Poznań Photography Biennale is one of the biggest events of its kind in Poland and, with a 10-year history, probably one of the oldest too. Unlike other photo biennales, this one has consistently placed special emphasis on the issues of Polish photography: its theoretical aspects and current problems. This year’s edition, under the title Photography / Ideology / Politics, was intended as a reflection on the state of contemporary photography seen in a socio-political context and shaped by various ideological influences. This approach has led to a number of crucial questions related to the role of photography in complex social processes, the use of photography as a means of social control, sexual discrimination, and historical-political manipulation and, finally, the issues of economic and institutional dependencies. It is a rule of the Poznań Biennale that the list of the invited artists be prepared by the curators. This year, these were: Krzysztof Jurecki, Izabela Kowalczyk, Marek Krajewski and Marta Gendera – art curators and, at the same time, researchers of contemporary culture, analyzing its phenomena from a number of different perspectives. In Stary Browar (Słodownia +2) we presented an exhibition curated by Krzysztof Jurecki, “From simulation to new symbolism”. The curator confronted artists from different generations and different parts of the world – along with Poles, he showed artists from, e.g. Hungary, Japan and the Czech Republic. Their works, touching upon the themes of violence, terrorism and intercultural relations, bring to mind questions about the borders between power and resistance, medium integrity and intermediality, documentary and metaphor. Among the invited artists were: Ewa Świdzińska, Adam Rzepecki, Magdalena Samborska, Ken Matsubara, Magdalena Hueckel, Jerzy Wierzbicki, Katarzyna Majak, Lilla Szász, Natalia LL, Grzegorz Zygier, Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Joachim Froese, Tadeusz Żaczek, Sławomir Marzec, Waldemar Jama, Janusz Leśniak, Dominik Pabis, Stanisław Woś, Jaroslav Malik, Marek Zygmunt, Wolf Kahlen and Anna Baumgart. As part of the exhibition we also presented a project by Marta Gendera, Weltpanorama (Słodownia +1), honored with an award for young curators. The central motif of the exhibition was the photoplasticon (stereoscope): a device responsible for shaping “the tourist view”, a symbol which characterizes the modern human vision. An authentic photoplasticon (one of three left in Poland) was assembled in the gallery especially for the exhibition,. The exhibition brought together works by Zbigniew Libera, Robert Kuśmirowski, Johanna and Helmut Kondl, Christian Mayer and Jarek Simon, depicting the world from the tourist’s point of view.