VERNISSAGE (Open for all)
Saturday 12TH of MAY 1400
FLESKETORGET - FREDRIKSTAD CITY CENTRE

Opening of the exhibition «Lifecourses».

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Requires ticket / festivalpass)
SARAH BLESENER / TOY SOLDIERS
Thursday  24th of May at 1900
HOUSE OF LITERATURE -  EGALIA

Sarah Blesener presents her most recent project which deals with concepts of patriotism and nationalism in Russia and United States via military training camps for youth.

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Requires ticket / festivalpass)
Lorenzo Meloni / «Middle East» 
Thursday  24th of May at 2030
HOUSE OF LITERATURE -  EGALIA

The Italian Magnum nominee Lorenzo Meloni decided to follow his passion for photography and began studying the craft in 2008. During his studies he became interested in the Middle East conflicts. He follows the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2009, Yemen’s rapid decline in 2010 and the Arab Spring. His first works are published by Time, L’Espresso and Internazionale.

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Requires ticket / festivalpass)
Zackary Canepari / «Flint is a place»
Friday  25th of MAY at 1900
HOUSE OF LITERATURE -  EGALIA

Flint, Michigan has long been the poster child for the American dream gone wrong. The town Flint used to be the place for the carindustry before everything went down the drain. Canepari is one half of the award winning duo Canepari/ Dimmock. Before they produced the newly released «Flint Town» series for Netflix, Canepari worked extensively on the trans media project «Flint is a place». Canepari has made films, a website and a book about Flint.

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Requires ticket / festivalpass)
Jessica Dimmock / «Flint Town»
Friday  25th of MAY at 2030
HOUSE OF LITERATURE -  EGALIA

The Netflix documentary series «Flint Town» follows the police department in Flint, Michigan as they struggle with dwindling resources and crumbling infrastructure in a community crippled by violence. Dimmock is one half of the award winning duo Dimmock/ Canepari.

DAY SEMINAR SATURDAY
Zackary Canepari / How we did «Flint Town»
(Requires ticket / festivalpass)
Saturday 26th of MAY 1000 - 1100
HOUSE OF LITERATURE - THYGESEN

Canepari will give insight into how the team behind the Netflix series «Flint Town» worked.

DAY SEMINAR SATURDAY
Margaret M. de Lange, Ivar Kvaal and publisher Gösta Flemming / Norwegian Journal of Photography
(Require ticket / festivalpass)
Saturday 26th of MAY 1215 -1300  
HOUSE OF LITERATURE - THYGESEN

Owing to the Fritt Ord Foundation’s support for the Norwegian Journal of Photography, a growing number of Norwegian photographers have had a new platform to showcase their independent, long-term projects to both national and international audiences.

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Require ticket / festivalpass)
Sanne de Wilde / «Island of the Colorblind»
Saturday 26th of MAY at 1900
HOUSE OF LITERATURE -  EGALIA

In the late eighteenth century a typhoon swept over the tiny atoll Pingelap in the Pacific Ocean. One of the soul survivors was the king, who carried a gene that caused complete colorblindness. Through generations the condition has affected the community. Today more than five per cent of the islanders live their lives seeing the world in black and white. Through her pictures Sanne De Vilde is inviting us to see their world in a richer way. 

EVENING TALK and SCREENING
(Require ticket / festivalpass)
Gueorgui Pinkhassov / «Sophistication Simplification»
Saturday  26th of MAY at 2030
HOUSE OF LITERATURE

Phinkhassov will be accompanied by Magdalena Herrera on stage who will translate the russian native, French speaking photographer. Phinkhassov abandoned conventional cameras for cellphone cameras and the legendary Magnum photorapher will show his work at this screening.