A heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted their work and engaged with this year’s theme, Displacement.
We’re truly inspired by the overwhelming response — this year, we received a record-breaking 1,117 submissions from 72 countries, featuring 15,895 images..
The jury, consisting of István Virágvölgyi, Rodrigo Orrantia, Jenny Lindhe and Jenny Nordquist, has selected the following four projects to be included in the festival’s exhibition programme.
FERNANDO MONTIEL KLINT – El Anfibio Dorado
GÁBOR ARION KUDÁSZ – WORKOUT – a fine sense of patriotism
ANA NÚÑEZ RODRÍGUEZ – Cooking Potato Stories
ALASTAIR PHILIP WIPER – Cold Comfort
FERNANDO MONTIEL KLINT – El Anfibio Dorado
Fernando Montiel Klint is unsettled by humanity’s growing disconnection from nature. Out of this unease, The Golden Amphibian was born, exploring humans as one species among many. Guided by science and ancestral cosmogony, the project transforms perceptions of nature into a mental realm beyond the physical. It questions identity, interdependence, and our relationship with other living beings, envisioning a world where humans, animals, plants, and the microscopic intertwine—a realm of hybridity, transformation, and shared fragility.
Fernando Montiel Klint (Mexico City, 1978) is a visual artist whose work explores nature, science, fiction, and ancestral cosmogony. His pieces are in major collections worldwide, including the Museum of Avant-Garde (Switzerland), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), and Wittliff Collection (USA). He has exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles, PhotoEspaña, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has received awards such as the Acquisition Award at the 20th Mexico Photography Biennial (2023). Montiel Klint is a member of Mexico’s National System of Artistic Creators.
GÁBOR ARION KUDÁSZ – WORKOUT – a fine sense of patriotism
At the 16th Sokol Slet in Prague, 10,000 gymnasts perform massive choreographies, forming roses, hearts, falcons, and flags. Originating in 19th-century Sokol clubs, the event once fueled Czech and Slovak national consciousness and later became the socialist Spartakiada, drawing hundreds of thousands. Today, it is a smaller, community-oriented celebration of tradition, mixing patriotic motifs with youthful energy. Photographing nearly a hundred groups, Arion focused on the tiny cells of these vast formations—some disciplined and proud, others detached, teens more interested in music, sports, fashion, and subcultures than in ideology.
Gábor Arion Kudász (Budapest, 1978) is a photographer whose work blends documentary and staged elements, using manipulation to reveal deeper truths. Since 2000, his focus has shifted from landscapes and urban development to private histories, memory, and the interplay of human ambition and technology.He studied at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, where he now teaches in the Photography Master’s and Doctoral programs. His work has earned awards including the Robert Capa Grand Prize (2015) and the Balogh Rudolf Award (2013). He exhibits internationally, publishes limited-edition artist books, and leads workshops.
ANA NÚÑEZ RODRÍGUEZ – Cooking Potato Stories
Cooking Potato Stories explores how the potato—its migration, history, and cultural significance—reflects questions of identity, memory, and colonial legacies. Rooted in the tension between personal and social identity, the project traces how the displacement of people and plants shapes collective narratives. Using the potato as a lens, it examines power, heritage, and imagination, connecting transatlantic histories and food cultures to rethink how societies understand themselves and other worlds.
Ana Nuñez Rodriguez is a research-based photographer working between Spain and Colombia. Her work explores the politics of identity, colonial legacies, and human–non-human relationships, adopting a multispecies perspective to challenge anthropocentric and extractivist dynamics.She has received awards including the Galega Documentary Photography Editorial Prize (2022) and participated in programs such as Lighthouse at Fotodok (2020–21) and Futures Photography (2022). Her work has been exhibited at FOAM (Amsterdam), Photo Ireland (Dublin), Athens Photo Festival, ARTBO (Bogotá), and others. In 2023, she published Hoja Bandera, shortlisted for Best Photobook of the Year at Les Rencontres d’Arles and PhotoEspaña.
ALASTAIR PHILIP WIPER – Cold Comfort
British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (Hamburg, 1980) is known for his industrial, scientific, and architectural work, marked by striking lines, symmetry, colour, and dark humour. He explores machines, technology, and infrastructure to reflect on human desires and questions about the universe. His work has appeared in Wired, Vice, Scientific American, and The Guardian, and is held in collections including the Design Museum (London) and RIBA. Wiper has published Building Stories (2023), Unintended Beauty (2020), and The Art of Impossible (2015), and exhibited at RIBA (London) and MADD (Bordeaux).
Cold Comfort explores the absurd theatre of the atomic age: secret weapons labs, hospitals using isotopes to save lives, fallout shelters for politicians, the architecture of survival, fusion machines that look like spaceships, and a culture that turned annihilation into comic books, candy bars, and cocktails. It is a story of both destruction and salvation — and of the physical, psychological, and temporal displacements that follow in the atom’s wake.