BredaPhoto explores how images can carry solace
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Our Songs Came Through runs through 25 October. More than forty photographers and artists show work at indoor and outdoor locations across Breda, around the theme of solace and resilience.
A festival cannot capture a city in one image, but it can create a route through many different ways of seeing. BredaPhoto 2026, titled Our Songs Came Through, runs through 25 October. Its theme is solace and resilience; the title refers to a 2020 anthology by Joy Harjo.
More than forty photographers and artists are taking part, with work indoors and outdoors across Breda. The organisers list parks, a former police station and a former women’s prison among the venues.
Featured works include a video installation by Noor Abed, commissioned with the Biennale Matter of Art in Prague. Çiğdem Yüksel presents a four-part tapestry about five residents of Breda’s Hoge Vucht neighbourhood; Yuki Kihara shows the installation Shipwrecks of Empire.
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The programme extends beyond photographs on walls. It includes tours, performances, artist talks, films, poetry walks, workshops and activities for children. The organisers recommend allowing two days to see everything.
The festival hub is Carré Chassé at Chasséveld 3a, with an information point, bookshop and ticket desk. BredaPhoto is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 and closed on Mondays. The organisers say it is about a ten-minute walk from Breda station.
A regular day ticket costs €21.50; visitors under 18 enter free. There is a €12.50 ticket for ages 18 to 25, while CJP costs €10. The Commons photograph shows an earlier edition from 2018, not this year’s festival.