Tirana Photo Festival 2025 (8th edition)
International Tirana Photo Festival 2025
-8th edition/Mediterranean
Deadline for Applications, 10 June
The curatorial theme of this edition is “Mediterranean,” which requires photographers, Albanians, or foreigners, regardless of whether amateurs, professionals, or merely enthusiastic about this medium, to bring their artistic tendencies to all three categories of the festival: Photo Singles, photo stories, and video.
The Mediterranean is not just a geographical space but an idea, a way of life, a state of mind, and an eternal confession.
This sea has always been more than water, sand, and sun; It is a philosophical track where civilizations have met, slammed, and built common heritage in a mosaic of cultures, where every wave carries memories of antiquity. Every shore reflects the hopes of the future. As a natural boundary and bridge between peoples, the Mediterranean has been the cradle of ideas, exchanges, and contradictions.
Much more than just a political map, the Mediterranean is a space of combining myths, stories, and identities that cannot be shared with defined boundaries, where cultural strata undoubtedly have created a transparent visual model but also differences that seduce artists to confess the Mediterranean trail in every aspect of life. And further, today, the Mediterranean reflects global tensions and hopes: an area where migration, wars, and climate change collide with a long history of tolerance, coexistence, and art, where the emblem of all these clashes is Albania itself, is our land.
For photographers, the Mediterranean is a metaphor for the constant movement – of people, ideas, and stories that seek to be preserved and rewritten. Tirana Photo Festival 2025 – “The Mediterranean” invites artists to investigate and capture this complication. Through ideas, pictures, and videos, this edition of TPF wants to go into an aesthetic and philosophical journey where every image reveals an aspect of this multidimensional world. A world where light and shadow, water and earth, clash and harmony coexist as in a permanent symphony.
More about applications: www.tiranaphotofestival.com
24/06/2025 – 30/06/2025
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