praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Theme: The Shadow Aspect | Juror: Ann Jastrab • 2026
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates." — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the formal, conceptual, and metaphoric implications of the shadow. Submissions may focus on the shadow as pure visual form expressed through the creation of line, shape, pattern, and texture. They may also examine the cultural and psychological implications of the shadow—exploring ideas of foreboding, internal conflict, passages into the unconscious, or other ephemeral interpretations.
All lens-based artwork is welcome.
Theme: Motion < Blur • Curated by: Praxis Directors 2026
Motion Blur in photography creates a paradox: the image is a frozen moment in time, yet what it captures is movement—streaking, bending, or distortion of light and form in the frame. Blur can convey velocity, gesture, or emotional tone. It can introduce dream-like or surreal qualities by invoking the transitory nature of time passing.
Meteors streak across the sky. Figures pass through a space and dissolve. An artist draws with light. These moments reveal motion not as interruption, but as presence—an imprint of time unfolding within the still image.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores the visual and conceptual potential of motion and blur.All genres, capture types, black & white, and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic, and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
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.
