No Borders Award - OUR PROGRAMME

01.06. – 17.06.2021

I Open Call Announced

Participants are eligible to take part in online and offline workshops. Competition is divided into two age categories: age 16 to 19 and 20 to 35 years. You can submit your works in the following category: single image and a series of images. Single Image: Portrait, Landscape, Street photography, Document and Creative and Series of Images.

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19.06.2021

On-line workshop I

(open for No Borders Award Participants)

The online workshop lead by international experts in photography is designed to broaden knowledge about culture and photographic language, get to know experts and other photographers form Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Rep. and Ukraine.

Workshop Leaders: Štěpánka Bieleszová, Pavel Breier, Tomoya Imamura, Olena Sokalska, Katarzyna Zolich

Schedule

10:00 - 10:45 Štěpánka Bieleszová (Czech Rep.) Creative Photography

11:00 - 12:00 Pavel Breier (Słovakia) Landscape

12:00 - 13:00 Tomoya Imamura (Hungary) Portrait

13:00 - 14:00 Olena Sokalska (Ukraina) Street Photography

14:00 - 15:00 Katarzyna Zolich (Poland) Documentary Photography

15:00 - 16:00 Open questions

18.06. – 30.09.2021

II Open Call Announced

(open for No Borders Award Participants)

Participants are eligible to take part in portfolio reviews, meetings and other awards excerpt Workshops.

15.09.2021 - Application form submissions

30.09.2021 - Final works submission

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24–27.06.2021

Paper Beats Rock Workshop

B&B Gallery of Photography, 1 MAJA 12, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

Redakcja BB, ul. Krasińskiego 5a, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

The international self-publishing workshop is a unique formula designed for No Borders Award. Participants worked with photobook creation from scratch, including craft, design, editing and its function.

Finalists of the competition (selected by the international jury) were offered an exclusive, 4-day workshop led by Katarzyna Zolich and Alicja Jakimów. Participants were introduced into the main phases of preparing an art publication, from the moment of

thinking of projects through the edition stage to choosing formats and papers. They were working on producing a coherent body of visual work, learning storytelling and editing. The workshop resulted in dummies of photo-books.

Created dummies were presented during the FotoArtFestival.

Workshop Leaders: Katarzyna Zolich, Alicja Jakimów

Schedule

24.06.2021 13:00 - 19:00 Introduction, Photobook production lecture, Participants' presentations

25.06.2021 13:00 - 19:00 Sequencing and photo editing, Group and individual work on storytelling

26.06.2021 9:00 - 17:00 Photobook design, Indesign introduction

27.06.2021 9:00 - 15:00 DTP and design of participants' dummies

10.10.2021 Dummy presentation during FotoArtFestival Opening

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03.07.2021

On-line workshop II

The online workshop lead by international experts in photography is designed to broaden knowledge about culture and photographic language, get to know experts and other photographers form Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Rep. and Ukraine.

Workshop Leaders: Lucia Benicka, Olena Sokalska, Tomoya Imamura, Katarzyna Zolich, Dawid Tesinsky

10.10. a.m. - 11.10. a.m. Lucia Benicka (Slovakia)

11.15. a.m. - 12.15. a.m. Olena Sokalska (Ukraine)

12.15. a.m. - 1.15. p.m. Tomoya Imamura (Hungary)

1.20. p.m. - 2.20. p.m. Katarzyna Zolich (Poland)

2.30 p.m. - 3.30. p.m. Dawid Tesinsky (Czechia)

Finals

3.30. p.m. - 16.00. p.m.

06.2021/ 07.2021/ 08.2021/09.2021/10.2021

On-line Portfolio Reviews

Category: Landscape, People, Document, Street, Creative

An online Portfolio Review is an event dedicated to wide public. It will be a video conversation prepared by the Partners in order to createa wider understanding of a subject, taking into consideration different perspectives. Partners will mostly talk about photographs received during an open call. They will discuss specifics of the medium on individual photographs that has an enormous educational impact onaspiring photographers. The Portfolio Review will be in the form of preprepared videos, which will be premiered each month.

