Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the 10th anniversary edition of the Frames of Sopot Photography Festival.
The theme of the 10th edition of the FFWRS is ‘North‘. „When developing the Festival’s main theme, I pondered upon the ambiguity of the word ‘północ’ in Polish and its symbolic meaning. Does it have a geographical dimension or is it related to a specific moment in time? What is the meaning of ‘zero hour’, a point on a map, a ‘northern light’ or the lack thereof? How does the daily rhythm of life, the 24-hour cycle that depends on the seasons, high and low tides, sunrises and sunsets, travel from south to north and back, affect us? Naturally, the North as a reference point also follows from Sopot’s location on the map of Poland, while the participation of artists from Finland opens our view to areas lying even further north of the Baltic Sea.” says Maciej Stępiński, head curator of the jubilee edition of the Frames of Sopot Photography Festival.
Although the 10th anniversary edition of the FFWRS starts on 6th September, the festival hosts would like to invite the public to the opening at the State Art Gallery (PGS) on 8th August for an exhibition by the Helsinki School of Photography titled ‘Images that Fall from the Sky’.
This year’s edition of the Sopot festival will be accompanied by a series of meetings with artists and curators (hosted by Agata Passent and Bogna Światkowska, among others), as well as designers and authors of books and graphic works, and guided tours through the exhibitions. A detailed programme of the anniversary edition of the FFWRS will be available soon at www.wramachsopotu.pl
