IDENTITY AROUND TOWN

Photography all over Glossop

Identity Around Town extends the Dark Peak Photo Festival beyond the gallery, with exhibitions in five key Glossop locations alongside the Open Call Window Exhibition featuring over 170 photographers. Work appears in cafés, shop windows, and offices, bringing photography into everyday spaces and encouraging encounters with the theme of Identity in places people pass through, pause in, and return to.

The displays explore identity from multiple perspectives, shaped by personal experience, social context, and each photographer’s vision. Together, they create a dialogue across the town, offering fresh ways to see photography and the places we inhabit.

A person riding a mountain bike on a foggy forest trail lined with tall trees and moss-covered ground.

Glossop Train Station Gallery

Norfolk Street, Glossop, Derbyshire,

SK13 8BS

A View from Two Wheels

A photography exhibition, exploring identity not just as a personal journey but as something shaped by the landscapes we inhabit and the communities we cherish. At the heart of this narrative is Peak District MTB, a voluntary mountain biking advocacy group.

Various Photographers

Pico Lounge

unit 3 & 4, Howard Town Mill, Victoria St, Glossop,SK13 8HT

Open Call - Gallery

A strong selection of local and international photographers responded to this year’s open call, exploring the theme Identity: Inside and Outside. Presented both within the gallery and visible through its windows, the works engage directly with the physical space, inviting audiences to encounter identity from both interior and exterior perspectives

Sample Image selected from 15 on display

A small waterfall flowing into a river, surrounded by grassy hills and rocks, under a partly cloudy sky.

Martins Bakery

32 High St W, Glossop SK13 8BH

A Walkers Journal

This photographic journal follows a walker with camera in hand as he explores the rugged hills and wild places around Glossop. From the moss-covered gritstone outcrops of Alport Castles, where towering rock formations rise like natural fortresses in the Derbyshire Peak District, to the open moorland that sweeps across the Dark Peak’s elevated terrain, each image captures the interplay between walker and landscape. Through these walks and encounters with valley, clough and skyline, the series reflects a deep connection to place — a visual celebration of terrain shaped by time, weather and quiet passage through the hills that frame Glossop’s horizon.

Photographer Neil Martin

A scenic landscape view at sunset with rolling hills, grassy fields, and a dramatic orange and yellow sky with streaks of clouds.

The Two Hares

3 High St East, Glossop SK13 8DA

This is Glossopdale

This photography exhibition documents life in and around Glossop, capturing the character of the area through its landscapes, urban spaces and wildlife. Moving between town, countryside and the edges where they meet, the images reflect the rhythms of everyday life and the quieter presence of the natural world. Together, they present Glossop as a place shaped by its environment, its built spaces and the species that share it.

Photographer Rob Taylor

Glossop Market Hall

Market St, Glossop SK13 8AP

Open Call Gallery 2

Back wall of the Market Hall

A vibrant mix of local and international photographers responded to this year’s open call, reflecting on the theme Identity: Inside and Outside. Installed across the back wall of the Market Hall, the works bring these perspectives into a shared public space, where everyday movement and community life become part of the conversation.

Sample Image selected from those on display