Belfast Photo Festival’s 2027 Open Submission is open to photographers and lens-based artists everywhere. There’s no set theme: our jury welcomes work of any subject, concept or approach, from documentary to conceptual, and from photographic series to photobooks. We’re looking for original, distinctive bodies of work for public exhibition.

  • RENOWNED JURY

  • MAJOR EXHIBITION

  • PRESS EXPOSURE

  • SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION

  • AWARDS

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“The UK and Ireland’s largest photographic festival is back.”

-British Journal of Photography

Belfast Photo Festival is the largest annual photography festival in the UK and Ireland. Each June it presents contemporary photography by local, national and international artists in galleries, parks and public spaces across Belfast. Founded in 2009, it is a charity that commissions new work, runs an international Open Submission and creates opportunities for photographers year round.

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Exploring Antrim & Newtownabbey

A year round photographic project unfolding across the four seasons through professional commissions and a public photography competition. 

Inspired by photographers Evanna Devine, Nuala Kerrigan, Conn McCarrick and Joe Laverty, the project invites members of the public to explore and share their own view of the Borough, from its landscapes and heritage to its history and everyday places.

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  • “For 15 years Belfast Photo Festival has enriched cultural life within the city, showcasing incredible works of art in memorable and often unexpected places . The festival celebrates some of the very best of our local, contemporary artists, as well as the opportunity to view work from acclaimed international photographers.”

    Joanna Johnston, Visual Arts and Collections Officer, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

  • “It was lovely to be able to walk around a park and see art instead of walking into a gallery where I would feel intimidated.”

    Festival Attendee

  • “Photography, at its best, is not just a way of seeing the world - it’s a way of transforming it.”

    Olga Brzezińska, Deputy Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute