COLORS MAGAZINE VISITS THE MARKET THEATRE’S PHOTO WORKSHOP

Presentation of the magazine’s latest issue “Money” , a photo workshop and an exhibition on magazine form, concept and design.

Johannesburg, 24 April 2008. Colors Magazine has been invited by the Market Theatre’s Photo Workshop to present the latest issue “Money”. An international magazine well-known for its inventive approach to photography, design and creative writing, the Colors editorial team will also open an exhibition featuring issue n° 73 and deliver a lecture on the diverse approaches to magazine form, concept and design. Sponsored by the Market Photo Workshop and Fabrica, the Benetton group’s communication research centre where Colors is produced, the event is intended to provide insight into the creation, formation and editing of a concept-based magazine.

About Colors and Fabrica
Established in 1991 under the leadership of Tibor Kalman and Oliviero Toscani, Colors is a quarterly magazine sold in over 40 countries and published in four languages. Using conceptual design, visual language, and creative writing, Colors' themes range between the serious, such as ecology, violence, monoculture and HIV to the outright frivolous, such as shopping, fashion, and toys. Colors has been described as one of the 51 best magazines of all times (Good Magazine), one of the trendiest cultural magazines on the world scene (La Vanguardia) and was recently featured in Inside the great magazines, a trilogy exploring the influence of magazines on our social, political and cultural identities. Colors magazine is part of the publishing activities of Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, where young artists and researchers from various countries and cultures are invited to develop communication projects in fields of design, music, video, photography, publishing and new media. www.colorsmagazine.com www.fabrica.it

Benjamin Joffe-Walt, editor of Colors,  has written for the Economist and BBC and served as a foreign correspondent for both the Guardian and Sunday Telegraph. He was awarded Africa Print Journalist of the Year by CNN in 2005 and Young Journalist of the Year by the British Foreign Press Association in 2004. His work has appeared in the Sunday Independent, Star, Cape Times, Newsweek, This Day and the Mail and Guardian.

Mauro Bedoni, photo editor of Colors, has produced many multimedia communication campaigns for various institutions. As a photojournalist he worked for a number of Italian photo agencies and his work has been shown as the Perpignan FestivalOff. Prior to joining Colors magazine in 2007, he served as video editor for RAINews24, the Italian National TV Broadcasting Service.

About the Market Photo Workshop
The Market Photo Workshop trains over 100 students a year, ensuring that students learn in a culture of critical thinking about what images mean and the role photography plays socially. One of the primary aims of the Market Photo Workshop is to promote links with photographers, other institutions and the wider community, both close to home and internationally, through its various interventions and projects. These various endeavours have enabled the Market Photo Workshop to establish new voices in South African photography, including seven time World Press Winner Jodi Bieber, other World Press winners like Themba Hadebe and Sydney Seshibedi, and internationally acclaimed photographers such as Nontsikelelo Veleko and Zanele Muholi.  www.marketphotoworkshop.co.za

Presentation and exhibition opening:
Thursday, April 24 at 18:00
Market Theatre
2 President Str, Bus Factory entrance
Newtown Johannesburg

Photo workshop:
Prior to the presentation Colors will run a workshop from 11:00 to 13:00.
Those interested in attending can contact the Market Photo Workshop at: (011) 834 1444

For more information, please contact:

Colors
Angela Quintavalle
Ph : +39  0422  516209
angie@fabrica.it

 

Photos of speakers and the latest issue of Colors available on request.

 

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