A Information To June 2026 Photography Festivals & Exhibitions

Lodz Fotofestiwal, GU.PHO, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Triennial Of Photography Hamburg, Pour tout faire, il faut une fleur at MBAL, Athens Photo Festival, and Photo Basel are among the many pictures occasions to go to subsequent month.

Lodz, Poland / 18 June – 28 June

This competition’s twenty fifth anniversary facilities round the primary exhibition We, Animals, which explores the historic and evolving twin relationship between people and non-human animals by the works of artists like Feng Li and Maija Tammi. The broader competition program includes a various array of initiatives addressing American propaganda, the local weather emergency, and social battle – most notably highlighted by Philip Montgomery’s stark visible map of a decade of American socio-political unrest. Beyond conventional gallery areas, the 2026 competition extends into open city environments, historic venues, and multidisciplinary showcases. Attendees can anticipate a wealthy lineup that features Augustin Rebetez’s chaotic multimedia installations on the Biedermann Palace, Tanya Habjouqa’s documentation of the Palestinian battle, and Luke Stephenson’s large-scale out of doors portraits.

The vast program additionally consists of photobook occasions, guided excursions, musical and audiovisual performances, Photo-Match, and extra. Plus, PhMuseum will display the shortlisted initiatives from the PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant and a particular screening of artist Dimitri Stefanov, chosen by Krzysztof Candrowicz and Mafalda Ruao by the grant.

Check the complete program on Lodz Fotofestiwal’s website.

Guiglia, Italy / 18 June – 26 June

The fifth version of the GU.PHO. Festival, themed On Ethics, gives a collective inquiry into the legitimacy, authorship, and energy dynamics of utilizing visible supplies created by others. Set in opposition to a backdrop of hyper-accelerated picture circulation, the competition interrogates how vernacular pictures, digital flows, and institutional archives usually dissolve authentic consent and reinforce Eurocentric, colonial buildings of classification and management. Rather than offering definitive solutions, the occasion champions counter-archives and virtuous inventive practices that deconstruct the dominant Western gaze, restore company to marginalized topics by co-narration, and responsibly inhabit the ambiguities of recontextualizing orphaned pictures.

The vast program consists of exhibitions, guided excursions, talks, and a e-book circle with publishers and bookshops resembling Artphilein Editions, Fraglich Publishing, Leporello Photobooks et al., Momoe, S.T. Foto Libreria Galleria. Exhibiting artists embrace Matteo Ferrari, Martina Bacigalupo, Archivio Vivo, Salome Erni, Jean-Marie Donat, Manuela Nebuloni with PostBox Ghana, Joachim Schmid, Marco Lanza, Hoda Afshar, Enrico Fagiani and Francesco Scarfone.

Read extra on their website.

Copenhagen, Denmark / 11 June – 21 June

Centering on the theme Forestillinger | Scenarios, the seventeenth version of the Copenhagen Photo Festival explores the deeply human driving power of creativeness and its energy to create new worlds, utopian visions, or dystopian nightmares by pictures. Playing on the twin which means of the Danish phrase forestillinger – which encompasses each theatrical efficiency and the inner skill to dream and fantasize – the competition examines how pictures can stage realities, spark political change, and traverse unknown terrains.

Through a dynamic program of exhibitions, workshops, talks, and occasions, this version highlights pictures’s distinctive function in embracing playfulness, imperfection, and serendipity to uncover various narratives and break typical boundaries. Exhibiting artists embrace Adam Rouhana, Ana María Arévelo Gosen, Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley, Cassandra Klos, Helge Skodvin, Maja Daniels, Mohamed Hassan, Rhiannon Adam, Roger Ballen, and Sasha Velichko.

Find out extra on the competition’s website.

Hamburg, Germany / 5 June – 22 September

Under the inventive route of Mark Sealy, Triennial of Photography Hamburg presents eleven exhibitions throughout eight main native establishments centered on the theme Alliance, Infinity, Love – In The Face Of The Other. Drawing theoretical and poetic inspiration from Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the popularity of the Other and the novel human message of the 1948 track Nature Boy, the competition frames pictures not as a impartial device, however as an lively house for neighborhood, cultural reparation, and important reflection.

By exploring Alliance by the coexistence of various and marginalized voices, Infinity because the boundless potential for human kindness and new visible paradigms, and Love as a deliberate, politically transformative act in opposition to oppression, the worldwide competition challenges dominant narratives and invitations viewers to change into lively contributors in a shared duty towards humanity.

Explore the complete program on their website.

Le Locle, Switzerland / 28 March – 6 September

Curated by Nicolas Polli, Pour tout faire, il faut une fleur (To Do Everything, You Need A Flower) is an exploration of the blurred boundaries between pictures, graphic design, and hybrid inventive practices. It explores the ambivalence of our time, an period outlined each by skilled hyper-specialization and by an rising demand for versatility. The featured artists discover the lifecycle of creation, the place instruments and behind-the-scenes processes change into central works themselves. Through a deal with upcycling, design components from previous exhibitions are reworked into new buildings to host present works, illustrating how repetition and response drive inventive evolution.

Artists embrace Jeanne Jacob, Olga Prader, Aldo Mozzini, Enzo Mari, Ayed Arafah, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Linus Bill & Adrien Horni, Nicolas Polli, Alina Frieske, Ruth van Beek, Erin O’Keefe, Sabine Hess. Conceived as an area for dialogue, the exhibition showcases photographic works, publications, graphic installations, editorial objects, and private archives. It additionally features a participatory set up for youngsters within the Salle Marie-Anne Calame and the adjoining house.

Further data is obtainable on their website.

