February 2017: FOCUS Photography Festival, Mumbai, 2017 (FOCUS) is returning this week to Mumbai for its third edition from 9 – 23 March 2017. Launched in 2013 as the city’s first ever photography festival, over the last 2 editions FOCUS has worked with 60 partners, hosted 58 exhibitions and attracted over 80,000 visitors.
FOCUS 2017 presents an ambitious 14-day program with over 25 exhibitions and 50 events across the city. The festival includes major travelling photography exhibitions, shown in India for the first time, and collaborations with international photography festivals, such as Masterji, Maganbhai Patel, Gedney in India or Before now, then: picturing loss in photography in Japan. Alongside exhibitions in Mumbai’s leading galleries and museums the festival brings photography outside traditional spaces, to reach bigger and more diverse audiences, and into an eclectic range of venues from stores and cafes to the streets of Mumbai.
An extensive series of free outreach events are complementing existing programming, including talks, workshops, mentor sessions, screenings and walk-throughs. Opportunities for thoughtful dialogue and exchange, professional development for young photographers and an education platform for children.
This year’s festival theme is “Memory”, investigating the bond photography and memory have always shared and the need to question this relationship. Autobiography as Memory at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum is the result of a worldwide call by FOCUS for photographers to submit work on the festival’s theme. It received over 200 entries from 39 countries and this final exhibition curated by art historian and writer Prajna Desai will feature works by 18 finalists from around the world.
FOCUS Photography Festival
9 – 23 March, 2017
Mumbai, India
Visit the official website for all information and programming:
http://www.focusfestivalmumbai.com/
