The Brussels Street Photography Festival 2025 will take place during the first weekend of June. The dates are Thursday May 29th until Sunday June 1st, 2025. Opening Wednesday May 28th. You can visit the exhibition for free until the 15th of June.
The festival takes place in Brussels, Belgium. The location will be announced soon.
You can head over to the open call page and find all information including the terms and conditions there, or you can read the terms and directions directly here.
No, the photos may be taken anywhere in the world. All this information you can find on our open call page and in the terms and conditions.
Go to the open call page, read the open call text and contest rules carefully.
Make sure each image is a maximum of 5MB, has the correct file format (jpeg) and is named correctly.
For example, the name of each file must consist of the photographer's first and last name, followed by a number. You write this down as follows: Firstname_Surname_Numbering.jpg. Photos that do not comply with this will automatically be excluded from the competition.
The call for entries for BSPF ‘25 begins on January 6th and ends on March 23rd, 2025.
If you've received a confirmation e-mail (containing all your details, the names of your submitted photos and the payment method), then we have successfully obtained your entry. However, if you did not receive an e-mail, please check your spam box first. In the event you do not find the confirmation in there either, please send an email to contest@bspfestival.org and we will check your entry.
There is only 1 Brussels award and only finalist photos are eligible for this contest.
All photographers selected as finalists will be asked to send us the year and place where the photo was taken. Photographs in both the Series and Singles competitions that were taken in Brussels automatically stand a chance of winning this prize.
In this case photos in the Series contest will be judged individually.
Pictures should be taken between January 2022 and now. Our aim is to stimulate street photographers to create and submit new work. For series, three pictures need to be taken in that time frame. Others should be maximum 10 years old.
No, photos should be taken with a digital, analog camera or cell phone. For submission through our website, analog images must be digitized.
The proceeds from these open calls cover only part of the production costs of our festival and without them there would be no BSPF. Therefore we cannot offer free participation. However the festival itself, all exhibitions and activities (except the workshops) are free of charge.
We also organize a free open call, the Photomarathon, for pictures taken during a set 24 hours in Brussels Capital Region. All information (date, rules, ...) regarding the Photomarathon will be shared soon.
All photos submitted for the Singles contest will be manually added to the online audience award platform by BSPF, as long as they meet all the conditions stated in our terms and conditions. This may take up to 72 hours after submission. If after those 72 hours your photos are not on the platform, please send an e-mail to contest@bspfestival.org
The selection of the finalists will take place online from March 25th to April 4th, 2025. Photographers selected as finalists during the first round will be notified via email by April 18th, 2025.
Yes. You can participate in each contest as much as you want.
We posted them all on our instagram and facebook page so make sure to follow us. On our website you can go to Past editions > 2024 > Finalists or directly through here.
You can go to Past editions > 2024 to read about our last edition and see our aftermovie and some pictures from the festival and our exhibitions.