Explore the Biosphere as Belfast Photo Festival’s 11th edition transcends documentation and creativity. Experience new imagery, commissions, and projects that spark positive change in how we view and inhabit our shared Earth.
Belfast Photo Festival is a charitable organisation that curates world-class photography and visual art events in diverse locations across Northern Ireland. For over 14 years, we have fostered creative dialogue, local development, and financial opportunities through commissions, entrepreneurial initiatives, and global arts leadership. We take pride in our adaptability, innovation, and resilience, which has allowed us to continuously engage with national and international audiences, positively impacting communities both locally and abroad.
ONLINE PORTFOLIO REVIEW 2025
Belfast Photo Festival is hosting two days of virtual, one on one portfolio reviews with 35 Irish, British and International photography experts. Scheduled 20 minute reviews are an opportunity for photographers or artists to receive vital feedback, gain artistic development, expand professional networks and exchange critical ideas from an expert of their choice.
Belfast Photo Festival has recruited international photography and art experts for two days of reviews. The 35 diverse reviewers, profiled below, are interested in new, emerging talent and works and participants hoping to improve their practice whilst expanding their reach and network.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Centre for Living Things: Diana Lelonek
The Centre for the Living Things is the research pata-institution founded in 2016, in order to examine, collect and popularise the knowledge concerning new humanotic nature forms. All exhibits gathered in the Institute’s collection are abandoned objects, used and no longer needed commodities – wastes of human overproduction, which have become the natural environment for many living organisms…
Shallow Waters / Joe Laverty
Lough Neagh is the largest body of water in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It connects five counties and is often referred to as a county in itself. The Lough is central to life in Northern Ireland but also has 9% of its catchment area in the Republic of Ireland. It is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Europe, and it is dying in plain sight….
The Ocean Within: Yvette Monahan
Otoliths, or ear stones, and salmon scales serve as living records of their lives, much like tree rings. Each layer encodes the fish’s journeys, revealing the duration of their existence and the experiences that have shaped them. These remarkable structures hold a biochronology—a map of life experiences embedded and made visible within their physical forms. Their bodies carry a shared memory, telling a collective story….
Belfast Photo Festival 2025
June 5–30, 2025
Belfast Photo Festival
Belfast, Northern Ireland
