Format25 conflicted

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13th March 2025 - 6th April 2025

FORMAT25: CONFLICTED

FORMAT25 is the 20th anniversary of the FORMAT International Photography Festival. The theme for FORMAT25 is CONFLICTED.



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13th March 2025 - 6th April 2025

The festival and off year programmes celebrate the wealth of contemporary photographic practice and feature everything from major conceptual works, participative projects, documentary photography, mobile phone imagery to the archive and all that falls between. We are concerned with what is happening now in the scene and beyond, whilst sharing and contributing to it.

The biennale festival incorporates QUAD, University of Derby, Museum of Making, Déda, Dubrek, Artcore, City Lab, The Smallprint Company, Derbion shopping centre, Banks Mill, Derby Cathedral and an outdoor exhibition in Derby’s high streets. The festival also includes satellite venues such as The Wireworks Project in Ambergate and LCB Depot in Leicester. The festival was established by QUAD in 2004 and is the UK’s leading festival of photography and related media, organised by QUAD and CCIRC, (Creative and Cultural Industries Research Centre) of the University of Derby.

“FORMAT provides an unrivalled platform for leading photographers from around the world to gather, show and discuss their work.” - Brian Griffin, FORMAT Patron

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