SCHEDULE DOK17
The 2017 festival was a great success with speakers from the US, Brazil, Denmark, Australia,
Sweden and Norway. Here is what you missed:
Exhibitions
Saturday MAY 27tH - June 11th
There will be indoor and outoor exhibitions in Fredrikstad city centre, the Old Town and at the Hydrogenfabrikken. from May 27 - June 11th, Open for the general public.
VERNISSAGE
THURSDAY JUNE 8th at 1730
«Norwegian stories»
OSLO AND AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
ENTRENCE FROM NYGAARDSPLASSEN
1. floor
Storgata 41, 1607 Fredrikstad
LUISA DÖRR / VII
THURSDAY JUNE 8th at 1900
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATUrE
Luisa Dörr (b. 1988) has become known internationally in the last year. She was selected as one of twelve participants for the prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass in 2016. She is a member of the photo agency VII’s mentor program.
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Joakim Eskildsen
THURSDAY JUNE 8th at 2030
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATUrE
Joakim Eskildsen (b. 1971) trained with the Royal Court photographer Mrs. Rigmor Mydtskov before attending the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, where he learned the craft of bookmaking with Jyrki Parantainen and Pentti Sammallahti. He is currently producing three photobook projects and exhibitions: American Realities, Cuban Evolution, and Home Works. Eskildsen lives and works in Berlin.
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SEMINAR
FRIDAY JUNE 9th 1000 - 1430
HOUSE OF LITERATURE
1000-1045 Malin Riley
"Going Beyond the Headlines".
Malin Riley is cultural/exhibition manager at Kontinent Agency & representative of NOOR Images in the Nordic Region. In 2015 the Agency began its Cultural program. Designed to go beyond the published image. Through Kontinent Culture, it is hoped that a wider audience will gain a deeper understanding of stories in need of all our attention.
1100-1145 Warren Richardson
World Press Photo 2015 winner has been covering the 2015 - 2016 and now 2017 displaced refugee crises and has walked through Europe together with people searching for a place to settle down. He lives on the streets of Oslo for months at a time together with people addicted to heroin, to tell their story. Warren will give us an insight into some of his methods.
1145-1230 Break
1230-1315 Espen Rasmussen
The last year picture editor in VG Helg has been traveling across Europe working on a project documenting people on the far right side. The project "White Rage” was published in a special edition of the weekend supplement VG Helg and online in VG+.
1330-1415 Conversation
Photojournalistic methods
VERNISSAGE
FRIDAY JUNE 9th 1630-1730
BLOMSTERTORGET BY THE HOUSE OF LITERATURE
Opening of the exhibition MEANWHILE. Made by the graduating students from the bachelor programme in photojournalism, Oslo and Akershus University.
Damon Winter / The new york times
Friday JUNE 9th at 1800
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATUrE
Damon Winter (b. 1971) has worked for numerous American publications, including Newsweek. Winter joined The New York Times in 2007 after three years as a staff photographer at The Los Angeles Times.
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Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos
Friday JUNE 9th at 1930
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATuRE
Peter van Agtmael (b. 1981) is a member of the prestigious photo agency Magnum and is one of the world's most sought after photojournalists. He has just published his second book, Buzzing at the Sill, about the causal effects of America’s warfare abroad the last ten years.
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CONVERSATION «AMERICA 2017»
Damon Winter and Peter van Agtmael
FRIDAY JUNE 9TH AT 2030
HOUSE OF LITERATURE
DOK17 PARTY
FRIDAY JUNE 9TH 2145
BUSSES FROM HOUSE OF LITERATURE AT 2130 TO GAMLEBYEN KULTURHUS
SEMINAR
SATURDAY JUNE 10th 1100 - 1400
HOUSE OF LITERATURE
1100-1145 Kim Nygård
Photojournalism on the newspapers doorstep.
1200-1245 Magnus Sundberg Publisher/owner Eyewitnes.nu. Why start at print magazine on photojournalism now?
1300 - 1400 Live radio
Oslo Radiobio presents «Everything that can go wrong...will». Harald Frøysa is the last bard in Norway. Anything can go wrong when radiojournalism is brought to the stage as Frøysa acts out his actual own life story on-stage. One actor, honest and crude. The performance is accompanied by an illustrator and set to commissioned live music. Developed and produced by Peter Daatland at the independent podcast collective Frekvens, with support from Fritt Ord.
VERNISSAGE
SATURDAY JUNE 10th 1500-1700
HYDROGENFABRIKKEN
Opening of the exhibition ONE CAMERA - ONE EYE. Conversation with Bjørn Steinar Delebekk/VG.
CONVERSATION «THE PHOTOBOOK»
SATURDAY JUNE 10th at 1800
HOUSE OF LITERATURE
What value does the photobook have today? Peter van Agtmael, Joakim Eskildsen og Jonas Bendiksen in a conversation about the photobook in a time when digital pictures dominate. Why is the printed books still the preferred medium of many documentary photographers?
GLENNA GORDON
SATURDAY JUNE 10th at 1930
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATUrE
Glenna Gordon (b. 1981) is American and has worked for years in West Africa. She reports regularly from the region for, among others, The New York Times and Time Magazine. Gordon received a World Press Photo award, the world’s most prestigious photo competition, for her coverage of the kidnapped schoolgirls.
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JONAS BENDIKSEN / MAGNUM PHOTOS
SATURDAY JUNE 10th at 2100
LECTURE - HOUSE OF LITERATUrE
The Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen (b.1977) started his career as a 19 year old learning the ropes of the industry at Magnums London office. After having worked there as an intern for a year, he went to Russia in order to become a photographer on his own. This journey led to his first book Satellites (Aperture 2006) and soon after his second book and multimedial project The Places We Live (Aperture 2008). Bendiksen became an official member of Magnum in 2004.