Their work embrace the uncontrollable unpredictable happenings as part of the beauty, the poetry and the magic of photography. In contrast the photographers featured in the theme exhibition explore the tension between controlling the image and capturing the unexpected, between conscious perception and the unseen. Photography is closely linked to the idea of control, it is often about carefully composing images, adjusting camera settings, staging simulation of reality in the studio in an attempt to ward off the unexpected. The local and international artists to be featured in the theme exhibition exploring the uncontrollable aspects and the unpredictable elements that leave their traces on the photographic image. To celebrate this anniversary edition, the theme chosen by our guest curator is an hommage to photography, its practice and malpractice. This year we invited Swiss Foundation for Photography Director Peter Pfrunder to collaborate to Lianzhou Foto’s fifteenth edition. Since 2017 this ambition has been taken on by the Lianzhou Museum of Photography that opened in the city’s historical centre, granting China its first public institution devoted to the medium. In fifteen years, the festival has gained international recognition as the most professional photography festival in China. The year 2019 marks the fifteenth year of Lianzhou’s photographic journey. It had to be replaced with an exisiting work of mine. (The work that I did in China for the festival could not be shown, for „administrative reaseons“. No Chance for the Unpredictable – a prophecy.
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