Alena Grom

Photo Oxford, Oxford’s biennial photo festival, returns for its fifth edition in 2025. This year the theme for the festival will be Truth and we will explore what this huge word means within the context of photography.

What happens when photographers challenge their medium’s relationship to reality? What truths lie beneath the surface? Photo Oxford 2025 invites you to look closer and find your own truths in photography.

Ukrainian artist and documentary photographer Alena Grom won this year’s competition for her work Stolen Spring. Chosen by Photo Oxford’s judges from a huge array of fantastic submissions the project captures the spirit of the moment and the photographer’s truth of the world as they see it.