Northern Ireland

Homelessness highlighted in new exhibition, part of festival

Cormac McArt from the Westcourt Camera Club shows some of the photographs on display at Artcetera Studio as part of the Four Corners Festival. The photographs highlight.the issue of Homelessness. The exhibition runs from 29 January to 5 February in Artcetera.Studio, 43B Rosemary Street, Belfast BT1 1QB..
Cormac McArt from the Westcourt Camera Club shows some of the photographs on display at Artcetera Studio as part of the Four Corners Festival. The photographs highlight.the issue of Homelessness. The exhibition runs from 29 January to 5 February in Artcet Cormac McArt from the Westcourt Camera Club shows some of the photographs on display at Artcetera Studio as part of the Four Corners Festival. The photographs highlight.the issue of Homelessness. The exhibition runs from 29 January to 5 February in Artcetera.Studio, 43B Rosemary Street, Belfast BT1 1QB..

Highlighting homelessness is the theme of a new exhibition staged part of the annual Four Courts Festival in Belfast.

Members of the Westcourt Camera Club, based out of the Westcourt Centre behind Castlecourt, worked with residents of supported accommodation to produce the series of images.

The exhibition opened on January 29 at the Artcetera Studio on Rosemary Street.

The annual Four Corners Festival aims “to entice people out of their own ‘corners’ of the city and into new places where they will encounter new perspectives, new ideas and hopefully meet new friends”. The theme of the festival this year is ‘Dreams’.

“No one ever dreams that they will end up homeless,” a spokesperson for the organisers said.

“But the latest figures show that we have almost 24,500 households with homeless status. And last year we had 6,700 children and 3,481 families accepted as homeless.

“The images on display are powerful, evocative and speak the truth about some of the circumstances and factors that force people into homelessness.

“The aim is to stress the scale and scope of the problem here and show that it can happen to anyone.”

The Westcourt Centre has worked to highlight the issue of homelessness for the last ten years.