19è Fòrum fotogràfic Can Basté 'Retornar a les utopies'

Once again, the Can Basté Civic Centre, a municipal facility of Barcelona City Council specialising in photography, organises the Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté, the biennial photography call of Nou Barris. The competition, which this year reaches its 19th edition, is a reference space dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of photography. In this edition, the Fòrum proposes a return to utopias and the recovery of the capacity to imagine other possible futures. The threat of different crises —climate, technological or political— increasingly drives us towards imaginaries of collapse. Faced with the cultural logics that feed these dystopian narratives, even imagining alternatives becomes difficult. These dynamics can limit creativity and our capacity to think other possible scenarios, reducing individual and collective agency and the possibility of imagining spaces for change. Faced with this context, returning to utopias is more necessary than ever, as a tool of resistance, but also as a space from which to imagine and build new possibilities for social transformation. Based on this idea, the Fòrum deploys a programme of talks, workshops, activities and photographic exhibitions that explore the capacity to think about the present and project other possible futures. As in previous editions, the Fòrum Fotogràfic also focuses on supporting new authors, with the aim of giving visibility to new perspectives and visual languages. To boost emerging talent, three grants will be awarded for the production of photographic exhibition projects, and one grant for the production of a photobook that will be published with Ediciones Posibles. You can consult the programme at the following link