Belfast Photo Festival

Name: Belfast Photo Festival
Address: 21 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, BT28HD, GB
Telephone: +442890231015
Rating: 4.1

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Belfast Photo Festival is the UK and Ireland's largest annual international festival of photography and image culture.
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International Belfast Photo Festival: June 2027 Belfast Photo Festival is one of the leading photography festivals in Europe and the largest annual international festival of photography in the UK and Ireland. The Festival includes talks/seminars, tours, workshops, films, renowned masterclasses and, of course, some fantastic parties. We encourage people to view, participate, and expand their enjoyment of photography.

23/10/2026

2027 OPEN SUBMISSION - COMING SOON!
Sign up: www.belfastphotofestival.com
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Image courtesy: TOILETPAPER Magazine

12/10/2026

The Irish Photo Network 2026 Artists’ Needs Survey is officially live. Your feedback helps shape future artist development, resources and opportunities across the island, North and South.

It takes just 5 minutes, it’s available in Irish and English, and you could win a €100 Virtual Mastercard.

Take the survey 👉 https://www.belfastphotofestival.com/partnerships/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-3zaa9-zlxng-67tfc-aklsd

06/10/2026

Applications are open for the IPN Photo Book Development Award 2026.

We’re supporting one artist in translating a body of work into a published photobook dummy. This award offers a €1,000 bursary, curatorial mentoring, and review with an international publisher.

Open to lens-based artists resident across the island of Ireland. Apply now via the link in bio.

01/10/2026

Exploring Antrim and Newtownabbey is here.

A year round photographic project unfolding across the four seasons. Through professional commissions and a public photography competition, we’re inviting you to explore the Borough and capture its landscapes, heritage, history and everyday places.

A partnership between and Belfast Photo Festival. See familiar spots with fresh eyes, and enter for your chance to be featured.

Head to the link in bio for more information on how to enter.

This competitions is supported by PEACEPLUS, managed by (SEUPB).

08/07/2026

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Thanks to everyone who supported, visited and participated in Belfast Photo Festival 2026. You can help shape next year's edition with this quick feedback form. Responses are confidential, and enter a draw to win a photo-book hamper.

GIVE FEEDBACK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSFQx25onoCSPl38p7nTYejg60RzhberZGfvci4rzF0K4qvw/viewform

02/07/2026

BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL AT BOTANIC GARDENS - UNTIL 5 JULY

Explore exhibitions of new 'Horizons' at the Botanic Gardens, featuring Thadde Comar's 'How Was Your Dream?’, Vahram Aghasyan's 'Modality' and all of the 2026 Open Submissions winners.

30/06/2026

BOTANIC GARDENS | EXTENDED TO 5 JULY | DAWN TO DUSK

Explore exhibitions of new 'Horizons' at the Botanic Gardens, featuring Thadde Comar's 'How Was Your Dream?’. The project addresses new forms of demonstration and insurrection in an era shaped by increasingly seamless systems of control.

View all the 2026 Open Submissions winners, including Laura Pannack's intimate portrait of adolescence and resilience in 'The Journey Home From School' and Louise Desnos' reflection on laziness and idleness in 'Acedia'.

Please note, the Photo-book Library is closing on 30 June.

30/06/2026

EXTENDED TO 4 JULY | TUES - SAT | 11AM - 5PM
CAMERA OBSOLETE? DISMANTLE, RECAST OR RESIST
SPECIAL OPENING: LATE NIGHT ART - THURS 2 JULY 6PM
BELFAST EXPOSED

‘Camera Obsolete?’ is a major interactive exhibition by Belfast Photo Festival exploring what happens to photography as the medium moves deeper into the AI era. Part participation, part spectacle and part public experiment, it invites you to get hands-on with obsolete cameras and decide what comes next.

Dismantle cameras and examine the mechanics, recast fragments into new sculptural forms, or resist by adopting a camera and returning it to creative use.

The sculptures made in the exhibition will stay on display throughout and will help shape a permanent public artwork for Belfast Botanic Gardens.

Dismantle, recast and resist activities are open to all ages, with no booking required. Please note: the destroy room is now closed so our team can sift components and fragments.

28/06/2026

THE JOURNEY HOME FROM SCHOOL
LAURA PANNACK
4 JUNE - 5 JULY | DAWN TO DUSK
BOTANIC GARDENS

The Journey Home explores the daily walk to and from school in Cape Town’s gang-governed Cape Flats, where the threat of violence shapes ordinary childhood routines. Made collaboratively with young participants, the work offers an intimate portrait of adolescence, danger and resilience.

Laura Pannack is a London-based photographic artist. Her practice investigates the space between fact and feeling, rooted in analogue photography, primarily medium and large format, and expanded through collage, mixed media and experimental techniques. Grounded in the tradition of social documentary portraiture, her work stretches the boundaries of narrative and authorship, creating images that are as much about internal landscapes as external realities.

27/06/2026

ORGAN DONOR
CAMERON CLARKE
26 - 28 JUNE
CARLISLE MEMORIAL CHURCH

Vault Artist Studios member Cameron Clarke’s ‘Organ Donor’ is a large-scale immersive sound installation that brings back the sacred sound of a church organ to Carlisle Memorial which has been organ-less since it was closed in 1980. Providing the sound this time round is a humble 80 year old Salvation Army pedal organ rescued from a demolished church hall.

The pedal organ alongside ambient electronics will form the basis of a haunting and dreamlike soundscape resonating through a multi-speaker system in the space, bringing together two abandoned entities who found new life in unexpected ways.

Address

21 Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
BT28HD

Telephone

+442890231015

Website

http://www.belfastphotofestival.com/

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