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21st Edition of Braga Photo Festival to Offer New Visions on Social Documentary Photography

BRAGA.- The “Encontros da Imagem” (Image Meetings), the oldest photo festival of the Iberian Peninsula is back in 2011 under the theme “New Visions on Social Documentary Photography”. From September 16th until the end of October 13 exhibitions will be shown at historical, cultural and modern spaces of Braga, Portugal, in an event that also includes a 7500 Euros prize for the best portfolio presented to an international jury. The current crisis in Portugal and the transformations of Eastern Europe after the fall of the communism are two of the main attractions of this year edition. The current situation of Portugal is portrayed in the exhibition of the KameraPhoto collective that will be shown at the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum. “It’s a portrait of the social and political moment that Portugal is living, shown through the lenses of the 13 photographers that form this collective, born in 2003” explains Rui Prata, the festival director. “New li