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✨ Rotterdam Photo 2026 – That’s a Wrap! 📸

What a powerful and thought-provoking edition! Rotterdam Photo 2026 brought together artists, audiences, and stories that resonated far beyond the frame.

This year, we explored “Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul” - a deeply introspective theme reflecting on memory, identity, resilience, and the emotional impact of conflict.

Across the iconic container village at Deliplein, photography stepped outside the white cube - transforming public space into a platform for dialogue, reflection, and connection.

🌍 30+ international photographers showcasing powerful projects
🖼️ Container exhibitions & open-air installations
🎤 Artist Talks & immersive screenings at Fenix Plein
🎶 Live music, food, and festival atmosphere

We were proud to present a diverse group of artists exploring conflict through personal, symbolic, and layered perspectives - moving beyond documentation to reveal the emotional echoes of our time.

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💡 With contributions from Dutch Talent photographers (Amarte Grant recipients ):

Sveta Kaverina .photography
Malek Bigum
Roger Anis
Andrea Bonderup
Maryam Touzani .touzani

and collaborations with and , supporting emerging voices and new narratives.

🎙️ Our Photo Talks and screenings opened space for urgent conversations - bridging personal stories and collective realities, and exploring how photography transforms silence into shared understanding.

A huge THANK YOU to:
💙 All participating photographers
🧡 Our amazing audience & community
💚 Our dedicated team & volunteers

💛 And our partners & supporters who made it all possible

Thank you for being part of this journey - where images don’t just show, but echo.

See you in 2027 💫

[OPENING NIGHT]

Hey Rotterdam 📸
Rotterdam Photo 2026 kicks off TONIGHT — come hang with us at Deliplein 🎊

✨ What’s on:
🕖 19:00 – Opening ceremony
🎶 Music
🍹 Drinks & bites

This year’s theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul
Not about what you see, but what stays with you. Work that reflects on conflict in a more personal, quiet way.

📍Full program: rotterdamphoto.eu
Bring your friends — see you there

[PROGRAM 2026] TRACES OF SILENCE (PROJECTOR SCREENING)

Saturday 28 March, 11:30 - 12:30
Sunday 29 March, 15:00 – 16:00

Location: Fenix Plein

This screening focuses on intimate and personal experiences of identity, memory, and resilience. Works explore personal histories shaped by adoption, familial inheritance, marginalized communities, and the trauma of war, reflecting how collective and individual narratives carry traces of absence, loss, and survival.

– Marisol Mendez - Padre: Feminist exploration of masculinity in Latin America, showing how masculinity is transmitted, performed, and deconstructed.

– Anaïs Oudart - Perles d’Ukraine: – Highlights sexual violence as a weapon of war, examining women’s bodies as contested spaces in Ukraine.

– Asafe Ghalib - Under The Same Sun: After a decade apart from his religious family and home, photographer Asafe Ghalib returns to Rio de Janeiro. Using his lens, he traces personal displacement and return while documenting Latin American LGBTQIA+ migration to major cities in search of safety, belonging and opportunity.

– Bimal Fabbri - Kaliama: Revisits personal history shaped by transnational adoption, memory, and reconnection with his childhood village in Nepal.

🎫 Book your ticket and see you there
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[PROGRAM 2026] CONSTRUCTED REALITIES (PROJECTOR SCREENING)

Saturday March 28 15:00 – 16:00
Sunday March 29 11:30 – 12:30

Location: Fenix Plein

This screening explores how humans shape, inhabit, and imagine physical and social spaces. Projects range from survival architecture to fictional cities, urban identity, and responses to systemic violence.

– Alastair Philip Wiper - Cold Comfort: Architecture built to delay disaster and confront mortality.

– Antoine Martin - Miami, Not the Beach: Urban landscapes of Miami-Dade beyond its tourist image.

– Henri Kisielewski - Agloe, NY: A fictional city realized through photography, archival material, and interviews.

– Adél Koleszár - Only Have Faith: Women uncovering mass graves in Veracruz, Mexico, as an act of remembrance and justice.

🎫 Book your ticket and see you there
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