A Information To October 2026 Photography Festivals & Exhibitions

PhMuseum Days, Photobook Mania, Photoworks Festival, SCAN Tarragona Festival, Acedia by Louise Desnos at Centre De La Photographie Genève, and Encontros da Imagem are among the many pictures occasions to go to subsequent month.

Bologna, Italy / 1 October – 4 October

The fifth version of PhMuseum Days returns to Bologna, centered on the theme Archipelago – an idea impressed by Massimo Cacciari that views the world as a relational community of distinct but interconnected identities. The pageant spans numerous places throughout town, together with the brand new major venue at Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini, the Cortile dell’Archiginnasio, PhMuseum Lab, and public area installations within the Cortile dell’Archiginnasio and the CHEAP public billboards on through dell’Abbadia.

Its major program options various worldwide exhibitions and interactive occasions, corresponding to The Man of Family, a free workshop led by Adam Broomberg – in collaboration with MAST Foundation and Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna – highlighting up to date pictures’s position in exploring reminiscence, politics, nature, and id. Allegra Baggio Corradi, Jonah Samson, Federico Clavarino, Daniel Martínez, Francisco Cantón, Robin Alysha Clemens, and Cintia Tortosa Santisteban are among the many exhibited artists.

Expanding its spatial footprint, this version turns Bologna into a real archipelago of cultural practices by way of new additions just like the OFF circuit – that includes exhibitions by Benedetta Fioravanti and Roman Manfredi in partnership with Fondazione Home Movies and Spazio Labo’. Plus, among the many main highlights is Photobook Mania, which formally joins the pageant program for the primary time.

The full program will probably be introduced quickly. Keep posted on the pageant’s web site.

Bologna, Italy / 3 October – 4 October

Taking place at Serra Madre in Bologna, Italy, this second version brings collectively impartial publishers, artists, and worldwide booksellers as a hub for dialogue on photobook practices. The in depth program contains talks with publishers and authors, e book signings, and two featured exhibitions.

Dummies & Books From FOLIO 2025/26 presents prototypes by individuals of the fifth FOLIO masterclass, who spent eight months underneath Nicolas Polli’s steerage turning their photographic works into editorial tasks. Featured books are by Ege Tascioglu, Federica Carducci, Julia Bohle, Justina Leston, Manu Gruber and Tim Gassauer, Marge Westreich, Raul Guillermo, Stefanie Lagenhoven, Stephanie Schwiederek, Vivian Poey, and Yvette Monahan. Curated by Atelier Tatanka, The Riso Book presents European publications made utilizing the Risograph approach. It explores the chances of Riso in pictures and impartial publishing – treating the e book not as a mere container of photographs, however as an object formed by design, paper alternative, binding, and printing.

Participating publishers and booksellers embrace Altana, Asola Press, Atelier Tatanka, Blow Up Press, CESURA Publish, Ciao Press, Chose Commune, Départ pour l’Image, Editorial RM, Erik Kessels, Gnomic Book, GOST Books, ISIA U, KABK, L’Artiere, Leporello photobooks et al., Overlapse, PhMuseum, RVM Hub, Shibboleth, Witty Books, and Yogurt Editions.

Read extra about Photobook Mania right here.

Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom / 2 October – 1 November

Photoworks Festival is a biennial platform devoted to highlighting worldwide up to date pictures. Organized by Photoworks, the pageant affords a programme that invitations dialogue, experimentation, and important change. The 2026 version unfolds underneath the expansive theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams, a framework that displays on the precarity and chance of the current second whereas imagining potential collective futures. Through exhibitions and public occasions, the pageant explores territories the place private narratives intersect with wider social and geopolitical shifts.

The programme brings collectively artists, curators, and practitioners by way of talks, workshops, and portfolio critiques, creating an area not just for presentation however for dialogue.

Find out extra on their website.

Tarragona, Spain / 16 October – 29 November

Since 2008, the SCAN Tarragona International Photography Festival has been devoted to selling rising artists by way of a broad program of exhibitions, portfolio critiques, workshops, and podcasts. Supported by key regional companions – together with the Provincial Council of Tarragona and the University Rovira i Virgili – the pageant engages native communities and explores regional themes by way of initiatives just like the Talent Latent showcase, displays at Mèdol, and the participatory SCAN Actiu program.

