PARALLEL
Collaborations in EU-projects and with other institutions
In addition to the curriculum, Film and Photographic Studies collaborates with various international institutions in several European projects. These projects give the students the ability to explore their field of interest on an international scale.
Participating Partners
International Photo Festival Leiden
Participating Projects
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PARALLEL
PARALLEL is a platform that brings together European cultural organisations willing to contribute to establish a new quality standard for European contemporary photography. The Platform is constituted by 18 high-level players from 16 countries ensuring a wide geographical spread. PARALLEL aims to establish a wide and effective platform for European emerging artists and curators and to promote a more fluid and functional link between them and the exhibitors (museums, galleries and festivals). PARALLEL also intends to remove artificial boundaries between artists and curators to create grounds for fostering new ideas and new forms of artistic cooperation through a process that instigates encounters, promotes synergies and cross-fertilisation.
1 student from Film and Photographic Studies is participating in this programme, starting in November 2017. This project will continue for the next three years. Each year, new students can participate in this project.
neXos exhibition is a 2017 project by ENMap (European Network of Master Studies in Photography), in which different universities with postgraduate studies in photography participate; and has been organized by students of the Máster en Fotografía, Arte y Técnica at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV). The exhibition, which will travel through different European cities, aims to promote new forms of documentary through emerging photographers. The exhibition also has different theoretical essays made by the following students of Leiden University: Giuliana Benedetto, Eliza Bryan, Anastassia Dalcolmo, Mélissa Delmée Malétras, Anna Kućma, Félice Kuijntjes, Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves, Mira Emil Samy Beshay, Rebecca Sanderson, Lauren Spencer and Sharon Zelnick.
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Annual Symposium Huis Marseille
For the course Topical Debates on Photography in Historical Perspective, students research two exhibitions on show in Amsterdam-based photography museum Huis Marseille. During a symposium held at Huis Marseille, students get the opportunity to discuss their performed research in front of a larger audience.
Previous Topics of Symposium:
2017: Chrystel Lebas, Theo Baart & Cary Markerink;
2016: Dana Lixenberg, Martin Roemers.
The International Photo Festival Leiden (IPFL) offers European photographers that have graduated in the past 5 years a stage in the first phase of their career as a professional photographer. The IPFL creates an international platform and according exposure.
The IPFL is the initiative of the Foundation for Talented Photographers (founded in 2013), and takes place every other year. The work of a selection of 20 emerging photographers is shown in a free, open air exhibition. Out of these 20 photographers, the jury chooses an overall winner of the festival. Next to that, the IPFL co-operates with a number of renowned international photography festivals around the world, to exchange the work of emerging photographers.
In the spring of 2018, the students of the MA Film and Photographic Studies will be asked to write a theoretical essay about the series featured in the festival. These essays will be bound together in a booklet, which will be distributed at the festival. Next to that, the students are given the opportunity to present their findings to the audience at the exhibition site.
International Photo Festival Leiden
