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Breaking Glass Magazine – December 2025

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December again and time for our year end galleries – thank you to all the photographers who have submitted images; the collections will be published later this month, and they’re looking good!

The usual live music features heading your way too – for all the latest posts, follow our updates here

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday however or whether you celebrate – take care of yourselves and those around you, and we’ll see you back here in 2026…

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st December 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – November 2025

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Hope everyone’s well out there and keeping warm. We’ve reached that time again when we ask you to make the near impossible choice of which were your best shots of the year. As usual, we’ll be running two galleries; one just for live music shots and one for everything else. You can check out content from previous years on the links here, and guidelines are listed below. Look forward to seeing what you captured in 2025!

Best Music Shots of the year galleries

Year Through the Lens galleries

Always plenty of live music coverage heading your way too – for all the latest posts, follow our updates here

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Guidelines for 2025 year end gallery submissions:

Category A : Live Music – your shot must be of an artist or band performing live in 2025 – if you have music related shots that are portraits, crowd shots, etc, these can be sent in to category B if you wish.

Category B : General – any subject matter and style taken in 2025 can be included – human and/or animal portraits, landscapes, street photography, events, wildlife photography, cityscapes, etc. Please ensure that your shots do not contain anything generally regarded as offensive or prohibited on social media and that you have permission for any shots featuring recognisable minors.

Both categories: You can send in 1 or 2 shots per category. Colour, black and white, portrait, landscape, square are all fine – jpg files please. You can choose to include a watermark or not; all we ask is that, if you do, please try to keep it fairly subtle. It doesn’t matter if you’re professional, amateur or just take photos here and there for the fun of it – as long as it’s a clear shot that will cope with being enlarged on screen. It’s not a competition; we just want to highlight your work in a space where everyone is welcome to join in.

All you need to do is email your chosen shot(s) with the subject as Best of 2025 to breakingglassmag@gmail.com by the closing date Friday 5th December 2025 with the following details:
– Name of artist (music) or title of shot (general)
– Venue / location for music shots
– Month taken (must be a photo you have taken in 2025)
– How you would like to be credited (first name / full name / professional or website name, etc)
– Links to your work (website / social media, etc)
– Max of 2 photos per category

By submitting you give us permission to include your shot(s) in an online feature and use to promote this and related posts on the website and social media. All images remain under your ownership and copyright and this will be stated in the feature with clear details of who the photographer is for each shot. Galleries will be published during December 2025.

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st November 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – October 2025

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Putting the focus on portrait photography, check out our recent gallery featuring different photographers from around the world – we loved seeing the range of subjects and styles included. We’re always happy to shine a spotlight on your work; if you’d like to see your images in a feature on the website, please get in touch.

Lots of great live music heading your way in the coming months as always – for all the latest coverage, follow our updates here

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st October 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – September 2025

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It’s been a busy month of summer festivals and now it’s time to head back indoors as the gig circuit falls back into place and a stream of city festivals kick in for the winter. We’ve got our eye on strong line-ups at Brighton’s Mutations and Bristol’s Simple Things for starters. Drop us a message if there are others that you think would be a good fit.

We’ve got some more photography features coming up too so keep a look out on our socials for details. For everyone enquiring – sorry, we don’t have capacity to take on regular photographers currently, but if you’d like us to publish a one-off feature of your work, please get in touch.

Follow our updates here

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st September 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – August 2025

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In the last few weeks it’s been good to see the Brighton music scene thriving, with new venues opening their doors and new music nights starting up at existing venues. The grassroots community is paramount for emerging artists taking their first steps towards bigger venues and festival stages, and getting their names known on a wider scale. It’s great that festivals include new music stages too, again allowing newer artists from all genres to gain exposure. August sees us covering a selection of music events big and small – come say hi if you see us around.

Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Follow our updates here

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st August 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – July 2025

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Photographers – hopefully you’ve seen the first of our posts giving details for our next online gallery; the theme is ‘Portraits’ and submissions are open for candid or posed shots, full details on our Instagram. Look forward to seeing what comes through!

Elsewhere, as always, we’ll have plenty of new and live music for you, starting off today with an interview with Naarm/Melbourne based artist Merpire ahead of her new album release on Friday. 

