Beit Lohamei Hagetaot (Ghetto Fighters' House Museum) will be hosting the 8th PHOTO IS:REAL international photography festival from June 15-July 14. This is the first time the largest photography festival in Israel will take place at this location.
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This year's festival will include a special exhibit of large-scale photos from the Lonka project, in which 45 photographers took pictures of 45 Holocaust survivors.
In the museum's courtyard, eight separate exhibits will feature 34 artists from 20 countries, including an exhibit devoted to Lithuanian women who emigrated to Ireland in the 2000s and a project by two photographers who visited 16 countries to photograph the face of climate change.
Yigal Cohen, general director of Beit Lohamei Hagetaot, said, "We believe that the focus on human events and processes in Israel and the rest of the world will contribute to tolerance and understanding, help shed light on the past, and promote learning that will shape the society we want to be in the future.
"We see special importance on shining a spotlight on the Holocaust survivors living among us today, and the understanding that these are the last years in which we as a society will be able to learn first-hand about one of the most difficult events in the human experience – the Holocaust. The photography festival is an important contribution to Beit Lohamei Hagetaot's extensive educational activity," Cohen said.
Entry to the festival is free of charge.
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