International Photo Competition begins, the Theme is "The Mediterranean"

The second Split Format festival will take place from November 2-16, 2019. This is an international festival of photography theory and practice, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and talks with renown photographers. This year's festival program will offer a series of educational, art, and fun activities, from exhibitions, lectures by famous Croatian and international photographers and photography workshops, and there will also be special workshops for children and an art residence in the collaboration with the KURS association.

The backbone of this year's festival is an international competition exhibition and the theme is the Mediterranean. The applications are open for all who love photography – amateur photographers, art photographers, photojournalists…

“The Mediterranean has width and depth, it is a space that is often fondly called the “cradle of civilization“, first utopias were written in the Mediterranean, democracy was born there, the Mediterranean culture is a mosaic built from countless stones from all over the world. From the Iliad and the Odyssey to the Bible, the Mediterranean is a homeland for works of art that make the canon of our civilization, the Mediterranean makes both sides of the European coin. In its beauty and famous past it has pride, in its turbulent present it has insecurities and trepidations. The distinction moves further: The Mediterranean in the European south and the Mediterranean in the African north are very different. The sea has tangled different nationalities, religions and cultures in an unbreakable bond, therefore uniting them in their diversities.

The Mediterranean has maybe been most precisely described in the words of the great Predrag Matvejević who, in his epic work, has said: “The borders of the Mediterranean are not just geographical. They are not drawn in space or in time. They are not historical, or state, or national: the chalk circle is always written and erased, widened and contracted. This place has been an intersection of paths of oil and wine, wheat and spice, silk and amber, knowledge and science (…) The Mediterranean is the same and different in the beginning and the end.“

Ana Žanko, mag. educ. hist. art.

Give us your own interpretation and experience of the Mediterranean with your application, of all its people, customs and cultural heritage…tell us a story with your photography about its historical, geographical and cultural layers. The works will be accepted in September and the festival's program will be published in October.

More on the application at: Photo Contest "Mediteran"