Reportage Photography Festival 2013

Overview

Australia’s leading documentary photography festival, Reportage, have joined forces with Vivid Sydney this May. Developed from impromptu snapshot exchanges in a Bondi apartment, Reportage is now gaining exposure as a national and global photography event worthy of focus. In a flash, it seems, the depth of the photographers fielded at the festival has zoomed to dizzying heights. Shutterbugs such as distinguished Magnum photographer Alex Webb (USA), Contact Press co-founder David Burnett (USA) and Italian camera-king Franceso Zizola (co-founder of NOOR Agency in Amsterdam and 10B Photography in Rome) will grace Sydney with their pictorial prestige for the duration of the snapfest. Reportage will debut works by these (and over fifty other) photographers through large-scale outdoor projections and indoor exhibitions around Sydney from May 25 to June 13.

With themes ranging from Cuba to Bob Marley, to the American Presidents and to Peace, Reportage 2013 will inspire tears, laughter, deep thought and people scratching their chin as they pretend to be in deep thought. If that doesn’t make your shutter flutter, though, perhaps the next paragraph will. For their 11th season, with the power of Vivid behind them, the festival will feature intimate workshops, insightful talks and open Q&As for the closet Canon kid and the professional paparazzo alike. In fact, if you’ve never even taken an auto-everythinged snapshot on a friend’s DSLR, Reportage has opened up these free (and ticketed) events to anyone interested in social issues as explored through visual narrative.

Title Image: ©Alex Webb, Bombay, India, 1981 from 'The Suffering of Light'