Young Hackney Museum

Photography Competition

Calling all 14-25 year old aspiring photographers in Hackney!

Share your photographs of what it feels like to live in Hackney today in this photography competition. The chosen photographs will go in a display in a temporary exhibition at Hackney Museum in September 2023. You can also be in with a chance to have a 30mins one-to-one session with a professional photographer to provide feedback on your work, and opportunities for you to meet with other young photographers in the borough.

All you have to do is:

  1. Fill in this short expression of interest form by Sunday 19 March 2023
  2. Take a series of six photographs (or choose from ones you have already taken) which tell a story together and visually share your ideas of feeling at home in Hackney
  3. On Monday 20 March 2023 Hackney Museum will send you instructions on how to submit your six photographs and information about them
  4. Submit your photographs and information about them by Sunday 2 April 2023
Image of Photograph: Young people, Whitmore Estate
A group of youths listening to music outside Fletcher House on the Whitmore Estate, 1978. (C) Jürgen Schadeberg.