If you love taking photographs in and around Grahamstown, you have two weeks to enter the National Arts Festival's Foto Fence competition, featuring photographs of life in and around the City.
If you love taking photographs in and around Grahamstown, you have two weeks to enter the National Arts Festival's Foto Fence competition, featuring photographs of life in and around the City.
The fence around the Fiddlers’ Green precinct will become a temporary outdoor art gallery for the photos. At the same time as the opening, winners of a city-wide photography competition will be named.
The Foto Fence project is the brainchild of Rhodes University lecturer and photographer Brent Meistre, who hopes to identify up and coming photographers deserving of further training and mentorship through the project.
The National Arts Festival is championing the events as part of its Creative City project, which is funded in part by the European Union.
“The reason we’re embarking on the competition is to find some talented young photographers, people with a passion for photography and a good eye. We’ll then draw them in to our Makana Arts Academy training programme and help them get their professional careers started,” Festival CEO Tony Lankester said.
Meistre said that the judges were looking for photographs taken by ordinary Grahamstonians “reflecting their life in and attitude toward their city” in four categories: City/land scapes; Afro-futurists & selfies; Life up-close; and Live–action.
The judges will select the finalists whose work, together with the work of established Grahamstown photographers, will make up the Foto Fence exhibition in March.
Anyone may enter the competition, but the stipulation is that photographs must be taken in the Grahamstown/Makana area.
The closing date for entries is 13 February 2015 and full details and entry forms are available for download at www.creativecity.co.za
