Fotofestiwal Łódź: Global Photography Festival in Pictures
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- Fotofestiwal in Łódź, Poland, brings together international photographers whose projects span personal history, environmental collapse, and identity — including artists from China, Poland, Mexico, the US, Jordan, and Nepal
- Feng Li's project examines the line between livestock and companionship through his rescue pig found abandoned at an airport security checkpoint, a personal counterpoint to his grandfather's work at a meat processing plant
- Ola Skowrońska's series "Spit" interprets the violent environmental history of Lithuania's Curonian Spit, where wind and water have stripped forests into barren landscapes
- Tanya Habjouqa's project "Neither the Shadow nor the Sun" documents the life she left behind after departing her Jordanian homeland in 2023
- Arhant Shrestha's "Loose Fist" examines the aftermath of a homophobic attack the Nepalese artist experienced in Kathmandu
- Philip Montgomery's "American Cycles" reflects a decade of social and political upheaval in contemporary American life
- Tommaso Protti's work on the Amazon ties environmental exploitation directly to violence against local communities
Why it matters: Fotofestiwal uses a single festival platform to foreground photographers tackling some of the most acute global fault lines — climate destruction, queer persecution, exile, and industrial agriculture — turning a Łódź gallery into a survey of documentary photography's current preoccupations.
