Photography Competition with £2,000 Prize from Belfast Photo Festival
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Belfast Photo Festival 2024 is now Open for Submissions from all over the world. Described as “One of the best photography festivals in the world” (Capture Magazine), the annual Belfast Photo Festival provides the perfect platform for gaining exposure to an international audience, with previous editions having welcomed over 150,000 visitors from all over the world.
About the Festival:-
- Belfast Photo Festival is offering artists/photographers the opportunity to exhibit their work in the main Festival gallery alongside some of the biggest names in the field of photography and have their work taken on tour to be exhibited at the 2025 Photo Schwiez (Zurich, Switzerland), with a number also having the opportunity to be featured in the arts magazines Abridged and Aesthetica.
- The theme for the 2022 Open Submission has been left open, therefore removing any restrictions in regards to theme, concept or approach of a photographer’s/artist’s work.
Benefits
- Spotlight Award - £2,000 (e.s.t $2,712 / €2,321).
- Aesthetica Editorial Award - Full editorial presentation in an upcoming printed/digital issue of Aesthetica international art and culture magazine.
- Years Free RPS Membership - Free membership for one year to the prestigious Royal Photographic Society.
- Abridged Editorial Award - Presentation in a special Festival issue of Abridged Magazine.
- All submitting photographers will benefit from:
- Submission review by Photo Industry Professionals.
- Opportunities for Immediate Exposure (e.g. across festival / partner social networks and websites).
- Between 20 and 40 photographers / artists will benefit from:
- Awards and cash prizes.
- Exhibition exposure at the Festival's main city centre gallery.
- Exhibition exposure at the 2023 Photo Schwiez Festival (Switzerland).
- Inclusion in the special Festival issue of Abridged Magazine
- Long term Festival representation and promotion.
- An opportunity to participate in an Instagram Residency.
- Exhibition alongside some of the biggest photographic names as part of the major photographic event.
- Publication and inclusion in the Festival programme.
- Inclusion in the Festival’s award winning marketing & PR campaign, which has an estimated reach of 30+ million.
- International press exposure.
- Being seen by over 80,000 visitors, including a substantial number of visual arts professionals and the media.
- Dedicated feature on the Festival website and online gallery.
Eligibility criteria
- Entry is open to all photographers, artists, curators, archives, collectives from anywhere in the world.
- Applicants must be Age 16+.
- Submissions must be photographic or lens-based but can include incorporations of other art forms with the photographic medium (i.e. performance, painting, sculpture, music, literature etc).
- The Jury will consider photographs, photo-media, performance, photo-films, photo-books, new media, archives and sculptural forms.
- All works must be practical within the Festival guidelines and dates.
- Individuals and collectives are welcome to apply.
- Individuals should select and enter between 1 and 15 photographs from a particular series or body of work AND/OR submit their Photo-book for exhibition by providing a link to a single PDF (stored on for example: Google Drive or Dropbox)
About Belfast Photo Festival:-
Belfast Photo Festival is a not-for-profit organization that presents one of the leading International Festivals of photography in the United Kingdom. Launched in 2011, this now annual photographic event has been described as one of the "best photography festivals in the world" (Capture Magazine) and attracts upwards of 100 thousand visitors a year, celebrating some of the finest National and International contemporary photography.
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