Photo Oxford, Oxford’s biennial photo festival, returns for its fifth edition in 2025. This year the theme for the festival will be Truth and we will explore what this huge word means within the context of photography.
What happens when photographers challenge their medium’s relationship to reality? What truths lie beneath the surface? Photo Oxford 2025 invites you to look closer and find your own truths in photography.
Ukrainian artist and documentary photographer Alena Grom won this year’s competition for her work Stolen Spring. Chosen by Photo Oxford’s judges from a huge array of fantastic submissions the project captures the spirit of the moment and the photographer’s truth of the world as they see it.
Chrystel Mukeba, I’ve Never Seen my Father Cry
Gloria Oyarzabal, USUS FRUCTUS ABUSUS (La Blanche et la noire)- 3000ppp
Henri Kisielewski, Non Fiction
Joel Jimenez Jara, The River is a Loom – The Thread is a Mountain
Maryam Saeedpoor, Angel Unveiled
Murray Ballard, Ghosts in the Field
Nikita Teryoshin, Nothing Personal – The Back Office of War
Silvy Crespo, The Elephant’s Foot
Tianqiutao Chen, Seen Unseen – The Migrant Children