Photography festival Photo|Frome – in the Somerset town of Frome, UK – returns this year for it’s third edition and will run from 5 April – 27 April, with their ‘most ambitious event yet, cementing Frome’s reputation as a vibrant national hub for photography.’
This year’s festival builds on 2023’s successful second edition which featured 170+ photographers, enjoying over 13,000 visits, broke venue records, and welcomed attendees from across the UK.
• The third edition of the festival includes 14 free exhibitions (indoor and outdoor), talks, workshops,
portfolio reviews, pop-up portrait studio (Faces of Frome), curator tours and more.
• Susan Meiselas, recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography of the Sony World
Photography Awards 2025, will be showing her signature colour reportage work from Nicaragua.
• One of Photo|Frome’s principal installations features Joss Barratt’s photography taken whilst working
on set with acclaimed director Ken Loach alongside documentary photographers independently
working on similar issues as the films, including Susan Meiselas, Nick Hedges and Tish Murtha.
• Photo|Frome will again offer an international Open Photobook Award and the MPB Student Awards.
In 2025, it will also have a new Open Call on the inEquality theme, which has received entries from
across the world.
Full details here.