FOTOKASTY - A REVIEW / 2010 EDITION - SUMMARY
We would like to thank the audience and authors who took part in Fotokasty - a review this year.
Outdoor presentation: Luis Sinco, MediaStorm, "The Marlboro Marine"
Outdoor presentation on the wall of Hotel Astoria
Outdoor presentation on the wall of Hotel Astoria
Presentation: Antonin Kratochvil, VII Agency, "Road Works"
Outdoor presentation in Camelot Gallery
FOTOKASTY - A REVIEW / 2010 EDITION
We would like to invite for Fotokasty - A review 2010 edition. The event will be held in Krakow, Poland from 21st to 22nd May 2010. Outdoor presentation includes multimedia photo-stories, e.g. MediaStorm, VII Photo Agency.
CALENDAR
21st MAY
9.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.
Outdoor presentation: Coffee & Bloody Mary
Wall of the Hotel Astoria Józefa st. / Estery st.
If it's raining we will change the location. You will find us in the Opium Club on the Kazimierz, Jakuba Street 19.
22nd MAY
9.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Outdoor presentation:
Camelot Gallery & Imago Mundi Foundation Gallery
17 św. Tomasza st.
ADMISSION FREE
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FOTOKAST - A NEW CATEGORY IN PHOTO CONTEST NEWSREPORTAŻ 2009
This year a new category, namely FOTOKAST was added to the photography contest organized by Newsweek Poland magazine - NEWSREPORTAŻ 2009. We are proud that the role of fotokast in the zone of communication and presentation of photoreport was appreciated by the contest's organizers. It means that this multimedia form enters for good the media group intended for presenting photography and should be popularized with its potential end-users.
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Fotokasty – A review / first edition of 2009
FOR AN EXCELLENT START
Workshops, presentations, open-air shows and a conference with the media people took place as part of a review of Fotokasty which was held in Kraków from 20th to 22nd May. The event attracted the attention of photographers as well as those interested in photography.
Two days of workshops were divided up into parts devoted to concrete problems connected with making multimedia presentations. Magdalena Wadowska, a reporter of Radio Kraków told us about how to make and record interviews and sound. She illustrated her description with numerous examples. The participants had an opportunity to make interviews in order to check in practice what they had learnt.
Magdalena Wadowska (left) and the participants of radio workshops. Fot. Magda Starowieyska
The film operator Tomasz Głowacki presented the principles of composition, timing and combining individual takes and stills in the context of photography or film camera. The differences were illustrated and analysed on the basis of sequences which Głowacki had prepared.
Tomasz Głowacki (left) leading camera workshops. Fot. Magda Starowieyska
The second day of the workshops was devoted to editing software: Final Cut Studio and Apple Podcast Producer. Specialists created a presentation to show and test numerous tools of basic applications. The practical part allowed the participants to discuss and solve specific problems connected with selected materials.
Software presentation. Fot. Magda Starowieyska
Two evening shows of fotokasty proved very popular: the first one was on a wall of one of the town houses of the district of Kazimierz, the second one took place in the inner courtyard of Galeria Camelot. The presented materials included fotokasty of acclaimed Polish photographers and important works of renowned international artists from the top agencies such as Magnum Photos and MediaStorm.
Evening show in Kazimierz district.
Evening show in Kazimierz district. Fot. Wojtek Matusik
Evening show in Kazimierz district. Fot. Magda Starowieyska
The third and last day was devoted to lectures and a panel discussion about new zones in communication. It was attended by journalists, columnists, photographers, photo editors and marketing specialists, including: Marek Drabik, Grzegorz Mogilewski, Jacek Pomykalski, Przemek Krzakiewicz and Jacek Szkwarek. The potential and opportunities for promoting the authors of fotokasty were discussed. Diverse opinions of the participants led to a heated discussion about such a form of multimedia presentation. It turned out that even the photographers do not share the same opinion. The key argument seems to be the fact that the appearance of fotokasty has given the artists an opportunity to make an autonomic, formal statement which supplemented by a journalistic aural explanation enrich the visual material by yet another artistic layer. There were also critical opinions stating that fotokasty are an indistinctive intermediate form between a classical photo story and a documentary. This opinion however met with strong criticism from the photographers, photo editors and publishers as well as other media people who participated in the discussion. There remains one open question of how such positive approach may help popularise this multimedia form with its potential end-users, i.e. mainly the Internet users. This issue is hoped to be solved during second edition of the Review scheduled by the organisers for next year.
The review accompanied the Photomonth in Krakow.