For its thirteenth version, centered on the theme of Metamorphosis, SCAN continues to push the boundaries of pictures by mixing it with different artistic disciplines. The pageant invitations artists and audiences alike right into a pluralistic area designed to encourage vital reflection, foster visible tradition, and showcase transgressive creativeness in an ever-evolving creative panorama.

Check the complete program on their website.

Geneva, Switzerland / 12 October – 8 January 2027

Curated by Aline Bovard Rudaz and Danaé Panchaud, in collaboration with Fondation Convergences, Acedia is Louise Desnos’ contemplative visible exploration of laziness, fatigue, and intimacy. Located on the Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, the exhibition takes its identify from the state of profound apathy. By foregrounding “non-events,” Desnos celebrates idleness as a artistic act and a stance towards up to date calls for for fixed productiveness, effectivity, and self-optimization. Her delicate imagery – wealthy with literary, cinematic, and pictorial influences – frames sloth not as a shortcoming, however as a deliberate rejection of capitalist pressures.

Through fashions embodying quiet inertia, the collection explores a quest for private freedom, introspection, and melancholy. For Desnos, creating Acedia served as a private reclamation of time – an intentional shift away from her constrained business pictures towards an unhurried, uncompromised creative area.

More data on the exhibition’s website.

Braga, Portugal / 18 September – 1 November

The thirty sixth version of Encontros da Imagem, themed Imagined Territories, Enchanted Lands, invitations audiences to ascertain new types of belonging in an interconnected world. Inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s idea of the “global village,” the pageant displays on how expertise, mobility, and multi-cultural experiences redefine id and neighborhood. It proposes an train in shared creativeness that transcends conventional nationwide boundaries to embody each human and non-human realms in a unified universe.

While rooted in pictures, the pageant extends throughout various visible artwork types by way of exhibitions, portfolio critiques, performances, and talks. By making a collaborative area for native and worldwide artists, Encontros da Imagem fosters dialogue on the urgent social, cultural, and environmental realities of our time.

Learn extra on their website.

Amsterdam, Netherlands / 24 October – 7 February 2027

Hier marks Polish-German photographer Andrzej Steinbach’s debut within the Netherlands, presenting a ten-year overview of his meticulously constructed, minimalist works. Treating the act of seeing as an aesthetic downside, Steinbach makes use of director-like precision to information impartial fashions – whom he refers to easily as “figures” – by way of delicate shifts in poses, outfits, and culturally inherited gestures. Across key collection like Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei, Mayakovsky’s pose, and Erweiterungen, his pictures isolate patterns and break visible conventions, exposing how we mechanically assign roles, that means, and id to what we see even when data is withheld.

Spanning macro-studies of worn instruments in Auto Erotik to human-object relationships, the exhibition prompts viewers to catch themselves within the course of of creating assumptions with out providing simple conclusions. Adapted from earlier displays in Braunschweig and Erfurt, the present is accompanied by {the catalogue} Extensions, printed by Spector Books.

Read extra on Huis Marseille’s website.

Oslo, Norway / 10 October – 20 October

The sixth version of Oslo Negativ brings life again to Oslo’s historic National Gallery over three weekends in October, occupying its basement, first, and second flooring – together with rooms beforehand closed to the general public – a number of years after the constructing was cleared of artwork. Organised by Stiftelsen Oslo Negativ (a collaboration between Preus Museum, Møllersamlingen, and the native pictures neighborhood), the pageant creates a platform for documentary and creative pictures. Its core mission is to deepen public curiosity within the medium whereas fostering significant change between artists, trade professionals, and audiences.

Visitors can discover greater than 40 exhibitions showcasing round 200 Norwegian and worldwide photographers throughout a large spectrum of visible types, from reportage to experimental practices. Complementing the gallery installations, the pageant options an intensive program of artist talks, lectures, movie screenings, and hands-on workshops. By pairing historic architectural areas with up to date visible tradition, Oslo Negativ affords a shared area for inspiration, dialogue, and studying.

Find out extra on their website.