A Information To March 2026 Photography Festivals & Exhibitions

PhotoVogue Festival, Sabotage by Salvatore Vitale at Photo Elysée, Circulation(s), (Inter)faces Of Predictions by Sheung Yiu at C/O Berlin, Unseen Photo, Rotterdam Photo, and Family Stories at Hangar are among the many images occasions to go to subsequent month.

Milan, Italy / 1 March – 4 March

PhotoVogue Festival 2026 marks the tenth version of the worldwide images occasion, held throughout Milan Fashion Week on the historic Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. This milestone version highlights the multifaceted methods ladies specific, signify, and picture themselves via the lens. The competition options curated exhibitions and digital showcases that foreground ladies’s views whereas difficult conventional assumptions about visibility, authorship, and the gaze in visible tradition. Engaging lectures and panel discussions will deal with the politics of depiction, the ability of photos in shaping collective consciousness, and the moral duty of visible creators in as we speak’s media panorama. Alongside these conversations, curated projections and screenings will increase the dialogue into digital and experimental areas, together with works by photographers chosen via the PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant.

Organized in collaboration with the Pinacoteca di Brera, beneath the patronage of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, the occasion fosters an important alternate on gender, identification, and energy inside up to date images. The competition coincides with the March subject of Vogue Italia, which dedicates important editorial focus to the Women by Women theme.

Find the entire program at Vogue’s website.

Lausanne, Switzerland / 6 March – 31 May

SABOTAGE revolves round Death by GPS, Salvatore Vitale’s long-term undertaking, offered in its entirety for the primary time, analyzing how the gig financial system and digital capitalism rely upon distributed, precarious, typically invisible labour and the way refined types of resistance emerge inside these techniques. Developed via movie, images, video installations, textiles, and textual content, the exhibition unfolds as a spatial journey from corporate-style areas to digital waste landscapes, mirroring the lifecycle of digital labour. Across its completely different kinds, Vitale’s work asks how human presence persists inside more and more automated environments, and what it means to stay seen, current, and human inside infrastructures designed to normalise exploitation.

More data on the Photo Elysée’s platform.

Paris, France / 21 March – 17 May

Circulation(s) returns to CENTQUATRE-PARIS, main cultural establishment in jap Paris, for its sixteenth version, showcasing 26 rising European photographers from 15 nationalities. Curated by the Fetart collective, an all-female staff together with Carine Dolek, Laetitia Guillemin, Marie Guillemin, Emmanuelle Halkin, and new members Caroline Benichou, Ioana Mello, and Lucille Vivier-Calicat, the competition highlights the heart beat of latest European images.

This yr’s program features a Focus on Irish artists Ellen Blair, Clodagh O’Leary, Dónal Talbot, and Ruby Wallis, alongside different worldwide artists: Alžběta Drcmánková, Davide Degano, Joanna Szproch, Konstantin Zhukov, Manon Tagand, Marcel Top, Marco Zanella, Marine Billet, Mashid Mohadjerin, Matevž Čebasek, Maximiliano Tineo, Natalia Majchrzak, Nathalie Bissig, Nina Pacherova, Olia Koval, Rafael Roncato, Ricardo Tokugawa, Sadie Cook & Jo Pawlowska, T2i & NouN and Tanguy Muller, alongside a particular concentrate on Irish artists Ellen Blair, Clodagh O’Leary, Dónal Talbot, and Ruby Wallis.

Further data is out there on the competition’s website.

Berlin, Germany / 7 February – 10 June

C/O Berlin shows Sheung Yiu’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, accompanied by a publication curated by Veronika Epple. (Inter)faces of Predictions is a multimedia present primarily based on the long-term undertaking by Hong Kong–born, Helsinki-based artist-researcher, recipient of the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2025. The present investigates how faces have been used throughout cultures and applied sciences to foretell character traits and futures, bringing collectively conventional East Asian face studying, Western physiognomy, and up to date facial recognition techniques to disclose the cultural assumptions embedded in visible interpretation. Using pictures, discovered footage, object installations, and a video essay, the present creates a round visible archaeology of facial evaluation, with the ouroboros motif underscoring recurring perception techniques and knowledge loops. A video essay concludes the present with the artist as an avatar traversing a panorama that turns into his personal face, prompting reflection on identification, algorithms, and the supposed objectivity of photos.

