This year marks the 15th edition of the Bursa International Photography Festival, held under the theme “Time of Rupture.” With this theme, the festival brings a fresh perspective to photography in Türkiye, showcasing images that reflect the fragility of today’s political, social, ideological, cultural, and moral landscape.“Time of Rupture” is an invitation to pause—to rethink photography through the lenses of memory, resistance, hope, and new ways of seeing. Every image and every word presented in the festival will become a tool to capture, recall, and sometimes tenderly mend the ruptures of our time. Ruptures is not only about uncertainty or tension; it is also the point where new possibilities emerge—where hope, renewal, and transformation take shape. Through photography, we remember, we resist, and we carry the past into the future. The festival highlights photography not just as a document, but as testimony, as shelter, and as a form of defiance. For this year’s Open Call, we welcome works that reflect personal, social, ideological, cultural, moral, and artistic ruptures. From documentary photography to conceptual image-making, from alternative techniques to digital practices— we want to showcase photographers working across these disciplines. Through the open call exhibition at the festival, we aim to showcase new and diverse perspectives in photography—not just from our country, but from around the world.

Submit your work by October 15, 2025 at www.bursafotofest.org.