Vicinity 2025

8th Annual Chicago Vicinity Juried Photography Exhibition

Theme

This year we are looking for images that are about HOME. The idea of home goes beyond a physical place. It is also about memories and emotions that are linked to a place, a person, an atmosphere and/or an experience.

Juror

Erin Hoyt is an arts administrator specializing in contemporary photography. She is currently the Executive Director of Filter Photo, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that focuses on professional development practices for fine art and documentary photographers. The organization hosts the annual Filter Photo Festival and runs Filter Space, a gallery and project space for exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and other diverse programming centered around contemporary photography. At Filter, Erin manages an ongoing series of exhibitions, artist lectures, professional development workshops, and portfolio reviews.

Erin is also an avid collector of contemporary photography and participates in national and international conferences including Paris Photo and AIPAD and has served as a reviewer for Chico Reviews, Photo NOLA, Critical Mass, LensCulture and Atlanta Photography Group.

Submission

If you live in the general Chicago area and can bring your work to the gallery, you are invited to submit up to five (5) images in JPEG format. Work must not have previously been shown at Perspective Gallery. All types of non-AI generated photographic work are welcome.