Discover extra on the C/O Berlin platform.

Rotterdam, Netherlands / 27 March – 29 March

The thirteenth version of the worldwide images honest is now becoming a member of forces with Art Rotterdam to current a curated images programme throughout the broader up to date artwork honest at Rotterdam Ahoy. The collaboration brings collectively images galleries from Unseen’s Main Section and Solo/Duo programmes alongside up to date artwork, with specifically curated sections similar to New Photography, Encounters, and The Past Present that spotlight various and dynamic photographic practices. Alongside the honest, the Unseen Book Market takes place on the Nederlands Fotomuseum, that includes round 40 publishers and making a hub for photobooks and associated publications. Unseen continues to concentrate on worldwide photographers, curators, and collectors, providing a vibrant platform for each established and rising voices in images.

Check out the entire program here.

Geneva, Switzerland / 19 January – 9 May

Curated by Danaé Panchaud, Uqbaroxy is a collaborative undertaking by the researcher in visible cultures Zoe A. Keller and the visible artist Batia Suter. It takes as its start line the Eranos Archive, a outstanding assortment of roughly 3,000 archetypal photos assembled by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn between the Twenties and Nineteen Fifties in Ascona, Ticino. Created in collaboration with Carl Gustav Jung, this iconographic assortment was meant to serve Jung’s reflections on archetypes and the collective unconscious. The present investigates reminiscence, fiction, and notion via images, collage, and archival supplies, exploring how photos assemble narratives and affect understanding. Keller and Suter juxtapose private and located imagery to query authorship, probability, and interpretation, making a poetic dialogue between historical past and creativeness.

Further data is out there on the Centre de la Photographie Genève’s website.

Rotterdam, Netherlands / 25 March – 29 March

The Dutch competition presents Echoes Of Silence, an version that strikes away from direct reportage to discover the interior, psychological landscapes of conflict. Rather than capturing literal violence, Rotterdam Photos showcases autonomous photographic works that operate as mirrors of collective trauma and private reminiscence. By specializing in the “echoes” of battle—expressed via silence, fragmentation, and symbolic illustration—the occasion affords a mandatory, poetic extension to our visible tradition, highlighting the deeply private views that usually stay underexposed in mainstream media.

Find out extra on the competition’s website.

Paris, France / 11 February – 24 May

American Images at Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) displays the primary main retrospective dedicated to Dutch artist Dana Lixenberg and her three-decade-long photographic exploration of American communities, specializing in resilience, identification, and on a regular basis life. Curated by Isabelle Cahn, the present options intimate portraits and documentary collection that look at social, cultural, and financial landscapes throughout the United States. Lixenberg’s work highlights each visibility and marginality, capturing the complexity of her topics with empathy and nuance.

For extra particulars, go to MEP’s website.

Milan, Italy / 19 March – 22 March

Founded in 2011 by Fabio Castelli, MIA Photo Fair is an Italian artwork honest devoted solely to images. The 2026 version explores the picture as each a product and a inventive course of, emphasizing experimentation, hybrid visible languages, and modern approaches, together with AI in images. The occasion options solo and group exhibitions, curated tasks, and thematic sections that foster dialogue between images and different visible arts. Its cultural program contains talks, workshops, and occasions connecting artists, curators, galleries, and collectors from Italy and overseas.

Check out the total program here.

Milan, Italy / 11 February – 22 March

Davide Sartori presents The Shape of Our Eyes, Other Things I Wouldn’t Know at Triennale Milano, exploring the interaction between notion, reminiscence, and private narrative via images and video. The present is intently tied to the determine of the artist’s father and engages with themes of vulnerability and intergenerational trauma, questioning established social norms. The itinerary unfolds via a collection of makes an attempt to ascertain a connection along with his father, with images functioning as a central instrument to discover their relationship. Through collaboratively staged actions documented photographically, portraits, and archival supplies, the undertaking articulates each emotional distance and a persistent want for closeness.

