History

The Festival-OFF actually already exists since the second photofestival in the fortified city of Naarden back in 1991. At the time the members of 'Delta-F' had their exhibition behind a shop-window at the Marktstraat (Market Street). They called their exhibition 'Festival-OFF'. So that is actually what it is. The Festival-OFF is the collection of all photographers, professionals as well as amateurs who started their own exhibition, at their own risk and expenses. They even manage to find exhibtion space each Festival. Some of them do succeed in getting some private sponsoring for framing and printing. The exhibition space is mainly provided by the residents, shops, bars and restaurants of Naarden-Vesting. Any shop-window, shed or garage will do. Some of the exhibitions are outside (Weather proof) or in tents, caravans etc.

The name 'Festival-OFF' is 'stolen' from the famous French festival in Arles.

It took untill the 4th festival in 1995 when photographer Eddy van Wessel
tried to get all the photographers to work together to get more publicity for the Festivall-OFF. This resulted in a folder with city plan which contained all the information about the exhibitions. Because of the participating photographers and the coöperation of the citizens of Naarden, the trade and industry and the board of the Fotofestival Naarden (FFN) it became a succes.

So we had to do it better in 1997. We asked advertising company 'CSO Marketing Communicatie' to help us out. And they did. From now on we had sponsering, a very professional folder, posters, press releases, promotion material at the exhibtion sites and not in the last place a lot of very good ideas. We are convinced this co-operation will be very succesfull again in 2011.

Another piece of history.
As far as we could recover all the exhibitors from the past:

(At random but still more or less chronological)
Fotogroep Delta-F, Sebastiaan (Bas) Westerweel, Eddy van Wessel, Koninklijke Academie Den Haag, Sander de Haas (SNAP), Frits Dijcks (SNAP), Kodak Nederland, Jan Grijpink, Erik-Jan Geniets, Karen Vlieger, Studio Amstelveen, Wanda Tuerlinckx, Henk Nieman, Rob Drexhage, Pascal Ollegott, Tamira Scheerder, Fotografencollectief De IJsselgroep, Herry Padberg, Hedwig Heerschop, Barry van der Erve, Sabine Albers, Marie Cecile Thijs, Igor Beres, Amerens Hedwich, Iolanda Swaen, Nissim Men, Marry Geense, Frank Dethrixhe, Ben Ros, John Seegers, Willem Wernsen, Marco Bastmeijer, Edwin van Dijk, Wendy Hogenboom, Bob Karhof, Mathilde Rauwerda, Thea van Zweden, Jan van IJken, Jochem Wijnands, Ted Daamen, Ben Ros, Ab van den Bree, Ad van der Zande, Huib Limberg, Ans Versteeg, Ingrid de Koning-Jansen, Jules Frenay, Joep Steinmeijer, Rick Stolk, Henk Zeeman, Toos Meerstadt, Karel Bönnekamp, Bert Verhoeff, George Burggraaff, Hans van Ommeren, Willem Wernsen, John Seegers, Marco Bastmeijer, André de Heus, Coos Dieters, Anna Urbano, Govert Coebergh, Harm-Jan A. Weevers, Mingkai Li, Zsolt Horvath, JoAnn Walraven, Fotogroep 'Het Twaalfde Gebod', Theo van Geenen, Mario Bentvelsen, Fotoclub Argentum, Marianne Ulrich, Loeske Bult, Charlotte Marres, Het Collectief voor Modelfotografie, Geertje Boeren, Michel van Meijer, Marja van der Klauw, Remco Koenderman, Hans van Klaveren, Fabian Schulting, Withold de Man, Annick Martens, David Wieland, Aart Jan van Mossel, BNTNG Photography, Dana Marshall, Helleen Wiering, Henk Hogerzeil, Ivo Freriks, Joke Weier, Ronald van Oijen, Steven K. James, Chris Bonis, Willem Stroom, Anneloes Bakker, Fotocollectief Lummen, Fotovakschool, Ken Williams, Marvin Vince Kerstholt, Orbis Pictus Caravanus, Peter Chrispijn, Seelevel Photo Gallery, Teresa Záfon.