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Photo Bethlem 2025
 

Photo Bethlem 2025

Bethlem Gallery
1 – 4 October 2025
Open 9.30am – 5pm, Wednesday-Saturday
Running alongside PhotoMonth Photography Exhibition 2025, Photo Bethlem 2025 is four days of photography focused programming including artist-led, guided photo walks and photo talks.  
 
Throughout this time, the gallery’s walls will be increasingly populated with photos taken on the walks as well as other community sourced images that have inspired participants.
 

Programme Outline 

Guided Photo Walks 
1 and 3 October, 1-2.30pm 
4 October, 11am-12pm 

Can we see the familiar in new ways? A guided photo walk at the gallery and surrounding grounds will attempt to do this in an open, participatory session, followed by the opportunity to share your images. 

Bring your camera, phone, or anything else that can make images.  

Talking Images: Artists in Conversation 
2 October, 12.30-2pm and 2.30-4pm (Hybrid events)

Image-making and photography allow for new perspectives and ideas to emerge. It allows for artists and photographers to explore ways of seeing, and to share lived and sensory experiences visually. 

These artist talks/conversations will feature the work and ideas of an artist in the development stage of their practice, offering a chance to share and explore their work in depth. 

Featuring artists Beth Hopkins (2.30-4pm) and Peter Ball (12.30-2pm). 

Crit Session / Share & Discuss Your Work 
4 October, 2-4pm

An important part of art classes and degrees, ‘crits’ are often intense sessions that allow for precious opportunities to share your work, but often come with difficult criticism and high expectations for shared references and often inaccessible knowledge.  

Through an open, friendly, and experimental format, this session aims to ‘rethink’ what a crit can be, focusing on the many ways we make, think of, process, share our work, and discuss ideas and thoughts about the images we see. Hosted by artist, facilitator, and learning practitioner Francesca Telling. 

If you are an artist and want to discuss a piece of work that you can bring along, please register to take part in this session. 

 
This session is for artists as well as people who might not yet consider themselves artists. You are welcome to join if you have a piece of work, something in-progress or an idea that you would like to discuss. You don’t need to have attended a ‘crit’ before, or have a formal art education.

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