PA-TA-TA IS BACK
FESTIVAL

After a pause that began in 2019, and following ten intense years of growth, learning, and collective transformation, Pa-ta-ta Festival returns with more conviction, more community, and more awareness.

For a decade, Pa-ta-ta served as a meeting point for photographers, artists, neighbors, students, collectives, and cultural agents. A unique festival that understood photography not as a showcase, but as a tool for dialogue, transformation, and social participation. However, the team behind Pa-ta-ta also understood that continuing to support artistic creation required time to pause, reflect, and rethink.

The world is changing – and so is our perspective. We are living through multiple overlapping crises: climate, social, caregiving, housing, and growing inequality. In this context, art cannot – and should not – remain on the sidelines. That is why Pa-ta-ta Festival is returning with a renewed focus on social impact, collective commitment, and territorial engagement.

This pause has not been an empty parenthesis. It has been a fertile time that allowed us to mature a new vision – one that is more community-driven and, we hope, more sustainable. In this new stage, we are seeking photographic projects that don’t just represent – but act. Projects that move beyond highlighting a problem to building responses in collaboration with the people whose stories they tell.

This comeback is not about starting over, but about continuing with a new approach. Pa-ta-ta returns with a more engaged model, rooted in the neighborhoods of Granada. Each selected project will be anchored in a specific district and will forge meaningful connections with its local community. We believe photography must once again inhabit public space – not just as an exhibition, but as a shared experience.

Pa-ta-ta Festival is not returning to reclaim what it once was, but to create what it now needs to become: a festival deeply aware of its context, grounded in place, and focused on the commons. It is from this place that we invite others to keep questioning, imagining, and dreaming of other ways of inhabiting the world.