PHOTO 2024: International Festival of Photography

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of contemporary visual storytelling at PHOTO 2024, a celebration where Sofitel Melbourne On Collins becomes a canvas for international and local artists to showcase their brilliance.

Guided by the thought-provoking theme, ‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It,’ PHOTO 2024 invites you to embark on a journey of exploration, inviting you to discover the possible and parallel futures that lie ahead, and how current actions are shaping future realities.

Displayed at Sofi’s Lounge until 30 June 2024 is the gallery exhibition Non Technological Devices by Chloé Milos Azzopardi.

“Using fiction and play, she seeks ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose aim would be to inscribe the body differently in the environment. How can we show an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialised and technologised world?”

Taking place every two years in Melbourne and cities across regional Victoria, the festival addresses the major issues of our time in a program of free exhibitions, outdoor displays and artist commissions, as well as awards, talks, workshops, tours and film screenings. Presenting ideas critical to contemporary photographic discourse, PHOTO encourages the public to engage with and think about photography and visual culture in new and inspiring ways.

Book your stay in one of our rooms & check out the exhibition before it ends.