For the past 16 years, Voies Off has offered an alternative approach to emerging contemporary photography, its particularities, its evolutions, and its areas of resistance. Voies Off night projections during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival (first full week in July) have become an international reference for the discovery of emerging authors and the alternative venue that it creates for international photographic creation. Year after year, the selected themes have met the evolutions of our contemporary world with a critical eye. Over twenty different nationalities are represented at each festival. Every year over sixty candidates are selected for the programme of the night-projections.

Read more about The 2011 Voies Off Photography Prize on Contest Watchers.

As part of the official Character Walk 2011, Pictoplasma and DISK/club transmediale offer young and upcoming artists the opportunity to present their character driven work to a wide, international and interested audience. Running from 6 – 10 April 2011, the renown project space General Public in the center of Berlin will serve as the perfect stage for the winning proposal. Pictoplasma is open to your wildest, most daring, stylistically sure-footed character exhibition proposals. The awarded artist will receive up to 10 days of accommodation in Berlin from the 1st to the 10th of April 2011, a grant of €500 to help produce the submitted proposal, support to set up the exhibition, as well as free entry to all of the Pictoplasma Festival and Conference events.

Read more about Pictoplasma Character Walk and Residency 2011 on Contest Watchers.