We live in a time where the development of trends, technology, and politics is going at a breakneck pace. Moore’s law predicts that the amount of information, the amount of computing power, and the amount of memory power required, will double every other year in our hyper-technological society. This rapid acceleration changes how we interact with information, texts, and images. The present suddenly feels shorter somehow. The future becomes a faster present and the present a faster past. Our ability to concentrate deteriorates as the amount of information steadily increases.

A book can be understood as a linear presentation of information, texts, and images. It functions as a container which structures our attention and delineates information. So, what can the limited book do to us at a time when our senses are under siege every day? Is the book’s limitations a problem or a solution? Is the photo book’s anachronistic nature also its superpower? Through its various events, the festival will explore the subversive potential of the photo book and speculate on its place in the future.

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