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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 ):

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Roger Anis
Andrea Bonderup
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🎙️ 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 💫

Hello photography lovers 📷✨
Final day of Rotterdam Photo 2026 — don’t miss it.

🗓 Sunday, March 29
🕚 Open: 11:00 – 18:00
📍 Deliplein & Fenix Plein, Rotterdam

🎤 Artist Talks (Deliplein)
🕦 11:30 – Peter Casaer () – container 11
🕛 12:15 – Hanno Ketterer () – container 16
🕝 14:45 – Alessandro Mazzola () – container 5
🕞 15:30 – Serhii Korovayny () – container 35

🎬 Screenings & Talk (Fenix Plein)
🕦 11:30 – Constructed Realities
🕐 13:00 – Talk 2: Is photographing an act of understanding or an act of caring?
🕒 15:00 – Traces of Silence

A full day moving between image, memory, and conversation — closing out this year’s theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul.

🎫 Book your ticket — link in bio
Bring your friends and catch the last day 📸

✨ It’s been wonderful having so many of you drop by and be part of it.
With tomorrow marking the final day, there’s still one last opportunity to visit - swing by, invite someone along, and take in the festival while it’s still here. We are open till 18:00

Hello photography lovers 📷✨
Saturday at Rotterdam Photo 2026 — a full day to explore, watch, and listen.

🗓 Saturday, March 28
🕚 Open: 11:00 – 20:00
📍 Deliplein & Fenix Plein, Rotterdam

🎤 Artist Talks (Deliplein)

🕦 11:30 – minjue () – container 2
🕛 12:15 – Sari Soininen () – container 34
🕝 14:45 – Pasha Kritchko () – container 29
🕞 15:30 – Ana Vallejo () – container 3
🕟 16:15 – Raghav Goswamy () – container 12
🕔 17:00 – Attilio Fiumarella () – container 20

🎬 Screenings & Talks (Fenix Plein)
🕦 11:30 – Traces of Silence
🕐 13:00 – Talk 1: How can personal wounds become collective experiences?
🕒 15:00 – Constructed Realities

From intimate personal stories to broader social realities, today’s program moves between image, memory, and conversation — all reflecting this year’s theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul.

📍 Full program: rotterdamphoto.eu
Come by, take your time, and experience it 📸

More photos from the opening! ✨ It’s been amazing to see so many of you come by and share this moment with us.

If you haven’t had the chance yet, there’s still time — we’re open every day until March 29th. Come experience it for yourself, bring a friend, and soak it all in before it’s gone.

Photo credit: Pip Maarschalk

See you there!
Full program at rotterdamphoto.eu
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

Hello photography lovers 📷✨

Rotterdam Photo 2026 continues — and Friday is packed with inspiring Artist Talks alongside the exhibition at Deliplein.

🗓 Friday, March 27
🕚 Open: 11:00 – 18:00
📍 Deliplein, Rotterdam

🎤 Artist Talks
🗣 Language: English
⏱ 30–45 minutes
🎟 Included with your festival ticket

Keep an eye out for the Artist Talk flag when a session is about to begin.

📅 Today’s lineup:

🕦 11:30 – Tobias Bijl () – container 30
🕛 12:15 – Jenny Matthews () – container 21
🕑 13:45 – Alen Aligrudic – container 4
🕝 14:30 – Sven Weber () – container 8
🕒 15:15 – Sara Giuliani () – container 22
🕓 16:00 – Nora Handsley () – container 1
🕔 16:45 – Alexey Yurenev () – container 19

This year’s theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul
Expect personal, introspective work exploring how conflict lives on in memory, identity, and everyday life.

Check the full program at rotterdamphoto.eu
Book your ticket in bio 📸

[OPENING NIGHT]

Rotterdam is buzzing again 📸✨

Rotterdam Photo 2026 just opened at Deliplein and yeah… this one is beautiful.

Shipping containers turned into galleries, music somewhere in the background, people actually hanging out - and photography that makes you slow down for a minute.

There are 30+ international photographers, all looking at the same theme in their own way. Different perspectives, different stories - and it just works.

And this was only the opening. The next days are packed with talks, screenings, music, and all those unexpected moments you don’t plan but end up staying for.

We’re here until March 29.
Come by, walk around, see where you end up.

Photo credit: Pip Maarschalk

Full program at rotterdamphoto.eu
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

Hello photography lovers 📷✨

Rotterdam Photo 2026 is in full swing - join us for a day of photography, atmosphere, and connection at Deliplein.

🗓 Thursday, March 26
🕚 Open: 11:00 – 18:00
📍 Deliplein, Rotterdam

This year’s theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul

What does conflict leave behind when it’s not directly seen, but felt?
Through personal, layered, and introspective work, artists explore how war and tension echo in memory, identity, and everyday life — not as spectacle, but as something internal and ongoing.

Alongside invited artists, the festival brings together work by 30+ international photographers selected through an open call — come see it for yourself.

Check the full program at rotterdamphoto.eu
Link in bio for tickets and more info 🔗

[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
Link in bio