Noorderlicht 2021 focuses on images of new reality
The Noorderlicht International Photo Festival has extended its open call to students across the world to submit a single image that expresses their “reality”
With the world in a state of flux around us, the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival is calling on students worldwide to capture, in one image, “what you feel is ‘reality’”.
The Noorderlicht festival is an international platform for artists who use photography and adjoining media to portray their engagement with society.
This is a second call for submissions and follows the successful 27th edition of the festival, in which 144 students from 37 countries exhibited their work on the grounds behind Museum Belvedere in Heerenveen, in the northern Netherlands, from the late summer to the early autumn of 2020.
Visual culture
The Noordelicht festival focuses on the entire gamut of the image – digital and analogue, from installations and computer-generated imagery to virtual, mixed and augmented reality, projections and mappings.
Under the theme “The Makeable Mind”, this year’s edition of the festival will explore the relationship between visual culture and reality. It will further probe how our thinking is influenced by visual technologies, communications media, mainstream and citizen journalism, and how this describes, rewrites, disguises and exposes our reality.
The initial deadline, which was set for 17 May, has been extended to 1 June 2021.
The main exhibition for the Noorderlicht festival will be put together by two female curators – Paulien Dresscher, an independent researcher on digital culture, and George Knegtel, a photographer.
This year’s first entry is “Black Memoria” by Tshepo Moloi from South Africa. “It’s part of a larger amount of work about my position in my family and the community,” Moloi said. “It’s a personal project that reflects my overall alienation in a social context.”
How to present your “one-image reality”
Capture that one image (whether lens-based or computer-generated) to depict what you feel is “reality”. The file format for the image should be the maximum (native) resolution of your camera to make for easy printing in large format. It should be converted to RGB, high-resolution JPEG or TIFF.
The file name should contain the name of the creator and contain a title and/or caption. Also attach to your file a brief explanation of the image in about 50 words.
Further include your name, your nationality, your year of birth, the course you are pursuing and where, links to your social media channels and the URL of your website (if applicable).
The photo festival is scheduled to run from 7 August to 3 October in various locations in the northern Dutch provinces of Groningen and Friesland.
Nana Abena Boakye-Boateng
Send your contribution to openstudentcall@noorderlicht.com. Please use a file service such as WeTransfer if the file is too large to send as an email attachment.
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