Riga Photo Month is a new international photography festival taking place for the first time in the Latvian capital in 2014 as a part of the European Capital of Culture. It aims to create a meeting platform between Nordic and Baltic photography worlds, giving rise to mutual dialogue and new ideas.
Riga Photo Month 2014 program include exhibitions, artist talks, urban milieu projects, portfolio reviews, competitions, discussions and other activities. All the events will explore human relationship with urban environment and the interaction between private and public, local and global, mental and physical. The program’s thematic centerpiece will be exhibition „Urban Viewfinders. Baltic and Nordic contemporary photography’’.
The exhibition, showcasing artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries, focuses on people searching for their place in the contemporary space that surrounds us – the interaction between private and public, local and global, mental and physical.
The modern economy, and its process of constant growth, urbanization and globalization increasingly call for more self-awareness, balance and a return to core values. Private space becomes more important.
Ourselves and contemporary space – place. Who are we and how do we see ourselves in the space around us? How is our interaction with the space we call today formed?
At the same time, the show examines current trends in photography as an art practice. Rapid technological development calls for a re-evaluation of the meaning and message of the image. Today, photography is everywhere, used by everyone. A range of other ideas has joined the classic perception of the photograph as an aesthetic and documentary image, and it is necessary to identify this new content.
For more information see: rigaphotomonth.com
