About
Embrace your heritage,
Embrace your myths and traditions,
Myths, folklore and knowledge,
passed on from generation to generation
and transmitted to generations to come,
to be shared through photography,
...and photography practice to be explored
through personal stories and feelings.
What's your story? Who are you?
Mission
The Chester Photo Festival aims to develop a platform of references, resources and guidance for everyone at all levels, a platform where people embracing the photo-entanglement concept are happy to work with photography as a creative practice to create better relations between people.
As guidance for working with photo-entanglement as a creative practice, the Chester Photo Festival offers a variety of activities and references, courses, workshops, an art residency, a conference, a prize and, finally, the annual Chester Photo Festival.
Driven by years of experience, this structure of activities can be a suggestion for a year of basic creative art practice work. This way someone would be experimenting and finding relevant references then, in addition, would participate in an art residency, then at a conference, eventually receiving an award and finally, they would celebrate at a festival, the Chester Photo Festival.
vision
We wish to expand Dr Alexandru Modoi's work and expertise into a festival (the Chester Photo Festival) where people from all over the world and at all levels work with photography as a creative practice to share their stories, folklore and myths.
Following the methods and the working models from 'Re-Imagining Romanian Culture from Afar through Still Life Photographic Images of Wolf Myths' people would potentially gain the confidence to have their voices heard through their own culture, their own myths and their own photography interests.
Director and Arts Organiser of the Chester Photo Festival is Dr Alexandru Modoi, from September 2023 - present
'Passing down knowledge, traditions and heritage from generations to future generations is essential.'
Bio
In August 2023, Dr Modoi was awarded a PhD in Photography Creative Practice from UCLan, School of Arts and Media, for 'Re-Imagining Romanian Culture from Afar through Still Life Photographic Images of Wolf Myths' (2019-2023, thesis available at https://clok.uclan.ac.uk/48186).
His expertise has been refined through many years of creative practice and research during field trips, photo interviews, focus groups and public exhibitions. In 2015, he received a Master of Art in Photography with Distinction from the MMU, School of Art and Media. In 2014, he graduated with 1st Class the BA(Hons) Photography from Kingston University London, School of Fine Art. He holds additional awards and certificates from studying, exhibiting and publishing and from working on various projects and commissions in London, Manchester, Liverpool and internationally in France, Croatia, Japan and Romania.
Chester photo festival is for everyone at all levels
It was founded in September 2023 and is available to the public from 1st of May 2024.
In May 2025, our first edition of the annual Chester Photo Festival is expected to take place to celebrate one year of work.