SEOUL, September 10 (AJP) - The Daegu Photo Biennale will be "the best yet," Daegu Arts Center director Kim Hee-chul said Wednesday.
The 10th Daegu Photo Biennale, hosted by the city of Daegu, begins next Thursday and runs for two months. This year’s theme is "Life," with about 200 photographers from more than 30 countries taking part and roughly 700 works, including photographs, videos and installations.
Kim and this year’s artistic director, Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, outlined the biennale at the French Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday. De l’Ecotais, who holds a PhD in art history, regularly curates exhibitions in France and abroad and is the founder and artistic director of "Photo Days Festival," one of Europe’s most popular annual photography festivals.
On this year’s theme, de l'Ecotais said the exhibition looks beyond humans to include plants, animals and even forms of life that are hard to see, inviting visitors to think about "how all living things depend on one another" and "how we should relate to the world."
Alongside the main exhibition, there will be special programs including a symposium where domestic and overseas experts discuss how artificial intelligence is affecting photography, and networking sessions for photographers.
The biennale runs through Nov. 16.
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