About the Festival

Since 2013, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival has celebrated the quirky and creative results that can happen when photographers are forced to loosen their controls, submit to the light and embrace the accidental. Each year since, the Festival has brought a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and featured related programming including artist talks/panel discussions, workshops, social events, and a darkroom day.

The Somerville Toy Camera Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary in September 2023!

To make a donation in support of STCF please visit: https://navegallery.org/wp/donate/

About Somerville

Somerville, MA, the hippest city of squares going, is second only to NYC in number of artists-per-capita, and our culture-loving residents – alongside those from Cambridge, Boston, and other neighboring/nearby cities and towns – count on us for an important part of a balanced cultural diet. Our exhibition and performance venues, artists' studios/co-ops, and maker spaces crammed into our 4.2 square miles can't contain all our creative energy – we regularly bust out into the streets with a range of arts-focused festivals and "quirky" events. And it’s not just the artists who embrace the arts; turning obsolete pay phone boxes all over the city into public art installations was the idea of our then-mayor. With all this, and a thriving photography scene (we still have local film labs and a publicly-accessible wet darkroom close by!) Somerville is a great place to live and work, and a great place to have your photos exhibited!