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Shape

A curated international photography exhibition

October 19 – November 12, 2024

Untitled
Models Muse
641-645
Tako-Tsubo 2
Seaurchin
Chalk Cliff
My Book of Shadows 17
Schonbuchturm
Wheel
Oaxaca umbrellas
Windows of Guatemala
Chadelier
Scales
Circles
Yin Yang
Shapes 4
Shapes 6
Shapes 7
Decay
Deep Port 1
Deep Port 3
The Shape of Wine
Hard Rock
Living Rock
Untitled
Untitled
Floors & Doors
Helix
Entrance Hall
Red Circle
Solar System
Three Stones
Dark Portal
This Is Not A Shell
Back and arms
Knees
Louvre 1
Louvre 3
Lenoir-R-07-13-24--5525
Lenoir_R-11-01-22--4608
Rubber Ducky
Fashionista Flamingo
Cruise Ship Stairs
Hospital Crosswalk 2
Shapes 1
Shapes 8
Pattern 2377 DN
Photogram 131 DN
LRP175
LRP9878
Shapes in glass
No.160
Untitled
City Lights
"...poetically man dwells.." Martin Heidegger
...a carp in a stream... swimming against the current...
Checkered Mazatlán
Mombasa Sail
Untitled
Untitled
Altered States
Pulleys
Columns
Parenthood
Tako-Tsubo 1
Tako-Tsubo 3
Shadows
The Shape of Time
Whale Fall

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Current Calls for Entries

From Heliography to AI: Celebrating Photographic Diversity
A PH21 Gallery exhibition in Barcelona

A curated international photography exhibition

December 9–19, 2024, PH21@Barcelona

The history of photography is a chronicle of continuous invention and renewal of technical processes and the expressive repertoire of creative photographic communication. These changes in photographic practices have given rise to numerous distinctive approaches, styles, and genres. Some genres rely on staging and directing, while straight photography and street photography seek to create photographic meaning without prearranging the world in front of the camera. Genres such as portraiture and still life may incorporate both major approaches. Photomontage, double exposures, lomography, and recently AI-generated photo-based images rely on the unexpected, the accidental, and the glitch to create photographic meaning.

 

This exhibition is designed to celebrate photographic diversity. In the spacious Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, we intend to devote separate sections to 19th-century alternative processes, straight photography (including traditional landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, etc.), photographs capturing the “decisive moment” (including street photography and other images capturing fleeting moments in any captivating situation), staged photography (including both conceptually driven staged art photography as well as still life, and other staged genres), and experimental photography (including photomontages, double exposures, lomography, photographic glitch art, AI-generated photo-based images, abstract photography, etc.). In your submission, please indicate the section you think your work fits best or let us know if it belongs to another category.

 

PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a group exhibition themed From Heliography to AI: Celebrating Photographic Diversity. We are seeking submissions from all photographers who are interested in photographic genre and style traditions and would like to share their work with a wider international audience through the exposure of PH21 Gallery. The theme is broadly defined; we welcome submissions from all photographic genres and styles, including abstract compositions. We are interested in all possible creative interpretations of photographic genres and styles.

Please note that this PH21 Gallery exhibition will be presented in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.

Submission deadlines:

  • Final deadline: November 4, 2024

Read more and submit your work here.

Silence

A curated international photography exhibition

January 11 – February 4, 2025 

Silence is always juxtaposed against its opposites: sound, noise, and loudness. It is strongly associated with loneliness, alienation, the unknown and disturbing landscape on the one hand, and known tranquillity and peace on the other. Photographically, the contrast between deep darkness and dazzling light is also crucial. After natural or social catastrophes, everything falls silent: empty cities, villages, abandoned public transport and empty workplaces serve as reminders of the transience and fragility of humankind. Silence is accompanied by quiet activities such as contemplation and meditation, which negate the very nature of action itself. Additionally, silence is often present in still lifes, cityscapes, portraits, and many other photographic genres.

 

PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for our group exhibition themed Silence. We welcome submissions from all photographers interested in sharing their experiences of silence with a broader international audience through exposure at PH21 Gallery. The theme is broadly construed without any photographic genre restrictions. We are interested in all possible creative photographic interpretations of the theme.

Submission deadlines:

  • Early bird deadline: November 4, 2024

  • Final deadline: November 11, 2024

Read more and submit your work here.

Upside down

A curated international photography exhibition

February 8 – March 4, 2025 

While photographs are valued for their depictive potential and representative content, the non-depictive, non-representational aspects of photographic works are also strongly related to their aesthetic significance. In this spirit, art photography has always aimed for the unity of form and content. Abstract photography has gone even further, celebrating abstract compositions for their own sake, without the need for appreciating or even recognising depictive content in the images. Turning a photograph upside down tends to strip it of its representative function because the depicted scene and objects are difficult, if not impossible, to recognise when the image is turned on its side or upside down. However, the formal, compositional aspects of photographs become more pronounced in this manner, as our attention is directed away from scene and object recognition. In our Upside down exhibition, we aim to showcase photographs that are indeed turned upside down. Any photograph is eligible if the artist is willing to present it in this unconventional way. Abstract photographs might be considered the most suitable candidates for this experimental exhibiting method, but there are many depictive works as well whose compositional qualities might also be appreciated in novel ways when turned upside down. This allows us to liberate ourselves from scrutinizing and concentrating solely on their representational content. Landscapes, bodyscapes, symmetrical compositions, and even architectural and street photography may be excellent candidates for presenting images upside down, but photographs from other genres may also be considered for this exhibition.

 

PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a group exhibition with the theme Upside down. We welcome submissions from all photographers interested in this subject, eager to share their work with a broader international audience through the exposure of PH21 Gallery. The theme is broadly interpreted, as it is independent of generic or stylistic constraints. We are interested in all creative photographic interpretations of this theme.

Submission deadlines:

  • Early bird deadline: December 2, 2024

  • Final deadline: December 9, 2024

Read more and submit your work here.

Upcoming:

Monochrome

A curated international photography exhibition

November 16 – December 10, 2024 

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