NEWS / LOOK11 WEBSITE LAUNCH

Look11 Website Launch

15th December 2010

Coinciding with the launch of the much anticipated Look11 Website the festival starts its home-grown monthly get together for photographers, enthusiasts and photo-voyeurs alike. Find out about the festival, opportunities to get involved and showcasing your work at future events.

Take your lens caps off, and get your browsers ready, because Look11, Liverpool’s International Photography Festival is about to get interactive. In the six month build up to the only large scale photography festival in the north west and the first of its kind in Liverpool, Look11 are poised to deliver its lead question ‘A call to action?’.

Just how Look11 plan to support this new, innovative and creative vision is through the cutting edge, user led website set to take the online photography community by storm. “It’s an all inclusive interactive site, passing ownership to the audience through international blogs and forums that will truly promote what Liverpool is famous for; culture. Even some of the visual content will be driven by photographers through competitions and uploads” says Daniel Cutmore, Look11 Festival Manager.

Herald as a ‘one stop shop’ for the photography scene in Liverpool and afar it will bridge the gaps between the critically engaged and the bedroom blogger which beforehand felt miles apart. Being able to link with and respond to many of Liverpool’s cultural drivers will bring about lively, active and personal access throughout the Liverpool arts scene.

Creative people will be titillated by the freedom of expression and given a platform to communicate what they’re passionate about in the creative sector, around photography and about social justice issues.

The interactive site aims to forge new relationships between experienced and budding photographers , support the scene and promote innovation. This is what the festival really boils down to; being inclusive and widening participation in photography in a way that is new, exciting and progressive. An eclectic mix of people, photography styles and views will be what drives Look11: Liverpool International Photography Festival to be a stand out event.

“Audience participation is paramount” says Artistic Director Stephen Snoddy, “The message is to ‘stop, think, examine and debate” “In the climate we find ourselves there has never been a more relevant time to take action and be heard. Photography may be the tool to use and our theme of ‘A Call to Action? will look to question it’s strength”