Call for Submissions
Exposure Photography Festival
Deadline to apply: October 4, 2024
We’re expanding! This year’s Emerging Photographers Showcase is open to artists based in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
Exposure welcomes diverse and innovative submissions from emerging photographers and visual artists who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practice. Submissions will be reviewed by our juror, award selection committees, and the Exposure team. Selected works will be shown at Contemporary Calgary as part of the 2025 Exposure Photography Festival.
ELIGIBILITY
To qualify for the Emerging Photographers Showcase you must reside in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, or the Northwest Territories. Emerging Artists are defined as those, of any age, who are in the early years of their professional career. You should not yet have gallery representation.
Submission Fee
The submission fee for ten images is $35 CAD – a minimum of 8 images is required and a portfolio of ten images is highly recommended. Additional images may be submitted for $5 each, and photographers/artists may submit up to fifteen images total.
How to submit you work
Please review ‘SUBMITTING YOUR WORK’ and ‘SUCCESSFUL SUBMISSIONS’ in the sections below. These sections offer information on the application process as well as details on the exhibition and timeline. After you have reviewed these sections, please submit your work to the Exposure 2025 Emerging Photographers Showcase HERE
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is October 4, 2024 at 6pm MT. This deadline will not be extended and applications that are submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.
For more information and full submission details visit Emerging Photographers Showcase — Exposure.
About Exposure
The annual Exposure Photography Festival presents exhibitions that showcase photographic work by internationally renowned practitioners, alongside emerging and established talent from Alberta. The festival provides an exciting, innovative meeting place for photographers and art lovers to connect with one another, along with curators and photography professionals from around the world. Exposure is inclusive and participatory – a collaboration amongst members of the photographic community.
Recent festivals have received over 900,000+ visits to its exhibitions from Exposure’s community of local and international, arts and non-arts engaged individuals and audience members. The festival brings people together to celebrate photography and Alberta’s thriving creative communities. Established in 2004, the Calgary/Banff Photography Society aka Exposure is a registered non-profit run by an enthusiastic Board of Directors who are devoted to photography.