Fotofestiwal, the international festival of photography in Łódź, Poland, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The festival opens on 18 June with a series of exhibitions that reflect on the concept of a collective experience rather than a binary world of 'us' and 'them'.
Exhibition Highlights
Cattle Being Washed Before Slaughter
Tommaso Protti's photograph captures cattle being washed before slaughter at the Sita slaughterhouse in Uruara, Brazil, in 2022.
Feng Li's Personal Project
Chinese artist Feng Li, born in the Year of the Pig, examines the line between livestock and companionship. His rescue pig, found abandoned at an airport security checkpoint, provides a counterbalance to his previous view of animals as a resource, when his grandfather worked at a meat processing plant.
Spit by Ola Skowrońska
Polish photographer Ola Skowrońska interprets the violent environmental history of the Curonian Spit in Lithuania, where wind and water have transformed forests into barren landscapes.
An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds
Luke Stephenson's project offers insight into the world of bird-keeping. The project turned him into a collector of birds, as he photographed each species and added it to his collection.
American Cycles by Philip Montgomery
Mexican-American photographer Philip Montgomery examines a decade of social and political upheaval, reflecting the realities of contemporary American life.
Animal Logic by Richard Barnes
Richard Barnes focuses on the hidden, behind-the-scenes tableaux of natural history museums, highlighting how unnatural these depictions of the natural world are.
Eclipse by Adrian Chmielewski
Adrian Chmielewski documents the intersection of alternative music culture, festivals, and photography.
Tommaso Protti's Amazon Work
Protti's work examines the brutal reality of life in the Amazon, where environmental exploitation and violence against local communities are interlinked.
Backyard Diaries by Nikita Teryoshin
Nikita Teryoshin showcases the real lives of urban cats in contrast to the memes and cute cat fodder of the internet.
Neither the Shadow nor the Sun
Jordanian-American photographer Tanya Habjouqa documents the life she left after leaving her homeland in 2023.
Loose Fist by Arhant Shrestha
Nepalese artist Arhant Shrestha examines the aftermath of his experience of a homophobic attack in Kathmandu.
