Published Leicester Photographer Pete Martin - Art Festival Event Photography
One of my favourite jobs of the year is ArtReach’s Journeys International Festival.
Journeys Festival International brings together artists and communities to explore big ideas and create experiences that will excite and entertain. It was first delivered in Leicester in 2013 and since then has hosted regular editions in Manchester and Portsmouth too. With this festival, we create a platform for artists from sanctuary seeking backgrounds, a showcase to share artistic talent, community cultural exchanges and incredible live events.
I’ve been photographing this event since 2021, and every one has been amazing. Such diverse performers and some absolutely moving themes.
In October 2024 the festival returned to Leicester, so armed with my camera and a few lenses I took to the streets for a weekend of event capture.
Over the 2 days I took 2,847 images and covered 48,000 steps!
Here are a couple of images from the weekend.
Here is a link to Journeys Festival. https://artreach.org.uk/journeysfestival/
On a side note, two of my images were featured in ‘Church Times’.
A few days after this was published I was contacted by an editor for the Daily Telegraph. They wanted to purchase a licence to one of the images! The licence was 12 months online and 1 print use in the UK.
So I’m officially a published photographer!