Thank You!
Sept 28 2025: Just like that, another Somerville Toy Camera Fest has flown by. We’re grateful to all the artists who submitted their best work, and to our 2025 juror, workshop leads, gallery visitors, press and social media boosters, festival sponsors, and all the friends who followed along from home.
The full Festival will return in 2027, and we’re not ruling out possible interstitial bursts of lo-fi love (think popups, or online events, or…?) in 2026! Sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop!
What’s a toy camera?
Toys have come a long way since we started this Festival in 2013, but our north stars remain the plastic toy cameras that started it all back in the 1960s-70s. For our exhibitions, we welcome photos made with any camera that:
shoots film, or exposes images directly onto to photosensitive paper
has a plastic lens (or no lens — hello pinhole)
offers very minimal (or no) exposure control
See our FAQ for more info…