The Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) presents a month‐long biennial festival of photography comprising of around 200 separate events held in 70+ venues in and around Ballarat, Victoria.
The festival is a member of two international photography festivals groups ‘The Festival of Light’ www.festivaloflight.net and the ‘Asia Pacific Photoforum’ www.asiapacificphotoforum.org BIFB’15 aims to showcase talented photographers on an international stage, within a regional Australian context and generally support and promote the importance of photography as a visual art in Australia. The BIFB has held five highly successful festivals since their inception as the Daylesford International Foto Biennale in 2005. The event brings valuable tourism and economic support to the Ballarat Community, which has hosted the past three festivals. The BIFB is a not for profit organisation and is run almost entirely through the hard work and commitment of a large team of volunteers.
About Projections: BIFB’15
will present a rolling program of audio visual presentations daily throughout the festival at the Ballarat Mining Exchange via a large matrix flatscreen display. The program will consist of around fifty short audio visuals, covering everything from straight photo -°©‐ documentary to conceptual art. By participating in the BIFB’15 Projections Program your work will be exposed to a significant audience. At our last festival, the Ballarat Art Gallery, where the Projections Program was hosted, recorded its highest ever patronage over a 30 day period with almost 15,000 visitors. This year we move venue to the Mining Exchange, which is the hub of the festival, and where 6 of the 25 Core program exhibitions will be staged, along with seminars and other festival events. Due to venue constraints shows will run without audio soundtrack. For the purpose of consistency and branding shows must be supplied as single image files. The BIFB projections team will compile your images into a show with an intro title slide and an outro credits slide in a style consistent to all shows. Artist statements, short bios etc. etc. will be compiled into the Projections Program Online Guide, viewed via the BIFB website www.ballaratfoto.org during the festival.
Artists
Katerina Belkina, Daniel W. Coburn, Masaki Hirano, Drew Gardner, Eric Mencher, Mindaugas Kavaliauskaus, Hossein Zare, Mathias Heng, Ludovico Poggioli, Farhad Rahman, Ingetje Tadros, Aaron Claringbold, Tony Kearney, Giovanni Troilo, Jeroen ToirkensS, Gary Cockburn, Triptych Collective, Kim Keever, Hossein Fatemi, Kishor Sharma, Robert Moran, Joni Sternbach, Ingetje Tadros, Kim Hak, Joe P. Smith, John Hay, Vincenzo Florama, Tony Jackson, Ulrik Tofte, Emma Rose, Doc Ross, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Motonori Shimizu, Brad Carlile, Paul Jurak, Sarah Hadley, Tamas Keefer, Zoe Wrtherall, David Dare Parker
Curators
Jeff Moorfoot (BIFB Creative Director)
Mark Avellino (BIFB Projections Coordinator)
The BIFB Projections Team
Venue
Ballarat Mining Exchange
16 Lydiard St N, 12 Lydiard St N
Ballarat Central VIC 3350
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