Get creative! Win prizes! Exhibit!

Surrounded By Sea is a photographic competition and exhibition in aid of Refugee Rescue.

You enter the competition by submitting a personal photograph that expresses your relationship with the sea and the coast.

Images above are from the Surrounded By Sea 2022 competition and exhibition in Dublin. Top left clockwise: The Happy Pear, Ruth Medjber, Muireann O’Connell and Hozier.

How does it work?

Participants pay a small fee as a donation to enter the competition and submit a personal photograph that expresses their relationship with the sea. All proceeds go towards a new rescue vessel for the voluntary NGO Refugee Rescue.

  • A panel of local photographers pick the winners in your area

  • All photographs go on display at a local exhibition

  • Winners are announced online

  • On opening night of the exhibition the winners can collect their prizes 

Have a look at the previous Surrounded By Sea competition in Dublin for inspiration..