praxis Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Theme: Animal Life | Curated By: Praxis Directors 2025
Theme: Animal Life | Curated By: Praxis Directors
"Animal Life' is a call for photographic work that celebrates the complex and multifaceted nature of animals, emphasizing kindness and compassion in representing our furry, feathery, and scaly friends; showcasing family pets, farm animals, wild animals, sea life, insects, and birds. This project encompasses various genres such as Animal Portraits, Ethical Wildlife Photography, Artistic Interpretations, Underwater Photography, Macro Photography, Conservation Photography, and Bird Photography – just to name a few examples.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that captures gentle and empathetic portraits of a wide range of animals, spanning from domestic pets and farm animals to a diverse array of wildlife species found across different ecosystems. All genres, capture types, black & white, and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic, and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
Theme: The Found Object • Juror: Jonathan Pavlica 2025
The “found object” is a concept rooted in early 20th-century avant-garde practice: the idea that ordinary, often discarded materials can hold aesthetic or conceptual value when reframed as art. A "found object" is a material artifact discovered and assigned aesthetic value in an artist’s hand. Found art may include a wide array of objects—discarded, forgotten, dropped, or misplaced—such as shoes, forks, shopping carts, signs, doll heads, abandoned cars, clocks, mementos, or any object that can be reimagined through the lens of a camera.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that investigates this idiom: exploring the subject of the “found object” as pure visual form, detached from its history or utility, or conversely, as a catalyst for examining broader themes such as subjectivity and socialization, memory and loss, or love and death. All genres, capture methods, and post-production processes are welcome for submission.
Theme: The Shape of Things | Juror: Alan Sheflan 2025
Theme: The Shape of Things | Juror: Alan Sheflan
The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation... an organic coordination of visual elements. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The term composition means ‘putting together’ or the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole - often adhering to compositional principles that make a work of photographic art more appealing or intriguing to viewers. These principles include the development of rhythm, movement, contrast, balance, unity, proximity, and continuity to create expressive and compelling compositions – while emphasizing different visual concepts.
Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of works of art that explore composition as a fundamental aspect of the photographic aesthetic – be it pure visual formalism or in support of thematic objectives. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
Theme: Staged & Constructed - The Art of Setting the Scene | Curated by: Praxis Directors
Photography is more than documentation—it is creation. Staged & Constructed - The Art of Setting the Scene explores the artistry of staged, propped, and deliberately composed photographs, where every element within the frame is purposefully arranged. This theme highlights the orchestration of sets, props, lighting, composition, and subject to construct immersive visual narratives.
From cinematic tableaux to intimate theatrical vignettes, this exhibition showcases images that blur the line between reality and artifice. Whether inspired by theater, film, or pure imagination, these works reveal the power of photographic illusion, inviting viewers into carefully crafted worlds.
All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
Theme: The Artist Intervenes 2025 | Curated by: Aline Smithson
Theme: The Artist Intervenes [some assembly required] • Guest Curated by: Aline Smithson
Photographic artists are reconsidering the potential of a photograph with a shift to making rather than taking photographs. By using vintage and contemporary photographs as a starting point, artists create physically layered works of art that result in an object, often in reaction to the flood of ubiquitous imagery that digital and cell phone photography has afforded.
Praxis Gallery seeks submissions of photographic art or lens-based artwork that utilizes physical interventions and investigations of photographic surfaces that can include sewing, cutting, drawing, painting, tearing, bending, and weaving, all ways of interrogating the material qualities of a physical photograph to create new realities. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.