Street View: A Woman Walks Alone At Night, With a Camera

About The Exhibition

Belfast Exposed is proud to present Street View: A Woman Walks Alone At Night, With a Camera by artist Ruby Wallis in collaboration with Phillina Sun.

Featuring photographs by Ruby Wallis and an essay by Phillina Sun, the project centres around the experience of walking at night as a woman. Designed by Eimearjean McCormack, the publication links image and text through the figure of the flâneuse, framed here as a subversive, imaginative explorer who wanders the city according to her desire, deterritorialising an urban landscape traditionally seen as a male domain. The publication visually and poetically engages with psychogeography through a feminist lens, thus addressing an urgent need for liberating representations constructed by a female gaze that confronts the issues women face when they walk in the city day or night.

Street View

The award-winning 'Street View' provides a multimedia exhibition experience to increase the accessibility and visibility of photography on the streets of Belfast. Street View is a large digital window display, complemented with audio narratives, that showcases contemporary artwork by internationally renowned and local emerging photographers to an external audience on the streets of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter.

Belfast Exposed believe photography is for everyone, it is accessible, meaningful and has the ability to tell stories, allowing us to create dialogue and reflect upon our history, inform our present and inspire a positive future. Street View is another opportunity to extend our vision beyond the confines of the gallery.