Launch: 27 November 2025 / 6pm – 8pm / Open Eye Gallery / RSVP
Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority present the 2025 Liverpool City Region Photography Awards Winners Exhibition. Join us for the celebration, with drinks and speeches!
Photographic talent is very much alive in the Liverpool City Region. It happens every day, in every postcode; in group chats, in home darkrooms and on the street. Returning for its second time, the Liverpool City Region Photo Awards received over 2,100 images from local people. Through the work of 18 category winners, this exhibition pictures what photography looks like and how it is being used across the region right now. All of these stories are shared with us because telling stories, and telling them through photography, is such a huge part of our lives.
Category winners and commended submissions make up the physical exhibition, and an image from every entry is featured in the Digital Window Gallery exhibition.
The outside walls of the gallery will see a selection of photography from this year’s Photo Here residencies. Throughout 2025, six diverse groups from across the Liverpool City Region provided a unique snapshot of their lives and communities as part of this year’s LCR Cultural Events Programme. The ‘Photo Here’ project saw established groups, including refugees and asylum seekers, members of the LGBTQI+ community and D/deaf and BSL users, tell their stories and the stories of the areas they live in with the help of professional socially engaged photographers in residence.
Liverpool City Region Photo Awards is delivered by Open Eye Gallery with the support of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
Image: Not the last unicorn by Björn Matthies