Photography Now - Open Call
This Open Call invites submissions for an exhibition exploring how women and non-binary artists use photography to engage with the pressing issues of our time. The exhibition seeks to highlight how the photographic medium—whether central or complementary to an artist's practice—can be used to confront, question, and navigate contemporary socio-political challenges, innovative processes, and evolving technologies. Artists are encouraged to reflect on the critical dynamics of this moment, exploring photography’s role in shaping and responding to urgent global and personal narratives. Photography Now is open to artists who incorporate photography into their work, even if it is not their primary medium.
All submitted works must have been created within the last two years to ensure they reflect the timeliness of these conversations.
Calendar:
- Exhibition Dates: May 24 - June 21, 2025
- First Entry Due Date: March 21 | 11:59 PM CST (entry fee: $30)
- Extended Entry Due Date (fee increases to $35): March 28 | 11:59 PM CST
- Notification: April 11, 2025
About the juror: Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, and former social worker living in Chicago. Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the DePaul Art Museum, and more. In the Fall of 2023, Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s top 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. Now curator at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, she was previously the chair of the visual art conservatory at ChiArts, an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago, and curator of the renowned LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, later Bank of America. Learn more about Whitney Bradshaw here: https://www.whitneybradshaw.co...
