About Exhibition

Welcome to the 7^th International PhotoFair Kyiv, which will be held 04 - 07 June 2009 in the International Exhibition Center  (Kiev, Brovarsky ave, 15).

Working hours
• 04 - 06 June  from 11.00 till 19.00
• 07 June         from 11.00 till 16.00

Ticket office working hours
• 04 June        from 11.30 till 18.30
• 05 - 06 June  from 11.00 till 18.30
• 07 June        from 11.00 till 15.30

Ticket cost 10 UAH

ORGANIZERS

ITE Group Plc (Great Britain), Premier Expo (Ukraine), IVC REAL (Russia), Guild of Advertising Photographers.

Informational support: DigitalPhoto&VideoCamera, DFOTO, Foto Kurier, Photographer, Zoom, FotoTravel
Internet support: www.fotoclub.info 

TOTALS OF PHOTOFAIR KYIV 2008

Our participation were world leading producers of photo technique, photo materials and accessories, and Ukrainian distributors: AERFEIS (China), BARVA (Ukraine), CANON North East OY (Finland), CARTOTECNICA Ti. Ci. (Italy), COLOR WAY (Ukraine), DOLI DIGITAL MINILABS (China), DURACELL (USA), E-PHOTO (Ukraine), ERA (Ukraine), FOMA  (Czech Republic), FOMEI (Czech Republic), FUJI EXPRESS (Ukraine), FUJIFILM (Japan), FUJI-MIG (Ukraine), GITZO (France), HAHNEL (Ireland), HASSELBLAD (Sweden), HYUNDAE PHOTONICS (Korea), INKSYSTEM (Ukraine), INTERFOTO (Ukraine), KATA (Israel), LASTOLITE (UK), LITE PRINT (Ukraine), LOMOND (UK), MAC HOUSE (Ukraine), MANFROTTO (Italy), MARUMI (Japan), MEADE (USA), NIKON Europe B.V. (Japan), PENTAX (Japan), PROFOTO (Sweden), QUANTUM (USA), RIVA СASE (Russia), SLIK (Japan), S.M. DEVELOPMENT (Korea), SONY Overseas SA (Japan), SUNPAK (Japan), SWISSCO TECHNOLOGY (Singapore), TAMRON (Germany), VARTA (Germany), WEIFENG (China), Worldwide Manufacturing, E.D. (Ukraine), ANKOR (Ukraine), ASTRA KOR (Ukraine), AKROPOLIS (Ukraine), GRAFITEK (Ukraine), DNEPROGRAD (Ukraine), DUMKA (Ukraine), EKSAR (Ukraine), MAC CENTER (Ukraine), M-FOTOSERVIS (Russia), PROPHOTO (Ukraine), STEREOSVIT (Ukraine), SUPERPRINT (Ukraine), FOTOVZGLYAD (Ukraine), FOTOKIOSKI DFS (Ukraine), FOTOFOND (Ukraine), YUG СONTRAСT (Ukraine) etc.

Total number of the participants 80 companies from 16 countries.

In the frame of the PhotoFair were hold seminars from APPLE, LOMOND, PENTAX, E-PHOTO, Worldwide Manufacturing, E.D., FOTOVZGLYAD.

This year the organizers of the exhibition make surprise for the Ukrainian photo community again. 

Photo vernissage is the main event in cultural work of Ukraine, which presents different genres and branches of contemporary Ukrainian and foreign photography. More than 1000 photos were presented in the frame of the exhibition.

Festival of National Photo Contests - joined Ukrainian- Russian project, which was hold in the frame of the exhibition which gave the opportunity to move all over the world to Malasia, Holland, Canada, Singapore, India, USA while staying in Kiev. 

The Festival of Ukrainian photo clubs presented photos from 28 photoclabs from different regions of Ukraine. In the frame of the Festival was hold professional meeting.

First time the top liners of the world photography held their master-classes in Ukraine:

• К. Hinterobermaier (Austria): International photo contests of FIAP. How to became a titled photo artist on the world arena of photo art.
• G. Cobarr (USA): Passion for the photography: look from within.
  

Also in the exhibition context were held such master-classes:

• А. Аbramov (Ukraine):
  Modern photo studio concept. Light schemes for classic portrait.
  Subject photography for photo banks. The optimal set of equipment and accessories.
• V. Plotnikov (Russia): Work on the portrait.
• А. Ktitorchuk (Ukraine): How to photograph the «star».
• А. Efremov (Russia): Work with panoramic images.
• А. Turtsevich (Ukraine): Practical aspects of the photographer's work with a model.
• S. Buslenko (Ukraine): Underwater photography — theory and practice.
• О. Zharinova (Russia): Photographer's work with glossy journals.
• А. Nasonov (Russia): Photographer and customer interactions.
• Кiev Photography School: Model portfolio photography.
  Computer processing of the photo image. Black-and-white photography basics.

In the frame of the exhibition will be lounged also awarding ceremonies of professional and amateur photo contests: Мy Canon, ACTION PHOTO, UKRAINIAN POLITICUM UNMASKED..., ALTERNATIVES, CURIOUS THINGS IN OUR PARK and as usual the Festival of advertising photography Master where most famous photographers from Russia and Ukraine launched photo-show for all visitors.

15 174 of people were our participants, 5 302 specialists (according to invitation tickets) from Moscow, Ufa, Novorosiysk, Voronezh (Russia), Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Gomel (Belarus), Cologne, Berlin (Germany), Batumy, Tbilisi (Georgia), Winnipega (Canada), Pekin, Shanghai (China), Kishinev, Kamenka (Moldova), Vilnus (Litva), Varshava, Gdansk, (Poland), Tallinn (Estonia), Prague (Czech Republic), Manchester (Great Britain), Stockholm (Sweden), Kyiv, Odesa, Vinitsa, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporozh'e, Crimea, Khmelnitskiy, Kherson, Rovno, Sumy, Zhitomir, Chernovtsy, Chernigov, Cherkasy, Nikolaev, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lviv, Ternopol, Kirovograd, Belaya Tserkov, Mariupol, Lugansk, Poltava,... (Ukraine)

Specialist's categories (Some specialists are under several categories)
retail and whole selling  of photo goods  28%
photo printing services 17%
professional photographers  and photo studios 36%
whole and retail selling of  computer technique 45%
advertising agencies 2%
printing companies 4.3%
museums, archives 0.3%