16 Years of the Fotograf Zone Festival

We invite you to the closing event of the final edition of Fotograf Zone Festival.
How Not to Lose Your Soul
A Shared Look Back, Moderated by Jiří Ptáček
Let’s bring back the shared memories of an incredible sixteen editions of the Fotograf Festival, born behind the window bars of a tiny room on Školská Street and since evolved into Prague’s largest regular photography event. Together with eyewitness Jiří Ptáček, we’ll press the shutter sixteen times, take a cleansing bath in memory, and, during the final ironing, try to figure out how not to lose our souls in the process.
Sixteen editions of the festival, fifty issues of the magazine and almost a quarter of a century of Fotograf Zone give us plenty of material to look back on. Especially now that we have decided not to keep certain things alive at any cost. There will be no festival next year, and the printed edition of magazine is also coming to an end. So it is time to revisit our shared memories, remember the people and moments without which Fotograf would not be what it is, and finally turn our attention to what comes after this chapter.
Program
2:00 PM | Denisa Půbalová – multisensory workshop
4:30 PM |Resisterra – workshop with Anna Mírková (theme: water/river)
4:30 PM | EDU Seniors – screening, Viktor Chomiak / Elpida
6:30 PM | Asphalt Lovers – performance by Azolla Collective
7:00 PM | 15 Years of Fotograf Zone Festival – moderated by Jiří Ptáček
8:00 PM | Wild Kin Afterparty – DJ: gin_and_platonic

Opening – 16th Fotograf Zone Festival
We warmly invite you to the 16th edition of the Fotograf Zone Festival, taking place across several venues in Prague from 1–11 October 2026.

Nela Kováč Britaňáková – Aleuronové Zrno
In her practice, Nela Britaňáková works with ceramics, spatial installation, and performance, exploring the relationship between the body, material, and space. Her installations combine ceramic matter, textiles, handmade costumes, and the body to create environments that exist between sculpture, performance, and living systems.

Launch of Fotograf Magazine #50
The festival opening will also celebrate the launch of the 50th issue of Fotograf Magazine. This anniversary edition explores the question of image authenticity in the age of artificial intelligence and digital technologies, and includes a special supplement by the international FUTURES platform dedicated to the theme Occupy Time.