Revela’t 2025: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe
In 2025, the theme of Revela’t was I’ve Seen Things You Wouldn’t Believe, an invitation to look beyond the visible, to delve into the boundaries of memory, imagination, and human experience.
The phrase, taken from the iconic Blade Runner monologue, resonated as a metaphor for the photographic gaze: a witness to the extraordinary, the fleeting, and that which often escapes words. Through this idea, the edition proposed a journey through images that explore the impossible, the fantastic, the invisible, or the forgotten.
Each exhibition was a window into worlds that exist —or perhaps once existed— on the margins of reality. A reflection on how we see, remember, and construct our own fictions.
The public enjoyed 25 exhibitions, from May 17 to June 15, in Vilassar de Dalt (Barcelona), reaffirming Revela’t as the international festival of reference dedicated exclusively to contemporary analog photography.
The photographer honored in this edition was Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos, whose humanistic and deeply poetic work has captured, like few others, the beauty and contradiction of reality.
Exhibitions
Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos · Movimiento continuo · Rodney Smith · The End · Masahisa Fukase · Ravens (Karasu) · Carlos Canal · Archivo Sombra · Gideon Mendel · Burning World. Portraits in Ashes · Fred Ritchin · Potential Histories, Parallel Universes · Tanya Sharapova · Kolsky · Malu Reigal · Pan, pijo y habas · Herbert Mulanovich · Sin esquina · Vincent Wechselberger · Ready · Gareth Phillips · The Abysm · Iván Franco · Lo real ingràvid · Javier Arcenillas · UFO Presences · Ana Tornel · Espíritus transitorios · Lucien Lung · This was also Gaza · Lluís Estopiñan · Meantime · Laura Aubrée & Ramsés Silva · De la luz a la materia · Konrad Dobrucki · Layers · Axel Serrat · Ride the Shadows · Markel Redondo · La idea de Éxito · Dmytro Kupriyan · The Art of Wars or Rules of Caring for a Rifle · Parera & Sorolla · Guarets · Carla Oset · Background · Col·lectiu Cinc Sentits · Històries properes · Photo Art Books · Entre el que és real, imaginari i desconegut.
Workshops
Introducció al Laboratori Fotogràfic — Salvador Alsina · Lithprinting — Oliver Pera · Filtres de color en la fotografia en blanc i negre — Erich Dapunt · El Primer Fanzine — Can Grapes · Kallitípies amb Negatius Digitals — Joaquín Paredes · Positivado Split Grade — Chechu de Disparafilm · In Color We Trust — Miquel Navarro · Digitalització amb càmera — Hugo Rodríguez · Retrat i revelat invers amb càmera de gran format — Christian Weigang
Talks
Educar la mirada: La imatge com a eina generadora d’aprenentatges — Dimas Fàbregas · UFO Presencias. Territorio transversal — Javier Arcenillas · ¿Para qué fotografiar? — Carlos Canal · Comunidades fotográficas, retos y cooperación — Chechu, Nuria Cabrera, Fernanda Grade, Dominyka Grucytė, Calvin Koukoui · L’ombra del fotògraf — Josep Maria Cañellas, Carles Esporrín, Luz López
Photobook Presentations
Caín — Juan Manuel Castro Prieto (Editorial Auth’Spirit) · Barcelona 1993-2020 — Jordi Baron Rubí (autoedició) · El Paraíso Come Carne — Elena de la Rúa (Cómo ser Fotógrafa) · Idea de Éxito — Markel Redondo (Unió de Periodistes Valencians) · Las vidas de Lee Miller — Antony Penrose (Editorial Blume) · Archivo Sombra — Carlos Canal (La Mirada Creadora) · Oddments — Luca Bani i Gael del Río (Ediciones Posibles) · Trans-Siberian to the Closed City — Esther Garrison (autoedició)
Program
You can download the festival program at this link.
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