The second edition of the FOTO Bali Festival will return to Nuanu Creative City, opening on 3 June and running until 12 July 2026 and providing a platform for imaging practitioners to exchange ideas.
The curators of FOTO Bali Festival 2026, Kurniadi Widodo and Putu Sridiniari, are featured on the event’s website.
Launched in 2025, FOTO Bali Festival was conceived in response to the absence of a dedicated international photography platform in the region, and the growing demand for one. Its inaugural edition brought together 34 artists from 10 countries, selected from 247 submissions across 29 countries across Southeast Asia. As an annual initiative, FOTO Bali Festival provides opportunities for audiences and practitioners to spend time with photography as an evolving practice, across an array of exhibitions, conversations and educational initiatives. Through site-responsive programming and thematic curation, the festival connects local and global perspectives, positioning photography as a tool for reflection, dialogue, and public engagement.
Two scenes from the 2025, FOTO Bali Festival. (Supplied.)
For its second edition, Nuanu has appointed two Indonesians, Kurniadi Widodo and Putu Sridiniari, as curators. Together, they will shape the festival’s curatorial direction, artist selection and public programmes. Based in Yogyakarta, Widodo brings a background as a photographer, educator and curator, with long-standing engagement in documentary practice and photographic education. Sridiniari, a Balinese curator and researcher working between Bali and Yogyakarta, contributes a research-driven approach informed by visual art, archives, and questions of memory, place, and socio-political context. Their combined perspectives form the curatorial foundation for the 2026 edition. Click here for more information.
