BredaPhoto Festival Showcases 13 Photographers Exploring Resilience, Displacement, and Identity
Thirteen photographic projects centered on themes such as resilience, displacement, memory, and identity are showcased at the BredaPhoto Festival. Kali Spitzer presents 'An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance,' offering insights from her Indigenous queer viewpoint. Hashim Nasr's ongoing work, 'On War & Displacement' (2023–ongoing), delves into the effects of war on personal and communal spaces. The festival honors Palestinian photographer Majd Arandas (1994–2023), who tragically lost his life due to an Israeli airstrike on 1 November 2023. Amera Elnaal captures her blind parents in Libya, while Eva Roefs's 'Brabant' (2025–ongoing) highlights the youth of her Dutch hometown. Additional projects include Prin Rodriguez's 'Los Hijos de Pariacaca,' Varvara Uhlik's 'Sonechko, Yak Ty?' (2023–2024), and Huda Abdulmughni's documentation of Nowruz.
Key facts
- BredaPhoto Festival features thirteen photographic projects exploring resilience, displacement, and identity.
- Kali Spitzer's project is created on the traditional unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
- Majd Arandas (1994–2023) was killed by an Israeli airstrike near his home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on 1 November 2023.
- Eva Roefs was born in Loosbroek, a village in Brabant, Netherlands, with 1,020 inhabitants.
- Prin Rodriguez's series draws on the Huarochirí manuscript, compiled in the late 16th century under Spanish colonialism and written in Quechua.
- Varvara Uhlik was born in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- Fouad Hallak left Syria in 2016, sought refuge in the Netherlands, and returned after the Assad regime fell on 8 December 2024.
- Simone Engelen's '27 Drafts' refers to 27 unfinished letters addressed to the boys who abused her during a 2006 US high school exchange year.
Entities
Artists
- Kali Spitzer
- Hashim Nasr
- Majd Arandas
- Amera Elnaal
- Eva Roefs
- Prin Rodriguez
- Varvara Uhlik
- Fouad Hallak
- Judit Gyuricza Osváth
- Shannon Taggart
- Simone Engelen
- Huda Abdulmughni
- Yvela Jessica
- Mosab Abushama
Institutions
- BredaPhoto Festival
Locations
- Breda
- Netherlands
- Musqueam
- Squamish
- Tsleil-Waututh
- Deir al-Balah
- Gaza
- Tripoli
- Libya
- Loosbroek
- Brabant
- Peru
- Dnipro
- Ukraine
- Syria
- Qeshm
- Iran
- Haiti
- Sudan
- United States