Between 23 August and 11 October Noorderlicht Photography returns to the Old Sugar Factory, an impressive industrial complex in Groningen, which will host the 22nd edition of the world-renowned festival for photography with the main exhibition 'Data Rush'.

Data Rush investigates the tension between freedom and control in a virtual world. At the same time, on a photographic level it poses the challenge: if photography is a medium that tells us stories about the physical world we live in, how can it enlighten us about life in a virtual world, and the revolutions taking place in it?

Submissions and suggestions of photographers and curators are still welcome through 30 March , 2015. Please visit our website for the theme text and the entry guidelines.

Noorderlicht Photogallery

Through March 29 the Noorderlicht Photogallery is presenting a selection of the illustrious past and present of photography in and inspired by Dutch leading music venue Vera in Groningen. Stranded in the Mystery Zone gives through work of Willem Kolvoort, Dirk Wolf, Nick Helderman and others a photographic glimpse into this spirited venue that continues to hold its own against the current as “Club for the International Pop Underground”.

Noorderlicht Photogallery

From 4 April through 7 June the Noorderlicht Photogallery digs deep into a mythic time in New York’s Lower East Side. Ken Schles’ images from the 1980s are a gritty, penetrating portrayal of a city racked with violence, when crime rates were high and drug addicts and artists ruled his downtown world. An explosive but creative cocktail yielding an intoxicating brew of light, darkness and desire.