The Belfast Photo Festival is still over a week from starting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but it has already instigated serious outrage among photographers. The Belfast Photo Festival will include a major interactive public exhibition that invites visitors to pick up a hammer and destroy “obsolete” cameras, and not everyone is on board.

In the week since PetaPixel originally reported on the Belfast Photo Festival’s “Camera Obsolete?” exhibition, the reactions have been polarized, at best.

“‘Camera Obsolete?’ is a participatory installation and major public exhibition confronting the collapse of photography’s mechanical era,” Belfast Photo Festival explains .…