Best way to hang pictures on brick walls

Impact driver into the brick with a drill bit.

Insert plastic screw holder.

Screw into plastic screw holder.

I have photos hanging all through out my brick on my back patio. Makes it feel like an outdoor living room.

Drill the mortar and not the brick

If you're dead set on this criteria

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doesn't involve drilling holes into the brick

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then look into 3M command strip and/or or hook products. They work better on painted surfaces (but I've used them on glass), and have a max weight limit of 20 lbs each. If some of your brick is painted this might work.

Another option might be Gorilla tape or similar product.

ETA - one more option, from my grandmother's and older houses. Install picture rail molding and hang your pictures from that. Will require holes in the brick but might fit it with your overall look.

Mortar and lead anchors I hate plastic

Drill hole. Knock in toothpicks or wooden skewers. Wood screw. Profit

I just hung four pictures on a brick wall and by simply hammering in fluted masonry nails into the mortar between the bricks. It was very easy. It only took about a half dozen hammer strikes for each nail to sink it about 1/4" into the mortar and they are very strong. The mortar and brick did not crack at all, the nails went right in. Depending on how far the nail needed to stick out, I used some 1" and some 1-1/2" nails. You can tell when you've driven the nail in far enough just by feeling how solid the nail feels in the wall by pulling down on it with increasing pressure, and then add a couple of more strikes for good measure. Three of the pictures I hung are actually thin solid metal art weighing maybe 5 lbs each. One nail is plenty strong. If you have heavier pictures to hang, you can pretty easily drive these nails in further, but they have a lot of strength even only driven 1/4 inch into the mortar. Buy some and drive one in to see for yourself. Pick an inconspicuous spot to test one if you are concerned using them.