The PhotoKTM Assembly is a new program that the festival is introducing this year. It will be a gathering that will unfold over two weeks that will invite independent visual practitioners, collectives, art and community organizations from across the global south and majority world contexts to come together, share each other’s work and experiences, learn and explore the following questions; 

Week 1: Nov 24th – 30th, 2025

How do we organise ourselves? What are the kinds of institutions and infrastructures that we need to do the work we wish to do? How do we sustain the networks that we need to nurture our solidarities? How do we rethink funding and resource sharing?   

Week 2: Dec 1st – 7th, 2025

What are the stories we are choosing to tell? What are we foregrounding? What are our values and responsibilities while telling these stories? How do we care for others and ourselves while we do this work?   

The two weeks will feature a series of prompts in the form of presentations, screenings, readings and talks, that will make way for conversation and group discussions and exercises. Some conversations will be by registration and others open to the public. The days in between formal sessions will be structured to allow for participants to spend time together, cook and eat together, visit exhibitions, visit other places and people of interest in Kathmandu, and really take the time to get to know each other. These opportunities to gather as art and cultural practitioners amidst other global south and majority world contexts are rare and we hope this assembly will contribute to the building of critical south-south solidarities and opening up pathways for more collaborations and exchange in the future.