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MARVIN LEUVREY, from the series Overflow 2017 |
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26th Noorderlicht International Photography Festival |
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TAXED TO THE MAX |
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6 October - 1 December 2019 Various locations in Groningen/NL |
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Opening weekend: On 5 & 6 October the 26th Noorderlicht International Photography Festival TAXED TO THE MAX kicks off with a versatile opening weekend. Alderman Paul de Rook opens the festival at 5 pm in the Oude Conservatorium on the Radesingel, after a contribution from philosopher and writer Maxim Februari and a word from Noorderlicht director Kees van der Meiden. On Sunday 6 October there will be debates, artist talks and a performance. |
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CORALIE VOGELAAR, Recognized / Not Recognized, A comparative movement analysis of popular and unpopular news images, Coralie Vogelaar, 2016 - 2017. (video still from two-channel high definition video) |
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The 26th edition of the festival examines the societal tensions created by international conglomerates with their vast accumulations of capital and their influence on national and global politics. TAXED TO THE MAX asks: how does the increasingly perfected entanglement of corporatism, finance capital and modern government affect the lives of regular people? With the 34 participants, the festival presents a refreshing mix of photo series, mixed media, video and sound installations, performances, and spatial work on this theme. |
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MARVIN LEUVREY, from the series Overflow 2017 |
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TAXED TO THE MAX ...at least you are not afraid to live life on the brink of chaos Alan Gignoux | Anika Schwarzlose | Bérangère Fromont | Brigitte de Langen | Coralie Vogelaar | David Klammer | Davide Monteleone | Dorothée Elisa Baumann | Ezio D’Agostino | Gina Peyran Tan | Glenna Gordon | Igor Tereshkov | Ishan Tankha | Ivar Veermäe | John Vink | Jos Jansen | Joseph Rodríguez | Kanad Chakrabarti | Lana Mesić | Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping | Mari Bastashevski | Mark Curran | Martin Toft | Marvin Leuvrey | Michele Borzoni | Oliver Ressler & Zanny Begg | Sergey Novikov & Max Sher | Sven Johne | Thomas Kuijpers | Tony Fouhse | Ursula Biemann |
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GLENNA GORDON, White Motherhood 2017 On her website, Ayla Stewart, "A Wife with a Purpose," promotes #tradlife—traditionalist homemaking and white culture—and the “white baby challenge,” in which she encourages “white people to have children to combat demographic decline.” She poses here for a portrait at a public park in the southeastern USA with her six children on August 16, 2017. She insists that she isn’t racist and has black friends. To her, racism has only one singular definition, and anyone who calls her a racist is just wrong or hasn’t taken the time to learn about her views. Nazism, however, has three definitions, which she can delineate with ease. |
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Mentorship young curators: George Knegtel & Laura Carbonell Reyes A new Noorderlicht initiative is a mentorship for young curators who are invited to curate an exhibition that will flank the festival. With this mentorship program Noorderlicht realizes the ambition to not only produce exhibitions and festivals, but to also facilitate the photographic community, invest in emerging voices and share its experience and knowledge. George Knegtel (Netherlands, 1992) and Laura Carbonell Reyes (Colombia, 1986) have been selected for this pilot edition. For their exhibition, they have invited the following participants. Daniël Siegersma | Keijiro Kai | Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan & Tolin Alexander | Lucia Nimcova & Sholto Dobie | Marcos Ávila Forero | Roberto Huarcaya |
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KEIJIRO KAI, from the series Charanga 2017 |
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Travel grant In addition to the open call for submissions, Noorderlicht has established a travel grant, allowing four of the participants to attend the opening weekend and give a personal presentation of their work. Ivar Veermäe - The Flood Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping - Future Scenarios Kanad Chakrabarti - Exorbitant Privilege |
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LUCIA NIMCOVA & SHOLTO_DOBIE, still from the series BAJKA 2016 |
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Hester Keijser, curator TAXED TO THE MAX Noorderlicht | House of Photography has commissioned Hester Keijser (NL, 1967) to compile the 26th edition of the festival, in collaboration with senior curator Wim Melis and the creative team of Noorderlicht. Keijser is an independent international curator and author dealing with contemporary photography, who has curated main exhibitions for - among others - Format in Derby, Photo España in Madrid, Istanbul Photobook Festival and recently PhotoIreland in Dublin. |
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DAVID KLAMMER, Hambacher Forst Demo: Aktion Unterholz aufdem Weg in den Hambach , People running across a field to swarm into the Hambach forest during a rally 2018 |
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