The 2025 artistic programme foregrounds projects that explore notions of community, collectivity, solidarity and connection. Many artists and projects participating in this year’s festival have employed photography as a collective act of healing and mutual support. Some projects amplify stories and voices from communities under-represented in the cultural landscape by collapsing traditional binary dynamics of author and subject; others attempt to navigate global events in real time, calling on us to confront our own complicity in grave abuses of power. The festival also argues for the political value of pleasure and playfulness in a time of such darkness and systemic violence. A number of projects explore collective joy and hospitality as radical tools in the creation of agency, with food as a language of love that echoes across time.

More on full programme of exhibiting artists here.