About Exhibition

We invite you to the 8^th International PhotoFair Kyiv to be held on May 20 — 23, 2010 at the International Exhibition Centre (15 Brovarsky Ave., Kyiv, LIVOBEREZHNA Subway Station).

Working hours
• 20 — 22 May from 11:00am till 7:00pm
• 23 May from 11:00am till 4:00pm

Ticket office working hours
• 20 May from 11:30am till 6:30pm
• 21 — 22 May from 11:00am till 6:30pm
• 23 May from 11:00am till 3.30pm

ORGANIZERS

ITE Group Plc (UK), Premier Expo (Ukraine), EC REAL (Russia), Advertising Photographers Guild. 

Informational support: Foto Kurier, Foto&Video, Hi-Tech.PRO, My Computer, Photographer, Russian Zoom, FOTODELO, FotoTrevel.
Internet support: www.atStudio.kiev.ua, www.fotoclub.info, www.prostofoto.kiev.ua

PHOTOFAIR KYIV 2009 SUMMARY

Four eventful days were used by the photo goods and equipment manufacturers and traders to show their novelties that include such trademarks as: Adobe Systems, CARTOTECNICA Ti. Ci., Chernil.Net, ComTel, Corel, Dedolight, Digital-labs, DOLI DIGITAL MINILABS, Domke, E-PHOTO, Ewa Marine, FUJI-MIG, HAHNEL, HI POWER, HYUNDAE PHOTONICS, INKSYSTEM, INTERFIT, INTERFOTO, KATA, Kino Flo, LASTOLITE, MAC HOUSE, MANFROTTO, MARUMI, Matthews Studio Equipment, MINOX, Mitsubishi Electric, PROMAXX, S. M. DEVELOPMENT, SLIK, SUNPAK, SuperPhoto, TAMRON, Tiffen, Verbatim, WEIFENG, Western Digital, Worldwide Manufacturing, E.D., PROPHOTO, STUDENT, SUPER PRINT, FOTOFOND, etc.

55 companies representing 16 countries of the world took part in Kyiv Photo Fair 2009.

The show program included workshops delivered by Adobe Systems, Corel, ComTel, E-Photo, PENTAX, Worldwide Manufacturing  E. D., INTERFOTO, PROFOFOTO.

This year the show organizers made again a surprise for the Ukrainian Photo Community.

The PhotoFair Kyiv Photo Vernissage is a significant event in the cultural life of Ukraine presenting various genres and trends of modern Ukrainian and foreign photo arts. Over 700 works were demonstrated at the Photo Vernissage.

For the first time the show became a venue for demonstrating photo works of the major international nature photo contest — Glanzlichter — which prize fund exceeds € 26000.

The show program included the most wide-scaled exhibition of Ukrainian Photo Club Festival representing 28 photo clubs from various regions of Ukraine. A round table was held within the festival timing.

The stars of Ukrainian and world photo art delivered their master classes:

• V. Krey (Ukraine) Interaction of Model and Photographer. Express Preparation. Emotional Atmosphere. Verbal Management
• А. Ktitarchuk (Ukraine) Business and Photo Art
• V. Doktorov (Ukraine) Composition in Photo Art
• S. Romanov (Russia) Nude Photo Art and Artistic Retouch
• O. Badio and K. Sova (Ukraine) Making Portfolio in Studio
• A. Bisinbayev (Russia) Fashion, Photo Art, Theatre
• M.Charnetsky (Poland) Creative Methods for applying Dedolight lighting system for advertising and studio photo art
• A. Turtsevich (Ukraine) Lighting Schemes in Photo Art
• A. Yefremov (Russia) Converting RAW-files and HDR Shooting.

The PhotoFair finalised the professional and amateur photo contests — Alternative, One Month — One Chef-d'Ouevre, Action Photo, Curiosities of Our Park.

For the first time the show offered KYIV LONDON Photo Quest where photo questers of Ukraine competed with their colleagues from the UK. 

The MASTER Professional Photo Festival attracted the most known advertising photographers from Russia and Ukraine who made a demonstration show photo session for all visitors.

14 052 people, including 5 834 experts (invitation tickets) from Moscow, S/Petersburg, Ufa, Novorossiysk, Voronezh (Russia), Minsk, Mohylev, Vitebsk, Gomel (Belarus), Munich, Berlin (Germany), Beijing, Shanghais (China), Chishinau, Kamenka (Moldova), Vilnius (Lithuania), Warsaw, Krakow (Poland), Tallinn (Estonia), Vancouver, Toronto (Canada), Prague (Czech Republic), London (UK), Kyoto, Osaka (Japan), Kyiv, Odesa, Vinnitsa, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, the Crimea, Khmelnytsky, Kherson, Rivne, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Kirovograd, Bila Tserkva, Mariupol, Lugansk, Poltava (Ukraine).

Expert Categories (some experts are included into several categories)

Retail and wholesales of photo goods 19%
Photo printing services 23%
Photo studios 12%
Professional photographers 25%
Wholesales and retails for computer hardware 36%
Printing companies 7.4%
Advertising agencies 3.5%
Museums, archives — 0.2%

PhotoFair Kyiv as a leading industry show in Ukraine proved again that every year brought a lot of s new innovative solutions being in line with active life tempo and breaking old stereotypes. The pace for new technologies spreading has become now the same in Ukraine and abroad.