Once again, the Revela’T Festival comes to Barcelona with a new edition of the stART Day at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm. While last year the Revela’T Day had as its leitmotiv the photobook and the new formats in photography, this year we premiered the day focusing the activities and talks proposed around Art and Creativity.
The Revela’T festival is a unique and special event, probably the best analog photography festival in the world… 😉 It’s not our opinion, but that of those who edition after edition come to Revela’t and turn it into an unforgetable experience.
Living the Revela’T experience means discovering a whole photographic universe, with an exceptional program, in a very special location, Vilassar de Dalt, a few kilometers from Barcelona. More than 50 exhibitions, a trade fair, sale of photographic work, popular meals, live music, international public, the usual people and the one that you need to meet, new projects, lots of smiles and especially, a backpack full of culture and experiences. Welcome to Revela’T.
In connection with the 65th anniversary of the exhibition ‘The Family Of Man’, curated by Edward Steichen, the Revela’T International Analog Photography Festival takes this iconic exhibition as its leitmotiv for its eighth edition.
The Family Of Man is a part of the 1950s, a particularly convulsive decade in which large sociopolitical phenomena such as the Cold War and its consequent nuclear threat occured; the fight against racial segregation in the US and South Africa; major political changes in Argentina and Cuba; among many other movements all along the globe with an international reach. At the same time, and as an effect of this, the so-called Humanist Photography is consolidated, taking as its main axis the person, extolling and emphasizing his qualities, his values, his spirit and his dignity. This current with a strong social and documentary accent, portraits ordinary life with an eye on the projection of a future full of greater optimism.
PROGRAMME
Every day from 25th September to 12th October
Sala de l’Estrella.
If you are interested in showing your work to photography experts, from the galleries and collecting world, photography schools, directors of European festivals, magazines, etc, this is a great opportunity that we offer for the first time at the Revela’T festival.
Masia de Can Rafart
With the photographer and artist Joaquín Paredes, comes this unique and exclusive Becquerel Daguerreotype workshop. In the workshop, we will start from scratch: from the polishing and preparation of the copper and brass plates, the plating with electrolysis, the sensitization and development of the plates, to their set up and conservation. The workshop lasts two full days: September 24 and 25.
Biblioteca Can Manyer
The photographic workshop “Fotografiar per a Editar” (Photograph to edit) is aimed at initiated photographers, who have some finished material, in physical, copied or printed paper, and who want to show it with the intention of sharing it with others and, like this, letting people get into the possible and multiple perspectives that photography offers.
The workshop has only 12 vacancies at the express request of the teacher, to be more attentive to each of the students and so the time he provides is more enriching for the participants.
Different locations, en Vilassar de Dalt.
The previous day of a fantastic weekend, before the grand opening and with the presence of many of the artists that exhibit in this edition.
You can choose what to see at each moment, and at a unique price!
Fàbrica de Cal Garbat.
Exhibitions open from September 25 to October 12.
- Monday-Friday from 10h to 14h and from 16h to 20h.
- Weekends from 10h to 20h.
The Revela’t Trade Fair brings together in 22 stands, brands, manufacturers and sellers of photographic material, specially analog, generating an ideal sales circuit for the participants.
All the exhibitions. Meeting point in Fàbrica Cal Garbat
Guided tour through all the exhibitions.
Groups of maximum 20 people. Two sessions (11h to 12:30h and 12:30h to 14h). Timetable priority booking on theweb.
It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes and a hat.
Jardí St. Jordi. Vilassar de Dalt
Different activities for children and families.
During the morning, you will have the chance to participate in workshops such as: crossed stories, estenopeic camera construction, simulation of a photographic laboratory, transfer of photography on different materials, binding, collages, chemigrams, a giant camera…