First Night of Photography in Warsaw

The first Night of Photography in Warsaw is coming up on August 18. On large screens in several points in the city, viewers will be able to see photographs by legends of Polish photography, a selection straight from Europe’s largest photography festival in Arles, as well as projects by debutants focusing on the topic of transformation of Warsaw. In addition, the program includes selections from the rich photographic collection of the Museum and a special screening of an experimental film by French New Wave icon Agnès Varda. The event is organized as part of a new initiative of the Museum of Warsaw Centre for Photography in cooperation with the National Museum of Iceland.

Night of Photography, August 18, 8.30 pm

Free admission

Program collaboration: National Museum of Iceland, Festival Arles les Rencontres de la photographie

Partners of the Night of Photography: Bar Studio, Nikon

Cooperation: Fundacja Rozwoju Kinematografii

PROGRAMME

Museum of Warsaw, ul. Rynek Starego Miasta 30–42/Old Town Market Square

20:30 – Screening of awarded works and award ceremony of the photographic debut competition
20:45 – “Night of Images” – show prepared by the National Museum of Iceland
21:00 – Presentation of projects by Anna Bedyńska, Rafał Milach, Chris Niedenthal, Anna Orłowska
21:15 – Screening of Agnès Varda’s film “Salut les Cubains” (1963)
21:45 – Screenings from the “Arles les Rencontres de la photographie” festival – Set I
22:20 – Mix of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw (edited by Adam Palenta, music by Marcin Masecki)
End of the event around 22:40

Bar Studio, Plac Defilad 1

20:30 – Screenings from the “Arles les Rencontres de la photographie” festival – Set I
21:10 – Mix of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw (edited by Adam Palenta, music by Marcin Masecki)

Chono Lulu Bistro & Bar, Park Pięciu Sióstr

20:30 – Screenings from the “Arles les Rencontres de la photographie” festival – Set II
21:10 – Mix of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw (edited by Adam Palenta, music by Marcin Masecki)

Outdoor Cinema, Park Szczęśliwicki

20:50 – Screenings from the “Arles les Rencontres de la photographie” festival – Set II
21:15 – Mix of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw (edited by Adam Palenta, music by Marcin Masecki)
21:30 – Outdoor movie theater

Icons of modern and historical photography of Warsaw

The event will showcase works of a total of 50 authors. Among them will be the Warsaw photographs of Chris Niedenthal, the latest photographs from the Vistula River by Anna Bedyńska, a photographic poem by Anna Orłowska and photographs of Warsaw suburbs by Rafał Milach, who recently became the first Pole to join the prestigious Magnum Agency. That evening we will also see a selection of photographs from the Museum of Warsaw’s unique collection of nearly 300,000 objects. The show will be accompanied by music.

Photographic debuts about changes in Warsaw

The goal of the Museum of Warsaw’s Centre for Photography is, among other things, to develop grassroots initiatives and support the photographic projects of people who are at the very beginning of their artistic journey. That’s why the Night of Photography will also be an opportunity to get to know works of debuting photographers selected in an open call. The theme of this year’s open call was the transformation of Warsaw in the broadest sense of the term, and the submissions were evaluated by an international jury, including Amanda Maddox, chief curator of World Press Photo, and Harpa Þórsdóttir, director of the National Museum of Iceland. Thanks to the cooperation with the Icelandic institution, the parallel call for projects and the night presentation of the debuts will take place on the same day in Reykjavík.

The oldest photography festival

Arles les Rencontres de la photographie is Europe’s largest and oldest photography festival, held annually in Provence. During the Night of the Year, a selection of the best photographic projects of the past 12 months is presented there. Courtesy of the festival, now Varsovians will have the opportunity to see a selection of photographs straight from Arles. The special screening will also include the film Honor the Cubans! from 1963 by Agnès Varda – director, photographer and feminist, an icon of the French New Wave. The short documentary is edited entirely from thousands of black-and-white photographs the director took in Cuba.

At the Night of Photography we will see the following projects:

Set II – Bar Studio i Rynek Starego Miasta (40 minut)

Alice Pallot – „Algues maudites”
Greg Mo – „Tonle soap”
Sofiya Loriashvili – „Rezavod”
Alejandro ‘Luperca’ Morales – „Ya No Lo Pudo Lavar”
Tracy L. Chandler – “A poor sort of memory”
Màté Bartha – „Anima Mundi”
Guy Bolongaro – “Gravity begins at home”
Tori Ferenc – „In Waiting”
Annick Donkers – „Unidentified”
Adali Schell – „Asphaltos”
Manuela Lorente – “He plays The music, we dance”
Samsul Alam Helal – „Love studio”
Bérangére Fromont – „L’Amour seul bruderszaft a nos coeurs”
Victoria Jung – „Feverdream”

Set I – Park Pięciu Sióstr i Park Szczęśliwicki (25minut)

Sputnik Photos– “Lost territories archive”
Javid Nikpour – “Passing through darkness”
Alexa Brunet – „Odysée 2.0”
Sara Munari – „Don’t let my mother know”
Kouta Takahashi – „80°05′”
Amanda Butterworth and Saskia Overzee – “Gaze”
Tanguy Stoecklé – „Vol de nuit”

Museum of Warsaw’s Centre for Photography

The Night of Photography is part of the Centre for Photography program, a new initiative by the Museum of Warsaw aimed to promote interest in photography. The Centre for Photography is benefiting under the Focus on Photography project from a €458,000 grant received from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the EEA and Norwegian funds, and is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.