Since its launch five years ago, the International Photography Festival has become an Israeli art institution that draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. The 2017 festival will feature works by more than 200 prominent international photographers in 25 exhibition.
The upcoming festival will feature a wide range of exhibitions and special events, including the first ever photography marathon, a White Night event in the festival’s galleries with art, music, and alcohol; gallery talks, guided tours, workshop, and activities for children and families.This year the festival will host photographers from the following countries: India, Italy, Holland, Brazil, Romania, Poland, Russia, Norway, Czech Republic, Canada, UK, France, and Spain
The exhibitions will include international and Israeli projects, among them a retrospective exhibition of the legendary Indian artist Raghu Rai, spanning five decades of his activity that offers an unparalleled visual portrayal of India; an exhibition of the Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin, which recounts the story of the chaos in the Arab world since the 2003 invasion of Iraq; I Believe I am Gay, an exhibition that features portraits of religious people from the gay community in Holland; an exhibition of the Brazilian photographer Angélica Dass, which presents a chromatic range of portraits of the different human skin shades; an exhibition summarizing the festival’s social activity Photovoice, aimed at giving disenfranchised communities the skills and means to tell their story through photography and more.