January
MOPLA
A celebration of photography in Los Angeles focusing on commercial, fine art and photojournalism.
Photo L.A.
The longest running art fair west of New York City, Photo L.A. annually showcases emerging and established artists from around the globe.
February
Texas Photo Roundup
A new event in Austin, Texas geared toward commercial and editorial photographers. Started out as a one day event and is growing quickly.
EXPOSURE: Alberta’s Photography Festival In it’s 14th year, photography is celebrated in Alberta, Canada through exhibitions, lectures, portfolio reviews, and more.
March
FotoFest
Biannual festival in Houston, Texas – aimed at fine art market with weeks of portfolio reviews.
FORMAT
Celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography and related media. Takes place in Derby, United Kingdom.
FOCUS Festival Mumbai
Exploring and discovering the world of photography against the backdrop of Mumbai’s ever-changing cityscape. Eclectic network of venues and events.
Month of Photography Denver
Month of Photography Denver is a biennial festival that celebrates the art of photography through public exhibitions and events across the region.
April
Capture Photo Festival
Photography is presented at over 70 esteemed galleries and community spaces throughout Vancouver as part of the Festival’s Selected and Open Exhibition Programs, and further includes public installations, tours, films, artist talks, and the inaugural Vancouver Photo Book Fair.
Los Angeles Festival of Photography
In tandem with Photo Independent, The Los Angeles Festival of Photography includes workshops, lectures, exhibitions, symposiums, and book signings.
Medium Festival of Photography
A 4-day photography event in San Diego, with an engaging line up of portfolio reviews and artist lectures on photography.
Hyeres Fashion and Photography Festival
Diverse exhibitions, professional panel discussions and two competitions showcasing 10 photographers and 10 fashion designers selected by a jury of professionals in each field.
Photolucida
Every other April. An international set of photographers and reviewers gather in Portland, Oregon for a five-day celebration of photography that includes lectures, workshops, and exhibition collaborations.
AIPAD Photography Show New York
World’s leading photography art galleries present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern and nineteenth-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City’s Upper East Side.
May
Palm Springs Photo Festival
The Palm Springs Photo Festival Connect 2017 offers the opportunity for professional, emerging professional & serious advanced amateur photographers to study with legendary photographers, show portfolios in our celebrated portfolio review program, check out the latest gear, attend cutting-edge seminars, symposiums, networking events and enjoy evening presentations by world famous image-makers.
Flash Forward Festival Boston
An extension of The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Annual Competition for Emerging Photographers. Five-day festival based out of the Fairmont Battery Wharf, offering organized networking events and educational programming.
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
Annual festival of photography in Toronto, with over 1000 local, national and international artists exhibiting at almost 200 venues.
Guernsey Photography Festival
Brings together major names in international photography with a host of emerging talent, for a packed month of exhibitions, workshops and events on the beautiful island of Guernsey.
LOOK Liverpool International Photography Festival
Festival in England that includes exhibition openings, artist talks, workshops.
New York Photo Festival
Mix of fine art, editorial, and commercial work with exhibitions all over DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Photo Month in Krakow
A month long festival in Poland with a fine art orientation.
Head On Photo Festival
Australia’s largest annual photography festival held in May in Sydney, showcasing the work of international and local photographers.
Diffusion Cardiff International Festival of Photography
A month long festival of exhibitions, discussions, screenings, performances, events and celebrations in both physical and virtual spaces.
Tbilisi Photo Festival
Georgia (Europe)
Reportage Festival
International Photo Festival in Sydney focusing on photojournalism and documentary photography.
Riga Photo Month
A new photo festival in the Baltic Sea Region, located in a unique geographic position for building a regional networking and cooperation platform. A meeting place for Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European Photography.
Fotofestiwal
International Festival of Photography in Łódź, Poland.
FIX Photo Festival
FIX Photo will be open for nine days at the central London Bargehouse venue. The festival coincides with Photo London at Somerset House and Off Print at Tate Modern. Artist’s talks, curator tours, book launches, signings and events will run throughout.
June
Focus on the Story International Photo Festival
Celebrating the art of photography and the stories behind the images, convening some of the top names in photography and bringing together a community of photography lovers for a series of outstanding presentations, workshops, exhibits, portfolio reviews and photo walks.
PhotoEspaña
Festival in Madrid lasting until the end of July with various exhibitions throughout the city.
