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Call for Submissions

Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) 2020 calls out to photographers and artists from around the world to submit photographic and photo-based multimedia works that are made in a diverse visual approach. Each work must be in line with the festival’s theme—SPACE. The festival’s curatorial team will make a selection of the submitted works and present them at …Read More

The 2020 Festival Theme: Space

It is perhaps more useful to try to imagine space as a series of relations between things that creates specific meanings depending on the contexts, rather than thinking about it as something defined by physical boundaries. After all, any given space may be perceived in different values by the people inhabiting or taking interest in …Read More

JIPFest 2020 Curatorial Team

Sayed Asif Mahmud (Bangladesh) Asif is a Bangladesh-based photographer. He is a graduate of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute and is currently teaching there. Asif ‘s work has been exhibited in Chobimela VI, Dhaka Art Summit, Bengal Art Lounge, Bedales Gallery and Noorderlicht Festival. His work Tobacco Tale was awarded second prize in Non-Traditional Photojournalism …Read More

Preview of the 2020 Edition

What’s On: JIPFest 2020 The second edition of Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) is scheduled for 26 June-12 July 2020 at the legendary Kota Tua (Old Town) in the northern part of Jakarta. Most of the major events will take place in historical buildings within the area, many of them Dutch heritage colonial buildings. JIPFest …Read More

Highlights of the First Edition

The first edition of Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) was held on 25 June-9 July 2019 in 17 public spaces across Central Jakarta. Attended by more than 17,000 visitors, the festival debut was a notable celebration and one of the biggest photography events in Southeast Asia. JIPFest 2019 featured 64 events under 13 program categories, …Read More