History of the Revela’t festival
The Revela’t festival was founded in 2013, driven by the EspaiFoto Photographic Association. Its aim is to create a space dedicated to contemporary analog photography and to so-called alternative or traditional photographic processes.
This would be the more “institutional” version, so to speak. In reality, however, the origin of the festival was much more spontaneous, natural, and even somewhat accidental.
We were celebrating the anniversary of a website, EspaiFotogràfic, and as lovers of analog photography, we invited Quinn Jacobson to lead a wet collodion workshop, which ended up becoming four days of workshops. We did the same with Ilan Wolf, organizing another four days of pinhole workshops, as well as workshops with schoolchildren.
The great photographer Josep Maria Ribas Prous proposed an exhibition to us. More followed in his wake. In the end, we had eight exhibitions, various workshops, and a small trade fair all without much prior planning and with no intention of continuing.
Once that first edition had ended, we received countless emails—people telling us this had to continue and encouraging us to keep going. We ventured to organize a second edition, which turned out much better than the first, and this year we will celebrate the fourteenth edition.
From its earliest editions, the festival attracted the interest of artists and professionals working with analog techniques at a time when digital photography dominated most photographic production. Over the years, the festival has grown both in the number of exhibitions and in international participation. Photographers, theorists, laboratories, and researchers from different countries have taken part in exhibitions and activities. Revela’t has become a meeting point for the analog community.
One of the festival’s distinctive features is its focus on historical photographic processes and artisanal techniques. The festival not only showcases artistic projects but also promotes the transmission of knowledge through workshops and technical demonstrations.
Throughout its editions, Revela’t has hosted hundreds of exhibitions, specialized workshops, and educational activities, helping to keep alive a photographic culture rooted in the chemical and material processes of photography.
What is the Revela’t Festival
The reborn of Analog Photography
What is the Contemporary Analog Photography
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