Bursa International Photography Festival, “Time of Rupture”
Curated by Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay and Özcan Yurdalan
Merinos Atatürk Congress and Culture Center and other sites throughout Bursa, Turkey
December 12, 2025 to January 12, 2026
This year marks the 15th edition of the Bursa International Photography Festival, held under the theme “Time of Fracture.” With this theme, the festival brings a fresh perspective to photography in Türkiye, showcasing images that reflect the fragility of today’s political, social, ideological, cultural, and moral landscape. “Time of Fracture” is an invitation to pause—to rethink photography through the lenses of memory, resistance, hope, and new ways of seeing. Every image and every word presented in the festival will become a tool to capture, recall, and sometimes tenderly mend the fractures of our time. Fracture is not only about uncertainty or tension; it is also the point where new possibilities emerge—where hope, renewal, and transformation take shape. Through photography, we remember, we resist, and we carry the past into the future. The festival highlights photography not just as a document, but as testimony, as shelter, and as a form of defiance. The open call exhibition at the festival will showcase new and diverse perspectives in photography from around the world.
