praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Versions of Me: The Artist as Subject
• self-portraiture • identity • alter ego • reflection • transformation •
The self-portrait has long offered artists a means of exploring identity, experimenting with representation, and recording their presence in the world. In photography, the artist becomes both observer and observed, shaping an image that may reveal, conceal, question, or reinvent the self.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores the artist as subject. From direct studies of the face and body to reflections, shadows, staged encounters, and assumed identities, this exhibition considers the many ways photographers turn the camera toward themselves. The artist may appear within the frame or be evoked through objects, environments, and traces of their presence. We welcome diverse interpretations of self-portraiture that explore how an image can express, suggest, or complicate our understanding of the person who made it.
Theme: Architecture Interpreted | Juror: Ross Anderson 2026
The built environment is everywhere—from monumental icons to ordinary spaces—but how we see and interpret it transforms structure into art. Architecture is not only construction; it is form, light, rhythm, and cultural memory.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores architecture as a subject of perception and imagination. We invite work that moves beyond simple documentation—images that reveal design, geometry, scale, atmosphere, and the dialogue between structure and space. Submissions may include interiors, exteriors, urban or rural settings, historical sites, or contemporary forms, so long as the focus is on how architecture is visually or conceptually realized.
Theme: Empty Places : Abandoned Spaces 2026
Through the lens of the photographer, empty places and abandoned spaces speak with a quiet intensity. Some are vast and stark, defined by their sparseness. Others are marked by human absence, crumbling into ruins or left to time’s decay. Both invite us to wonder: Who was here? What remains? And why does it still speak to us?
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores the visual and emotional weight of absence and abandonment. From derelict factories and rural ruins to neglected homes, civic buildings, or landscapes emptied of presence, we invite images that document decay—or transform emptiness into something poetic, symbolic, or surreal. All lens based art welcome for submission.
Theme: MULTIPLICITY • Juror: Ross Anderson • 2026
• collections • classification • typologies • seriality • accumulation • recurring forms • variation • diptychs • grids • visual systems •
Multiplicity changes how we see. When subjects are gathered, compared, or arranged, ordinary forms become evidence of pattern, difference, accumulation, and order. A collection becomes a portrait; a typology reveals variation; recurring gestures, forms, or structures create visual systems that can clarify, unsettle, or transform the familiar.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores multiplicity through seriality, collections, classification, typologies, diptychs, grids, and other unified arrangements. We welcome images found or constructed, documentary or conceptual, in black and white or color, traditional or experimental. Juror: Ross Anderson