A Information to September 2025 Photography Festivals & Exhibitions

Verzasca Foto Festival, SI Fest, V3 Model Collapse by Felicity Hammond at The Photographers’ Gallery, JIPFest, Yeast Photo Festival, Crossings: Photography From The Indian Subcontinent at Rijksmuseum are among the many pictures occasions to go to subsequent month.

Verzasca, Switzerland / 3 September – 7 September

Set within the Alpine valley and that includes a spread of out of doors and indoor exhibitions, the Verzasca Foto Festival is not any strange occasion. It’s an annual occasion the place human encounters unfold amongst historical stones, larch and chestnut forests, new faces, and cherished recollections. The 2025 version will characteristic worldwide artists equivalent to Rhiannon Adam, Aline Bovard Rudaz, Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini, who had been chosen by means of an open name. Joining them shall be finalist artists Abhishek Khedekar, Ci Demi, Emilia Martin, Laurence Rasti, Marisol Mendez, Vân-Nhi Nguyễn, Yiming Zhu, and Weave A Rhyme, who’re additionally invited to attend and current their work to the general public.

Among the primary actions are guided excursions, shows, dwell music, encounters between artists and the area people, and projections, together with a screening that includes the shortlisted initiatives from the PhMuseum 2025 Photography Grant and going down through the opening evening on Wednesday 3 September.

Learn extra on the Verzasca Foto Festival’s website.

Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy / 12 September – 28 September

SI Fest returns to Savignano sul Rubicone with its thirty fourth version underneath the theme Visual Geographies. The pageant brings pictures that chronicles the fractures of the present-from conflicts to environmental crises-through the eyes of main worldwide authors. Artists embody Hashem Shakeri documenting life in Afghanistan, Ragnar Axelsson capturing the melting Arctic ice, Spandita Malik empowering feminine survivors of violence, and Taysir Batniji investigating themes of exile and loss. The program is additional enriched by a collective exhibition on the Romagna flood and two vital tributes to photographer Marco Pesaresi. The broad program of occasions additionally contains conferences, information excursions, portfolio readings, and academic actions designed to foster a posh and imaginative dialogue about our up to date world.

Read extra concerning the exhibition program on their website.

London, United Kingdom / 27 June – 28 September

Artist Felicity Hammond unveils V3: Model Collapse, the third chapter of her bold four-part mission Variations, which explores the entangled relationship between pictures, synthetic intelligence, and materials extraction. In this evolving set up, Hammond investigates how digital photographs are formed by each geological mining and knowledge mining, tracing the journey from uncooked mineral to screen-based pixel. The work attracts on knowledge and pictures gathered from earlier iterations in Brighton and Derby, feeding them again into the system very similar to AI reuses and reshapes current data. The exhibition invitations viewers to interact with these machine-made fictions and contemplate the broader implications of AI on image-making right this moment. An artist speak will happen on 12 September, the place Hammond shall be in dialog with curator Joanna Zylinska, providing deeper perception into the conceptual and technical layers of this new work.

The exhibition runs till 28 September. Learn extra on their website.

Jakarta, Indonesia / 12 September – 21 September

This 12 months’s theme, Coexistence, gives a well timed and crucial alternative to mirror on how deeply expertise has grow to be embedded within the cloth of our lives. More than a mere device, expertise now shapes our perceptions, relationships, and even our sense of identification. It influences how communities kind, how energy is distributed, and the way reminiscence and that means are constructed in each digital and bodily realms. The theme encourages crucial engagement, not solely to watch how expertise is used, but in addition to query who controls it, who’s included or excluded, and the way we’d resist its dehumanizing potential. At the identical time, it opens the door to imagining a extra equitable and empathetic future, the place people and expertise can evolve collectively with out sacrificing the essence of what makes us human.

Featured artists are Adlun Fiqri, Amina Kadous, Angela Rincon, Daisy Yang, Danielle Ezzo, Ian Teh, Joanne Pang, Kadir van Lohuizen, Kenji Chiga, Lê Nguyên Phương, Mackenzie Calle, Mai Nguyên Anh, Marco Garro Pardo, Marvin Tang, Muhammad Fadli, Nikita Teryoshin, Reza Saifullah and Riska Munaw, Sheung Yiuarah, Rio Surya Prasetia, Woong Soak Teng, and Yoese Mariam.

Full particulars on the schedule and venue shall be introduced quickly on their website.

Matino, Italy / 25 September – 9 November

The 4th version of the Yeast Photo Festival delves into the theme (N)ever Enough, critically inspecting the stark distinction between the overwhelming abundance in our trendy meals techniques and the profound shortage and hidden prices impacting our local weather and society. This exploration aligns with the pageant’s core mission of utilizing pictures as a medium for cultural ferment and fostering a renewed relationship between humanity, meals, and the atmosphere. By showcasing works that bridge creative innovation with culinary custom, the pageant goals to encourage constructive new situations and reaffirming its tenet that meals is identification.

Keep posted on the brand new version on their website.

Amsterdam, Netherlands / 4 July – 12 October

The exhibition presents a dialogue between Nineteenth-century British colonial pictures and up to date work by the French-Sri Lankan artist Vasantha Yogananthan, who builds on the wealthy photographic custom that has developed within the Indian subcontinent. The exhibition presents a choice of photographs from Yogananthan’s collection A Myth of Two Souls. For this mission, he made 13 journeys to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka to discover the methods wherein historical tales, myths and traditions proceed into the current day. The collection depicts scenes from the Ramayana, the celebrated Hindu epic symbolising the wrestle between good and evil. Written round 300 BCE, it tells the story of the exiled prince Rama and his spouse Sita, who’s kidnapped and held captive by the demon Ravana. In the tip, Sita regains her freedom, however solely after an extended and bloody wrestle. In his private interpretation of the epic, Yogananthan makes use of outdated photographic methods equivalent to colouring prints by hand.

Discover extra on the museum’s website.

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Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba 2025 / Paranapiacaba, Brazil / 13 September – 14 September

Since its 2018 debut within the historic village of Paranapiacaba, the pageant has established itself as a significant assembly level for nationwide and worldwide photographers. Based on points associated to Education, Human Rights, and the Environment, the occasion makes use of pictures as a device for visible literacy and social dialogue. Through a various program of exhibitions, workshops, debates, and portfolio readings, it’s devoted to fostering crucial pondering and showcasing a plurality of Brazilian voices, all whereas aiming to construct a extra democratic, tolerant, and socially simply world.

Luigi Ghirri. Photography Lessons at Palazzo dei Musei / Reggio Emilia, Italy / 24 April – 1 Mar 2026

Curated by Ilaria Campioli, the exhibition takes inspiration from Luigi Ghirri’s influential 1989-90 classes to discover the dynamic position of pictures in schooling and artistic observe. The exhibition weaves collectively three distinct threads: Ghirri’s personal work from his educating years, a recent investigation by artists Luca Capuano and Stefano Graziani into Ghirri’s pedagogical “assignments,” and a uncommon assortment of historic tutorial images that reveal the medium’s sensible use in faculties. By connecting Ghirri’s legacy to up to date creative observe and historic archives, the exhibition gives a multi-layered reflection on how photographs operate as lively instruments for studying, mediation, and the creation of data.