News & Reading

Open Call for the Liverpool City Region Photo Awards 2025

Rita Pena: Adding a Different Vision To The Neighbourhood’s Stereotypical Perception

Photography revealing the hidden labour of care: Sam Ivin for Carers Week Takeover

MEMORY KEEPERS: help tell the 300-year story of RHS Garden Bridgewater’s ancient sweet chestnut tree, in a unique art project

Refugee Week 2025: Community as a Superpower

22 photographers to celebrate freedom in a national programme of creative projects

Open Call: Socially Engaged Photographer

Act Now: Write to Your MP to Protect the Future of the Visual Arts

Liverpool City Region Photo Awards 2025 opening soon

LCR Cultural Events Programme explores life through the lens of diverse community groups in new photographic exhibitions

The Power of Inclusive Photography

‘Well Hung’ is now available on Open Eye Gallery’s Youtube Channel

PHOTO CONNECT: NEW NETWORK SEEKS VIEWS TO HELP CHAMPION PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

Where we place the value and success of socially engaged work? Discussion with Liz Wewiora

Open Eye Gallery joins forces with museums UK-wide on largest ever collaborative exhibition programme

New work examining the impact of violence against women and girls to be shown at Open Eye Gallery

Developing a shared understanding of socially engaged practice: Crossing Sectors 2025

What does it mean for a photograph to be iconic? Key takeaways from the symposium On War Photography

Firehawks: an exhibition about firesetting behaviour is coming to Open Eye Gallery in September

“I went from taking pictures for aesthetic value to taking pictures with a purpose and meaning behind them”: Andy Yates in Tracks 02

Leading visual arts organisations publish 4 recommendations to safeguard the UK’s visual arts and artists

Take part in a photo project celebrating the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool

Getting it right/Getting it wrong: Socially Engaged Art and Ethics

7 books on war, individual, society, and resistance from our independent bookshop

The Return Of Spellow Library

Poetry events at Open Eye Gallery: 2025 programme

TreeStory goes to Wigan and Leigh

Intervention and Renewal: Tilt essay by Johannes Pretorius

UCEN Photography students exhibit work at Manchester Victoria station

Snapshot of life within six Liverpool City Region community groups to be told in new photographic project

New art project with University of Salford, RHS Garden Bridgewater and Open Eye Gallery

Open Eye Gallery is taking part in National Lottery Open Week

5 books on queer culture from our independent bookshop

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

In-Conversation with Kirsty MacKay now available on our youtube-channel

International Exchange Residency with Eda Emirdağ / Montag Residency

Socially Engaged Photography Network 2025 Survey Results

Tell us your thoughts on accessibility

A Spotlight On Les Monaghan

Open Eye Gallery’s curator, Max Gorbatskyi, in conversation with The British Journal of Photography

Open Eye Gallery is a finalist for Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards: Art Organisation of the Year and Environment Award!

How can socially engaged photography benefit community gardening?

Crossing Sectors #5: professional development programme for lens-based artists, creative producers and curators

A Spotlight on Miriam Flüchter: Reflecting on the past and looking to the future

Christmas Gift Selection from our independent bookshop

TreeStory project received Heritage Interpretation Award

Work with us: Network Coordinator

Marriage (In)Equality Panel Discussion now available on our YouTube-channel

Childhood Is a Garden: Interview With Miriam Fluchter

Announcing the Theme and Participating Artists for Liverpool Biennial 2025

Study with us: Collaborative Doctoral Award with Birmingham City University

A Spotlight On Photovoice

Creative Producer and Operations Manager, Alex Sheen

God Loves a Fretter – a writing piece by Severin Domela

A Spotlight On… Paula Keenan and Picturing Eccles

Open Call: Shape of the Wind

6 books celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities and artists from our independent bookshop

Prescot Photography Club: How photography united local community

Introducing Tracks

Open Eye Gallery and Fire it Up Fund are proud to support 8 young photographers

A Sensory Journey Through Sound and Silence: The Conductor by Mishka Henner – Review by Lizzie King

A Spotlight On… New Langdales

Reflecting on Creative Neighbourhoods

9 books on fashion, diversity and self-expression from our independent bookshop

Open Eye Gallery’s creative producer is the finalist for the Northern Cultural Education Awards 2024

LAF & Open Eye Gallery Photography Competition

Our Public Complaints Policy has been updated

Sharing art with local communities: Open Eye Gallery will be a partner in a new collaborative touring programme

Sam Parker Reflects on LOOK Climate Lab 2024

Call for Eccles residents to be a part of historic Eccles project

AI and art in working with the topic of climate change

8 books about art and climate from our independent bookshop

Women in Uniform – A Spotlight On… Shy Burhan

Nature and indigenous representations in contemporary Brazilian photography

Open Eye Gallery became a member of Fair Employment Charter

Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders: videos

Art as Experimental Politics: a Review of Vid Simoniti’s Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto

Capturing Communities’: A Conversation with Emerging Photographer Zak Bennett

Industrial history and slow pace of life by Joe Dixey

Snail, soil, oak: Towards sustainable collaboration with nonhumans by Anneka French

People, Places, Postcards

Open Eye Gallery is shortlisted for LCR Culture and Creativity Award

A fire in the belly: Liz Wewiora on Tish Murtha

STOCKING FILM-ERS

Places to see photography in Liverpool

Drag Kings of Manchester by Christine Beckett: review

A Place of Our Own: Review of Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders

Ensuring Lost Voices are heard

Open Eye Gallery is partnering with #WeFeedTheUK

an oasis in a concrete jungle a pop up exhibition about older peoples experiences and reflections of the covid 19 pandemic

A Spotlight on… Eva Jonas

Essential Analogue Photography Kit

Threads of Change: Unravelling Sustainability as a Social Tapestry in the Gallery Space

A Spotlight On… Faye Héran

Liverpool Arts and Culture Race Equality Manifesto Statement

Home. Poems inspired by photographs from Ukraine

Open Eye Gallery’s new curator Max Gorbatskyi announced as co-curator for the Ukrainian pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024.

HOW DO WE CO-AUTHOR CULTURE?

Open Eye Gallery Welcomes New Curator, Max Gorbatskyi

Arts & Creativity Community Impact Award-2023

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