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Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCentro Cultural Recoleta 12 Aug - 21 Sep 2014The Open Encounters-Festival de la Luz consist of a huge number of activities that are held in Buenos Aires every two years in connection with international artistic photography. The festival, which has completed its seventeenth year, is aimed at disseminating contemporary photography, seeking talented up-and-coming artists, confirming the validity of established artists and comparing the various predominant trends in the field of artistic photography.Organised by the Luz Austral foundation, this year’s festival featured a retrospective of the work of Humberto Rivas (1937–2009) at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. It brought together 130 photographs and also included a screening of the short film Unos y Otros (Some and Others) directed and made by Rivas in 1973. AC/E collaborated on this project through the PICE programme for the internationalisation of Spanish culture.Visual artsENCUENTROS ABIERTOS Festival de la Luz 2014 Humberto Rivas106Results ’14