The largest photography festival of Ukraine «Lviv Photo Festival» will be held in Lviv for the fourth time. For the first time, festival events will go beyond the borders of Lviv and will take place in several regions: Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Sumy. The events will last six days from August 15 to 20.
Lviv Photo Festival is organized by the Ukrainian Photographic Society (UPHOTO) in cooperation with the Lviv Photo Museum and the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic. «Old Lviv Coffee» is a traditional and constant partner of the feast. Admission to all events is free.
Let us remind that in Lviv, all events will take place in the reading room of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University.
Program of festival events.
August 15:
16:00 Sofiia Lehin’s presentation «Oleksandr Pezhanskyi and UPHOTO» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St., Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:00 Presentation of the postcard to the anniversary of Oleksandr Pezhanskyi. (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:30 Oksana Sereda’s presentation «Galician women in photography». (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
August 16:
16:00 Ihor Harmash’s lecture «Photo and cinema: arts, doomed to be next to each other». (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:00 Presentation of the «Live Cinema in Lviv» project. Watching a tape movie in retro style. Oleksandr Mandryk, Ihor Harmash, Ihor Tkachyk. (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic University).
August 17:
16:00 Lecture by Uliana Mandrusiak (Kolomyia) «Alexander Kibler. The light and shadows of the court photographer». (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:00 Natalka Filevych’s lecture «Cliché-verre in the work of Bruno Shultz» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
18:00 Lecture by Mykola Protsiv (Berezhany) «Saved Photo History». (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
August 18:
16:00 Lecture by Oleksandr Kharvat (Rivne) «Capturing the flash of light. The history of photography before photography» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St., Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:00 Lecture by Andrii Sova «Secrets of Stepan Haiduchok’s Photo Archive». (Lviv, Profesorska St., 1. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
18:00 Lecture by Ihor Tkachyk «Amateur cinematography. Birth, development and decline» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
August 19:
16:00 Dmytro Maslov presentationt (Rivne) «Field photo laboratory of the Second World War. The history of one exhibit» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
17:00 Oleksandr Kitsera’s lecture «The Life of Yurii Lypa in photos» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
18:00 Olha Lidovska’s lecture «Jewish photographers of Lviv» (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St. Reading Hall of the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University).
August 20:
In connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war, this year the organizers invite you to the exhibition and sale of Hanging Photo Illustrations. Every photographer can bring his photos and hang them for sale. All collected money will be transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukrane.
12:00 «Hanging Photo Illustrations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine» – exhibition and sale of photos of all willing photographers with the transfer of all collected funds to the needs of the Armed Forces (Lviv, square opposite the Scientific and Technical Library, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 1 Profesorska St.).
13:00 Roman Metelskyi’s curatorial tour of the Lviv Photo Museum (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St.).
16:00 Roman Metelskyi’s curatorial tour of the Lviv Photo Museum (Lviv, 1 Profesorska St.).