UK & Ireland’s largest annual international festival of photography.
Belfast Photo Festival promotes the art and practice of photography, visual arts and creative technologies through exhibitions, events and learning opportunities, for audiences in here in Ireland and around the world.
OPEN SUBMISSION 2027
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OPEN SUBMISSION 2027
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OPEN SUBMISSION 2027Launches Friday 23 October 2026
Every year, we host an Open Submission, a call for photographers to share their work, with chosen pieces exhibited at our festival.
Our Open Submission lead image is chosen from Toilet Paper Magazine. We love their bold, eye-catching, unexpected and satirical imagery, on the edge and somewhere between comedy and dark reality. We are looking forward to revealing our chosen 2027 image on Friday 23rd October 2027.
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Featured Exhibitions
⚲ 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.
⚲ 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.
⚲ 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.
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