Discovery Awards –
Projections
Galeria do Paço – UMinho
Largo do Paço s/n
Monday→Saturday: 10am–6pm
The award Discovery Awards 2023 aims to show and give visibility to photographers and photographic projects that are not yet well known in the field. Every year, around thirty photographers are selected, with half having exhibitions at the festival and the other half having their work presented in a projection format. The screening of the 15 selected photography projects takes place at the Galeria do Largo do Paço between the 15th of September and the 28th of October.
Award Jury:
Editor, curator, and writer (Austria)
Art advisor, curator, mentor, and writer (USA)
Curator, sociologist, researcher and activist (Poland)
Writer and Curator (Croacia)
Finalists:
Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein — 'American Glitch'
Aleksei Pavlov — 'Messengers and Promises'
AYLA — 'Bloody Hamam'
Carola Lampe — 'Tell me what to see'
Daniel Lovi — 'The Silenced Death: suicide in the Asturian mining areas'
Emilia Martin — 'The blue of the far distance'
Florence Cuschieri — 'La Ronde des Hirondelles'
Ivan Buvinić — 'Four walls'
Jansen van Staden — 'Microlight'
Jasmine Färling — 'Nothing is true, everything is possible'
Rafael Roncato — 'Tropical Trauma Misery Tour'
Remco de Vries — 'The Heavy Loads of Our World'
Maddie Swainhart — 'Grammy's Praying For Me'
Maria Leonardo Cabrita — 'Vulcano'
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan — 'The Blue Fig'