Exhibition
FotoBook Festival
Oslo
September 2020
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Fotobokfestival Oslo is a week-long event established by Forbundet Frie Fotografer in 2009, aiming to explore the photobook as an artistic medium and phenomenon.
The main exhibition for 2020 is curated by artist Ethan Rafal: The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds. The exhibition will focus on photo book projects addressing the Climate Crisis. The chosen works have been created by artists working around the planet, and offer a comparative analysis of a global phenomenon that has now reached a state of emergency. Inspired by the Occupy Movement and contemporary intersectional, horizontal movements, the exhibition will be a space for learning, gathering as a community, and participating in concurrent direct action. The festival will be timed with global climate marches occurring in September, 2020. The focus is equally on artists and the participation of an activated audience. The artists included work across the photo book spectrum — from Artists Books to Zines — and the festival will include their related video, performance, and social practice projects.
The 2020 festival is organized with the support from Norwegian Photographic Fund, Arts Council Norway, Oslo municipality and Fritt Ord Foundation.