Circulation(s) 2025

The festival takes place at the Centquatre-Paris, a cultural place in eastern Paris, and continues in the form of tours and off-site events in France and Europe.

Overview

Every year during the Circulation(s) festival, the Fetart collective offers a program of events alongside its exhibitions, to enable everyone to exchange and meet around the image. The singularity of the festival is to bring together the general public as well as professionals around a multiform, adventurous and innovative program that questions the boundaries between photography and contemporary art. From professional weekends centered around portfolio readings and meetings with artists, to photo studios, the festival offers high points focused on discovery and sharing of experiences to gather around photography.

Selected by Fetart collective, creators and artistic directors of the festival, the exhibited artists who will join the 15th edition of the festival include 24 emerging photographers from 14 different nationalities and as many artistic visions to reflect the richness, contrasts, trends and challenges of the contemporary world. Among them are Emeline Ametis, Sama Beydoun, Cendre, Anouk Durocher, Aubane Filée,Giulia Frigieri, Claudia Fuggetti, Jakob Ganselmeier and Ana Zibelnik, Artem Humilevskyi, Tomasz Kawecki, Manuela Lorente, Isabella Madrid, Lesha Pčołka, Lucija Rosc, Ola Skowrońska, Valentin Valette, Tanyu Wang and Wendy Zahibo.

Since 2019, the Circulation(s) festival has featured a particular emerging European photographic scene as part of its focus. Previous focuses were dedicated to Romania, Belarus, Portugal, Armenia, Bulgaria and Ukraine in the 2024 edition. For this 15th edition, the invitation is extended to Lithuania, with the presentation of series by four artists from this territory. Featured artists are Ieva Baltaduonyte, Agnė Gintalaite, Visvaldas Morkevičius, and Paulius Petraitis.

Additionally, during an intense weekend of professional practice, the Fetart collective, creator and artistic director of the Circulation(s) festival, accompanies photographers to make concrete progress on an existing photographic project, to finalize and perfect it. This 2-day workshop, Saturday April 26 and Sunday April 27, in small groups, will be led in French by Laetitia Guillemin, curator, iconographer and professor at Gobelins, and Marie Guillemin, curator and artistic advisor, both members of the artistic direction of the Fetart collective / Circulation(s) festival. Participants will come away with a final editing, a precise angle, a note of intent, and above all a clear vision of the value of their project.