The festival Zoom announces the beginning of winter, inviting photographers and publishers to gather in northern Quebec in the village-district of Chicoutimi. The event is organized by photographers in collaboration with a museum of art and ethnography. With some projects like Anthropographia – whose award’s winner, François Pesant, is exhibited at the festival -, documentary photography hasn’t won its spurs yet in Quebec and the festival aims to fill the hole with a rich and mainly francophone selection of works. Francois Pesant presents a reportage about Native American women in Montreal, women lost to gods as the adoptive country of Bénedicte Kurzen (Noor Images), who presents at the festival a series about the ongoing ethno-religious conflict devastating central Nigeria since the presidential elections in 2011. There is a definite feminine touch to this year’s selection of exhibitions, with a project by Nadia Benchallal on Muslim women and the ode by Maggie Steber to Haiti, where she travels back and forth since the fall of the dictator Duvalier in 1986. There is also a gallery by Ann -Christine Woehrl portraying African witches, who end up rejected in camps in Ghana. In total, the festival features 20 dense shows approaching world issues.
Festival Zoom de Chicoutimi
2013-10-29 / 2013-11-24
Chicoutimi (Canada)
