We are happy to announce that jury of Grand Prix Fotofestiwal 2015 have chosen 50 finalists whose works will be presented during Fotofestiwal – 28th of May and 7th of June 2015.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

First of all, thank you to all you for submitting the work. It’s always very hard to choose 20 finalists from 50 shortlisted artists. In total the festival received over 500 strong applications. Lodz Fotofestiwal would like to thank our Jury members for their time, and experience which they have dedicated to the festival.

We are happy to announce that jury of Grand Prix 2015 have chosen 20 finalists whose works will be presented during Fotofestiwal, between 28th of May and 7th of June 2015. The name of the winner will be announced on the 28th of May 2015, during the opening night of Fotofestiwal. Photographs by the first 10 finalists will be presented at the exhibition. Works of second 10 shortlisted finalists will be presented as a slide show during the opening night of the festival.

FINALSTS – EXHIBITIONS

Costilhes Cyril (France)
Anna Grzelewska (Poland)
Naomi Harris (Canada)
Tito Mouraz (Portugal)
Sarker Protick (Bangladesh)
Mateusz Sarełło (Poland)
Delphine Schacher (Switzerland)
Jiehao Su (China)
Patrick Willocq (France)
Ksenia Yurkova (Russia)

FINALISTS – SLIDESHOW DURING THE OPENING NIGHT

Christian Berthelot (France)
Ciril Jazbec (Slovenia)
Katrin Koenning (Germany)
Karsten Kronas (Germany)
David Magnusson (Sweden)
Wojtek Moskwa (Poland)
Harri Palviranta (Finland)
Borut Peterlin (Slovenia)
Leonardo Pongo (Belgium)
Paweł Zak (Poland)

SHORTLISTED AUTHORS FOR FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW
(the list of over 30 international reviewers will be announced in March)

Alejandra Carles Tolra (Spain)
Alice Myers (UK)
Andreas Olesen (Denmark)
Andrejs Strokins (Latvia)
Arnis Balcus (Latvia)
Artur Urbanski (Poland)
Boris Eldagsen (Germany)
Borut Peterlin (Slovenia)
Christine Mathieu (France)
Daria Prokofyeva (France)
Dario Bosio (Italy)
David Fathi (France)
David Magnusson (Sweden)
Elin Hoyland (Norway)
Filippo Venturi (Italy)
Henry Matt (UK)
Jacek Fota (Poland)
Justin Maxon (USA)
Karl Henrik Edlund (Finland)
Karolina Gembara (Poland)
Leo Delafontaine (France)
Maga Sokalska (Poland)
Markus Henttonen (Finland)
Michael Danner (Germany)
Natalia Wiernik (Poland)
Nuria Lopez Torres (Spain)
Piotr Rymer (Poland)
Sarah Mei Herman (Netherlands)
Stephanie Roland (Belgium)
Susan Barnett (USA)
Werner Mansholt (Germany)

ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU TO OUR JURY MEMBERS

Alison Nordström – independent curator, former curator of GEH, USA
Henriette Hinz – Triennale of Photography in Hamburg, Germany
Peggy Sue Amison – Artistic Director for the East Wing Dubai
Krzysztof Candrowicz – director of Lodz FOTOFESTIWAL, Poland
Alessandra Capodacqua – Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Italy
Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger – Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
Bill Kouwenhoven – independent photography critic and curator, Great Britain
Erik Vroons – Chief Editor of „GUP” magazine, The Netherlands
Adam Mazur – curator, chief editor of „SZUM” magazine, Poland
Rafał Milach – photographer, co-funder of Sputnik Photos, Poland
Marta Szymańska – The Archeology of Photography Foundation, Poland
Jakub Śwircz – curator and lecturer, Poland

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Thank you one more time for being with us for 14 years.
Soon we will contact all the finalists. We hope to see all of you in Poland in May!