2014 Xishuangbanna Foto Festival was held at Jinghong City Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province from January 8th to February 8th , 2014. On the theme of Memory in water, the Festival gathers 150 photographers, curators and collectors from 24 countries of Asia, America and Europe with more 3000 pieces of photography works.
2014 Xishuangbanna Foto Festival offered spaces for national exhibition halls and overseas exhibition halls,a Southeast Asia Photographic Summit Forum, as well as three evening slide shows namely, Southeast Asia Photographic night, Chinese Photographic night and classical Photographic night. Half of the works in the overseas exhibition halls are works from Southeast Asia. Nighty percent of the works from foreign Photographers made their debut in China. India’s leading photographer PabIo Bartholomew, the two times World Press Photo prize-winner, exhibits his works in China for the first time.
Meanwhile, the Festival also held 42 awards from three aspects, namely, the photographers, the work presented and were they came from . Chinese Photographer LI Jie won the golden peacock jury prize for work called At Sea. Chinese Photographer HE Xiaohua won the award as best national photographer for his work Another Existence. French Photographer Zeng Nian won as the best international photographer for People of The Three Gorges.
The festival focused on the theme of Memory in water. All of the exhibited works are mainly images on geography, human landscapes, natural environment and socio economic development along the Mekong River in Asia, and rivers int Europe, America and Africa.
CHENG Xiao, YANG Qiong (China CPS)
