praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Multi-Exposed | Curated by Praxis Directors 2026
Multi-Exposed explores the creative possibilities of multiple exposures in photographic practice. Whether created in-camera or constructed through digital processes, multi-exposure images combine moments, spaces, gestures, or perspectives within a single frame.
From subtle shifts in position to complex overlays of form and meaning, multi-exposure can expand how time is represented, how identity is examined, and how place is interpreted. Artists may approach the theme formally—investigating structure, rhythm, and visual repetition—or conceptually—exploring memory, perception, movement, or narrative layering.
We welcome work that ranges from minimal and restrained to intricate and immersive. All photographic genres are encouraged, including portraiture, landscape, still life, documentary, abstraction, and experimental practices.
Theme: The Portrait | Juror: Elizabeth Flinsch • 2026
• identity • presence • attention • encounter • representation • self
A portrait begins with attention. It is an act of looking — and of being looked at.
Every portrait holds a tension between appearance and interior life. A face, a posture, a gesture, a setting — each carries information, but also ambiguity. Some portraits are direct and documentary. Others are constructed, performative, or conceptual. Some reveal intimacy; others explore distance, anonymity, or self-invention.
To make a portrait is to engage another presence — or to turn the camera toward oneself — and to consider how identity is shaped, expressed, withheld, or transformed through the photographic frame.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic portraits that explore the depth and complexity of the human subject. We invite work that reflects lived experience, psychological presence, cultural context, or formal exploration through the lens.
All lens-based photographic and lens-based art practices are welcome.
Theme: Composed: Balance, Repetition, Disruption• Juror: Praxis Director
Composed: Balance, Repetition, Disruption invite photographers to consider how images are shaped through compositional decision-making and visual relationship. These elements operate not as steps, but as interacting conditions. An image may begin in equilibrium or fracture it immediately; repetition may stabilize form or reveal instability; disruption may interrupt order or expose patterns already at work.
Artists may engage these ideas independently or in combination. Some work may emphasize clarity and restraint, others accumulation, variation, or rupture. Subject matter is open; what matters is how form, space, rhythm, and visual weight function within the frame—and how their relationships shape perception.
This exhibition approaches composition as an active, exploratory process rather than a fixed hierarchy, inviting artists to test how images hold together, repeat themselves, or come undone.
Theme: Numbers, Symbols & Letters • Juror Dallas Crow
Theme: Letters, Numbers & Symbols • Juror Dallas Crow
What’s written, scrawled, printed, posted, erased, illegible. Letters, words, glyphs, equations, signatures, graffiti, advertising, envelopes, love letters, cursive, ampersands, abbreviations, charts, graphs, lines in the sand, hieroglyphs, runes, legends, typos, billboards, mistakes, regrets, palimpsests, fragments, fractions, chicken scratch, alphabets, phrases, nouns, verbs, neon, slogans, documents.
Praxis seeks submissions of photographic art that includes letters, numbers, and/or symbols as a fundamental aspect of the composition. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.