There are irreversible moments in all our lives.
A word, a glance, a piece of news, a decision...
At that moment, the flow of time veers off in a completely different direction.
Those invisible cracks, the silences that seep into us, the pain of transformation, and the spaces where hope begins to sprout...
Photography captures these moments from within time; it freezes them and gives us the chance to look again, to think again.
It belongs neither entirely to the past nor entirely to the future.
It stands in the middle of time — in a “now.”
This year, we explore this stretch of time, in which we witness its most fragile, sharp, and transformative moments, under the theme “Time of Rupture.”
Every frame featured at Fotofest will be a witness to a rupture moment.
Some will tell of a social change, others of a personal transformation.
But each will converge in a shared feeling: nothing will ever be the same again.
I would like to thank our artists in advance.
For this festival, they will not merely press the shutter; they will see with courage, feel deeply, and invite us into that moment.
Through their eyes, we will recall our own rupture moments, perhaps even reshape them.
I hope these rupture  moments lead us to more beautiful, brighter paths...

Tarık AKKURT
President of BUFSAD