It’s photography focused September yet again! This time it will not be marked by a pervasive red, but by a dark black colour, as we will look through different photographic lenses and pull back the curtain on the hidden and often overlooked themes and issues of contemporary society.

BLIND SPOT

This year’s 9th edition of the Maribor Festival of Photography will take place in nine exhibition venues around Maribor. We will be bringing together young, but quality, photographers as well as long-established professional artists.

The exhibited photographic series will relate to the selected concept of the BLIND SPOT, which will establish a dialogue with the viewers through the medium of photography. Different artists will delve into the issues concerned with the (lack of) awareness of the existence of neglected, often overlooked topics and individualistic or socio-political, discriminatory issues that demand public discourse. In a figurative sense, we will therefore turn back and look into the blind spot of contemporary society, thus seeing the invisible through thoughtfully created and conceptually powerful visual messages.

The main part of the festival programme, with the Blind Spot theme, will be extended by an accompanying programme of photographic exhibitions in seven additional exhibition venues, which will not be thematically related to the main part.