This year’s International Festival of Ethnological Film will be opened at the Ethnographic Museum with the exhibition „Vanishing Cultures“. The exhibition presents photographs of members of several cultures which are endangered for various reasons. According to anthropologists, some of them may go extinct in the near future, which gives this exhibition historic weight.

Authors of the exhibition are Arne Hodalič and Katja Bidovec.

Arne Hodalič is a photojournalist, lecturer and photography editor at the National Geographic Slovenija magazine, a professional photographer since 1989, and a member and organizer of several expeditions (Papua New Guinea, the Sudan desert, from Khartoum to Egypt on the
river Nile, Oman, China...). Since 2008, he teaches photography andphotojournalism at the FDV (Faculty of Social Sciences) – University of Ljubljana, at the Department for photography at
VIST (Higher School of Applied Sciences) in Ljubljana and at the University of Nova Gorica. Cultures of small, disappearingcommunities are his topic of interest.

Katja Bidovec is a young photographer whose speciality is street photography and studio portraits. She already had 5 individual andseveral group exhibitions, she is also a winner of Hanno Hardt award for outstanding achievements in photography, and she published her work in numerous prestigious magazines such as le Parisien, National Geographic France, National Geographic Slovenia.

For their joint work on the exhibition „Vanishing Cultures“, Arne and Katja received the state award
“Prometheus” in 2020, for extraordinary achievements in the field of communication, as well as the “Prizma” Award in thecategory “Use of communication skills and communication tools in media” in 2021.

The exhibition will be available for visitors of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade throughout the duration of the Festival, by Oct 8th 2021.