{"id":55716,"date":"2025-04-29T12:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=55716"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:00:30","slug":"contact-photography-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=55716","title":{"rendered":"CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CONTACT<br \/>PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May \/ Various locations across the Greater Toronto Area<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29th edition of Toronto\u2019s preeminent, annual, month-long festival presents over a hundred exhibitions city-wide. Established and emerging artists will present lens-based works in exhibitions, public art installations, and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/festival\/2025\/core\" title=\"\">Core Exhibitions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/festival\/2025\/public-art\" title=\"\">Public Art Installations<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0present works by artists and photographers exploring topics including anti-colonial practices, community-building, Afro-futurism, crip liberation, ceremony and revolution, and personal and collective memory, addressing violent gaps in historical archives. Curated exhibitions and public art installations are presented in partnership with institutions across the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/festival\/2025\/public-program\" title=\"\">Public Art Programs<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;involve public artist talks, workshops, portfolio reviews and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/festival\/2025\/open-call\" title=\"\">Open Call Exhibitions<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>you can visit community-generated exhibitions at venues throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit the CONTACT&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/\">website<\/a>&nbsp;for more information<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Exhibition information: May 1 \u2013 May 31, 2025, some exhibitions begin before and\/or extend beyond the month of May. Held at venues across the Greater Toronto Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**Featured image: Sylvia Galbraith, Loretta&#8217;s Place, 2019 at Abbozzo Gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May \u2013 and on, 2025<br \/>\nVarious locations in Toronto and the GTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the largest photography festival in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=55716\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55716"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55728,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55716\/revisions\/55728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}