Submission guidelines

• All photographers 18 years or older worldwide may enter the competition by submitting their own, original work.
• PH21 Gallery welcomes submissions from, and exhibits works of emerging and established photographers as well.
• The application for the Open calls needs to be done via our website through this page:
  Applications done differently, via email for example, won’t be considered valid.
• This call for entries is competitive; entrants are not guaranteed inclusion in the exhibition by submitting an entry. Depending on the number and the quality of the entries received, the work of an entrant may or may not be curated into the show.
• By entering, entrants automatically accept the conditions of the competition; they grant PH21 Gallery nonexclusive right to use and reproduce submitted photographs (with the name of the photographer and the title of the work indicated) for promotional (e.g.: website and Facebook page of the Gallery, catalogue) and exhibition purposes. No royalties or compensation will be paid for these purposes. All copyrights and ownership of the works are retained by the photographer. Entrants assume and accept all legal and financial responsibility for any infringement on the privacy rights or copyright of others, caused by creating or presenting their work in public. PH21 Galley retains the right to exclude from the competition entries that violate the conditions of the competition and ones that violate any human or privacy rights.
• Photographs entered to the call do not have to be for sale.
• The selection of the jurors is final.
• The entry fee is not refundable.
• Photographs entered to this call do not have to be editioned. If accepted to the exhibition, it still remains the choice of the photographer to edition the work (e.g.: “ed. 10”) or to leave the work uneditioned (“open ed.”).
• The exhibition copy (if having printed by PH21 Gallery) will be an archival pigment print. However, photographers may also choose to indicate different print types if they offer their accepted work for sale.

SUBMISSION FEES:

A) Standard submission:

Until the early bird deadline:

You may submit up to 3, 5, 7, 10, or 15 images; these may be all individual works, or they may also include a series. The entry fee is €25.00 for up to 3 images, €30.00 for up to 5 images, €35.00 for up to 7 images, €40.00 for up to 10 images, and €45.00 for up to 15 images.

​After the early bird deadline:

The entry fee after the early bird deadline is €30.00 for up to 3 images, €35.00 for up to 5 images, €40.00 for for up to 7 images, €45.00 for for up to 10 images, and €50.00 for for up to 15 images.

B) Special fee submission:

There is a special rate for maximum 5 images for students and unwaged persons as well as for applicants from low-income economies.

Until the early bird deadline:
The special fee is €15.00.

Please do not ask us about your eligibility or send us any proof because we trust your judgement. The special rate is simply for people who – for the reasons indicated above – would not be able to afford the standard fee.

After the early bird deadline:

The special fee after the early bird deadline is €20.00.

Is your work is selected for the exhibition:

Entrants selected for the exhibition will be asked to register for the exhibition and to provide a high-resolution TIFF (or JPEG) file for us to have their photograph printed for a standard exhibition printing and installation fee.
Your exhibition registration payment includes the cost of the print and the cost of its installation.
The fee depends on the size of the print. For instance, for up to 40 centimetres or 15.75 inches (longest dimension) the exhibition print and installation fee is €45.00. Further details will be given upon successful selection.

Exhibition prints will be kept on file for 6 months for future promotion unless the photographer prefers some other arrangement. In case of a sale inquiry the photographer will be promptly contacted. PH21 Gallery commission is 25%. (Submitted photographs, however, do not have to be for sale, and exhibition prints will never be sold; they are for exhibition and promotion purposes only.)

PH21 Gallery archives all photography exhibitions electronically, allowing us to promote our exhibiting photographers to curators, collectors as well as the viewing public. Our website also functions as a virtual gallery site, and all photographs included in our exhibitions are published on the dedicated page of the exhibition.