Deadline:  8 May 2017
Open to: photographers and photography curators
Fellowship: a EUR 1,000 bursary, Tbilisi Photo Festival will cover the coast of travel to Tbilisi (around EUR 400) and accommodation during the residency, with additional support towards production costs for presentation of final work

Description

The Tbilisi Photo Festival was first launched in 2010, in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles.  Seven editions later it has become not only the most important photo festival in the region but one of the major annual cultural events in the Caucasus.

The Festival aims:

• To be a central meeting point for photography from different regions – Asia, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Russia and the Arab world;
• To showcase the best of world photography and to promote emerging regional photography.

Each year, the festival attracts internationally renowned photographers, curators, photo editors and leaders of other major photo festivals to the Georgian capital, along with thousands of photography fans.  It is a crossroads for new ideas in photography.

For its 8th edition that will be held in Tbilisi in September 2017, Tbilisi Photo Festival announces an open call for the 2nd Residency Program.

Eligibility

Tbilisi Photo Festival is looking for interesting and creatively ambitious proposals from photographers and photography curators from the European Region and Iran.

Costs

One photographer or photography curator selected for Tbilisi Photo Festival Residency Program will receive an EUR 1,000 bursary. Tbilisi Photo Festival will cover the coast of travel to Tbilisi (around EUR 400) and accommodation during the residency, with additional support towards production costs the or presentation of final work.

How to apply?

In order to apply please fill the application.

For more information please visit the official web page.