Reciprocated Gaze: Belfast Exposed

I found myself with spare time before the bus commute home, so I popped over to Belfast Exposed, where I … More

Surrendering one’s identity to the internet: Home Instruction Manual

What happens when you ask an online chat room how to make a home? In an interview-style format with about … More

Bringing our own lens: Visualising conflict in Palestine by Allan LEONARD 15 March 2016 The rear room at Common Grounds … More

A lexicon of conflict: Paul Seawright exhibition “Things Left Unsaid” by Allan Leonard 1 October 2015 On the surface, the … More

The theme of this year’s Belfast Photo Festival is convergence – the act of artists mixing other forms of art, … More

As part of the Ulster Festival of Art & Design at Ulster University, I dropped in on a 30-minute photobook … More

“Don’t see migrant community as ‘them and us’”: High Sheriff of Belfast by Allan LEONARD 6 March 2015 At a … More

Recently my brother asked me where were my favourite photo locations.

God can sanctify photography. With a poem by Pope Leo XIII, Colin Ford explains the basis for how Irish Jesuit … More

To mark its 30th anniversary, Belfast Exposed has organised an extensive exhibition of photographic work, displayed both at its premises … More

At the start of 2012, I resolved to take a photo a day, a 365-day project (actually, 366 days with … More

Recently I took a one-day course on street photography, held at Belfast Exposed. My motivation was that while I learned … More