Copenhagen Photo Festival
An international platform for contemporary photography in Denmark, which explores photography in all its facets.
Belfast Photo Festival
Biannual festival in Ireland with portfolio reviews, exhibitions, workshops, and seminars.
July
Fotopub
Festival celebrating European documentary photography in Slovenia.
PhotoIreland
Festival in Dublin that celebrates Ireland’s photographic talents as well as brings international practitioners and artists to Ireland.
Rencontres d’Arles
Combination of fine art and photojournalism in France.
August
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
A month-long festival of photography, every two years in the city of Ballarat, Australia.
Mt.Rokko International Photo Festival
The festival has been held in Kobe, Japan, every year since 2013 with the aim of empowering photographers to communicate better through their art works. For that, we are actively collaborating with prominent reviewers and photographers both from Japan and abroad. August 20-28, 2016.
September
Filter Photo Festival
Chicago. Connects emerging, mid-level, and professional photographers with gallery directors, educators, academics, curators, and other elite photography professionals from across the country, with emphasis on those of the Midwest, and in particular those of Chicago.
Slow Exposures
A celebration of photography of the rural South
4×5 Photo Fest
4×5 Photo Fest is a free one-day photography festival based in San Antonio, TX offering artist talks, exhibitions, and workshops. 4×5 Photo Fest welcomes all photographers – new and experienced – to unleash their creativity and enhance their network.
Night Contact
Aims to bring together exciting and innovative photographic works that provoke or engage in conversations with other media, such as film, music and literature. All of the works will embrace the projection format, through experimental edits, collaborations with other artists, and the use of sound, narrative, movement, color and rhythm.
Noorderlicht International Photo Festival
Annual photo festival in The Netherlands in which diverse photographic genres and series are welded into a thematic narrative and exhibited.
Nordic Light International Festival of Photography
A one week international gathering in Norway that celebrates photography as an art.
Visa pour l’Image
Festival focusing on photojournalism in Perpignan, France that is well attended by international photo editors and agents.
Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival
Braga, Portugal
Uppsala Photo Festival
Uppsala Fotofestival is a biennial festival of photography taking place once every two years in Uppsala, Sweden, since 2011.
PHOTOVILLE
A new Brooklyn-based photo destination, a pop-up village of freight containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces.
Unseen Photo Fair
An international photography fair in Amsterdam, focused on undiscovered photography talent and unseen work by established photographers
GuatePhoto
Taking place in Guatemala and Antigua Guatemala, GuatePhoto Festival was created to educate, promote, document and celebrate contemporary photography.
October
Review Santa Fe
Juried portfolio review event. Designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals looking for new work.
ACPFest/Annual Festival
150 photo-related exhibitions and events, hosted by a diverse network of venues across the Atlanta metro area.
CLICK! 120 Photography Festival
The CLICK! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the (North Carolina) Triangle community with exceptional photo-based works and artists. The month-long festival in October brings together exhibitions and programming while fostering dialogue between photographers and community members, all in hopes of inspiring artistic excellence, supporting professional development and promoting community engagement.
Brighton Photo Biennial
This month long curated photo festival is the largest photography festival in the UK and one of the best attended in the world.
Hereford Photography Festival
Annual photography festival in the UK that focuses on documentary work.
PDN PhotoPlus International Conference & Expo
Held in New York City. One of the largest photography and imaging shows in North America, attended by over 23,000 professional photographers and enthusiasts.
Delhi Photo Festival
The biennial Delhi Photo Festival, a non-commercial venture, is India’s first and biggest international photography festival.
November
FotoWeek DC
A week long, city-wide festival that takes place annually in Washington DC.
Paris Photo
Festival in Paris, France with 135 galleries and publishers coming from twenty or so countries and more than 50,000 visitors.
Angkor Photo Festival
Held each year in Siem Reap, this week long festival features a series of exhibitions, slideshows and outdoor activities. It serves as a platform to discover and re-discover talent from all over the world, and is now a regular highlight on the Asian arts calendar, attracting photography professionals from all over the world.
Photo Kathmandu
Nepal’s first International Photography Festival. Exhibitions, slide shows, artist talks, workshops and other events. Primarily in public spaces in and around the old city of Patan.
December
PhotoNOLA
An annual festival of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide.
