︎ Bristol Photo Festival
(2023-2024)
Bristol Photo Festival is an international biennial of contemporary photography.
We organise a programme of exhibitions, talks and workshops, bringing together leading photographic voices from across the world. Alongside this work, we develop long-term projects in collaboration with local communities. There is no hierarchy between our engagement and exhibition programmes – both are treated with the same care, rigour and level resource.
As an organisation, we believe in the power of photography as a tool to experience the world anew. Our mission is to present nuanced and unexpected stories that foster greater understanding of shared pasts, presents and futures. Our work is internationally-focussed yet locally grounded, built from the urgencies of our city and its inhabitants.
As a platform, we support artists to experiment, creating work that breaks with convention, exploring the possibilities of photography as a political tool today.
Our second edition (2024) drew over 100,000 visitors, with 14 exhibitions staged across the city’s museums, galleries and independent spaces. Alejandro Acín acts as Director and Curator Lead of the exhibitions programe.
© Photos: Dan Weil
More info: www.bristolphotofestival.org
© Photos: Dan Weil
More info: www.bristolphotofestival.org
At the edge of the everyday world by Rinko Kawauchi. Arnolfini
Across the Sea is a Shore by Andrew Jackson. Dockside Albion
Monument by Trent Park. Martin Parr Foundation
Not a Home Without Fire by Bandia Ribeira. Bricks St.Annes’ House
Now Keep Quite Still by Herbert Shergold. The Launderette
One Hundred and Twenty Minutes by Amak Mahmoodian. 17 Midland Road
Oro Verde by Ritual Inhabitual. Dockside Albion
Porcelain Souls & Keepers of the Ocean by Inuuteq Storch. Centrespace.
Spaces of Separation by Sarker Protick. St. Pauls’ Crypt
Staring into the Abyss by Hashem Shakeri. Bristol Museum & Art Galleries
The House is a body by Akosua Viktoria Adu Sanyah. The Georgian House Museum.
The Magic Money Tree_Kirsty Mackay. Bricks St. Annes’ House
Unshowable Photographs by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. IC Visual Lab.