Identity Around Town

Identity Around Town extends the Dark Peak Photo Festival beyond traditional exhibition spaces and into the everyday fabric of Glossop town centre. Across cafés, shop windows, office buildings and other unexpected locations, photographers present work that responds to the festival’s central theme of Identity, inviting encounters with photography in places people already pass through, pause in and return to.

These exhibitions bring photography into dialogue with daily life. Seen outside the gallery context, the work sits alongside the rhythms of the town — offering moments of reflection, disruption and connection. The projects on display explore identity from multiple perspectives, shaped by personal experience, social context and the distinct ways each photographer looks at the world.

Contributing photographers include artists invited from the Dark Peak Photo Festival Open Calls of 2024 and 2025, alongside practitioners who have independently initiated exhibitions and collaborations within the town. While each display remains artist-led and independently realised, all are supported and connected through the wider framework of the Dark Peak Photo Festival.

Together, these dispersed exhibitions form a shared yet varied conversation, encouraging audiences to discover photography as they move through Glossop — encountering new voices, unexpected viewpoints and fresh ways of seeing identity in place.