Over two hundred international artists, video artists, and photographers, thirty exhibitions, and one key question: how to represent our relationship to natural and social space? We’re off to the town of Derby for the 8th edition of FORMAT International Photography Festival.
The theme of “Habitat,” which frames this edition of the festival, is vast and multilayered. Encapsulating both our everyday life and that of our planet, the representation of our ecosystem reveals numerous points of ambivalence. The relationship between humans and their environment is deeply problematic, ranging from admiration to exploitation, from domestication to preservation. The works on display vary in terms of subject and technique, from analog photography to virtual reality. The Habitat theme takes stock of the way we relate today to nature and urban environment, landscapes whose vague contours are fluctuating and breaking down.
