OPEN CALLS

Our exhibitions will explore the polarities of our lives and the world around us.
These themes, shaped by your involvement, will give rise to exhibitions that are engaging, reflective, and thought-provoking.

Submission Deadline: 15th August 2026

You will only be notified if selected

Exhibition start date: October 2026

Focus / Expand

Focus / Expand, exploring the polarity between focusing on the smaller details and expanding out to see the bigger picture.

Ideas to explore can include perception, scale, intimacy, distance and isolation. The exhibition invites reflection on how we choose what to see, what we overlook, and how shifts in perspective can alter our understanding of people, places, objects, ideas, and experiences. It also considers how focus and expansion relate to the contemporary world, personal narratives and identity, between local and global issues.

Photographers are asked to explore this theme however they wish, whether focusing on one aspect or both in their submissions.

How to Submit

Submissions can be sent using files transfer sites such as Smash,
Swiss Transfer and WeTransfer to:
submissions@solas-shadowgallery.com

Submit up to 5 images per Open Call.

Please submit your files in JPG format.

Please name your files using your name, e.g Ann-Smith1, Ann-Smith2, etc.
This is so we know which images belong to whom.

Please include in your submission email or message:
- Your name and surname.
- Your Location and/or Nationality
- Your social media and/or website links.
- A short biography, no more than a couple of sentences.
- Title of your images (if applicable)

There is no submission fee, it is free to submit.

If selected to participate in an exhibition you will be asked to pay a participation fee.

The participation fee will be based on the number of images selected for the exhibition:
£16 for 1 image.
£22 for 2 or more images.

Submissions are open to:
-Photographers worldwide.
-Participants 18 years of age or older.

Artists retain the copyright to their submitted works.

By submitting, artists grant permission for the Gallery to use their image(s) to promote the exhibition, for display the SOLAS / SHADOW webpage, for inclusion on social media, and for any advertising, promotional materials and publications.

Participants will:

- Have their work displayed in an online gallery on our website.

- Receive a digital certificate of participation.

- See their work featured on the gallery's social media.

- See their work featured on the gallery's Youtube channel.

- Have their work featured in an Exhibition Catalogue. (PDF and Physical)