The International Photography Festival of Tenerife celebrated its first edition in 1991. Organized by the Tenerife Island Council, through the Isla de Tenerife Photography Center, attached to TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes since 2008, it has a biennial character. Its main mission is to enable and disseminate a broad reflection on the image as a means of expression, communication and participation.

Based on the principle, in the study, discussion and dissemination of photography - at a time when the discipline began to enjoy recognition in the heat of the creation of new cultural institutions -, the meeting has been incorporating other artistic manifestations contemporary contemporaries to understand our global culture as a way of being and being in the world.

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