BredaPhoto festival on memory and resilience opens in the Netherlands
The 12th BredaPhoto photography festival opens in the Dutch city of Breda on September 11. The program, titled Our Songs Came Through, brings together photography projects about solace, memory, identity and resilience. The festival will run until October 25, 2026, The Guardian World reports.
War, displacement and communities
Among the works presented is Hashim Nasr’s project On War & Displacement, dedicated to the personal experience of war and forced displacement. The author views war as a prolonged condition that changes a person’s relationship with place, body and memory, and home as a fragile psychological space shaped by recollections, longing and imagination.
The program also includes posthumous photographs by Palestinian photographer Majd Arandas in the series A Memorial in Fragments. According to The Guardian World, Arandas was killed in an Israeli airstrike near his home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on November 1, 2023. The photographs found by his brother show fragments of the author’s life and quiet expressions of care among loved ones.
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Mosab Abushama will present the multimedia project Tadween, which documents everyday life during the war in Sudan. The work combines photographs, audio recordings, videos and personal diaries created in 2018–2024, tracing changes in ordinary life through revolution, displacement, conflict and migration.
Memory and personal stories
The festival will show Sonechko, Yak Ty? (“Sunshine, How Are You?”), a series by photographer Varvara Uhlyk, who was born in Dnipro. In the work, created in 2023–2024, she explores childhood memories and post-Soviet identity through staged photographs and reinterpreted family archives. The series reflects emotional and cultural renewal against the backdrop of prolonged Soviet influence.
In the project The Salt Ate Away Her Eyes, Amera Elnaal documents the lives of her blind parents in Tripoli, Libya. Eva Rofs returns to her native village of Loosbroek in the Dutch province of Brabant and focuses on young people seeking a connection with their community. In a long-term project, Kali Spitzer uses analogue photographic processes and collaborates with friends, family and members of the Indigenous community who agreed to take part in the work.
