Program 2026

Program for the opening weekend
September 18–20, 2026, Sosnowiec (Poland) – Zamek Sielecki

Friday, September 18:

• 14:00 – 17:00 – Consultations on photography projects with Blow Up Press and RUST Publishing,
• 14:00 – 17:00 – Polaroid emulsion transfer workshop led by Katarzyna Navarra [only in polish],
• 17:00 – 20:00 – photobook fair + Paper Academy
  
• 18:00 – official festival opening and main program exhibitions opening:
  – Aneta Kowalczyk: I like it when things aren’t simple
  – Visual diplomacy. Photobooks from Hungary
  – Why we look at…?
• 19:00 – About the idea of a photobook – lecture by Dr. Jakub Dziewit on photobooks [in polish],
• 20:00 – screening of the film Please Do Not Sit (dir. Piotr Małecki) about Wojciech Plewiński in the garden of Zamek Sielecki [english subtitles]

Saturday, September 19:

• 10:00 – 12:00 – bookbinding workshop with Dominik Wojciechowski
• 12:00 – 19:00 – photobook fair + Paper Academy,
  
• 12:00 – 17:00 – meet-and-greets:
  – 12:00: presentation of the post-workshop zine,
  – 12:30: Krzysztof Ślachciak
  – 13:15: Paweł Żak
  – 14:00: Justyna Cieślikowska
  – 14:45: Menyhért Hivessy
  – 15:30: Andrea Agostini
  – 16:15: Katerina Kouzmietcheva
• 17:00 – guided tour by Aneta Kowalczyk of the exhibition I Like It When It’s Not Simple,
• 19:00 – awards gala + opening of the Paper Photo Award post-competition exhibition,
• 20:00 – screening of the film CHRONICLE (dir. Martin Kollar) [english subtitles].

Sunday, September 20

• 12:00 – 18:00 – photobook fair + Paper Academy,
  
• 12:00 – curatorial tour of the exhibition Visual Diplomacy. Hungarian Photobooks [Katarzyna Zolich],
• 12:45 – curatorial tour of the exhibition Why We Look at…? [Rafał Siderski],
• 13:30 – 18:00 – meet-and-greets:
  – 13:30: Dominik Wojciechowski
  – 14:15: Daria Izworska
  – 15:00: Jakub Szachnowski
  – 15:45: Zuzanna Szczyrba (+ Marcel Lankamer, Szymon Pianka, Patryk Zapart)
  – 16:30: Katarzyna Zolich
  – 17:15: Artur Rychlicki
• 18:00 – open meeting with the festival jury.