The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2011 opens next week and runs for a month. It is part of the Asia Pacific PhotoForum, a consortium of professional photography festivals--- Auckland, Ballarat, Fotofreo, HeadOn, Pingyao, Queensland and Vivid---that aims to build on photography’s wide appeal across borders as a means of artistic expression and disseminating ideas and information.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2011 has a similar program to the 2009 one: core and fringe programmes; a variety of workshops--including ones with Blurb, large format and John Gollings ---and portfolio reviews.