Belfast Photo Festival 2027 Open Submission

Belfast Photo Festival’s 2027 Open Submission is open to photographers and lens-based artists everywhere. There’s no set theme: our jury welcomes work of any subject, concept or approach, from documentary to conceptual, and from photographic series to photobooks. We’re looking for original, distinctive bodies of work for public exhibition.

Every eligible entry is reviewed and scored by jurors from Tate, MoMA, PhotoVogue, The New York Times, Centre Pompidou, IPFA and Belfast Photo Festival. 10–15 selected artists will exhibit across Belfast, 3–27 June 2027, at the largest annual photography festival in the UK and Ireland and will benefit from press exposure, social media promotions with a chance to win the £2,000 Spotlight Award.