creating something new, we are actually reproducing the same thing over and over again. It is our duty to subvert their current limits because experimental photography is an attitude of questioning what is established, not just a result.
All the selected artists of this exhibition have this experimental attitude, have played against de apparatus, and have recovered the idea of the photographers as scientists and craftsmen. New forms of expression are born from thousands of artists who invest their time in subverting industrial photography to create experimental photography. They all work with homemade, historical, experimental, and non-industrial techniques in the crossroads between science, photography, and arts: Photography is out of control! A big shout out to all the selected artists and a big hug for all those who have opened their hearts to share their images with us.
~ Pablo Giori, Co-Director of the EXP. 22 III International Festival on Experimental Photography
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About the Curator
Pablo Giori is the Co-Director of EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography (Barcelona, July 20-24, 2022), the only summer camp dedicated to photographic experimentation. The festival is organized every year and hosts more than 50 artists, 15 workers, 50 volunteers, and 300 participants from all over the world. Giori is passionate about both historical photographs, working on archives, and experimental processes. He has published three books: Pere Català i Pic: Photography, Publicity, Avantgarde and Literature (2016), Unexpected Inhabitants (2016), and Twelve Key Ideas on Double Exposure and Film Swap (2019). He was the founder of BADEM (Barcelona Double Exposure Movement) and the creator of the #FilmSwapWorldWide project with more than 120 photographers from all over the world. He has organized and curated 16 exhibitions of his works and of other historical and contemporary artists. He is really interested in creating a global horizontal community for photographers to work together and find support as they work.