Compete Analog – Made by Hand
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: February 9, 2026 – This PhotoPlace Gallery exhibit celebrates photography as a slow, tactile, and intentional practice. In contrast to digital reproduction, analog photography emphasizes craft, material engagement, and presence—from the moment light meets film to the physical act of printing. This exhibition highlights photographs shaped by time, chemistry, and handwork, where process is central to the photographic experience.
Exhibition: April 3 – April 25, 2026.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to photographers worldwide. We seek photographs captured using analog processes and/or printed using historical or handmade methods, including darkroom and alternative techniques. All work must be rooted in hands-on practice.
JUROR
Christina Z. Anderson’s work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of alternative photographic processes, such as gum and casein bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, vandyke brown, argyrotype, chrysotype, platinum-palladium, chemigrams, chromo, mordançage, lumen prints, and combinations thereof.
Anderson’s work has shown nationally and internationally in over 130 shows and 90 publications. She has six books in print which have sold in over 40 countries: from newest to oldest, The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials
Anderson is Editor for Focal Press/Routledge’s Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work… see more
BENEFITS
She will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and another 40 images for our Online Gallery. All 75 images will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog and remain permanently on our website, and be promoted on social media with links to photographer’s URL.
AWARDS
Juror’s Award $300, Director’s Award $200, Honorable Mentions $50. All selected artists will be published in a printed exhibition catalog and featured on our website and social media.
ENTRY FEE
$39 for 5 images, $6 each additional.
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About:
PhotoPlace Gallery offers monthly, juried photographic exhibitions to photographers worldwide, each with a new topic and internationally recognized juror. All juror selections are exhibited in either our physical gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, or permanently displayed on this website.
Since our founding in 2009, we have gained a reputation for exhibiting photography of a high level of excellence, while promoting photographers and providing them with tools to further promote their own work.
PhotoPlace Gallery
3 Park Street
Middlebury VT 05753
