What is ManifestO ?

ManifestO Festival is an invitation to the international contemporary photography in Toulouse
- our call to authors is open to all regardless of age, nationality or status, and no theme is imposed neither any participation fees. An independent jury, that changes every year, selects between 10 and 15 works among all the proposals received.

We welcome 20.00 visitors during a two-week festival
- in 13 years, we have helped more than 300 photographers exhibit in Toulouse, thus quickly becoming a real gateway for national exhibitions and a professional career path.

The 14th edition of the festival is directed by the sicilian photojournalist Letizia BATTAGLIA
- for the last 8 years, each edition is placed under the sponsorship of a renowned photographer who chairs the jury and a large exhibition space is devoted to him/her alongside the laureates?: David Hamilton, collective Tendance Floue, Les Krims, Joan Fontcuberta, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Alain Fleischer, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt and Laurent Millet were our lasts special guests.

A village of shipping containers in the heart of Toulouse
- since 2009, ManifestO festival takes shape since 2009 in an assembly of shipping containers installed along the Garonne. Each artist earns a container as an exhibition space and occupies it according to his artistics wishes.

Access to exhibitions and events are free and open to all
- as we believe that art is also a learning tool for common life, a cultural richness that must be made available to all, we also organise lectures, round tables, a reading of portfolios weekend, together with an important work of cultural mediation ( public and schools).