Athens, Greece / 10 June – 26 July

The Athens Photo Festival is a world biennial platform that explores the societal affect of pictures and modern visible tradition by remodeling pictures into catalysts for public dialog. The occasion takes place within the exhibition areas of the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 for its Main Program, whereas concurrently embedding satellite tv for pc exhibitions all through town to foster neighborhood engagement.

Beyond showcasing works from each rising and established world artists, the great program options portfolio opinions, a expertise lab, a photobook program, artist talks, guided excursions with interactive, participatory periods, and a collection of reside performances impressed by the exhibited artwork.

The competition program will probably be introduced quickly. Keep a watch on their website for updates.

Stockholm, Sweden / 19 April – 6 June

The exhibition showcases roughly 350 pictures from 1940–1980 sports activities and well being manuals collected by Carl Ander. Stripped of their authentic educational context, these pictures shift from practical guides to ambiguous visible artifacts, inviting viewers to seek out new which means in them by humor, marvel, or nostalgia. Despite this displacement, their informative logic stays seen by easy compositions and impartial expressions, highlighting the inherent paradox of utilizing a nonetheless medium to painting movement.

Beyond the historic imagery, the exhibition explores the fluid nature of accumulating by a versatile four-section structure. By contrasting a dynamic magnetic board of simply rearranged pictures with strictly framed prints that match their authentic book-page dimensions, the show demonstrates that the gathering is rarely definitive. Ultimately, it thrives on limitless combos, navigating the charming pressure between the documentary, the instructive, the inventive, and the fictional.

Learn extra on Centrum För Fotografi’s website.

Lausanne, Switzerland / 26 June – 1 November

Iranian artist and 2025 Prix Elysée laureate Hannah Darabi’s collection Why Don’t You Dance? makes use of pictures, movies, and archival collages to discover in style dance as a type of identity-based resistance impressed by Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” motion. The challenge is structured round three pivotal figures – Nineteen Fifties cabaret icon Mahvash, stomach dancer Jamileh, and exiled choreographer Mohammad Khordadjan – to hint how dance and efficiency have developed from conventional leisure into profound political acts.

Moving throughout time and geographic borders between Iran and its Los Angeles diaspora, Darabi weaves collectively private narratives, historic management over ladies’s our bodies, and modern choreography to reveal how marginalized archives could be weaponized as instruments of joyful resilience and political defiance.

Read extra on their website.

Les Mesnuls, France / 6 June – 19 July

Les Mesnographies is an open-air worldwide pictures competition held yearly within the pure setting of Parc des Mesnuls, France, designed to make modern artwork accessible to all whereas fostering deep cultural and neighborhood engagement. By mixing public artwork with social reflection on subjects like identification, ecology, and gender, the competition encourages vital dialogue whereas actively involving the native populace, who host the chosen artists throughout the opening weekend to create a singular bond between the neighborhood and world visible storytellers.

Under the inventive route of Claire Pathé, supported by Annaka Stretta, the sixth version options 22 photographers from 15 nationalities, together with Jay Ng Yun Ki, Miia Autio, Edoardo de Ruggiero, Hashim Nasr, John Pallis, Tamara Eckhardt, Rie Yamada, Sasha Mongin, Joan Alvado, and the collective Les Week-ends.

Further data is obtainable on their website.

New York, United States / 30 May – 6 September

Organized by CPW curators Adam G. Ryan and Marina Chao, the inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial is a landmark exhibition collection that celebrates the variety and vitality of latest photographic practices throughout upstate New York and the Hudson Valley. Coinciding with Upstate Art Weekend, the occasion showcases the work of thirty-nine artists who use the medium to discover vital trendy themes resembling identification, healthcare, local weather change, and the areas we inhabit. For these artists, “upstate” represents each a geographic location and a situation of transition between the private and non-private, the previous and current, and town and countryside.

A defining function of the Biennial is its emphasis on the {photograph} as a bodily object, with many artists using historic and archaic processes like tintypes, pinhole cameras, collages, and cyanotypes as a deliberate political act of resistance in opposition to fleeting digital screens.

Learn extra on their website.

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Photo Basel 2026 / Basel, Switzerland / 16 June – 21 June

Photo Basel brings collectively a various mixture of Swiss and worldwide galleries, fostering lively dialogue throughout the pictures neighborhood. The honest seamlessly bridges the historic and the modern by combining younger, daring areas with famend exhibitors. By showcasing galleries that excel at each honoring momentous photographic traditions and uncovering distinct expertise, the occasion gives collectors and guests the final word platform to attach and uncover.

ZeroNegativo Festival 2026 / Santeramo in Colle, Italy / 18 June – 21 June

ZeroNegativo is a nomadic competition with the subsequent version to be held on the Stabilimento De Laurentis in Santeramo in Colle, Southern Italy, serving as a dynamic intersection the place nature and pictures converge by exploration, experimentation, and dialogue. The competition integrates uninhabited landscapes and designed environments immediately into its curatorial method, permitting every exhibition to organically adapt to and amplify the rhythms of its environment.

Focus. Desire. by Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Fotomuseum Winterthur / Winterthur, Switzerland / 28 February – 26 June

Curated by Doris Gassert and Christopher A. Nixon, Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s first main Swiss solo exhibition spans three core areas of his apply: Studio, Dark Room, and Archive. Through a cautious orchestration of mirrors, materials, and studio props, the US artist blends sensual intimacy with visible precision, bringing collectively early and up to date works alongside private ephemera. Ultimately, Sepuya’s fastidiously constructed compositions lay naked the act of photographing, pulling viewers into complicated dynamics of wanting and want whereas firmly insisting on a queer and Black topic place in pictures.