praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Theme: Water ~ Sky | Curated By: Praxis Directors 2026
• atmosphere • reflection • horizon • depth • perception • light
Water and sky have long formed the visual and symbolic foundation of landscape photography. They remain spaces of atmosphere, reflection, movement, and transition. Water reflects the sky while recording weather, light, and motion; clouds dissolve, gather, and obscure the horizon.
From sea to river, ocean to puddle, these elemental forms shift through color, texture, scale, and changing conditions. Water & Sky invites photographic work that explores the relationship between surface and depth, presence and distance, observation and sensation through the evolving language of landscape photography.
Theme: Making Strange | Curated by: Praxis Directors
• obvious • overlooked • inversion • estrangement • friction • re-seeing
How do we document what happens and recurs every day—the banal, the common, the ordinary? Can we recover a sense of astonishment from the familiar by finding perspectives that render it newly visible?
Making Strange invites photographs that transform the everyday through framing, timing, light, distance, or construction. Artists reveal unexpected aspects of the world, presenting subjects as unfamiliar or newly charged with meaning. Praxis Gallery seeks work that renders the ordinary unfamiliar—where the iconic, the ironic, and the overlooked are constructed through deliberate acts of seeing.
One image will be selected for the Viktor Shklovsky Award for Making Strange.
