Just Another Photo Festival
We are a a guerrilla photography, film and new media festival that democratizes visual media by bringing it back to the world itself and forging new audiences.
We believe that access to photography and the arts should be open and democratic.
From blue collar districts through to slums; from the banks of the Ganges to rural villages and everywhere in between, we have reached out to a variety of communities to build a grassroots platform for the visual arts.
JAPF is photography and film for people of all classes, vocations and backgrounds.
We are inspired by new modes of storytelling; we seek not to emulate the monolithic forms of the past but seek to create a festival is reflective of new digital forms and the interconnectivity of contemporary life.
We will constantly evolve, adapting to the needs of the audience
JAPF/2: Varanasi, India
"The idea behind JAPF is both simple and revolutionary: bringing photography, a medium that has often been regarded as a window to the world, back to the world itself: by getting its hands a little dirty, by removing it from an aseptic, out-of-context way of experiencing, the works shown at JAPF shine with a brand new strength."
Chiara Bardelli Nonino, Vogue Italia
After our first edition, The British Journal of Photography NAMED us as one of the top 15 'Cool & Noteworthy' events in the "annual showcase of most memorable and outstanding contributions to the year in photography."