Belfast Photo Festival 2024

Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland’s leading visual arts festival, returns for its landmark 10th edition, animating Belfast with work by over 46 international artists throughout the month of June.

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This year’s festival explores the theme of Divergence and aims to delve deep into how contemporary photographers are interpreting the climate emergency, rapid digitalisation, and the ethical questions surrounding artificial intelligence with notable exhibitions by artists Richard Mosse, Matthias Oostrik, and many more.

Presented in the deconsecrated Carlisle Memorial Church with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Belfast Buildings Trust will be the island of Ireland premiere of Broken Spectre by award-winning Irish artist Richard Mosse. Taking the audience deep into the Brazilian Amazon, this immersive 74-minute audio-visual installation, billed as Mosse’s most ambitious project to date, is the result of three years of filming in the world’s largest rainforest.

Commenting on the exhibition, Richard said: “I hope Broken Spectre helps you feel your own complicity and I hope it gives you that uneasy sense of your own role in what’s happening to the world. I hope you go away from this film with a new understanding of your agency as a consumer, as a citizen, as an individual in society, because we often forget our power. I want you to go away feeling empowered. And that’s not necessarily a happy ending, but I want you to go away feeling like something needs to be done and that you will try and do something in your own way.”

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