During the life of this issue, the world’s biggest exhibition of imaging products will again take place in the German city of Cologne. This year’s event is particularly significant because it marks the end of the biennial schedule and of the traditional September timing, which has been in place since 1966. The first show was in 1950 and was designed to promote German-made photography products. The next year it went international and, after 1952, Photokina was staged every two years – although the dates shifted between the European spring and autumn – while the 1960, ’63 and ’66 shows were, as you can see, three years apart.
From 2019, Photokina will move to an annual schedule, with the date moving from September to May, almost certainly to avoid the close…
