Overview

 

The core of the Festival program will be photographic exhibitions by several of the national collecting institutions.

These exhibitions, and many of the exhibitions by the local cultural organisations, will be open for the full length of the Festival.The Festival opening week includes an international conference hosted by the Australian National University.

July to October 2008 will be an excellent time to invite visitors to Canberra—friends, family, colleagues and students with an interest in photography.

The exciting program of Festival events will include the projection of photographic images on to the exteriors of buildings, folio nights when Australia’s photographers will be able to show their work to buyers from Canberra’s collecting institutions, award ceremonies for both professional and amateur photographers, a trade show, master classes, seminars, talks and tours.

Australian Photo Festivals

Vivid 2008 is part of a lively program of photography festivals in Australia, including FotoFreo to be held from 5 April to 4 May 2008 in Fremantle, Western Australia, the Queensland Festival of Photography to be held in April 2008, and the Daylesford Foto Biennale to be held in 2009 in Daylesford, Victoria.

Vivid, the National Photography Festival, will be held for the first time in Canberra from 11 July to 12 October 2008. It will celebrate the vital role
of photography in Australian life
and history.

 

Fifty venues
One hundred exhibitions
One Festival

Over fifty national and ACT-based institutions are collaborating to present exhibitions, conferences and a range of events for photographers, photographic historians and everyone with an interest in photography.

The program on this site is regularly updated with text and images as more festival events are confirmed.