From June 12 to 22, Łódź once again becomes a charged arena for contemporary photography. The 24th edition of Fotofestiwal sprawls across more than 20 venues, each site revealing how image-making confronts the systems that shape — and often constrain — daily life.

Foto Tallinn 2024 did more than offer a survey of current photographic trends. What emerged was a collective sense of photography as a medium in flux—anchored not in surface or image alone, but in materiality, memory, and process.

Kranj Foto Fest, established in 2021 by Fernanda Prado Verčič and Petra Puhar Kejžar, has never been a festival that begs for attention, but in 2024 it offered one of its strongest editions yet.

The 14th edition of Fotograf Festival unfolds across Prague with the thematic series Make Voices Be Heard, spotlighting underrepresented perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Curated by Noemi Smolík and Adam Vačkář, the festival comprises four chapters hosted in different venues

Responding to the global fetishization of post-Soviet style and the so-called “New East,” the exhibition resists reductionist clichés of grayness, grit, and exoticism. Instead, it foregrounds the nuanced, often ironic, and deeply personal visual languages developed by local photographers navigating between glamour and marginality.