praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Theme: Nude Geographies • Curated By: Praxis Directors • 2026
The nude figure has held a central place in art for centuries—explored as a symbol of beauty, vulnerability, sensuality, and human complexity. From classical traditions to contemporary interpretations, artists have turned to the nude to express everything from idealized form to emotional depth.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic works that explore the nude in any of its many styles and expressions—including figure studies, environmental nudes, implied nudes, and erotica. We welcome images that engage with the nude through any lens—whether aesthetic, conceptual, emotional, or experimental. All photographic genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic, and digital post-production processes are eligible for submission.
Theme: Frames Within Frames
Theme: Frames Within Frames | Juror: Dallas Crow
Speaking of the power of photography, Garry Winogrand once said, “Putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it.” Let’s take that a step further: what happens when you put a frame—in the form of a doorway, window, mirror, casket, another picture, or some other structure—in the photograph itself? It may intensify the focus on the thing framed, but what about what’s happening in the margins between the interior frame and the edge of the picture? How does the composition work as a whole? How do the elements inside and outside the framing device interact? What has the photographer gained by including a frame within the picture rather than making it the border of the entire image?
Praxis seeks the submission of photographic art That explores a frame or multiple frames within an image as the conceptual basis for the aesthetic expression. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.