# Bristol Photo Festival's Time Machine Theme

> Bristol's biennial photography festival uses 'Time Machine' to explore layered histories and futures
- Title: Bristol Photo Festival's Time Machine Theme | Shortify
- Summary: Bristol's biennial photography festival uses 'Time Machine' to explore layered histories and futures The festival connects past, present, and future through…
- Keywords: bristol, photography, time machine, photography festival, biennial, time, migration, memory, identity, climate crisis, exile, gaza
- Source: Digital Camera World — https://digitalcameraworld.com/photography/galleries-and-exhibitions/photography-festivals-work-better-with-a-theme-and-bristol-has-built-an-entire-biennial-around-this-single-unsettling-idea
- Published: 2026-09-26T15:00:00+00:00
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- Topics: bristol, photography, time machine, photography festival, biennial, time, migration, memory, identity, climate crisis, exile, gaza
## Theme sets direction
Bristol Photo Festival uses 'Time Machine' to explore time as layered, cyclical and unfolding

> Time Machine brings together artists and curators whose work reminds us that the present is never singular
## Layered time perspectives
Artists examine how histories persist in the present and shape contemporary experiences

> The artists will consider how histories persist within the present
## Migration and memory
Joy Gregory explores migration, memory and identity through photographic narratives

> British visual artist Joy Gregory explores migration memory and identity
## Exile and history
George Hallett documents writers and musicians in exile with curated historical context

> South African photographer George Hallett's photographs of writers and musicians in exile
## Gaza photo archive
Kegham Deghalian's family photo studio archive is revived through new curation

> Photo Kegham resurrects the archive of the first commercial photo studio in Gaza
## Climate crisis focus
Magnum Foundation's 18 projects address climate change through diverse photographic approaches

> Heat gathers 18 projects from Magnum Foundation's 2023 to 2025 Photography Expanded Fellowship
## Key takeaway

The festival connects past, present, and future through photography to challenge linear time concepts