Photo Festival Season Kicks Off! Here’s What to Visit in the Summer.

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
When: May 1-31, 2022
Where: Toronto, Canada

Committed to cultivating an inclusive and accessible approach to the medium, CONTACT builds community by providing a platform for dynamic collaborations and productive engagement between Canadian and international photographers, curators, partner organizations, and audiences, locally and globally.
Showcasing exceptional projects, the Festival’s Core Program critically and creatively frames the social, cultural, and political events of our times. Exhibitions produced in collaboration with major museums, leading galleries, and artist-run centers are presented throughout Greater Toronto alongside a slate of commissioned, site-specific outdoor installations that activate the city in unique ways. The 26th edition will feature over 140 exhibitions and outdoor installations.

The Triennial of Photography Hamburg
When: May 20 – September 18, 2022
Where: Hamburg, Germany

The Triennial of Photography Hamburg has taken place every three years since 1999 in cooperation with Hamburg’s major museums, exhibition houses, cultural institutions, galleries, and other organizers, and is an important photo event with international appeal throughout Germany. The Triennial highlights current trends in photography and brings together a large number of photo exhibitions under a common theme. With twelve exhibitions starting from May 20, 2022, the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg will engage the theme of Currency from multiple angles and perspectives. From colonial-era photo albums to visual reveries, social documentary and conceptual approaches to photography, the exhibitions explore the polyphonic ways in which photographs are produced, circulated and interpreted. The exhibition parcours through Hamburg was conceived by artistic director Koyo Kouoh and her international team, alongside the curators of the ten participating museums and exhibition venues in Hamburg.