HISTORY

At the tenth edition, Paraty em Foco watched not only a transformed photograph, but also the transformation of the audience. Different and larger contingents from Brazil and abroad changed the public's texture and made Paraty an international festival not only by its guests but also by its public.
From the curatorial point of view, Claudi Carreras went to her third year in front of the Festival exhibitions, completing a cycle where she experimented with

a more public photograph, occupying the city as a gallery; This was evident in the energy that the curator put in the convocation of the festival, which followed his proposal to map international photography and multimedia production, with the support of three indicators around the world - Russian researcher Liza Faktor, the Mexican collective La Hydra And Brazilian curator Eder Chiodetto. The conferences and lectures changed their address: they were presented in the Multimedia Tent; Similarly to previous editions, the program placed a greater focus on the reflection on the image and its surroundings and pointed out the complexity of the links of the various photographs present at the Festival.
On our tenth anniversary, in a country where a cultural project hardly survives for ten years, our best way to celebrate was to give to all festivals - and gatherings in general - that brought together not only thinking about photography, but There is more essential in the human being, which is the coexistence.