Liverpool International Photography Festival

A bit late on this, but just a reminder that the Liverpool International Photography Festival is still going for another week or so. The LIPP is an impressively extensive event, with numerous works housed in over 20 venues over the six weeks of the festival. Furthermore, it has an agenda that we admire greatly:

The message is to ‘stop, think, examine and debate’ where the industry is, where the current trends in the photographic industry are moving and to ask questions as to whether photography can take an effective role in addressing social issues for the international community.

It's always nice to see organisers and curators make a thematic commitment in their work and, considering that this is the first instalment of the festival, here they seem to be laying the groundwork for the creation of an annual event with its own identity in a city which has in recent years rediscovered its own cultural identity. Here's to their success.