The

Belfast Photo Festival

is Northern Ireland’s international premier visual arts festival and photographic biennial. This major photographic event celebrates some of the finest national and international contemporary photography and visual culture, with the next festival taking place on

June 2015

.

Through a range of national and international interactive events the festival aims to inspire the countries future photographers, artists and entrepreneurs, offering new, exciting, welcoming and sometimes challenging experiences to audiences through the programme of events.

This year the

theme has been left open

to remove any restrictions; 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 author of each image submitted

retain full ownership

of the copyright in each entry.

The advised submission guide is 2-6 images per single series/body of photographs. If selected you agree to supply all photographs selected for exhibition, printed and professionally presented (framed/mounted and glassed), ready for hanging. Each entrant can submit a series of up to six images.

Entry fee: £15 (approx. 22 USD)