Featured Exhibitions
âš² Belfast Exposed
Camera Obsolete? | Belfast Photo Festival
4 June - 4 July | Dawn to Dusk
'Camera Obsolete?' is a participatory installation and major public exhibition confronting the collapse of photography’s mechanical era. Conceived and produced by Belfast Photo Festival, audiences are invited to destroy, dismantle, recast or resist the transformation of obsolete cameras into new sculptural forms. Part participation, part spectacle and part material transformation, the exhibition forces questions of authorship, truth and the erosion of photography as a physical, tangible medium.
âš² Botanic Gardens
How was your Dream? | Thaddé Comar
4 June - 5 July | Dawn to Dusk
‘How Was Your Dream?’ is a documentary photographic project created during the Hong Kong protests of 2019. The work addresses new forms of demonstration and insurrection in an era shaped by increasingly seamless systems of control.
âš² Belfast Exposed
Beneath The Surface
Ulster University MFA Photography 2026
4 June - 23 July | Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm
‘Beneath The Surface’ showcases recently graduated artists from the MFA in Photography at Ulster University, bringing together a collective yet deeply personal inquiry into the act of looking.
âš² Botanic Gardens
Acedia | Louise Desnos
4 June - 5 July | Dawn to Dusk
‘Acedia’ reflects on laziness, idleness and introspection as both a personal state and a quiet form of resistance. Through images of stillness, drift and everyday non-events, Louise Desnos explores time, doubt and the fragile line between freedom and melancholy.
âš² Botanic Gardens
The Journey Home From School | Laura Pannack
4 June - 5 July | Dawn to Dusk
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.
âš² Antrim Castle Gardens
Exploring Antrim and Newtownabbey | Evanna Devine
12 June - 2 August | Mon - Fri 9:30am - 5pm | Sat - Sun | 10am - 5pm
‘Exploring Antrim and Newtownabbey’ is a year-round project unfolding across the four seasons through four commissions and a public photography competition. Beginning with Evanna Devine in spring, it invites audiences to discover the borough’s landscapes, heritage and history in fresh ways, ready for the competition launch in August 2026.
âš² Botanic Gardens
Other Joys
Alice Poyzer
4 June - 5 July | Dawn to Dusk
‘Other Joys’ is an ongoing body of work exploring the intensity of special interests through self-portraits, documentary images and constructed scenes. Rooted in Alice Poyzer’s experience as an autistic woman, it becomes both an expression of autistic joy and a call for greater representation.
âš² Botanic Gardens
Modality
Vahram Aghasyan
4 June - 5 July | Dawn to Dusk
‘Modality’ presents Armenian artist Vahram Aghasyan’s images of unfinished Soviet residential buildings suspended within a snow-covered Armenian landscape. Through these incomplete structures, the work reflects on interruption, failed futures and the lingering presence of unrealised social ambition.
âš² The MAC
Dungannon Tropicana
Dawn Richardson & Chad Alexander
24 April - 5 July | Tuesday - Sunday | 11am - 5pm
A former Irish National Foresters club in Dungannon, County Tyrone transforms into a multicultural community hub, revealing the untold stories of a town shaped by migration, identity, rumours, and chicken.
âš² QSS Studios & Gallery
TOSS
MIDDEN - Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne
25 June - 25 July | Mon - Thurs 10am - 5pm
MIDDEN excavates a fictional virtual midden, combining artefacts, images, text and film to explore destructive cycles of extraction, exploitation, consumption and waste through speculative, deliberately unscientific narratives.
‘Horizons’ invites artists and audiences to consider what lies beyond our present technological, environmental, social, economic and geopolitical boundaries. It builds on photography’s long history as a means of bearing witness to the world’s vastness, while recognising that the medium itself stands again at a new threshold.
For many, horizons suggest the unknown: places not yet reached, stories not yet told, and futures still taking shape. But the horizon in 2026 is not only out in the world. It is also within photography itself. As image-making becomes more digital, automated and AI-driven, questions of truth, materiality, authorship and trust come sharply into view.
