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The contest is over!

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We thank everyone on your submissions for the competition of the 5th International photography festival Organ Vida. Seems like everybody have signed at the last minute, and it looks now that this will be the year with the highest number of applications. Soon, more on results at the beginning of June.

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5th international photography festival Organ Vida - calls for submissions on the theme Spaces

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Zagreb March 18th - Submissions are now being accepted for the 5th international photography festival Organ Vida and will close on May 1st. The overall theme of this year's contest is Spaces. The results will be available on the Organ Vida webpage in the beginnning of June 2013.
This year the festival keeps its documentary character but with a specific focus on the subject of spaces.

Space is 'a boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects exist and events occur and have relative position and direction'. Together with time, it is a fundamental category of the existence of material world.

Space can be scenery for anger, fear or joy, and its location can be inscribed into one person, an entire nation or a historical moment. Spaces can be physical locations in which individuals daily meet and pass each other by without a word, or they can be spiritual in which those individuals' mental images intertwine yearning for communication or fictional worlds. Spaces can be private and intimate, containers of narrations in which we store our memories, but also non-places where we leave our memories at the entrance and surrender ourselves to the here and now, says the selection panel of this year's festival.

Submissions are open to both Croatian citizens and citizens of all countries and all nationalities of legal age who should apply with documentary projects on the stated theme comprised of at least three (3) and not more than twenty (20) photographs. A written statement about the project and the author needs to accompany the photographs. // Submission form //

Chosen projects will be exhibited in Bacva gallery (Croatian Association of Visual Artists) for the duration of the festival and in the festival catalogue. An international selection panel of five members will choose the finalists and the winners: Munem Wasif (Bangladesh), Ivana Tomanović (Serbia), Petra Belc (Croatia), Boris Cvjetanović (Croatia) and Matjaž Brulc (Slovenia).

Read more about the jury, Terms and conditions and about the festival theme.
The 5th Organ Vida festival will take place in Kino Europa and Bacva gallery in Zagreb from 16th to 21st September 2013.

Documentary projects of 4th International Festival of Organ Vida

DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

11 FINALISTS // 8 COUNTRIES
15.-17.06.2012. // Cinema Europa // Gallery Karas

AKSHAY MAHAYAN // India
I don't want to sleep alone

STEPHEN KELLY // England
Qi Lihe

GEIR MOSEID // Norway
Plucked

SANJA KNEŽEVIĆ // Serbia
Family Matters

CHRISTIAN STEJSHAL // Norway
Garbage City

MARCO LACHI // Italy
How does it feel to be leaving the most beautiful city in the world?

MATEUSZ SARELLO // Poland
Swell

KIRILL GOLOVCHENKO // Germany
The Ukrainian breakthrough

JEAN-FRANCOIS HAMELIN // Canada
Harvesting the North

ALESANDRO VECCHI // India
I don't want to sleep alone

TOMMASO PROTTI // Italy
Turkish Blue Gold

Kirill Golovchenko pobjednik 4. Međunarodnog festivala fotografije Organ Vida

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Žiri ovogodišnjeg međunarodnog festivala fotografije Organ Vida, kojeg su činili Saša Kralj, Filip Horvat, Jeff Jacobson, Baraba Šarić i Matt Lutton, proglasili su najboljim dokumentarni projekt "Ukrajinski proboj" njemačkog fotografa Kirilla Golovchenka. Autor je nagrađen novčanom nagradom u iznosu od 3 tisuće kuna.

Ukrajinski proboj aludira na novi program ukrajinske vlade i slogan 'Ukrajinski proboj: za ljude, a ne za političare'. Program je zamišljen kao putokaz za nacionalni razvoj u 21. stoljeću.

Tražio sam situacije i raspoloženja koji ne pokazuju samo ovu novu stranu Ukrajine. Iako je prošlo već 17 godina od osamostaljivanja Ukrajine, ljudi još nisu uspjeli pobjeći iz starog socijalističkog načina razmišljanja. I svaka misao i djelovanje nosi tragove ove prošlosti. Ili, drugim riječima, prošlost se još uvijek odražava u svemu. Kaže se: Dobar ukus se ne može kupiti. Često se čini kao da ljudi pokušavaju nametnuti stvari i običaje koje vide van Ukrajine.

Talijanski autor Mateusz Sarello s projektom 'Divno' osvojio je drugo mjesto i mobitel Sony Xperia P. 'Divno' je priča o prekidu ljubavne veze i neprihvaćanju usamljenosti. O povratku na ista mjesta i sjećanjima koja ne možemo zaboraviti.

Indijskom fotografu Akshayju Mahajanu za ciklus 'Ne želim spavati sam' žiri je dodijelio treću nagradu - mobilni aparat Sony Xperia U. Ovaj foto-esej bavi se osobnim LGBT povijestima grupe prijatelja u Bangaloreu, Indija. Dokumentarne fotografije prikazuju živote mladih članova LGBT zajednice i što to znači biti gay u zemlji poput Indije.

Pohvalu žirija i nagradu publike dobio je norveški fotograf Christian Stejshal za projekt 'Grad smeća'.

4. Međunarodni festival fotografije Organ Vida održao se u kinu Europa i Galeriji Karas od 15. do 17. lipnja, a festival organizira fotografska udruga Organ Vida.

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PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

4th PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Theme: Documentary Photography
Cinema Europa / Gallery Karas
15.-17.06.2012.

3rd PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Theme: About People
Student center Gallery
19.-21.05.2011.

2nd PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Theme: Motion
Student center Gallery
15.05.2010.

1st PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Theme: Blach&White Photography
Student center Gallery
30.10.2009.

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ABOUT FESTIVAL

'Organ Vida' is an international photography festival held annually in Zagreb. The festival is currently in its 5th year of running.

The objective of this festival is to promote the contemporary Croatian and foreign trends in photography, to strengthen the photography scene in Croatia, and to present quality works to a wide audience. Through its continuous development, this festival aims to become the leading international photography festival (especially open to the young photographers) in the region.

The festival programme comprises of various types of events - lectures, creative workshops, presentations of different photographers and their projects, exhibitions, and music gigs.

Each edition of the festival is centered around a specific theme within the field of documentary photography. The works for the exhibition need to be submitted via our online application form. This year, the jury will select 10 of the best documentary projects to be displayed at a large group exhibition during the festival. After the closing, the exhibition will tour several cities in Croatia and abroad.

Along with the exhibition and workshops, what we offer at our festival is also the opportunity to have fun, meet new creative friends (photographers as well as other artists), exchange advice and experiences, and expand your professional network. It is our belief that these types of live events significantly contribute to the development and strengthening of the photographic scene, because the photographers are given a chance to show their work to a wide audience, explain and discuss them, and receive comments and feedback right away.

We are happy to invite you to visit our next festival and become a part of our Organ Vida community! And in case you see yourself as a potential sponsor or supporter of the festival, please contact us with your ideas for co-operation.