The deadline for submitting for the Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2012 is drawing near! Professional photographers and curators have untill this Friday, March 16, to submit their work and/or proposals. 

Please read our guidelines for submissions.

Museum Belvedere

Cruel and Unusual has been a success both here and internationally! Because of the great demand, the show will run for a week longer than originally planned. Saturday, 7 April, will be the last opportunity to see the exhibition in Groningen. It's successful reception is reflected not only in the visitor totals, but also in the attention it has received in the media, both in The Netherlands and abroad - online, in daily papers and monthly magazines and on radio. Here are just a handful of the reactions:

Lens Culture

A thought-provoking, narrative-rich series of photographs from inside prison walls explores those punishments which may, or may not, offend society’s “evolving sense of decency”.

Eyecurious

The Cruel and Unusual exhibition that opens at the Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen tomorrow is a rare breed. 

Images: Lori Waselchuk and Yana Payusova

The exhibition Cruel and Unusual is accompanied by a special catalogue in the form of a newspaper, edited by Hester Keijser and Pete Brook, the curators of the exhibition.

In addition to visual material from the main exhibition, the publication includes articles, blogs, interviews, sketches and supplemental material from photographers Pete Brook has encountered during his road trip Prison Photography on the Road.

Read Pete Brook's blog: Adventure in Amsterdam >>

Price: € 1,50 + shippingcosts

Image: Araminta de Clermont

14 April - 20 May

Awarded Commitment

Exhibition of several recent winners and nominees of Prix Pictet, FotoEvidence Book Award and AnthropoGraphia Award.

26 May - 8 July

Dirk-Jan Visser - OFFSIDE: Football in Exile

About FK Qarabag Agdam, a footballclub in exile from the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.