Bristol Photo Festival

Bristol Photo Festival is an international biennial of contemporary photography, presenting exhibitions, talks and workshops alongside long-term projects developed with local communities. Internationally focused yet locally grounded, the Festival believes in photography’s power to reveal the world anew, sharing nuanced and unexpected stories that foster greater understanding of our shared pasts, presents and futures. It supports artists to experiment with the possibilities of photography as a contemporary form of communication.

Founded in 2021, Bristol Photo Festival has delivered two editions. Its most recent edition, in 2024, welcomed more than 115,000 visitors across 14 exhibitions presented in museums, galleries and independent spaces throughout the city.

Entitled Time Machine, the Festival’s third edition explores time as interwoven, where past, present and future fold into one another. Through photography, memory, imagination and possibility coexist, revealing how histories resurface, time accumulates and different temporalities continually shape our experience of the present.

Main image: Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan, 1997. Martin Parr