Second Half-Year Preview 2026

The second half of 2026 at Fotografiska Berlin explores the power of images to challenge, connect, and transform. Lauren Greenfield’s immersive Social Studies leads the way, as we reflect on how digital life reshapes identity, agency, and human connection. Through the lens of resilience, we witness the unfiltered realities of history and oppression in Thomas Billhardt’s raw documentation of life under a rigid system. Roger Ballen reinvents the boundaries of photography, drawing, and painting, pushing the medium into new, spontaneous forms. Together with the Emerging Berlin program, this season forms a dynamic dialogue about resilience, truth, and the evolving language of visual storytelling – inviting us to see, question, and reimagine the world around us.