PhotographyFestivals

It’s hard not to notice that the Mois de Photographie du Grand Paris is in full swing. As its new name indicates, the event has spilled into the outskirts of…

Today, The Eye of Photography is presenting a special edition on a little-known festival: the festival in Yangon, capital of Myanmar, which took place last month. It is an amazing…

In Search of Dignity, exhibition by Günter Pfannmüller and Wilhelm Klein (German photographer and writer), made its first appearance in Myanmar during this 9th edition of the Yangon Photo Festival.…

A few days before the opening of the Yangon Photo Festival, the French photographer Landry Dunand, accompanied by his Afghan box camera, travelled up and down the streets of the…

Here are the four winners in the Professional Photographer category in the Yangon Photography Festival 2017. From coverage of the fighting in Kachin State to a personal and aesthetic introspection,…

This year, the 9th edition of Yangon Night chose to project more photo-stories from emerging photographers than from professional photographers, proving that writing a strong story through images is accessible…

Yangon Photo 1979, presented by the Austrian exhibition curator Lukas Birk, is the first showcase of images taken in the late 1970s at Bellay Photo Studio in Yangon. Funnily enough,…

The Eye of Photography brings you a selection of stories in photographs by young Burmese photographers, the result of masterclasses given by the Yangon Photo Festival over recent years. To…

Two weeks after the Yangon Photo Festival had ended, my head was still swimming with images; but what really stuck in my mind from this year’s edition was the perseverance…

A trailblazing event when it was first launched in 1980 by Henry Chapier and Jean-Luc Monterosso, founder of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the “Month of Photography” has evolved…