Travel: Around the World 2026
Submit digital photographs exploring travel, place, culture, movement, and human environments for an international online exhibition.
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- 31 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- 1st Place: Prominent feature in virtual exhibition, published profile interview, priority placement on promotional materials, one free entry in next open call. 2nd & 3rd Places: Highlighting in virtual exhibition. All selected entries featured for at least one month with permanent archival presence.
- Location
- Online · organized from Online
- Exhibition window
- Dec 1, 2026
- Applicants notified
- Dec 1, 2026
About
Overview
Travel: Around the World 2026 is an international open call dedicated to photographic exploration of place, culture, movement, and human environments. Grid Photo Gallery, an international online exhibition space, seeks images that look beyond postcard tropes and visual stereotypes, embracing a broad definition of travel from sprawling landscapes and dense urban centers to remote outposts, quiet interiors, isolated roads, and intimate everyday encounters.
Eligibility
Open unconditionally to photographers of all nationalities and locations worldwide. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of submission. No limit to the number of images an individual photographer may submit.
Categories
The open call features no rigid category divisions. Submissions may cover Travel Photography, Street Scenes, Landscapes, Remote Territories, Urban Architecture, Cultural Spaces, and Documentaries of Daily Life.
Key Dates
- Submissions Open: September 1, 2026
- Application Submission Deadline: October 15, 2026
- Winners & Selected Works Announcement: December 1, 2026
- Virtual Exhibition Launch: December 1, 2026
Entry Fee
€7 EUR per submitted image. All entry fees are non-refundable.
Awards & Benefits
- 1st Place (Photographer of the Month): Prominent feature within the virtual exhibition, published profile interview on Grid Photo Gallery, priority placement on promotional banners and posters, one free entry in Grid Photo Gallery's next open call
- 2nd & 3rd Places: Highlighting within the virtual exhibition
- All Selected Entries: Featured in the main-page exhibition for at least one month, remaining online permanently in gallery archives, dedicated promotion across official social media channels, digital certificate of participation, personal artist profile page on the platform, eligibility for top 3 overall images to receive 'Photography of the Year' title, inclusion in printed physical catalog
How to Apply
Register and upload your digital images via Grid Photo Gallery's official submission portal at https://gridphotogallery.com/
Copyright & Rights
Entrants retain full underlying copyright to all submitted images. Photographers grant Grid Photo Gallery a non-exclusive, perpetual license to display and promote accepted works across online exhibitions, promotional materials, and the printed exhibition catalog. Photographers remain entirely free to sell or license their images elsewhere.
- Award
- 1st Place: Prominent feature in virtual exhibition, published profile interview, priority placement on promotional materials, one free entry in next open call. 2nd & 3rd Places: Highlighting in virtual exhibition. All selected entries featured for at least one month with permanent archival presence.
- Entry fee
- €7 EUR per submitted image
- Theme
- Photographic exploration of place, culture, movement, and human environments through travel, including landscapes, urban centers, remote territories, street scenes, cultural spaces, and everyday encounters.
- Eligibility
- Open to photographers of all nationalities and locations worldwide; entrants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of submission.
- Audience
- Open to photographers worldwide, 18 years of age and older
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