Exposure Photography Festival 2025

Each year Exposure introduces exciting new programming that extends its reach and visibility and draws attention to Calgary and Alberta as the site of an active, growing, creative community in the field of photography.

Overview

The annual Exposure Photography Festival presents exhibitions that showcase photographic work by internationally renowned practitioners, alongside emerging and established talent from Alberta. The festival provides an exciting, innovative meeting place for photographers and art lovers to connect with one another, along with curators and photography professionals from around the world. Exposure is inclusive and participatory, a collaboration amongst members of the photographic community. The festival brings people together to celebrate photography and Alberta’s thriving creative communities.

To provide Alberta with an internationally renowned photography festival that includes exhibitions, events, public art, community engagement, and learning opportunities, offering dynamic programming to Calgary’s arts-engaged audiences while reaching out to and nurturing new audiences for photography.

Among the exhibited artists are Anton Bou, Madeleine Brunnmeier, Diana Cheren Nygren, Hyojae Chung, Andy Mattern, Louie Morales, Eliot Nasrallah, Adetona Omokanye, Alina Saranti, Martha Tadesse, George Webber, Kelly Tsai, Saeed Abdollah, Tiffany Thomson, Masoud Alipourian, Rosemary Burd, Mitra Samavaki, and more.