The two-day long opening events of the 18th international photo art festival KAUNAS PHOTO culminated on the evening of September 3 with the announcement of the Winner of the festival’s competition. KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2021 Award was granted to the eighty-one-year-old photographer Marna Clarke from USA and her work entitled “Growing Old”. The series will […]
In 2021, KAUNAS PHOTO festival turns eighteen, and enters the adult age. Therefore, the festival invited the photographers to submit entries to the KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2021 contest on the theme “Age” and waited for works relating to general or specific aspects of choices of life, crisis, joys, traditions, stereotypes, taboos, social norms and implications […]
The call has closed, congratulations to the finalists: Marna Clarke (USA) “Growing Old” Fábio Cunha (Portugal) “The Animal Within” Alain Schroeder (Belgium) “Grandma Divers” Michal Solarski & Tomasz Liboska (United Kingdom / Poland) “Cut It Short” Rosa Mariniello (Italy) “The Suspended Youth” Magdalena Stengel (Germany) “±100” Clelia Rochat (Belgium) “Belles Mômes” Martha Thomas (USA) “Do […]
On September 19, 2020, festival KAUNAS PHOTO participated in the Žemieji Šančiai community festival “Šančinės 2020”. At noon, the excursion “Pajausk, tai—Šančiai!” led by Rolanda Girskiene started from Šančiai polyclinic. During the excursion, the guide stopped in the already traditional space of KAUNAS PHOTO exhibitions in Žemieji Šančiai district—the square near the State Tax Inspectorate […]
On September 3, 2020, the exhibition opening tour of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival’s competition KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Finalists took place in Kaunas. At the end of the tour the Winners of the KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Award were announced – the Italian duo of artists Chiara Panariti and Gianfranco Ferraro with their work […]
The exhibition opening marathon of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival rippled across the city of Kaunas and culminated with the announcement of the winners of the KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Award. Out of ten photographic series that made to the finals, “Cronostasi”, created by the Italian duo of artists Chiara Panariti and Gianfranco Ferraro, was […]
On Thursday, September 3, 2020, the works of the Finalists of the XVII KAUNAS PHOTO festival’s jubilee 10th edition of the photography contest KAUNAS PHOTO STAR on the topic “Peripheral Visions” will spread across galleries, museums and outdoor venues of Kaunas city. The opening marathon will wind all over Kaunas: the route will start at […]
KAUNAS PHOTO is the longest-running annual photographic festival in the Baltic States, based in Kaunas, Lithuania, since 2004. Maintaining its strong international character, KAUNAS PHOTO is a platform of premieres of emerging talents. “Photo World” (China) titled KAUNAS PHOTO as a festival on crossroads of European photography. The current objective is to become a friendly […]
5 pm – Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian folk music history department (L. Zamenhofo str. 12); 5:30 pm – Kaunas Photography Gallery (Vilniaus str. 2); 6 pm – “Meno Parkas” Gallery” (Rotušės sq. 27); 6:30 pm – Kaunas city council Vincas Kudirka public library, department of youth music and art (A. Mapu st. 18).
Since 2010 KAUNAS PHOTO festival KAUNAS PHOTO STAR, an open competition aimed at distinguishing tomorrow’s photography stars. KAUNAS PHOTO Open Call was a huge success bringing almost 300 proposals of photographers from 43 countries of the world. Based on votes of 10 international experts, 12 Finalists were identified. The committee of KAUNAS PHOTO festival and […]