Created in 2010, Photo Romania Festival has brought photography in the spotlight of the Romanian cultural life. In only four years, it has succeeded to enter the city of Cluj-Napoca in a worldwide network of high-class photography festivals and to create the first photography museum in Romania, with the help of the Cluj-Napoca City Hall and the National Museum of Transylvanian History.
Photo Romania 2015 hosted over 70 exhibitions of Romanian and foreign photographers, workshops, competitions, a Photo Stories conference, an international meeting of the managers of photography festivals in Europe, concerts and many other special events.
2014 edition in numbers: 40 exhibitions, 5 national firsts, 1.500 printed photographs, 500 photographers from 15 countries and 115.000 visitors to all events.
http://www.photoromaniafestival.ro/en/