Portrait, Tomoya Imamura

Series of Photographs, Katarzyna Zolich

Street photography, Igor Manko

Landscape, Creative photography, Lucia Benicka

Documentary, David Tesinsky

Portfolio review: Portrait

by Tomoya Imamura

Portfolio review: Series of Photographs

by Katarzyna Zolich

Part 1

Part 2:

Portfolio review: Street photography

by Igor Manko

Portfolio review: Landscape and Creative photography by Lucia Benicka

Portfolio review: Documentary

by David Tesinsky

Part 1

Part 2

9 – 10.10.2021

Portfolio Review

DK “WŁÓKNIARZY”, 1 MAJA 12

for selected participants during the FotoArtFestival

Reviewers: Katarzyna Zolich, Pavol Breier, Dawid Tesinsky, Tomoya Imamura, Igor Manko

10.10.2021

Award Ceremony

Adress: AULA, Modrzewskiego 12, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

Slideshow and meeting with the finalists and jury members during opening ceremony of the FotoArtFestival. Award Ceremony took part during the opening weekend. Finalists have met with the reviewers and jury members to discuss their work. The winner of this edition Zsófia Sivák form Hungary was awarded with a production of her Solo Exhibition with a catalog.

Lear more about FotoArtFestival

08.10.2021–10.06.2022

No Borders - Travelling Open Air Exhibition

Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Hungary.

Meet our Partners

9.10. - 24.10.2021 - Plac Chrobrego, FotoArtFestival, Poland

6.06 - 15.06.2022 - Central Park, The Spiš Artists’ Gallery (SK)

16.06. - 20.06.2022 - Kultura FM, Frýdek-Místek, Czech Republic

The jury:

Lucia Benicka (Slovakia)

Michaela Kocurkova (Czechia)

Tomoya Imamura (Hungary)

Olga Sokalska (Ukraine)

Katarzyna Zolich (Poland)

Participating Artists:

Barbara Adamek (PL), Eshter Asszony (SK), Mirka Baklíková (CZ), Tadeáš Bednarz (CZ), Xeniya Brik (PL/UA), Szalma Boglárka (HU), Agnieszka Bukowiecka (PL), Jessica Ciupa (PL), Jakub Dobek (PL), Anna Gajewszky (SK), Adam Gara (HU), Barbara Grubka (PL), Paulina Hankus (PL), Lujza Hevesi-Szabó HU), Marcin Idźkowski (PL), Patryk Janota (PL), Adrienn Józan (HU), Roxane Juhász Unheimlich (HU), Sophia Kalinowska-Werter (PL), Agata Kaputa (PL), Marta Kocoń (PL), Agnieszka Krzywdzińska (PL), Yehor Lemziakov (UA), Lukas Mach (CZ), Michał Maciejewski (PL), Katarzyna Main (PL), Marlena Masłowicz (PL), Mateusz Matuszczak (PL), Wioletta Mazur (PL), Brieuc Le Merle (UKR), Magdalena Mogielnicka (PL), Paulina Deptuła Monarit (PL), Monika Mrońska (PL), Martyna Nitkowska (PL), Ilka Olajos (HU), Mariusz Pietranek (PL), Paulina Pior (PL), Filip Piotrowicz (PL), Anna Potocka-Piotrowska (PL), Lev Sapega Svetlovsky (UKR), Yana Sidach (UA), Zsófia Sivák (HU), Paulina Skonieczna (PL), Václav Sobek, Aga Socha (PL), Sebastian Stokłosa(PL), Lujza Hevesi-Szabó (HU), Noémi Szécsi (HU), Katarzyna Ślesińska (PL), Małgorzata Wakuluk (PL), Marlena Wasłowicz (PL), Rafał Wekiera (PL), Adrianna Zok (PL)

9.10. - 24.10.2021 - Plac Chrobrego, FotoArtFestival, (Poland)