Over 5 months long of open call, the festival has received a grand total of 752 bodies of works consisting of over 9,000 images from 59 countries – Argentina , Australia , Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada,China,Croatia, Colombia, Czeh Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland,France,Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary,Honduras,India, Indonesia,Iran,Ireland, Israel ,Italy, Japan, Lativa, Lebanon,Luxembourg,Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Mexico,Netherlands,New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugual, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sloviakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan , Thailand, Turkey, United States, Urkaine, Vietnam and Yemen.

Result of the selection will be announced in June 2012 on the festival website. Stay tuned!

Thank you so much for your support.

Next open call submission will be in 2014.

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

Singapore International Photography Festival

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

Singapore International Photography Festival

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

A Call to all photographers: Open Call for this photography biennial is now Open

10 Nov 2011, Singapore – The 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) photography biennial is returning for its third instalment, and will be opening on 5 October 2012. In its continuous mission to discover emerging artists and original, contemporary photographic works, the 3rd SIPF Open Call welcomes the participation of all artists of merit to submit their photographic works begins from 10 November 2011 to 30 April 2012. This is an opportunity for talented individuals to present their works alongside esteemed photographers, and also an international platform for aspiring or established artists to reach out to a wider audience.

You do not have to be qualified

SIPF Open Call looks to discover talented individuals in photography. Participants do not have to be certified, qualified or a professional photographer, as long as they can submit a body of work of no less than seven and not more than 17 images.

You do not have to follow a theme

The 3rd SIPF Open Call gives free reign for photographers to submit their most original and exciting body of work by having no thematic restrictions. Discernibly, the work submitted should embody and convey a consistent message, idea, theme and/or topic. Works submitted will be selected by the 3rd SIPF curators Alejandro Castellote, Patricia Levasseur de la Motte and Zeng Han, and exhibited according to their curatorial decision at various locations in Singapore and subsequently in other countries when the festival travels. Only shortlisted works will be exhibited.

You do not even have to be Singaporean

SIPF Open Call welcomes all photographers to participate regardless of nationality. In the last SIPF, 6500 works were submitted from which 550 outstanding prints by 48 photographers of 23 different nationalities were shortlisted.

Said Ms Gwen Lee, Festival Director, SIPF, “We have received amazing work in the past two SIPF Open Calls, and so for a photo-aficionado like me, I just can’t wait to see what’s coming. We are also working with three new curators this time – Alejandro Castellote, Patricia Levasseur de la Motte and Zeng Han. The curators are highly esteemed art professionals, and we feel very honoured to be able to get them involved. I’m sure the collaboration will bring something different to the festival.”

Gathered around Photography

The 3rd SIPF will be a month-long festival with a compelling mix of photography exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews, film screenings and forums, suitable for artists, professionals and amateurs. It is set to inspire everyone through the medium of photography, and hopes to encourage more interaction among artists and audience.

Please refer to Editor’s Notes for curators’ bio and more information on participation and work submission to the 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Office: ​+65 6339 8655
Email: press@sipf.sg

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

This talk is organised to assist photographers new to Portfolio Review. It will cover topics on what constitutes a portfolio, the different types of presentation and the nature of the SIPF portfolio review.

Portfolio Review Preparation Talk

Speakers:
Prof. Oh Soon Hwa and Gwen Lee

Limited to 30 people

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

We welcome the volunteers of SIPF 2010!

If you are still thinking to be part of the Singapore International Photography Festival, volunteer and be part of the team!

Programme:
2.00pm – Registration & Volunteer Badge
2.15pm – Getting to Know You
2.30pm – Welcome address
2.40pm – What if…
2.50pm – Sneak Preview on SIPF Programmes
3.00pm- Part of the Team
3.30pm – Refreshment & Interaction
4.00pm – Ends

Please r.s.v.p by 26 August to jay@sipf.sg to make necessary preparation.

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

Dedicated to the 60th Birth Celebrations of Bernard-Marie Koltes

A play by Best of Kolkata Campus

Necropolis is a part of a three part repertoire called The Trilogy of Unrest, the first two of Hamletmachine: Images of Shakespeare-in-us and Raktakarabi: an urban sound opera also Best of Kolkata Campus’ productions. In association with Five Issues dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The repertoire has toured the north-east, Siliguri, Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai. The touring performance will culminate in the release of a special commemorative edition of Five Issues on Indian theatre and subversions-dedicated to Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, Bishnu Rabha and Arambam Samarendra. The performance had been supported by Five Issues toured south-east Asia in February 2009.

Necropolis has opened three international events: the prestigeous Amnesty International Festival on the 60th year Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 5, 2008 at the India Islamic Centre in New Delhi, the 9th conference of Comparitive Literature Association of India at the Hyderabad Central University on January 27, 2009 and the first Patumthani International Festival in Bangkok orgsnised by Mordokmai theatre group(the show was held on February1, 2009 at the Supreme Artist Hall-Patumathani . It has also been the final event at the Chhobi Mela V-an International Festival of Photography organised by Drik at Dhaka.

The production has completed more than 30 shows.

Synopsis

Two men meet on the street. They have to make a deal. Or rather they want to make a deal. One has something to sale and the other needs something to buy. The Dealer is unsure what to peddle or would he want to peddle anything at the first place. The Client knows what he has to buy but does not know exactly what to buy. A cat and mouse begins between these nameless, faceless, shapeshifters who has to make a transaction which they are not sure why would they do it. For the next chunk of minutes they indulge in selling and buying of concepts without transacting anything.

