PORTALS: New Perspectives
Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2026
Juror: Ann Jastrab
Prints due: May 22, 2026
Exhibition: June 5-27, 2026

A portal suggests passage. It invites us to look through, step beyond, or imagine what lies on the other side.

For Portals: New Perspectives, we invite photographs that explore openings, thresholds, and points of transition. Windows, doorways, mirrors, gates, archways, reflections, and frames within frames may serve as literal portals, while shifts in light, shadow, or perspective can transform familiar spaces into something unexpected.

We also welcome more interpretive approaches. A portal might represent change, movement, memory, or emotional transition. Whether urban or rural, interior or exterior, documentary or conceptual, show us how photography opens new ways of seeing.

Submission Fee: $39 for 5 images, $6 for each additional image

Prizes:  Juror’s Award $300, Director’s Award $200, 3 Honorable Mentions $50

All selected photographers will have work published in printed catalog available for purchase and be featured on our website and social media.

Image: Yana Mostitsky,  yanamostitsky.com