[Oberlist] NL* call/foto: METROPOLIS, City Life in the Urban Age - Noorderlicht Photofestival

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Groningen, The Netherlands

Noorderlicht Photography
Noorderlicht Photofestival

METROPOLIS, City Life in the Urban Age
http://www.noorderlicht.com/en/photofestival

"On May 23, 2007 the world celebrated the beginning of the urban
millennium. It was on this date that, worldwide, for the first time in
history more people lived in cities than in the countryside: 3.3 billion
people, on 3 percent of the earth's surface. This development has
far-reaching implications. Is a decent, humane life possible in a modern
megalopolis that is bursting at its seams? And how can the countryside
survive the economic, demographic, cultural and ecological clear-fell that
urbanisation brings with it?"
The main exhibition of the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011, METROPOLIS,
City Life in the Urban Age, deals with the role of the city as the nerve
centre of modern global society.

It is the second part of a diptych, a follow-up to the 2010 theme LAND,
Country Life in the Urban Age, which looked at the shrinking role of the
countryside worldwide.

The city, as a phenomenon, has an almost schizophrenic character; its many
personalities are constantly encountering one another. It is our intention
that these multiple personalities will emerge in the structure of the
exhibition, running the gamut from utopia to dystopia. Call for
submissions

Noorderlicht calls on photographers, curators and photo agencies to submit
work or proposals for METROPOLIS, City Life in the Urban Age.

Deadline for submitting is 31 March, 2011. Please read our conditions and
technical details first.

We are looking for photo series that present a distinctive, even
idiosyncratic vision on the character of the modern city. Economic, social
or urban planning aspects can each play a role; the series may be literal
or metaphorical. We are striving for a global picture; the group
exhibition as a whole will be a journey through cities in all parts of the
world.

The precise sub-themes will be set out in a following stage of the
project. We list several possibilities as examples:

* Symphony: The city as the effervescent economic and social nerve centre
of modern society, a place for progress, interaction and infinite
possibilities;

* Mutability: Space that is the product of urban planning, with
architectonic dreams of the good life for all the city's inhabitants; from
old ideals of equality to modern technology and sustainability;

* Expansion: The urge for unbridled expansion in the name of progress,
creating new chances but also pushing the old into oblivion; a place of
migration, on the way to a better future, even if that means a life in the
chaos of the slums;

* Seduction: Where massive economic differences exist and everyone is
seduced by a mass media landscape to seek greater wealth, where
millionaires live next to the homeless;

* Fear: Places where the individual can be swamped in a mass of strangers;
where the demands of the rat race for success stand in the way of
authentic living; where criminality lurks, security demands control and
Big Brother is always watching;

* Home: Small societies, seeking a place of one’s own in the large,
anonymous world around one, or the excessive separation from that wider
world; the creation of suburbs where affluent urban life can again appear
rural; the shift of the social environment from the real to the virtual
world.

We are using a special email address for submissions:
pandora at noorderlicht.com. Our ftp server is also open at all times.

Correspondence regarding the theme can be sent directly to the curator Wim
Melis, at his email address.


data limita: 31/03/11

Kontakt:
Noorderlicht Photography
attn. Wim Melis
Akerkhof 12
9711 JB Groningen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 (0)50 3182227
wim at noorderlicht.com
www.noorderlicht.com

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