Bristol Photo Festival

Bristol Photo Festival (BPF) is an international photography festival that supports and showcases the best of contemporary photography in a city-wide programme across established museums, galleries, and unconventional spaces.

The 2026 festival is going ahead, but the loss of core funding has left a £10,000 gap in our budget. Thanks to the generosity of our volunteers, sponsors and partners, we're delivering an ambitious programme of free exhibitions and events. But we need your help to meet the costs of this year's festival and put us in a stronger position to plan future editions.

If you've enjoyed the festival, believe in free access to culture, or simply love photography, please consider donating what you might pay for an exhibition ticket, or choosing one of our special rewards, created by artists to celebrate the festival. Every contribution makes a difference.

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TIME MACHINE

Time is never a straight line – it loops, folds, and repeats. The present is shaped by echoes of the past that continue to reverberate, often colliding with dreams of a future yet to arrive. We exist within this shared sea of memory and aspiration, which together define our coexistence.

Photography is deeply entangled in this dance of past and present. In every image, we find the past, resurfacing through moments and gestures. At the same time, photographs create spaces to imagine and dream of worlds to come.

Entitled Time Machine, this edition of the festival explores how we inhabit layered time. It focuses on overlooked histories, shared rituals and imagined futures. Throughout the programme photography will become a space where memory, fiction, and possibility coexist, allowing multiple timelines to unfold within each frame.

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