Belfast Exposed is Northern Ireland's only dedicated photographic gallery. Established in Belfast in 1983, it houses a 20x7m gallery for the exhibition of contemporary photography, digital archive browsing facilities, a spacious black and white photographic darkroom and a digital editing suite. Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Main language English Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area - Total Ranked 4th... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ... A darkroom is a given space, usually a separate area in a building or a vehicle, that is made dark so as to allow photographers to use light-sensitive materials to develop photographs and film. ...
The gallery has focussed on the production of socially and politically engaged work, the development and exhibition of community photography. Training is used to encourage local communities to use photography to record and understand their environment.
Belfast Exposed hosts an archive of half a million images, which were to be published online in a digital archive by March 2004. A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels. ...