This year, Chicoutimi (a borough on the western end of the Saguenay Fjord, just a few hours’ drive north of Quebec City) hosted the 10th edition of the Zoom Photo Festival, the largest photojournalism festival in Canada. Sports photographer Michel Tremblay came up with this idea after falling in love with Perpignan, a little town in southern France which, every single summer, gets invaded by all kinds of photographers and photo editors: “When we created Zoom, we actually took inspiration from the French festival in Perpignan. This year, another festival took place in Yellowknife, and this time founders took inspiration from us: in 10 years we have become a point of reference, even though we started from scratch. We want to offer something different and accessible to everyone”. This year Zoom Photo Festival presents 23 exhibitions all over Saguenay, including, as always, La Pulperie di Chicoutimi – hosting the World Press Photo exhibition – and the hangar in the port area. The festival lasts until November 10th and offers many activities: seminars, lessons and training courses. Among the subjects covered, is the environment, the problem of violence against women, and the issues affecting indigenous peoples – a very heart-felt topic here, since the United Nations proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. Many of Zoom’s photographers focus on the dramatic realities of the Far North and Native Americans.
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This year, Chicoutimi hosted the 10th edition of Zoom Photo Festival, presenting 23 exhibitions all over Saguenay.
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- 13 November 2019
For example, Laurence Butet-Roch, a photographer from Montreal, documented Ontario’s densest concentration of petrochemical plants; Chris Donovan photographed the residents of the Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario; Pat Kane is a member himself of the Timiskaming First Nation in northern Quebec; Cody Punter from Toronto, who’s been working for many newspapers in Nunavut for the past three years, hopes to give a different vision of the Inuit territory. Slovenian photographer Matjaz Krivic stood out for his powerful and hypnotic reportage on lithium, which led him to Bolivian mines and Chinese battery factories; the eccentric English photographer Nigel Dickinson focused on the global consequences of industrial meat processing, while Daniele Volpe from Italy shed light on the tragic genocide of the Ixil community in the early 1980s, during the Guatemalan Civil War; Franco-Spanish photographer Catalina Martin-Chico won the World Press Photo context for showing us how it is to raise a child in the middle of the Colombian jungle; And again, Nicolò Filippo Rosso and Antonio Faccilongo have been capturing for years poetic and powerful fragments of life in Colombia and Palestine.
- Zoom Photo Festival
- Chicoutimi, Canada
- October 16-November 10 2019
- Antonio Faccilongo, Daniele Volpe and Nicolò Filipporosso
Chris Donovan. Tara Sakanee's niece waves at her through her window as she chops wood outside for the fireplace. © Chris Donovan
Abil Boukind, Kalari. Morning meditation session in Calicut, Kerala. © Abil Boukind
Adrienne Surprenant, Dengue: EpidemicTerritories. © Adrienne Surprenant
Brent Stirton, Falcons. Bayan, Central Mongolia, May 2017: Batbayar Bold, a member of the Mongolian Wildlife Science and Conservation Center, examines artificial nests for the Saker Falcon in the steppe of Central Mongolia. © Brent Stirton
Catalina Martin-Chico, Colombia. (Re) Birth. Common everyday scenes in FARC camps at the time the peace deal was concluded. The women help one another, many of them havingno direct experience of dealing with babies, and no support service has been provided for them. Here, Edith, who has twins, is helping Jessica with her newborn baby. © Catalina Martin-Chico
Meagan Hancock, Bolivia, Cholitas Escaladoras. © Meagan Hancock
Chemi Dorje Lama, Exodus. Donghu is among many small villages near the desert;very few villagers live there. Many villagers have left their homes and migrated to bigcities as drought hitshard in the area. © Chemi Dorje Lama
Daniele Volpe, Genocide. Women, relative of victims, are cooking the food for a massive wake on August 2018, in Ixtupil village of the Ixil region. On May 2013, forensic anthropologists found 47 remains in a clandestine cemetery near Ixtupil village who died of starvation, diseases and hypothermia between '82 and '84 in the mountains while they were hiding from the Guatemalan army persecution. At the moment, only 14 remains were identify by DNA analysis. © Daniele Volpe
Nicoló Filippo Rosso, Forgotten in the dust. People from the community access water from a tank filled with potable water by a Bogotá based NGO. © Nicoló Filippo Rosso
Pat Kane, Land of the People. Camilia Zoe-Chocolate and Josh Campbell walk through Behchoko, Northwest Territories on their wedding day. Behcoko is a Tli Cho settlement of roughly 1,800 people, the largest community in the Tli Cho region. © Pat Kane
Cody Punter, Our Shareholders Were Here First. Drayden Sandy looks back at his mom Ashley Sandy as they head out to camp on the tundra for a weekend during Rankin Inlet's annual trout fishing derby on May 17, 2019. Fishing derby season is a popular time for families to go out on the land to spend time with each other. © Cody Punter
Laurence Butet-Roch, Friends and family gather for a 50th birthday celebrations. © Laurence Butet-Roch
Antonio Faccilongo Habibi. Beit Seira (Palestine). The relatives of Palestinian prisoners as they reach the checkpoint to enter Israel on the day of the prison visit.These families on the day of the visit to prison must face a long journey, covering a long distance from their villages to the Israeli prison. Along the way, the support that women give each other is essential, without which they would not be able to face the innumerable difficulties they encounter on the road. Thanks to the permission of the Red Cross, the photographer was able to follow these women during the trip and take this picture at the checkpoint. © Antonio Faccilongo
Matjaz Krivic, Lithium: The Driving Force of the 21st Century. This extremely remote region is one of the coldest in the world. For this reason, number of Chinese electric-car manufacturers had chosen it as their winter testing site for their new prototype electric cars, like this prototype EV of Chinese Slovenian joint venture APG Elaphe. Here,in the middle of nowhere, Chinese engineers are taking the future for a test spin. Heihe, China, 2017. © Matjaz Krivic
Brett Gundlock , Stories from the Migrant Trail, November 2018. A migrant shelter served to members of the Migrant Caravan, in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, 2018. This caravan was made up of thousands of people and one of the biggest caravans to date. Migrant caravans have been happening for years, people from Central America travel together for safety. © Brett Gundlock