If you’re not there already, give us a follow here for updates…

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st July 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – June 2025

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Hope you’re all well out there. We’ve survived the beautiful chaos of Brighton in May with the streets and venues full to bursting with music and theatre during Brighton Fringe, Festival and The Great Escape. Time to look across the UK at summer festivals and trips now – as always, we’d love to see your event photos so feel free to tag us on Insta. 

Photographers – we’ll be curating a new gallery of portrait shots (candid and posed) shortly and will get dates and details up for submissions this month, so keep an eye on our socials if you’d like to take part.

Header shot Knives at The Great Escape © Siobhan

Published 1st June 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – May 2025

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The sun is out and things are getting busy on the coast…

May always feels like the proper start of the festival season as the streets of Brighton fill up with the carnival of The Fringe, closely followed by the new music melting pot that is The Great Escape. This year, both have a stellar selection of artists taking part, and we’re looking forward to discovering some new talent as always happens with these events. More festivals to follow throughout the summer and possibly even some more sunshine? I guess we’ll have to wait and see…

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st May 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – April 2025

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Heading into springtime and we’re looking at ideas for new photo galleries or revisiting some themes we’ve done in the past, maybe portraits or street photography. Let us know your thoughts and we’ll get something together. A reminder that when we compile these galleries, all photographers are welcome, whatever your experience or photographic style. 

Of course, we’ll also be out there covering lots of great live music and look forward to some outdoor events now the sun’s finally coming out to play. See you down the front somewhere soon!

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st April 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – March 2025

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Heading into spring and it’s time for us to start looking ahead to festival season. We’ll be putting together some previews shortly – who’s got the best line-up? Let us know what’s catching your eye!

We’re also still open for photographer features, so if you’d like us to put together a piece promoting your work, drop us an email to breakingglassmag@gmail.com – you can check out previous features for inspiration here.

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st March 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – February 2025

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It’s been a quiet start to 2025 but things are starting to pick up with more gigs and exhibitions on the horizon and festival announcements coming through thick and fast.

Slots are still open for photographer features and we’d be happy to hear about any upcoming events that should be on our radar. Contact details here – drop us a message!

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st February 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – January 2025

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New year, new content…

It’s been a while since we did any In Focus features, and we’d love to hear from any photographers out there who’d like us to highlight their work on the website. If there’s a particular photo set or theme you want to promote that’s fine, but a mix of subjects is great  too. Generally, these pieces include around 10-12 of your favourite shots and either a short bio and/or a few lines about each set of pictures. You can see some previous examples here. If you’re interested, please drop us an email in the first instance, and let us know what you’d like to include.

In the meantime, wishing you all the very best for 2025!

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st January 2025

Breaking Glass Magazine – December 2024

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So we’ve almost reached the end of another year. Trust it’s been a good one and that 2025 will bring everything you hope for.

Before we get there, our end of year galleries are underway and will be published before Christmas – huge thanks to everyone who has submitted their favourite shots from 2024; a little reminder that you have until 8th to send yours in if you haven’t done so yet. The two categories are:
– Best Music Shots of 2024
– 2024 Through the Lens
Full details for both can be found here

Wishing you all a safe and peaceful holiday season – look after yourselves and each other x

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st December 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – November 2024

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Seems unlikely that we’ve reached that point in the year already but, none the less, it’s almost time for our end of year galleries. For those who haven’t taken part before, or anyone who just needs a reminder, we run two separate galleries – one specifically for live music shots and one for pretty much anything else you’ve captured. Provisional closing date for submissions is midnight BST on 8th December but adding full details below to give you some time to look back through your favourite photos and start narrowing down which ones to choose. Last year’s collections are here: Best Music Shots 2023 part 1, Best Music Shots 2023 part 2, and 2023 Through the Lens.

We’d love to see your favourite shots from 2024 – as always, everyone welcome.

