Valparaíso International Photography Festival
- Valparaiso.
- Until November 1st.
- More information HERE.
The sixteenth edition of the FIFV is presented in the question “What is the nature of things?”
“Many times one is living in a place and things become invisible, they can be very surprising, but they go unnoticed,” comments Rodrigo Gómez Rovira, artistic director of Casa Espacio Buenos Aires 824, the organization that produces the FIFV.
The festival is funded by the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations (PAOCC), Call 2025, of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
Programming:
On October 28, the photographic creation meeting continues at the Camaralucida School of Photography in Valparaíso with a dialogue between training spaces together with the Center for Photographic Studies of Córdoba-Argentina (CEF).
The next day the experience continues in Nueva República de Limache with the inauguration of two exhibitions: “The journey of light” by Cecrea La Ligua, Colectivo Electrón Libre e Imagen Salvaje and “The light of a match, photographic archive collected by Nancy Gewölb Mayanz”. Daphne Carlos arrives from Peru with the performance “A body, a being” and the Chilean photographer Alejandro Olivares presents his most recent photobook “Atlas of the abstract and subjective history of Chile”.
At 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 30, the doors of the Visual Arts Room of the Valparaíso Cultural Park (PCdV) open to see the Central Exhibition of the FIFV 2025 with works by the prominent French photographer Stéphane Lavoué, who carried out the Artistic Creation Residency 2024; the work of boys, girls and young people who participate in Imagen Salvaje, Casa Espacio’s mediation and training program, and photographs of the Winners of the 2024 Photographic Project Viewing Exequiel Vargas (Chile) and Sthefany López (Peru).
At 7 in the afternoon, the Walk What is the nature of things? begins, a family tour that begins at the PCdV Theater to border the hills, take the legendary bus “0” and walk through stairs and passages to reach the Favero neighborhood, at the foot of Florida Hill, where the Teatro Container Public Kitchen will receive the participants with a toast to inaugurate the FIFV 2025. A screening of the work of the French photographer Stéphane Lavoué, scored by Inti González, will close the Inaugural Experience on Thursday.
That year the Quilpué Audiovisual Cultural Center joined the production of festival experiences. Photography is expanded to moving image and sound with screening days on October 31 and November 1. The first day the invitation is to the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Valparaíso to see “Julia se revela”, a documentary about the life of the daughter of the Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi made by Claudia Holgado, granddaughter of the same author, and “The light of a match”, an audiovisual production about the photographic archive collected by the Chilean visual artist Nancy Gewölb under the direction of Javier Pérez, Anamaría Briede and Rodrigo Gómez Rovira.
On the same day at 8:00 p.m., a tribute to the recently deceased Chilean photographer Pablo Cabrera, who actively participated in different editions of the festival, is projected on a giant screen installed in the Favero neighborhood, on the corner of Las Heras and Lastra streets. Then, the audiovisual pieces of the Chilean authors Hans Castro and Amparo González are presented together with the Peruvian author Sergio Meléndez, honorable mentions in the Viewing of Photographic Projects of the FIFV 2024.
On Friday and Saturday nights, the Projection of Photographic Audiovisual Works will also be shown, called by Casa Espacio Buenos Aires 824 and the Quilpué Audiovisual Cultural Center, which debuts this year with 18 projects selected from different corners of Latin America.
Publishing world
For the second consecutive year, the Tinta&Papel Editorial Fair brings together authors and publishers from Latin America. This time it will be installed in the Favero neighborhood on Las Heras Street, between Lastra and Colón, on October 31 and November 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. On Friday afternoon, different editorial projects will also be presented in the Publications Round brought by the Center for Photographic Studies of Córdoba and, on Saturday, the Photochemical Book Workshop (TLFQ) and Fluq will present Visual Readings for the first time at the FIFV.
The heritage neighborhood of Valparaíso will be the scene of the Table Dialogues during both days with presentations by Héctor González de Cunco, Christian Ochoa, Héctor López, the Colectivo Latente and Gabrielle Duplantier.
At noon on Saturday the festival moves to the Prat dock to inaugurate the Workshop and Brigades Exhibition 2025. The sixteenth edition of this photographic experience culminates with the Community Plate of La Cocina Pública and the free delivery of the FIFV 2025 Magazine What is the nature of things?.
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