Photokina 2014 at Cologne in September

The Photokina Fair, the world’s largest exhibition of the photo and imaging industry is to be held from September 16-21, 2014 at Cologne, Germany. During the fair, image recording, processing and storage and output innovations are displayed and demonstrated, with cutting-edge technological developments and trends being placed in the spotlight. The fair has received an overwhelming response from exhibitors. For Photokina 2014, the organisers, Koelnmesse and the Photographic Industry Association, are once again counting on 1,000 exhibiting companies from about 40 countries. In 2012, around 185,000 visitors from 166 countries came to Cologne to inform themselves about current trends and technologies surrounding the image.

Photokina 2014 will show the internationally organised “Largest Photo globe in the World”, working together with the 175 Years of Photography Jubilee and also Photokina 2014. Within the framework of the “175 Years of Photo Moments” theme, photoenthusiasts throughout in the world were called upon to help create this globe by contributing images to the English and German language portal www.photoglobus.de/en. This is a unique journey in pictures, to cover not only all continents, but also a photographic journey through time. Visitors to the fair will be able to view this collection on the “Largest Photo globe in the World” with its vast diameter of six meters.

This year, Photokina, in cooperation with the company Suite 48 Analytics which specialises in research and opinion polls in the mobile photorgraphy sector, will be offering interested visitors a series of lectures, workshops and seminars, which will deal closely with the “Smartphone phenomenon” from a wide range of perspectives.