Open Eye Gallery

New exhibition: LOOK Climate Lab 2026 🌿 Launch: 22 January 2026 / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery 🌿 Exhibition continues: 23 January – 29 March 🌿 This year’s programme is focusing on gardens and how people connect with green spaces. Learn more: openeye.org.uk/whatson/launch…

Last week, we attended the Sowing Kinship: People, Plants, Photos Exhibition at the @OpenEyeGallery as part of their LOOK Climate Lab 2026. Keep an eye out for more upcoming events in this series 👀 Get involved in growing projects in your community 👉liverpoolfoodgrowers.org

We're grateful to be receiving a 5% uplift in our NPO funding for 26/27. Increased funding means we'll be able to develop socially engaged photography projects and keep supporting representation, empathy, equality and inclusivity through photography.

Our Freedom: Then and Now exhibition opens at @southbankcentre on 25 March. Developed by @ArtsCentres & @OpenEyeGallery, it features images from 60 projects reflecting on what freedom meant in 1945 & how those ideas resonate today. #ACEsupported buff.ly/RaP5Dm5

New exhibition: Liverpool City Region Photo Awards 2025 28 November 2025 – 11 January 2026, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10–5 (with a holiday break from 20 December to 1 January). Free, all welcome!

We're delighted to announce the finalists in this year's Liverpool City Region Photo Awards! 📸 Check out some of the pics from the 18 finalists shortlisted by an independent judging panel across six categories. 👀 They had to choose from more than 2,000 photos entered into the competition, which is part of the Combined Authority's Cultural Events Programme delivered by @OpenEyeGallery. The winners will be revealed at an exhibition of the photography launching on November 27. 🖼️

Northern Perspective: celebrating the visual artists and organisations who are reshaping how Northern stories are shared, seen, and experienced. Wed 12 Nov / 6–8pm / Open Eye Hub Wigan&Leigh Book your free ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764787660399

Join us to celebrate Residents, a unique socially engaged project by photographer Ming De Nasty and the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool’s city centre! 8 Nov / 3–5pm / Open Eye Gallery RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1693110562269 Co-commissioned by @HomotopiaFest

Matt Simpson Memorial Reading with Deryn Rees-Jones 30 Oct /6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery / free RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1737520353149 Exploring the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry’s place in a hostile world.

Now open! 26 Sept–16 Nov, Tue–Sun, 10–5, free, all welcome. 📷 Firehawks (main gallery) 📷 Next Up (upstairs) 📷 New Borders of My Body (outside walls) 📷 50 Years of The Whitechapel Centre (atrium photography stands) ➡️ openeye.org.uk/whatson/

Deadline extended until 21 September! Show us your work: site.picter.com/liverpool-city…

Welcome to September's SEPN's Newsletter - mailchi.mp/127a6cf1031d/w… all things socially engaged photography from @fotonow @jo_gane @SalfordUni #stephenkingphotographer @photoworks_uk

#Boxing | 📻 Great to hear photographer Emma Case on @bbcmerseyside talking Unsung Heroes and Liverpool’s grassroots boxing as the city hosts the World Boxing Championships. 📸 Also joined by Jason Harborow, Chair of the Steering Group. Listen back ➡️ bit.ly/3VEeQyh

Join us to celebrate the launch of Firehawks – a photography project by Stephen King, uncovering real life-experiences of children involved in firesetting behaviour. Launch: 25 Sept / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1605794567779 With thanks to @NlandFRS

📽️ | Cabinet Member for Culture @harrydoyle96 & photographer Emma Case spoke to us about Unsung Heroes, an exhibition @SGHLpool celebrating our grassroots boxing community - on until 20 September. More info: liverpoolexpress.co.uk/community-enga… @OpenEyeGallery @SGHLpool @CultureLPool

Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Liverpool’s Grassroots Boxing Launch: Friday 29 Aug / 6–8pm / St George’s Hall – Stable Gallery At a grassroots level, boxing is about far more than competition. These clubs offer safe spaces, structure, and support, especially for young people.

Come to the Liverpool launch of HEDONISM by Chris McCabe. Joined by Jane Commane. Poem readings and conversation, exploring the creative process of editing and sharing insights into how a #poetry book is made. @OpenEyeGallery Sunday 7th September, 2-4pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-readi…

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In-conversation with Liverpool’s very own John Stoddart, discussing his relationship to the Liverpool music scene, his specialism in portraits of key cultural figures & the development of his photographic style. 21 Aug / 6–8pm / free RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversat…

Are you based in the Liverpool City Region? Submit your photos for a chance to be featured in an exhibition at Open Eye Gallery and cash prizes! ➡️ openeye.org.uk/open-call-for-… Categories: celebration, connection, futures, shared spaces, movement and care. Closing date: 14 Sept 2025