Find out extra on the Triennale Milano’s website.

Brussels, Belgium / 23 January – 17 May

For the primary time since its presentation in Arles, The House is being proven at Hangar, marking the primary exhibition of The Anonymous Project on Belgian territory. The present explores themes of domesticity, reminiscence, and private historical past via images and archival supplies. Featuring Shulman’s intimate portraits alongside chosen works from The Anonymous Project’s intensive assortment, the present examines the intersections of private and non-private areas, collective reminiscence, and particular person expertise. By juxtaposing nameless photos with private narratives, The House invitations viewers to mirror on the layers of which means inside on a regular basis life.

Check out full particulars at Hangar’s website.

Brussels, Belgium / 23 January – 17 May

Curated by Gabriela Torres Freyermuth, Family Stories presents seven photographic tasks that delve into the artists’ private household narratives. Unlike nameless documentary work, these staged collection discover intimate themes similar to motherhood, household bonds, grief, and reconciliation, utilizing images as a instrument for therapeutic, remembrance, and emotional expression. The exhibition additionally highlights marginalized tales, together with the lives of ladies formed by social traditions, bicultural household dynamics, and experiences of motherhood, remodeling private moments into common reflections.

Further data is out there on Hangar’s website.

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Atlanta Made Us Famous by Hajar Benjida at Foam / Amsterdam, Netherlands / 14 November – 25 March

Foam presents Atlanta Made Us Famous, the primary museum solo exhibition by Moroccan-Dutch photographer Hajar Benjida, curated as a part of Foam Talent. The exhibition explores Magic City, a famend Atlanta strip membership central to the town’s hip-hop tradition, highlighting the ladies who form the scene and act as its unofficial gatekeepers. Benjida’s portraits reveal their financial independence, entrepreneurial ventures, and robust social networks throughout generations, difficult stereotypes via intimate backstage and home scenes.

You Don’t Look Sick by Jasmijn Vermeer at Foam / Amsterdam, Netherlands / 5 December – 25 May

Foam presents You Don’t Look Sick, an exhibition by Dutch lens-based artist Jasmijn Vermeer, exploring life with invisible disabilities via images, video, and sculptural work. Curated to focus on the on a regular basis experiences of individuals with hidden bodily and psychological circumstances, the exhibition challenges societal assumptions about well being, performance, and identification. Vermeer, who identifies as crip: a time period encompassing numerous types of incapacity, together with bodily, psychological, sensory, and studying variations; attracts from her personal experiences with continual ache, creating intimate, reflective areas that query standard concepts of normalcy and invite viewers to rethink notions of self and vulnerability.

Festival De Fotografia De Tiradentes 2026 / Tiradentes, Brazil / 11 March – 15 March

Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary and arranged by Foto em Pauta, the Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes will happen within the historic coronary heart of Minas Gerais. This version, themed Sonhar, imaginar e especular futuros (Dream, think about, and speculate futures), transforms the colonial city into an open-air gallery, that includes a various program of exhibitions, workshops, and night time projections within the public squares. The competition stays an important hub for up to date Brazilian images, showcasing works by famend artists, whereas fostering a deep dialogue between the neighborhood and worldwide specialists via portfolio critiques and photobook launches.

Haute Photographie 2026 / Rotterdam, Netherlands / 25 March – 29 March

Haute Photographie transforms Rotterdam’s 4H district right into a 1,250 m² pop-up museum for its eleventh version, presenting works by 50 photographers throughout classic, up to date, and rising images. The honest replaces conventional cubicles with an immersive format, that includes a curated photograph guide market and a restaurant. It opens on 25 March with a preview and unique sponsor night. This yr, rising expertise from Rotterdam is highlighted, together with Danae Looman, Kimberly Vicente, Merel & Elmar, Roos Peltenburg, and Roos van der Jagt.