press releases
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index
4th February 2010
press release »2nd Lumix Festival from 16th to 20th June 2010«
After the amazing premiere in 2008 and the overwhelmingly positive feedback of visitors, media, picture editors, photographers and photo companies the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism will take place in Hannover for the second time from 16th to 20th June 2010.
17th March 2010
press release »Lumix 2010 - the 60 exhibitions are fixed«
More than 1000 applications from 70 countries have arrived at the festival office for the FreeLens Award. The best 60 reportages will be displayed in several pavilions on the expo grounds. In the selection of works they chose for the festival, the jury consisting of Stephanie Bunk (curator of the FreeLens gallery in Hamburg), Bertram Solcher (chairman of FreeLens), Rolf Nobel (professor of photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover and head of the Lumix Festival) and Isabel Winarsch (head organisor of the Lumix Festival) was looking for photographic and narrative quality.
press image »FreeLens Award«
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press images - exhibitions
press images - impressions of the 2010 festival
Description: The Design Center's Atrium on the 3rd day of the festival
Author: Fara Phoebe Zetzsche
Image no: 301
Description: Visitors in the exhibitions of the Design Center (A)
Author: Fara Phoebe Zetzsche
Image no: 302
Description: Visitors at the exhibition of João Pina in the Design Center (A)
Author: Nick Neufeld
Image no: 303
Description: Visitors in the exhibitions of the Design Center (A)
Author: Fara Phoebe Zetzsche
Image no: 304
Description: Visitors in the exhibitions of the German Pavilion
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 305
Description: Visitors in the exhibitions of the German Pavilion
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 306
Description: The 21 multimedia stories could be watched at some iMacs
Author: Stefanie Preuin
Image no: 307
Description: A student of photography guides through an exhibition
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 308
Description: In front of the Design Center, students and visitors could get together
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 309
Description: Visitors during a break in front of the German Pavilion
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 310
Description: Daniel Rosenthal shows a picture from a reportage about AIDS in Malawi during his lecture
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 311
Description: Ed Kashi showing his work in a lecture
Author: Christina Kuhaupt
Image no: 312
Description: David Burnett with a photograph from Iran
Author: Nick Neufeld
Image no: 313
Description: Ernesto Bazan signing his book Cuba after his lecture
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 314
Description: (from the left) Christian Burkert, Daniel Rosenthal, Heinrich Völkel and Kai Nedden in the open discussion »Photography studies: first bachelor, what then?«
Author: Nick Neufeld
Image no: 315
Description: Daniel Rosenthal (back/right) and Carolyn Drake (front/left) during a portfolio review
Author: Stefanie Preuin
Image no: 316
Description: At the booth of main sponsor Panasonic
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 317
Description: Visitors at the booth of Nik Software
Author: Nick Neufeld
Image no: 318
Description: Davide Monteleone has just received the FreeLens Award by Thomas Höpker
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 319
Description: All prize winners of this year's festival: (from left to right): Munem Wasif, Emiliano Larizza, Ilana Panich-Linsman, Davide Monteleone, Johan Bävman, Thomas Lekfeldt
Author: Joanna Nottebrock
Image no: 320
Description: Many of the exhibiting photographers were still present during the award ceremony.
Author: Kristoffer Finn
Image no: 321
press images - lectures
More information about the photographers can be found at the lectures page.
Description: The New York City based photojournalist Ed Kashi (born in 1957)
Author: Uwe H. Martin
Image: no. 100
Description: Sisters Sadie Janis (89) and Zona Fills the Pipe (91) at a pow wow in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In his project » Aging in America «, Ed Kashi shows many realities in the aging US society.
Author: Ed Kashi
Image: no. 101
Description: Subcontracted workers clean up an oil spill at an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Niger Delta. From Ed Kashis Project »Curse of Black Gold«
Author: Ed Kashi
Image: no. 108
Description: 38-year-old American photographer Carolyn Drake
Author: unknown
Image: no. 102
Description: One of numerous small community businesses clustered along the main streets of the Old Town in Kashgar. They will be demolished as the government tears down this historic district. (From her work »The Last Days of Uighur«, 2007)
Author: Carolyn Drake
Image: no. 103
Description: Uighur laborers string electric lines across Taklamakan Desert, part of the Chinese government's effort to develop the west. (From her work »The Last Days of Uighur«, 2007)
Author: Carolyn Drake
Image: no. 109
Description: Portrait of Ernesto Bazan, photographer born in Palermo.
Author: unknown
Image: no. 104
Description: From the »Cuba« book
Author: Ernesto Bazan
Image: no. 105
Description: From the »Cuba« book
Author: Ernesto Bazan
Image: no. 110
Description: Portrait of the 63-year-old photographer David Burnett, co-founder of the renown US photo agency Contact Press Images.
Author: unknown
Image: no. 106
Description: Bob Marley, 1976 at Tuff Gong, Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica
Author: David Burnett
Image: no. 107
Description: US soldiers on a break, a week after they had invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada (December 1983)
Author: David Burnett
Image: no. 111
Description: Daniel Rosenthal, born 1973, works both job-oriented and on his own projects, mostly about current and social issues.
Author: Kai Wiedenhöfer
Image: no. 112
Description: A patient stares at the ceiling as Sarah Maida, a 24 year-old woman that died minutes before of an aids related miningitis infection is wrapped in cotton sheets to be carried away. From »HIV in Malawi«
Author: Daniel Rosenthal
Image: no. 113
Description: 28-year-old Liu Banghua is being carried to the toilet by his mother. After a strong electric shock he lost all four extremities and only received a one-time payment of 70,000 yuan (ca. 7,000 euros). »The bone mill – Victims of industrial accidents in China.«
Author: Daniel Rosenthal
Image: no. 114
Description:Sergey Maximishin. His works have been published in Iswestija (one of Russia's biggest newspapers), Stern, Time, Focus, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and other leading print media worldwide.
Author: unknown
Image: no. 115
Description: Two monks carrying an icon.
Aleksandro-Svirsky monastery, Leningrad region, Russia. April 2001.
Author: Sergey Maximishin
Image: no. 116
Description: A tea drinking of the amateur »Naive Theatre« of N7 Psycho-neurological asylum
St.Petersburg, Russia. April 2003.
Author: Sergey Maximishin
Image: no. 117
Description: Wojciech Grzedzinski. Only 30 years old, Grzedzinski is the festival’s youngest lecturer, but he has already an impressive career...
Author: unknown
Image: no. 118
Description: Georgian Conflict, August 2008. Refugees from Tskhinvali region on their way to Tbilisi. The photo reportage was awarded the 3rd prize in the category »Spot News Stories« at 2009's World Press Photo Awards.
Author: Wojciech Grzedzinski
Image: no. 119
Description: The Aftermath of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes, with more than 1100 dead. After a 7.8 and another 6.8 Richter scale earthquake roads are ruined, power and telephone lines are down, survivors face shortage of food and fuel.
Author: Wojciech Grzedzinski
Image: no. 120
Description: Suau was born in Illinois, USA in 1956. After studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology he worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Denver Post among others. ... (see »lectures«)
Author: unknown
Image: no. 121
Description: »Beyond the Fall« – The Transformation. Moscow, Russia, 1993. It was a pivotal moment that still had the feel of the old Soviet Union, but things were beginning to change. It was just before the influence of the West started to show in a dynamic way.
Author: Anthony Suau
Image: no. 122
Description: »Beyond the Fall« – The Opening. Moscow, Russia, 1993. Anti-Yeltsin communist supporters build barricades on the streets of Moscow and set fires to protest against new government reforms.
Author: Anthony Suau
Image: no. 123