aphotographersplace Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Fire
Fire is an elemental force, but it is also an idea.
It exists beyond combustion—in moments of transformation, in acts of resistance, in desire, devotion, grief, memory, ritual, and renewal. It is both presence and absence; a source of illumination and a catalyst for change. It can be quiet, contained, or all-consuming.
For this exhibition, we invite photographic work that engages with FIRE as metaphor, condition, and experience rather than simply as subject matter. We are interested in images that consider the elemental through the psychological, the social, the environmental, or the poetic. We welcome work that reveals fire through gesture, light, atmosphere, color, landscape, portraiture, abstraction, or narrative—where the photograph evokes rather than describes.
We encourage submissions that embrace ambiguity, invite contemplation, and expand the possibilities of what this elemental force can signify.
Not every fire burns.
Out of Time/Out of Place
We invite photographers to submit work that explores the idea of being out of time or out of place. This theme embraces images that disrupt our sense of chronology, geography, memory, or belonging.
We are looking for photographs that evoke dislocation, anachronism, nostalgia, surreal encounters, unexpected juxtapositions, or moments that resist easy placement in time, space or visual paradox.
Whether through documentary, conceptual, landscape, portraiture, or experimental approaches, we welcome work that challenges perception and invites viewers to reconsider where—and when—they are.
Interpret the theme as broadly or personally as you wish. All photographic processes are welcome.
Abandoned
What does it mean to be left behind? What’s left when everyone else is gone?
We invite photographers to submit work exploring the theme of abandonment — the physical, emotional, environmental, social, or symbolic. We are seeking images that examine absence, decay, isolation, memory, transition, and what remains after people, systems, or places have been left behind.
Interpretations may include abandoned spaces, forgotten objects, fractured relationships, environmental decline, personal narratives, or broader cultural reflections.
Both traditional and contemporary approaches are encouraged, including analog, digital, and alternative processes. Documentary, conceptual, fine art, experimental, and mixed approaches are all welcome.
Ethereal
We invite photographers to submit work for an upcoming exhibition exploring the theme of the Ethereal.
We seek images that explore the intangible—works that evoke a sense of lightness, transience, and the space between what is seen and what is felt; images that drift between presence and absence, clarity and dream.
The ethereal may emerge through atmosphere, luminosity, gesture, or absence; through the soft dissolution of form, the quiet tension of stillness, or the fleeting nature of a moment just passing.
We encourage interpretations either literal or abstract. Submissions may engage with the ethereal through natural phenomena, the human figure, constructed environments, or experimental photographic processes. We welcome work that challenges materiality, perception, and the boundaries between reality and imagination.
This is an international open call. Photographers at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply..
All photographic styles and processes are eligible, including traditional, digital, experimental, and alternative techniques.
Abundance
We invite photographers from around the world to submit work for our upcoming exhibition exploring the theme of Abundance
How do we understand abundance today? Is it material, emotional, environmental, or symbolic? We welcome photographic interpretations that consider abundance in all its forms—excess and generosity, growth and saturation, presence and complexity.
This is an international open call. Photographers at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply..
All photographic styles and processes are eligible, including traditional, digital, experimental, and alternative techniques.
Whimsical
We invite photographers from around the world to submit work for our upcoming exhibition exploring the theme: Whimsical.
We are seeking photographs that surprise, delight, and transport viewers beyond the expected. Whimsy may reveal itself through playful storytelling, imaginative staging, surreal elements, visual irony, unexpected juxtapositions, or quiet moments of magic found in everyday life.
This international call encourages broad interpretation. Whether bold or subtle, humorous or poetic, conceptual or documentary, we welcome work that invites curiosity, sparks joy, and reimagines reality through a creative lens.
All photographic styles and processes are eligible, including traditional, digital, experimental, and alternative techniques.
Moments
We invite photographers to submit work that explores the idea of capturing moments—fleeting, intimate, overlooked, or decisive. We are interested in images that hold time still: moments charged with emotion, tension, quiet, or transformation.
Submissions may reflect personal, social, or environmental experiences, and can be staged or candid, documentary or experimental. What matters most is the photographer’s ability to recognize a moment worth holding onto—and to translate it into a compelling visual language.