Photo: hosted 10:10 Sudan on Saturday, 7 March 2026, in partnership with The Other Vision, curated by Ala Kheir.

This edition brought together photographers connected to Sudan and the broader region whose practices engage with displacement — exploring what it means to make images in conditions of rupture, forced movement, and interrupted life. The session generated rich and wide-ranging conversation around questions of form, witness, and the camera as an instrument of both documentation and storytelling..

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Zanele Muholi is the 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate. Muholi becomes the first Black queer South African to receive this honour, a significant prize in photography. The award recognises over two decades of work building a visual archive of Black LGBTQIA+ lives in South Africa and across the continent.

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Photo: hosted 10:10 on Wednesday , 3 December 2025. This edition invited photographers working across the African continent to submit projects engaging with land as a political and cultural question—exploring extractivism, land and memory, belonging, lineage and history, representation, displacement, and contested claims.

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Photo: presents 10:10, an online workshop and collaborative platform. We invite photographers working across the African continent to submit projects engaging with land. We are seeking photography practices that engage with extractivism, land and memory, belonging, lineage and history. We are interested in work that addresses land as a political and cultural question—exploring land rights, representation, displacement, and contested claims—rather than landscape photography as a genre.

Applications open: 01 November 2025
Deadline:  18 November 2025

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Sophie Ristelhueber is the 2025 Hasselblad Award laureate. The ceremony was held on 10 October 2025 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ristelhueber’s four-decade exploration of landscape, territory, and the traces of human conflict is on exhibit at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg from 11 October 2025 to 18 January 2026.

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A special edition of 10:10 Queer was presented on Wednesday, 6 August 2025.

10:10 is a presentation and feedback platform where each photographer has no more than ten minutes to present their work, followed by fifteen minutes of critical feedback from peers and invited respondents. The format aims to foster dialogue around ongoing and existing photographic projects, offering insight into diverse photographic approaches.

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Photo: presents 10:10, a workshop and collaborative platform. This special edition is centring socially engaged queer photography practices in Southern Africa. In this edition we call for photographers who identify as queer to join a critical and collective inquiry into what queer socially engaged photographic practice means today.

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On 12 June 2025 Protean Routes, a book on the commodification chain of the Protea flower between South Africa and the Netherlands was launched. The book includes photo-essays by South African photographers Jabulani Dhlamini and Jansen van Staden, as well as text essays, published by Dwaalstêr Editions (a collaboration between Hanno van Zyl and Brent Dahl).

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On Wednesday, 14 May 2025, the Rijksmuseum hosted Future Memories, an international symposium exploring photojournalism's evolving role in shaping memory, moderated by Photo: Director John Fleetwood.

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On Wednesday, 14 May 2025 our director John Fleetwood will moderate a series of discussions at Symposium Future memories, a one-day international symposium at the Rijksmuseum exploring the impact of documentary photography and photojournalism on how we perceive the world.

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During the 2024 Bamako Encounters, African Biennale for Photography, director of Photo:, John Fleetwood moderated a conversation between photographers Akinbode Akinbiyi and Eva Diallo about recent publications. They explored themes of urban documentation, cultural memory, and the evolving language of photography in African contexts.

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The 30th edition of the Bamako Encounters, African Biennale for Photography took place from November ’24 – January ’25 in Bamako, Mali. John Fleetwood (director of Photo: ), served on the jury alongside Akinbode Akinbiyi (renowned photographer), Awa Konate (Assistant Curator Guggenheim Abu Dhabi), and Zaynab O. Odunsi (ATHR  Gallery, Saudi Arabia).

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