Closing of the 16th Fotograf Zone Festival
We invite you to the closing event of the final edition of the Fotograf Zone Festival.
16 Years of the Fotograf Zone Festival
How Not to Lose Your Soul
A Shared Look Back, Moderated by Jiří Ptáček
Let’s bring back the shared memories of an incredible sixteen editions of the Fotograf Festival, born behind the window bars of a tiny room on Školská Street and since evolved into Prague’s largest regular photography event. Together with eyewitness Jiří Ptáček, we’ll press the shutter sixteen times, take a cleansing bath in memory, and, during the final ironing, try to figure out how not to lose our souls in the process.
Sixteen editions of the festival, fifty issues of the magazine and almost a quarter of a century of Fotograf Zone give us plenty of material to look back on. Especially now that we have decided not to keep certain things alive at any cost. There will be no festival next year, and the printed edition of magazine is also coming to an end. So it is time to revisit our shared memories, remember the people and moments without which Fotograf would not be what it is, and finally turn our attention to what comes after this chapter.
Program
18:30 | Asphalt Lovers performance by Azolla Collective
19:00 | 15 Years of the Fotograf Zone Festival – moderated by Jiří Ptáček
20:00 | Wild Kin Afterparty – DJ: gin_and_platonic afterparty
Venue | Tyrš the Human Lab, Kampa
Address | Nosticova 2a, 118 00 Malá Strana, Prague 1 (Tyršův dům tram stop)
Entry | Free
English friendly | Yes
Apple Harvest
Fotograf Zone Festival and Prague City Gallery invite visitors to take part in a shared apple harvest in the orchards of Troja Château. On selected festival days, visitors can come and pick apples from the local orchard and spend time in the gardens, which are usually perceived primarily as part of a cultural heritage site. In connection with this year’s festival theme, Wild Kin, we see the apple harvest as a small celebration of sharing, seasonality, and the mindful use of natural resources—and as a reminder that our relationships with places and landscapes are also formed through ordinary, everyday activities.
Markéta Kinterová – Reading Against Acceleration
We cordially invite you to the event “Come Read with Markéta Kinterová and Guest Kateřina Vídenová.”
Miloš Vojtěchovský – An Experiential Tour of Hell
The Central Slaughterhouse in Holešovice once resembled an almost self-contained town, or even a ghetto. Hidden behind high walls, the ten-hectare complex comprised 49 halls, a network of streets and squares, a power station, a bank, underground passageways, and railway tracks connecting it to the nearby Bubny station. A century ago, butchers here slaughtered and butchered as many as 87 million cows, pigs, and horses each year. The sound walk through the former slaughterhouse grounds evokes a time when the cries and wails of animals being transported and killed could be heard far across the surrounding area, while the drains carried the faint squeaking of a population of hundreds of thousands of rats living in the underground passages of this extermination camp in Prague 7.