We would like to capture your experiences as a student during the COVID-19 pandemic and celebrate new beginnings through your photographs to be showcased in the Gallery Café exhibition space at Regent Street Campus.
‘Being Westminster Anywhere’ photography exhibition
The exhibition, named ‘Being Westminster Anywhere’, will take place at the Gallery Café, Regent Street campus, from 20 September to 15 October.
Open to all students and colleagues to submit their photographs - this could be a walk through a sunny spot in the park, picking up an old hobby, working or studying in your kitchen – we would like you to use your imagination to search for old photos or to take new ones capturing any meaningful experiences you have had since the first lockdown or to celebrate the gradual return to life out of restrictions.
If your submission is chosen, it will be printed in A1 or A2 size and displayed on the wall at the Gallery Café from 20 September to 15 October.
How to submit your photograph
Please complete one of the attached forms below, if you wish for your photograph to be exhibited as a part of this exhibition.
Depending on the quality and size of your photograph, it will either printed and displayed on the wall of the Gallery Café or displayed as a part of a slideshow on the Gallery Café screen.
Submission deadline
By 5pm on Friday 27 August
The themes
Inspired by the below themes but not limited to:
- Our new work and study environments
- Connecting with colleagues, friends, and family virtually or in person
- Exercising from home
- Pets
- Working while home-schooling our children
- Connecting with nature
- Following Covid-19 guidelines on campus
- Celebrating graduations, promotions, passing PhD Vivas, end of term, etc from home
- Volunteering during the pandemic.
The technical requirements
File Formats
To be a tiff, pdf and jpeg file format
Pixel ratios
7016 x 4961 pixels for A2 size (594 x 420 mm
9933 x 7016 px for A1 size (841 x 594 mm)
For your chance to have your photograph printed.
Submission checklist
Make sure all your images are:
- Preferably PDF, .tiff or .jpeg format and saved at quality 10 or above, or the maximum quality possible (depending on which software you use)
- Minimum 180 ppi/dpi or the largest size file you have
- Colour or Black and White, both accepted
- Portrait or landscape format, both accepted
- Has your full name at the start of EACH file name e.g. john-smith-YOUR-UNIQUE-FILENAME.pdf
- A description of what is happening in the photo and why you chose to submit it.
Our values and aims
Our values at the University of Westminster are to be progressive, compassionate, and responsible. We have witnessed these values being reflected by our community during the past 16 months.
Whilst our students seamlessly adjusted to their new study environments, colleagues quickly adapted to working from home to provide the best possible experience and resources to our student community.
We also witnessed students and colleagues being compassionate to one another during difficult times despite the distance and limitations.
We would like to capture these experiences from you throughout the pandemic, so we are calling you to submit your photographs highlighting what the past year and a half has meant to you.
The Gallery Café exhibition space
The Gallery Café at the University of Westminster is located at the Regent Street campus, on the right-hand side of the main entrance. The café is accessible to the public which allows visitors and tourists to use our space.
After a break for a few years, the Gallery Café was relaunched as a working gallery in 2019. Since then, the Arts, Communication and Culture Research community organised several exhibitions at the Gallery Café until the café was closed due to Covid-19.
Gallery Café allows you to showcase your work through the medium of art to our Westminster community and the general public while enjoying the Café space.
For more information about the ‘Being Westminster Anywhere’ photography exhibition
or if you are interested in organising an event in the Gallery Café, please contact Dain Robinson at [email protected].
