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NEWS RELEASES
Photo Oxford festival launches 2025 programme with AI images, Pentagon data and a street photography legend
26 September 2025
Photo Oxford Open Call launched for all photographers, with an exhibition of of the finalists at Modern Art Oxford in September
December 2024
PRESS COVERAGE
THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY JOURNAL
My hope is that this theme prompts conversations that go beyond the hot topic of AI (which we will of course cover) and encourages audiences to think deeply about image-making, perception and storytelling.
Festival Director, Katy Barron, speaking to the RPS Journal, November 2025
THE GUARDIAN
The British art world today is too slick and sleek – Photo Oxford is a refreshing dose of DIY, disorder and the downright uncommercial.
Charlotte Jansen, The Guardian ***
3 November, 2025
Ox Sylva
I had this idea to transform Old Master portraits into a series of Old Mistresses instead. I saw that by feminising the phrase Old Master, a complimentary term describing something laudable, it became frankly insulting revealing centuries of bias.
Marko Dutka speaking to Esther Lafferty, OxSylva, Autumn/Winter, 2025
The Arts Desk
At last, a UK festival that takes photography seriously
Bill Knight, The Arts Desk, 30 October, 2025
The Observer
Jillian Edelstein’s portraits from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ask a timely question: can we ever combine justice with forgiveness?
Sean O’Hagan, The Observer, 24 October, 2025
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The camera lies. This is not a novel observation, but in our current era, amidst an AI revolution, fake news proliferation and social media performativity, the question of truth feels especially relevant.,
British Journal of Photography, October 2025
OX Magazine
Paddy was the most photographic person I have ever known. It was as impossible to distinguish the man from the medium, as it is sometimes, to distinguish the sea from the sky on a blue day, when both seem to merge into one.
Alex Schneideman speaking to Ox Magazine, October 2025
OX MAGAZINE
Bradley recounts one such story of a loafer, from a favourite pair, which was thrown onto the roof of Keble College after ‘a particularly lively evening at the Oxford Union’. The owner of the owner of the shoe o rdered a bottle of Scotch as a reward for its retrieval.
Austin Bradley speaking to Ox Magazine, October 2025
Round & About Magazine
Festival highlights include an exploration of data related to US military expenditure released by the Pentagon, a lecture by legendary American photographer, Joel Meyerowitz, who championed the use of colour in the 1960s, and a new representation of work from the 1970s by pioneering photographer Daniel Meadows documenting the last Lancashire cotton mill.
October 2025
British Journal of Photography
Photo Oxford returns with a theme that aims for both inclusivity and depth
August 2025
