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Riga Photomonth in Riga
Riga Photomonth, known in Latvian as Rigas Fotomenesis, is Latvia's leading festival dedicated to contemporary photography. Held across the capital, it brings together exhibitions in galleries, museums, and temporary spaces, presenting work by Latvian photographers alongside international artists. The festival sits within Riga's broader contemporary-art calendar, following a similar dispersed, city-wide exhibition model to festivals such as Survival Kit and White Night, and gives photography its own dedicated annual moment in that programming.
Riga Photomonth, or Rigas Fotomenesis, occupies a specific niche in the Latvian capital's crowded contemporary-art calendar: where Survival Kit ranges across media and White Night opens galleries and unconventional spaces for one overnight event, Photomonth keeps its focus squarely on photography, treating the medium as worthy of its own dedicated festival rather than one strand within a broader visual-arts programme.