Photo Oxford, Oxford’s biennial photo festival, returns for its fifth edition in 2025. This year the theme for the festival will be Truth and we will explore what this increasingly loaded word means within the context of photography.

Questions about photography’s relationship with truth are as old as the history of the medium and they feel particularly relevant now. 

Photo Oxford 2025: Truth and Photography presents a series of exhibitions and events featuring artists exploring photography’s relationship to truth. From images that reveal current debates around Artificial Intelligence, to those that highlight the stories missing from photographic records, this promises to be an exploration of truth in photography that considers how far and wide the boundaries of this continuously expanding medium have become. 

What happens when photographers challenge their medium’s relationship to reality? What truths lie beneath the surface? Photo Oxford 2025 invites you to look closer and find your own truths in photography.