praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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• duality • echo • contrast • harmony • relationship • sequence
Diptych • Open Theme: A photographic diptych pairs two images side by side—creating a visual conversation across space, time, or meaning. The diptych format invites artists to explore balance, tension, narrative, and contrast. It can unite opposites, mirror similarities, or reveal subtle relationships through juxtaposition.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic diptychs of any theme or style. The only requirement is that both images appear within a single frame or presentation, forming a unified visual statement. All lens based artwork welcome. Created by Praxis Directors.
Balance, repetition, and 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: 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.