PRISM Photography Open 2025

This group exhibition brings together a selection of thought-provoking new photographs by image-makers based across the West Midlands region.

Selected from an open call organised with PRISM Photography network, the featured artists explore themes of belonging and interconnectedness through portraits, landscapes, political and personal stories.

Kindly supported by Arts Council England and players of People's Postcode Lottery.

© Matilda Lodge, The City, 2024.

List of selected artists / photographers

Thea Brown, Sylwia Ciszewska-Peciak, Trev Clarke, Lisa Dams, Urben Deane, Anupama Gamanagari, Jessica Groves, Sam Lee Hayes, Kate Lagan, Matilda Lodge, Irina Mackie, Rebecca Orleans, Angela Otuka, Pierro Pozella, Emily Sharp, Tegen Kimbley, Carl Williams and Sam Wood.

The selectors

Rachel Bradley is a curator, public art commissioner and writer based in the West Midlands. Her focus is place-based practice, and she recently curated MAC exhibitions, The Butterfly Effect and Worlds Away: Art, Nature and Wellbeing.

Francesco Falciani is an executive Director of Prism photography network and documentary photographer based in Birmingham.

Rachel Segal Hamilton is a writer and editor with a specialism in photography. She has been Contributing Editor for the Royal Photographic Society since 2018, is a regular writer for British Journal of Photography and author of two books on photography, Love Story and Unseen London, published by Hoxton Mini Press.

Marley Starskey Butler is a multidisciplinary artist and social worker. They work within visual, audio, and written mediums through themes of opposites, parallels, memory, love, loss, reflection, process, and play.

Roundtable discussion | Sat 26 April, 2pm | Hexagon Theatre, MAC

Roundtable panel discussion about the theme of belonging in contemporary photography. Speakers include Francesco Falciani (Prism Director) and exhibiting image-makers, chaired by Rachel Segal Hamilton (journalist and selector).

PRISM Photography Open 2025 is a collaborative project with Prism photography network, Birmingham. For network information and further events associated with the exhibition, visit www.prismphotographynetwork.org.