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Hosted at the Spéos Paris Photographic Institute, Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2011 brought together 163 photographers and 52 international photography experts for 3 full days of productive, stimulating meetings. This year, photographers and reviewers from 36 countries participated.

You can view 100+ photos from the 2011 reviews in our online slideshow.

Lens Culture FotoFest Paris offers all participants tremendous opportunities to share knowledge, connections and insights.

Participating photographers will get expert feedback about their work and have the possibility of getting editorial assignments, book publication contracts, art gallery representation, and feature articles in magazines, online and in print.

The one-to-one meetings with influential decision-makers in the photography field offer photographers opportunities to advance their career development and connect them to people who can help them with artistic and business goals.

In turn, the invited reviewers — museum curators, gallery owners, festival directors, publishers, representatives from photo agencies — will have the chance to discover new talent as well as the latest work of photographers who are already established.

Lens Culture FotoFest Paris takes place immediately before Paris Photo — the world’s largest international fair and marketplace for contemporary photography.

Paris is one of the world's capitals for photography, so there is always lots of inspiration to be discovered in galleries, museums and other venues throughout the city, as well.

Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2012 is the third annual collaboration between FotoFest International and Lens Culture. It will be hosted again at Spéos Paris Photographic Institute.

The Paris portfolio review is modeled on FotoFest’s internationally respected Meeting Place® portfolio review that FotoFest pioneered more than 20 years ago in Houston. Over the past 20 years — in Houston, as well as in dozens of other cities worldwide — similar professional reviews have been the catalysts for exhibitions, publications, and wider acclaim for many artists.

Lens Culture FotoFest Paris is the only large-scale international review of this format in Paris.

Read a summary and view the slideshow from the portfolio reviews and Open Portfolio Night (where art collectors and the public can meet the artists) from 2010 and 2011. As well as a short video from both 2010 and 2011. Catalogs, with contact information of all participating photographers from both 2010 and 2011, are available to preview and purchase via Blurb.