Best Music Shots of 2024
Please include the artist, venue or festival, and month taken
2024 Through the Lens
Please add a title or a few words describing the image(s)
Both galleries
– Breaking Glass is not a profit-making publication; we can’t pay for contributions nor do we charge for submissions as some sites do
– Everyone is welcome to join in; professional or hobbyist, camera or phone, film or digital photographer
– Copyright remains with the photographer; by submitting your photos you grant us permission to include them on the website and our social media with credit
– You can submit 1 or 2 images for either or both galleries (i.e. 1 or 2 music shots + 1 or 2 general shots)
– Please include your name, how you would like to be credited and links you would like us to include to your work, e.g. website/socials
– Photos should be sent as jpg files – portrait, landscape, square, colour, black & white are all fine, any style, you can send with or without watermark – email to breakingglassmag@gmail.com
– Please ensure there is no offensive content and that you have permission to share images of people not taken in a public place or including minors
– We publish on a white background so best to avoid white borders or understand that we may need to trim these if included, otherwise it’ll look like you have a big blank space around your image!
-Deadline for submissions 8th December 2024

We’ll post reminders on socials during the coming weeks and look forward to doing this all over again…

Header shot Fireworks at Truck Festival © Siobhan

Published 1st November 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – October 2024

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As our Festival Life gallery goes live and we look back at some of the amazing events of 2024 so far, here’s just the first of probably many gentle nudges that we’ll be curating our usual end of year galleries in December. These are always a highlight and an opportunity for photographers of all genres to get involved. We’ll put full details out at the start of November but if you want a reminder or a glimpse into how these look, our previous collections are here for Best Music Shots of the Year and The Year Through the Lens.

On a wider note, it’s now 6 years since Breaking Glass came to life; honestly wasn’t sure if it would last 6 months but here we are – a big, heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed along the way, and here’s to many more!

Header shot V&A Dundee © Siobhan

Published 1st October 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – July 2024

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Much live music coverage to come this month with summertime festivities in full swing – but it bears noting that other events this week will shape how things go forward for us and everyone else in the creative sector.

TV in the last week has been wall to wall election preamble, football and Glastonbury in the UK. Whatever your thoughts on the Banksy boat and VAR, here’s hoping that we come out of this month with a different political lead. The Tories have caused so much damage and hate, please use your vote for change on 4th.

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st July 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – June 2024

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Heading towards festival season proper, we’re looking forward to seeing your shots from different events across the summer. And wishing everyone a happy Pride month – we’ll be covering some regional celebrations over the coming months, so jump in front of the camera if you see us around!

Any photographers out there who’d like to be featured in one of our In Focus pieces, we’d love to see what you’re shooting, any subject matter considered. Drop us a message and let us know what you have in mind…

Header shot Sculpture by the Lakes © Morgan Elliott

Published 1st June 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – May 2024

Music, photography and more…

Last month’s Outside gallery was a thing of beauty – thanks to all the photographers who contributed. This month, we’ll be taking a look at exhibitions, festivals and, as always, the best in live music at venues big and small.

Got an idea for a feature or want to see some of your photos showcased in one of our In Focus pieces? Drop us a message and let us know what you have in mind…

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st May 2024

Breaking Glass Magazine – April 2024

After a weird weekend of bank holidays and clocks jumping into the future, we head into April with no idea of what day or time it is. However, the sun is shining (for now at least) and it feels like a good time for a new gallery feature. The theme for this one is simply ‘Outside’. As always, everyone is welcome to take part, no matter what level you’re shooting at, or what you’re using as your camera of choice. Interpret the theme as you wish – nature, land or city scapes, street photography, festival crowds (but no live music shots for this one please), just stick your head outside your front door and snap what’s there if you like. Full details of how to submit below – let’s say closing date 16th April.

And of course there will be lots of live music coming through too, so keep an eye on our socials for updates here: Instagram | Twitter

Here’s how to submit:

– Breaking Glass is not a profit-making publication; we can’t pay for contributions nor do we charge for submissions as some sites do
– Everyone is welcome to join in; professional or hobbyist, camera or phone, film or digital photographer
– Copyright remains with the photographer; by submitting your photos you grant us permission to include them on the website and our social media with credit
– You may submit 1 or 2 images per person
– Please include a title for each image (no additional text needed), your name, how you would like to be credited and links you would like us to include to your work, e.g. website / socials
– Photos should be sent as jpg files – portrait / landscape / square / colour / black & white are all fine, any style, you can send with or without watermark – email to breakingglassmag@gmail.com
– Please ensure there is no offensive content and that you have permission to share images of people not taken in a public place or including minors

Look forward to seeing your shots!

Header shot © Siobhan

Published 1st April 2024