The Toronto Urban Photography Festival (TUPF) is Toronto’s first and only Urban photography festival. The festival’s second year will run from June 27th 2014 to July 12th 2014, and seeks to inspire, engage, and educate both photographers and urbanists alike. Across multiple venues and galleries downtown, TUPF showcases up-and-coming photographers, hosts engaging, challenging and insightful talks, and invites guests on photo walks and photography workshops.
TUPF was inspired by the London Street Photography Festival in the United Kingdom. No other photography festival in Toronto takes critical understandings of our city and the urban as their focus. TUPF is unique in its position at the forefront of discourse on how the city is imagined and viewed as part of daily human fabric. With strong community-centered values TUPF aspires to keep all of our exhibits, workshops, talks, and walks free and accessible.
The executive board consists of approximately 20 volunteer members, covering financing, communications and marketing, community engagement, and curation activities. Last year was TUPF’s inaugural festival and was a resounding success. One of the most successful projects that came from the festival is the Disposable Camera Project. The team is currently planning next summer’s festival and is setting it up to become one of the city’s most important photography festivals.
Walter S Petrichyn runs a blog called “Life in a Border Town,” where he posts his own photography and aggregates photos and culture from Windsor and Detroit. We felt this would be a great topic for the first blog feature…
TUPF has grown a lot since last year. The executive team is vast and strange in delightful ways. We figured that best way to introduce ourselves this year would be through a series of “Get to Know” posts. This is a…
Hi everyone, Congratulations to the instragrammers who won this week’s TUPFTuesday challenge. Some really great moods being captured in the city. Photographers are: @mikey7sss (top left) @reidcompton (top right)@jools_jellyfish (lower left) @tangojuliet_ (lower right).
Congratulations to the Nov 12 Tupf Tuesday winners @montrealismes (top left)@justhanni (top right) @mrtutxi (lower left)@michaelpinet (lower right) ******selected by @davidramsay23 and @thegoldiek****** Looking forward to seeing more of your work!
Congrats our winners of the Nov 5 TUPFTuesday instagram challenge @g_wah (top left) @ithejeremyay (top right) @muskdruff(lower left) @rich__ (lower right). Some really stellar shots.
Urban photography is happening at an incredible rate through mobile phones. We thought it would be idea to start profiling how people are exploring the city through smartphone photography and instagram. Follow us on Instagram or check us out at…
Last night TUPF14 members set up a make shift photography studio to take pictures of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival goers. Check out the pictures. People got creative and there were a lot of laughs. Thank you Toronto for being such…
The City of Toronto, like most cities in North America, is in constant motion…fluid and dynamic…breathing and pulsing like a beating heart. The term ‘Urban’ is frequently synonymous with motion, life, dynamism, pluralism, multiculturalism, and different elements of people, nature,…
