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Photomonth All around Krakow
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News date: 2010-05-08
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Saturday’s Photomonth programme starts at 10:00 a.m. with a Poland-England match played by artists and curators representing either country at the Korona Stadium. This little bit of exercise will come in handy before the series of meetings and lectures planned for the afternoon: Greg Hobson will be speaking on the work of Tony Ray-Jones (12:00 p.m., Starmach Gallery), and the main theme of the meeting with Martin Parr, the most well-known British photographer, will be Photobiography (1:30 p.m., ICC). A lecture by Aaron Schuman will be devoted to contemporary photography in Great Britain, thus opening Updates. UK at Camelot Gallery at 3:00 p.m. At the same hour, at the onetime Potocka Gallery there will be an opening of an exhibition by Kalev Erickson entitled The Gherkin and Lisa Byrne’s Taxi. Trilogy. At 4:00 p.m. we move on to the main building of the National Museum in Krakow, where there will be the opening of an impressive collective exhibition entitled Facts of Life. British Photography 1974-1997, presenting the most important figures in British documentary photography from this time. Finally, at 6:00 p.m. at the International Culture Centre we’ll be opening the exhibition of works by Mark Power, a leading member of the legendary Magnum Photos Agency, entitled The Sound of Two Songs – a nostalgic tale of contemporary Poland seen through the eyes of a foreigner. To top off the day, we’ll be announcing the winner of the sittcomm.award and opening the post-competition exhibit at the WyspiaĹski Pavilion at 7:30 p.m., and holding the Slide Nite – a night time slide show around Plac Nowy and its surrounding clubs, which will end with the Kazimierz Party, the biggest party of its kind, with various kinds of music happening simultaneously in ten clubs in the heart of Krakow’s Kazimierz.
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