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The Bristol Photo Festival is an international biennial event that opens its third edition with a city-wide programme of contemporary photography exhibitions, talks, tours, and special events. This year’s festival, titled ‘Time Machine’, invites audiences to explore time not as a linear progression but as a layered, cyclical, and continuously unfolding phenomenon.
Through diverse artistic practices including photography, moving image, archives, and installation, the festival features artists who delve into how histories persist in the present, how personal and collective memories shape contemporary experience, and how culture can inspire alternative futures. Rather than merely documenting fixed moments, the exhibited works demonstrate how photography serves as a medium through which time accumulates, folds back upon itself, and remains open to reinterpretation.
The festival brings together internationally acclaimed artists and significant voices from the UK and beyond, presented across Bristol’s leading museums, galleries, art centres, historic buildings, and independent spaces. It follows the success of its second edition in 2024, which attracted over 115,000 visitors.