Urban Reality Check: Latin America

BY GRID2012, Cedla, La Chispa, LAKMA

What is your vision of the 'Urban Reality' in Latin America? What is your experience of the cities on this continent and how do you perceive the complexity of the current society? Now you will have the chance to show us!

Photography Biennal GRID2012 announces this contest in cooperation with CEDLA and La Chispa which is an open platform for Latin American photography. All winning images will be exhibited during GRID2012, the international photo festival, at LAKMA, Latin American Art Museum of Amersfoort (the Netherlands) from Friday 25 May until 1 July 2012.

This photo competition is open for submissions made in Latin America by both amateur and professional photographers, from Latin American countries and The Netherlands. Both single images (with a maximum of 3 photos) and series (1 series of maximum 7 photos) will be accepted.

Submission deadline: 26 February 2012, 23.59 hrs C.E.T. (Central European Time)

• The 3 winning single images and 3 winning series will be exhibited during GRID2012 at LAKMA, Latin American Art Museum in Amersfoort.
• The overall grand prize winner will receive the opportunity to have his/ her winning photo(s) be included in the photo book of the GRID2012 Latin American presentation, as well as a print of his/ her work.
• The winning pictures will also be part of a (online and/or print) publication via La Chispa.

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'Mad in France' by French photography collective Tendance Floue

7 January 2012 - 11 February 2012
Location: ACEC (Apeldoorn Center for Contemporary Culture)
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 12.00 until 18.00 hrs, free entrance

On Saturday 7 January the group exhibition Mad in France by Tendance Floue was founded in 1991 and consists of fourteen photographers. During this exhibition, the work of the following photographers will be on display: Pascal Aimar, Thierry Ardouin, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Denis Bourges, Gilles Coulon, Olivier Culmann, Mat Jacob, Philippe Lopparelli, Bertrand Meunier, Meyer and Flore-Aël Surun.

For the series Mad in France the photographers have invited local journalists, writers, sociologists and graphic designers to develop a bundle of twelve visions, where this exhibition is based on. Due to the continuing exchange of ideas within the collective, Tendance Floue is able to continuously renew their photographic language, which has distinguished them for the last twenty years from the contemporary traditions in photography.