I’ve just had a reminder of the couple of visits I’ve made to Poland to the FotoArt Festival in Bielsko-Biala in 2005 and 2007, as there are now a couple of short videos on YouTube. The 2005 clip perhaps gives a bit more of the flavour of the festival, and has around a second of my back looking at an exhibition as well as me standing up and looking at the audience as I was introduced to them. You can also try and recognise some of the other photographers – Eikoh Hosoe is pretty easy to spot!
Eikoh Hosoe taking a photograph in Alcatraz, Bielsko-Biala, 2005
The second, from 2007, has more of the fine piano-playing from the opening ceremony, along with interviews with the pianist Janusz Kohut and Nina Rosenblum, whose American English gets faded out and replaced by a Polish translation. The show of her father’s work was the highlight of the event, and Nina showed the fine film she made about him.
Nina and Naomi Rosenblum at the Walter Rosenblum show in Bielsko-Biala
You can read more about the events and see my pictures from Poland in the posts Bielsko-Biala and Bielsko-Biala Diary here, or read my actual illustrated diaries from both the 2005 and 2007 event.
