FOTODOKS 2025

In October 2025, FOTODOKS – the festival for contemporary documentary photography – took place in Munich from 10 October to 2 November 2025. The festival was punctuated by a group exhibition and a three-day programme featuring artist talks, guided tours, and workshops. Under the overarching theme Long Time No See – implying a sense of untold stories collapsing into the present – FOTODOKS 2025 explored the visual poetics of remembering and the renegotiation of the past as a narrational entity within documentary photographic practices. 

Long Time No See brought together ten international artistic positions in the expanded field of contemporary documentary photography. In 2025, the participating artists were: Sander Coers, Arash Fayez, Calvin Hein, Thero Makepe, Edgar Martins, Yun Ping Li, Eva Rivas Bao, Sarah Sullivan, Anya Tsaruk and Eva Vei.

For further information, explore the accompanying exhibition catalogue and the festival programme.

For the first time, and at the invitation of Architekturgalerie München, FOTODOKS presented its exhibition in a former air raid shelter dating back to 1941 – now serving as a vibrant cultural platform in Munich’s city centre that positions itself at the intersection of architecture, photography, and sculpture.

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