Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) presents five panel discussion sessions discussing five different themes. All are free for the public, although we recommend visitors to arrive early due to limited seat capacity. If you have any questions, please contact us at benlaksana@hotmail.com or +62812-9081-0110 (Ben). Panel 1: Gender Representation in Photography & Media In Indonesia’s …Read More

Following an open call which ran from 22 February-25 March 2019, Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) has made a selection of photo books that will be exhibited on 3-7 July 2019 at Teater Kecil, Taman Ismail Marzuki.  The selection is made by Aditya Pratama (founder, Unobtainium Photobook) and Kurniadi Widodo (curator, photographer) based on several …Read More

Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest) 2019 presents Visual Storytelling Workshop with Veejay Villafranca on 27 June-1 July 2019 in Jakarta. Based in Manila, Veejay has tackled crucial local issues including cultural and religious practices, gang members, as well as impacts of climate change. In 2008, he was awarded the Ian Parry Scholarship and a residency …Read More

In the spirit of learning from different individuals, collectives and organizations with different skill sets in photography, JIPFest sent out an open invitation to host educative photography events as part of the festival. Homegrown and overseas applicants took up the call. Selected applicants will host a series of inspiring talks, workshops, mini exhibitions and sharing …Read More

As part of Road to JIPFest, a series of pre-events leading up to Jakarta International Photo Festival 2019, the committee collaborates with Jakarta Provincial Government to hold a discussion with photography industry stakeholders. The goal is to collect ideas from practitioners and academics to develop Jakarta’s creative economy through photography. Held on 26 March 2019 …Read More

JIPFest 2019 Curatorial Team has chosen 36 photography and multimedia works from 17 countries to be exhibited from 25 June-9 July 2019. All works were selected from the open call process, which ran from 10 January-10 March 2019, out of 299 entries from 31 countries. The selected works represent unique and diverse ways on seeing …Read More