Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 is delighted to be working with Open Eye Gallery to facilitate a free to enter photography competition. Open Eye Gallery is an independent, not-for-profit contemporary photography gallery and archive based in Liverpool City Region who take a lead on socially engaged photography nationally.
LAF24 and Open Eye Gallery are working together to offer this great opportunity to photographers of all levels to enter interpretations of their Neighbourhood.
Winning and shortlisted entries will be exhibited in Open Eye Gallery’s covered atrium space and Digital Window Gallery, located within Mann Island in the heart of Liverpool’s famous waterfront. The exhibition will be free to the public during June. There will be a prize giving event during the exhibition to celebrate the entries, and participants of all capabilities.
“Everyone is Moving – Your Journeys, Your Neighbourghoods”
The theme of the photography competition is Neighbourhoods – what do you consider as your neighbourhood, or neighbourhoods? Whether that be where you live, work, study, visit and your movement between these neighbourhoods. What aspects of your town and city are crucial to forming these neighbourhoods? Is it the street signage, the bus shelters, the pubs on the corner or the larger gathering spaces?
What do your neighbourhoods mean to you? And how are these framed in your journey as you move around within your day-to-day life? What local buildings, monuments, or built objects hold memories or stories? What hidden architectural gems does your local area hold?
Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool Architecture Festival are inviting photographers of all backgrounds, using any medium from mobile phone cameras to DSLR and film, to capture the unique character of the diverse neighbourhoods of the Liverpool City Region within 6-9 snapshots. We want to move away from Liver Birds and grand neoclassical facades and showcase the architectural features outside the city centre, within your neighbourhoods, and your day-to-day lives.
Submission:
- Compositions to be submitted via email to hello@laf-uk.com ‘Everyone is Moving Photography Competition Entry’ as the title
- A sequence of 6-9 photographs
- A combined pdf of the works (Max 10mb) – Saved as ‘LastName_FirstName_Title’ in format
- Brief summary of the photographs; photographers name, neighbourhood locations, original photograph frame size, medium, etc
- Precise 100 word (maximum) summary to accompany the photographs
Timeline:
Submissions open: 19th April – 12th May
Successful artists notified: 17th May
Private View: Tuesday 4th June, 5-7pm
The exhibition runs Tuesday 4th – Saturday 29th June (open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm)