Rotterdam Photo 2026
Rotterdam photo 2026
25-29 March 2026 | Deliplein, Rotterdam
Presented during Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam Photo 2026 explored the emotional and psychological echoes of conflict through the theme Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul. Rather than focusing on documentary representations of war, the festival invited artists to reflect on memory, displacement, identity, trauma, and resilience through personal and subjective photographic practices.
The edition brought together more than 30 international photographers selected through an open call, alongside invited artists Caroline Monnet, Diego Moreno, Hashim Nasr, and Otto Snoek. Rotterdam Photo 2026 also presented the Dutch Talent Project Grants exhibition in collaboration with Amarte Fonds, supporting the development of new work by emerging photographers based in the Netherlands.
Alongside exhibitions, visitors experienced Photo Talks, panel discussions, live music, and public programming within Rotterdam Photo’s signature container village at Deliplein, creating an open platform for dialogue, exchange, and contemporary photography.
The edition brought together more than 30 international photographers selected through an open call, alongside invited artists Caroline Monnet, Diego Moreno, Hashim Nasr, and Otto Snoek. Rotterdam Photo 2026 also presented the Dutch Talent Project Grants exhibition in collaboration with Amarte Fonds, supporting the development of new work by emerging photographers based in the Netherlands.
Alongside exhibitions, visitors experienced Photo Talks, panel discussions, live music, and public programming within Rotterdam Photo’s signature container village at Deliplein, creating an open platform for dialogue, exchange, and contemporary photography.
Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul
What does conflict do to an artist when they are not an eyewitness, but become a bearer of its emotional resonance? How does violence — whether geopolitical, social, environmental or deeply personal — echo in the minds of those who survive, flee, inherit, imagine or simply sense it from afar?
In “Echoes of Silence”, we explored how war, tension and collective or intimate trauma reverberate in the work of photographers who choose not to use the lens as a recording device, but as a mirror of their inner landscape. At a time when images of crisis circulate endlessly through media and screens, Rotterdam Photo 2026 called for another approach: introspective, subjective and visually layered perspectives on conflict in all its forms.
Year:
2026