The Festival
F/262 is an international photography festival rooted in Caldas da Rainha and Óbidos, two UNESCO Creative Cities where water, clay, and history shape identity. The festival celebrates photography as a living language — one that connects heritage and innovation, nature and humanity.

Through exhibitions, open calls, workshops, labs, and public programs, F/262 brings together artists, curators, educators, and communities from around the world. It creates spaces for dialogue, experimentation, and collaboration, where contemporary photography becomes a tool for reflection, resilience, and transformation.

Each edition reflects a commitment to environmental awareness, accessibility, and education. From the thermal waters to the Atlantic coast, from ceramic traditions to emerging technologies, F/262 builds bridges between the local and the global, between memory and imagination.

Our Community
F/262 belongs to everyone. Artists, citizens, students, and visitors co-create a shared experience where creativity inspires change. Photography is reclaimed as a public good — a medium that invites participation, nurtures empathy, and connects us to one another and to the planet.

F/SoS – Stories of Solidarity – Manifesto 

The Organization
F/SoS – Stories of Solidarity – is the social impact platform of the F/262 Festival. It exists to expand the role of photography beyond aesthetics, transforming it into a language of empathy, inclusion, and action.

F/SoS develops artistic and educational projects that amplify underrepresented voices, promote accessibility, and foster cross-cultural collaboration. Working alongside NGOs, schools, and community partners, we use photography as a means to confront social and environmental challenges and to celebrate human resilience.

Our Community
Everyone who joins F/SoS becomes part of a collective movement. One that believes photography is not only about seeing, but about caring. Not only about representation, but about participation. Together, we turn stories into solidarity, and images into change.

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