What are they selling? Or rather who is buying…..Is technology, displacement, memories, genocide road-map of the universe..becoming so routine that we have lost the power to engage with them and provide a soothing balm to the displaced, destitute, fried, barbecued, roasted, killed human-folk.

More often than not we are groping for words to describe routine violence. Routine cases of racial profiling. Of exclusion. Grappling with stereotypes. Cliches. Biases on the basis of human rights. On ethical treatment of animals who become globalised pharma companies experimental guinea pigs. Biases on the basis of sexual orientation. We are looking at images and we think either they supplement the words or complement them. Is image only a memory tool? Is it just a visual metaphor? Is it just to learn things by heart? By rote? What is a perfomance? Merely a text or an improvisation or a series of theatre exercises which are prescribed as typical workshop methods? The performance probes into the image -word relationship…gets into into the rationale of images…

What images are we looking at? Nelllie-Morichjhaanpi, Malom, Mokokchung, Nandigram…What was the process of transforming the “us” into “them”…..How are “they” celebrating diversity and “their” culturalness in these times? The performance negotiates these terrains. By the time the performance ends nobody has bought, nobody has sold…yet those two individuals have transformed themselves enough to be probably up for sale if the next set of clients gatecrash into the narrative.

The play explores the idiom of solo performance with city-specific collaborators who intrude, alter and tamper the nature of the performance, yet there is a unified thread that runs through these structured improvisations…

About the Director

An independent media analyst and a performance consultant by profession, Mr. Parnab Mukherjee is one of the leading alternative theatre directors’ of the country. He divides his time between Kolkata, Imphal and the Darjeeling hills. Currently, a consultant with a publication initiative, he has earlier worked for a sports fortnightly, an English daily and a Bengali daily. He is an acclaimed authority on Badal Sircar’s theatre, Shakespeare-in-education and specialises in theatre-for-conflict-resolution and theatre-of-the-campus.

He is considered as a leading light in alternative theatre in the country having directed more than 50 productions of performance texts including three international collaborations. He has also performed 14 full length solos which include an acclaimed series of plays on trafficking, HIV and segregation called the River series, Living Text series and Foothills to Hills, a series of plays with Darjeeling as the living inspiration.

Parnab has created a personal idiom of using spaces for theatre exploration. He has extensively worked on a range of human rights issues which include specific theatre projects on anti-uranium project struggles in Jadugoda and Turamdihi, Save Tenzin campaign, rehabilitation after industrial shutdowns, shelter issue of the de-notified tribes, a widely acclaimed cycle of 12 plays against Gujarat genocide, and a range of issues on north-east with special reference to Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958.

Four of his major workshop modules: Freedomspeak, The Otherness of the Body, Conflict as a Text and The Elastic Body have been conducted with major theatre groups and campuses all over the country. He has written five books on theatr and his production of Tagore’s Muktadhara in darjeeling and Sikkim is an important landmark to raise voice on ctiizens affected by projects in Teesta.

Best of Kolkata Campus

Best of Kolkata Campus, an autonomous performance collective and a non-profit performance foundry, has completed 15 years of doing dedicated theatre in found spaces and public arena. It has produced a number of young theatre workers who are active in the cultural and audio-visual training arena. It is a loosely formed collective of individuals who believe that theatre is an important an independent tool of dissent outside the ambit of party politics.

Some of the most memorable productions of the group include Hamletmachine, The Country with a post office, Antigone, Raktakarabi-an urban sound opera, Bhul Rasta, Kasper-dipped and shredded, They Also Work, River Monologues, Dead-Talk series, Conversations with the dead, Crisis of Civilisation, Shakespeare shorts, Man to Man talk, Inviting Ibsen for a Dinner with Ibsen, Your path wrong path and And the Dead Tree Gives no Shelter.

The group also works in the field of installation performances and theatre-of-conflict-resolution and peace studies. The collective has travelled extensively all over the subcontinent doing shows, giving workshops and exploring alternative performance idioms.

International performances of Mr. Parnab Mukherjee

This Room is Not My Room

Necropolis

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

From: May 2, 2011 – May 20, 2011
At: Sabanci University Gallery, Turkey

In every SIPF, the portfolio review session has attracted photographers from the region to showcase their best works to the panel of reviewers. From the panelist, the best portfolio works are highlighted to the public.

The best portfolio participants of SIPF 2010 are:
Ang Song Nian, Mintio, Sean Lee, Tristan Cai and Zhao Renhui.

To kick start the NOMAD series, SIPF have Sabanci University as our partner to showcase the works by these 5 talents.

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

The 2nd SIPF has ended with positive reviews. Next edition of the festival will take place in 2012.

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.

SIPF is proud to announce the professional workshop conducted by Frank Breuer. This is made possible by Goethe Institut Singapore who has been supporting arts and cultural exchange between Germany and Singapore.

The professional workshop is driven by the style, approach and process used by the instructor. This is not a technique driven workshop or a problem solving session, but rather the participants will work closely with the instructor to develop your own individual body of works. The participants are expected be proactive and independent to gain valuable input for their own development.

Application starts now, and acceptance based on your portfolio.

Frank Breuer (Germany): Documentary Photography

By Frank Breuer Germany

Date/Time:
Sat 16 – Tue 19 Oct 2010, 10:00 – 17:00

Supported by Goethe Institut (Singapore)

Click here for more information and registration

Singapore International Photography Festival - The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.