Pa-ta-ta Festival is back: more community, more awareness, the same creative pulse
It has been six years since Granada was last filled with the energy, conversations and glances that Pa-ta-ta Festival brought to the streets. The festival has been on hiatus since 2019. It wasn’t an easy decision, but sometimes, to keep growing, you have to stop, take a deep breath and look back… and forward.
For ten years, Pa-ta-ta wasn’t just any festival. It was a meeting point for photographers, artists, local residents, students, collectives and cultural agents. A place where photography wasn’t just about image, but a common language for dialogue, transformation and participation. And, although that was an intense and enriching period, we realised that to continue sustaining this space for creation and community, we had to rethink ourselves.
A return with a fresh perspective
Now we are back. And we are back in a world that is not the same as the one we left behind. A present marked by crises: environmental, social, in care, in housing… A present in which art cannot look the other way. That is why the new Pa-ta-ta Festival is focused on social impact, collective commitment and community-based work.
A pause that has allowed us to grow
This has not been an empty interlude. It has been a time of maturing and learning that has allowed us to envisage a more community-focused, more sustainable approach, one that is more deeply rooted in the life of Granada’s neighbourhoods. We want photographic projects that not only depict realities, but also develop solutions alongside those who experience them. Each selected project will work hand in hand with a district, creating real connections and bringing photography back into the public space as a shared experience.
Not to be what we were, but what we need to be
Pa-ta-ta Festival is not returning to repeat history, but to write a new chapter. We want to keep asking questions, imagining and dreaming of other ways of inhabiting the world. With our feet firmly planted in our land and our eyes fixed on the common good, we are reopening this space so that photography can be a driving force for connection, dialogue and change.
From October 6 to 12, 2025… Granada will come alive once again with Pa-ta-ta. Are you in?
