OVERCOMING — what remains standing
- Deadline
- 21 days left
- Entry fee
- $25
- Award
- $500
- Location
- Brooklyn, New York
- Exhibition window
- Aug 20, 2026 → Oct 20, 2028
- Applicants notified
- Aug 15, 2026
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About
Submit up to 8 photographs about survival, resilience, and what remains after hardship for an online juried exhibition.
Overview
Overcoming — What Remains Standing invites photographers to submit work about survival, resilience, and what's left after hardship. The call seeks images showing what it means to get through something — whether personal loss, illness, grief, displacement, or the passage of difficult time. Work can be documentary or staged, abstract or portrait, raw or quiet. All photographic processes and experience levels are welcome.
Key dates
- Submission deadline: August 3, 2026
- Notification: August 15, 2026
- Exhibition dates: August 20 – October 20, 2026
Eligibility
Open to photographers worldwide, 18 years and older.
Submission requirements
Submit up to 8 images in JPEG/JPG format, minimum 2100 pixels on the longest side, without text, watermarks, borders, or frames.
Entry fee
$25 for up to 4 images; $5 for each additional image.
Awards
- First Place: $500 plus solo exhibition on gallery website
- Second Place: $250
- Third Place: $150
- Two Honorable Mentions: $50 each
- Human Presence Nomination: Free entry to one future Open Call of photographer's choice
- Inclusion in curated online exhibition, permanent exhibition page, Instagram feature, and exhibition catalog
About the gallery
Decagon Gallery is an online photography gallery dedicated to thoughtful, contemporary photographic work by artists worldwide, emphasizing strong curatorial vision, professional presentation, and meaningful engagement with photographers at all stages of their careers.
Contact
- Email: info@decagongallery.com
- Phone: 917-658-5774
- Award
- First Place: $500 plus solo exhibition on gallery website; Second Place: $250; Third Place: $150; Two Honorable Mentions: $50 each; Human Presence Nomination: Free entry to one future Open Call
- Entry fee
- $25 for up to 4 images, $5 for each additional image
- Entries per artist
- Up to 8
- Eligibility
- Open to photographers worldwide, 18 years and older.
- Audience
- Open to photographers worldwide, 18 years and older
- Size & format
- 2100 pixels or more on the long side
- Also worth noting
- 2100 pixels or more on the long side
- Contact
- info@decagongallery.com
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