As Belfast Photo Festival 2025 launches, the team are prominently displaying images of Lough Neagh’s Toxic Blue Green Algal on digital billboards across the city, to recognise the fragility, immediacy and urgency of the exhibitions on Natural Heritage. Small algal blooms are already appearing around the Lough and will soon – yet again – cause the widespread danger, disruption and dismay experienced in previous years. Furthermore, to capture and share up close how so many of the underlying causes of this complex issue remain unchecked The team have also installed 3 deactivated water coolers at Botanic Gardens, the Ulster Museum and Belfast Exposed, filled and sealed with water from the Lough’s environment, including algae from the Lough, slurry scum from its tributaries and the outflow water from an industrial area. The water coolers are deactivated and branded with a public warning sticker as used by the public authorities. They give the public a chance to get up close to the same pollution and effluent that is pouring into a natural treasure and the source of over 40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. (Belfast Photo Festival) -
The plight of Lough Neagh is being highlighted by a major festival with blue-green algae from the lough being displayed in a water cooler.
Images of the toxic substance are also being shown on digital billboards as part of the Belfast Photo Festival.
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