Into the Light: The 2025 CPF Selectees
Photo credit: Mojgan Ghanbari // Zanan (Women)
Copenhagen Photo Festival is excited to announce the selection of 10 contemporary photographic artists at its 2025 edition, all exploring the overarching theme Fremkaldelser / Into the Light. This year selectees were chosen out of 919 applications from 67 countries that responded to CPF’s open call.
The theme of 2025 'Fremkaldelser / Into the Light' speaks to the act of revealing – of bringing hidden truths, stories, and perspectives into view. Like the photographic process, it requires patience, intention, and a willingness to embrace both control and uncertainty. In a world overwhelmed by complexity, conflict, and fleeting attention, it urges us to slow down, to illuminate what is unseen, to sharpen our gaze and seek the light (click to read the full theme statement).
Step beyond the silence
Each of the 10 Copenhagen Photo Selectees of 2025 now announced for the festival selectee for 2025 enriches the theme with unique perspectives. Revealing how memories and history live within the body – echoes of larger stories that transcend borders. With deeply personal approaches, their works present resilience and hope, illuminating a world that can rise above indifference, trauma, and the shadows of extinction. They urge us to step beyond silence. To ask, to listen, to venture through the grey zones and white shadows, and ultimately, into the light.
The selected projects introduce us as viewers to unseen stories related to family, the ethics of intergenerational responsibilities, or archives. They bring us into a new space of emotionally critical thinking through their work. They also embrace the theme materially, from analog photographic methods to more technological practices.
Congratulations to the 10 selectees of 2025
Four of the selected artists will present a solo exhibition at our new festival center The Royal Danish Theatre. The remaining 6 will be presented in a digitalised group show. In the upcoming weeks, we will unfold each project in more detail.
The Copenhagen Photo Selectees 2025
Arne Piepke · Daniela Friebel · Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes · Gil Bartz · Jansen van Staden · Mojgan Ghanbari · Rita Puig-Serra Costa · Edoardo De Ruggiero · Thana Faroq · Yujie Zhou
Read more about all the artists here
The announcement of the four solo artists chosen for a physical solo exhibition at our festival centre is on 3 March 2025.
