Noorderlicht (Dutch for "Northern Light") is a multifaceted and international platform for documentary photography. Based in Groningen, Netherlands, Noorderlicht organizes an annual photo festival, runs a photo gallery, a publishing house and provides an educational programme and discussions, lectures and masterclasses.[1]
History
Noorderlicht Photogallery was established in 1980. Ten years later, the Photofestival was launched, becoming one of the most important international photographic events.[2] In 1991, the festival became a biennale, until 2000, when it was restored as an annual event. From this date, the festival site has alternated between Groningen and Friesland.
Photofestivals
- 1997: The Garden of Eden - 5th Noorderlicht Photofestival
- 1999: Wonderland - The borders of documentary photography
- 2000: Africa Inside - Photography from Africa
- 2001: Sense of Space - Human experience on space
- 2002: Mundos Creados - Multifaceted and colourful portrait of Latin America
- 2003: Global Detail - 300 photographs on globalisation
- 2004: Nazar: The Arab world
- 2005: Traces & Omens - 12th Noorderlicht Photofestival
- 2006: Another Asia - Photography from South and Southeast Asia
- 2007: Act of Faith - On faith and conflict, ecstasy and excess
- 2008: Behind Walls - Eastern Europe before 1989
- 2009: Human Conditions
- 2010: Land - Country Life in the Urban Age
- 2011: Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age
- 2012: Landscape as the illusion of nature
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