Belfast Photo Festival
Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland’s leading visual arts festival, has revealed the full programme and theme for its 2024 10th anniversary edition and 2025 edition - animating public spaces and the city’s built heritage with exhibitions from a host of international visual artists, including the island of Ireland premiere of Broken Spectre by Richard Mosse.
In accordance with our formal charitable mission and purpose we aim to provide opportunities, educational activities, exhibitions, events and publications for the people of Northern Ireland, visitors to Northern Ireland and international audiences regardless of race, gender, disability, age, religion, belief or sexual orientation. We aim to advance education, promote photography, visual arts and encourage high standards.
Our core values are:
Artistic excellence
Collaboration
Community engagement and learning
Creative expression
Entrepreneurship
Environmental sustainability
Excellent governance / management
Inclusiveness
Serendipity
As a major public event in Belfast we are proud to be shifting beyond operational policies towards external leadership; becoming both exemplary and collaborative to peers. Aspiring to stimulate debate and positive change across with our audiences through future commissions, curation themes and discussion. We will work in partnership with our venues, festival peers, experts and staff to reach these goals.
We are an active member of Belfast’s new environmental group for the arts, Belfast City Council’s Green Arts Forum and Arts and Business NI Blueprint. The Belfast Photo Festival recognises that the Northern Ireland Climate Change Act of 2022 is so very significant. Changing the law is only the start as we implement the changes the Act demands and our planet needs. Our new and freshly drafted Environmental Policy is the first stage of our pivot towards full environmental responsibility.
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