Purbeck Photography Festival

Saturday, 03 April 2027 to Sunday, 11 April 2027

Corfe Castle

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Sandy Hill Arts is delighted to be piloting an inaugural Purbeck Photography Festival from 3rd to the 11th April 2027, as a precursor to an ongoing, independent biennial festival.  Dorset already holds a strong portfolio of art festivals like Dorset Art Weeks, Inside Out Dorset, B side and Arts by the Sea, but none of them are particularly focussed on photography. Photography now plays such a pivotal role in our everyday lives, and with our seemingly endless appetite for imagery we feel it is a good time to develop this new arts festival

While metropolitan areas benefit from a high density of contemporary galleries, rural areas are frequently underserved: there are no other photography festivals within 60 miles. The ten day Purbeck Photography Festival will challenge this disparity, and aims to introduce high-quality new photographic work by national and international artists, juxtaposed with the work of emerging regional practitioners. In this age of transient instant image making we want to champion and re-emphasise ‘considered photography’ as what it is, an accessible and democratic art form.