Michael Weir, Founder & Director, Belfast Photo Festival
In terms of making your work stand out, it’s helpful for photographers to have carefully considered the exhibition and presentation of their work, providing examples of this within their submission. This helps to give those making the selection a good understanding of how the exhibition could be presented and also gives the photographer an opportunity to take their creativity a step further by proposing the shows presentation in a very unique and potentially stylised way.
From my experience, less is more, and it is a good idea for a photographer to make their selection of submitted images with a friend or colleague to ensure they are submitting the strongest photographs within their project portfolio and that each image brings something new and different to the story or conversation.