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International Juried Photography Exhibition

LANDSCAPES

 Submission Deadline: Nov 30, 11:59PM CT 
Exhibition dates:  Jan 17, 2026 - Feb 14, 2026
Notification: Dec 12, 2025. 4PM CT

Beyond aesthetic beauty, landscape imagery often carries emotional and psychological resonance—revealing traces of memory, loss, affection, or longing embedded in place.

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Theme: Landscape | Juror: Aline Smithson
• expanse • place • presence • memory • terrain • trace

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Landscape photography reflects our ongoing dialogue with the world around us. Sometimes vast and panoramic, other times intimate or microscopic, the landscape can be a literal space—or a symbolic one. While many landscape images celebrate nature in its pure, untouched state, others explore how human presence shapes, disrupts, or defines the land.

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Beyond aesthetic beauty, landscape imagery often carries emotional and psychological resonance—revealing traces of memory, loss, affection, or longing embedded in place.

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Praxis Gallery seeks photographic artwork that offers a broad, interpretive, and personal investigation of the landscape—whether understood as a physical environment, an imagined terrain, or a conceptual space.

All genres, capture types, black & white, and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic, and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

Juror | Aline Smithson

Aline Smithson is a Los Angeles based visual artist, editor, and educator. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography that has offered exposure and opportunities for thousands of photographic artists since 2007. Aline has been an educator at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2001, and she teaches at venues around the globe. She has curated and juried exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and publications, including Review Santa Fe, Critical Mass, Flash Forward, and the Griffin Museum.

 

In addition, she is a reviewer and educator at many photo festivals across the United States. Aline received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and the Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. Her work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50 and in 2015, the Magenta Foundation published her first significant monograph, Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography. In 2016, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Aline to a series of portraits for the upcoming Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In 2018 and 2019, Aline’s work was selected as a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize by the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2019, Kris Graves Projects published LOST; Los Angeles. She is a dedicated film shooter.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Acceptance

Up to 74 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Praxis Gallery. Photographers will be notified of their selection 12 days after the deadline. The acceptance notification email will include instructions for shipping artwork or submitting high-resolution digital files for printing. Accepted photographs will also be posted on the Praxis website exhibition page at that time.

  • All entrants must be 18 years or older.

  • Submitted images must not have been exhibited at Praxis Gallery within the past year.

 

Awards

The following awards will be presented:

  • Juror’s Choice – Free entry into three future juried calls for entry of their choice.

  • Directors’ Choice – Free entry into two future juried calls for entry of their choice.

  • Eight Honorable Mentions – Recognized and featured in the exhibition, the printed show catalog, and the online exhibit gallery.

 

Submission Fees

  • $35 for up to five images.

  • $5 for each additional image (up to ten images total per open call).

  • Payment is accepted by credit/debit card through our secure online submission site.

  • Entry fees are non-refundable.

 

Praxis Members receive 10 images for the price of 5. Learn more about membership benefits at: Praxis Memberships.

For artists experiencing financial hardship, Praxis offers a limited number of free submissions. Contact info@praxisgallery.com for more information.

 

Image Submission Formatting

All submissions must be digital files submitted through our online submission form.

  • File Format – JPEG (.jpg)

  • Image Size – 72 ppi, with the longest side no more than 1920 pixels

  • File Size – 8MB or smaller

  • File Naming – Use the format: ImageTitle_by_FirstName_LastName

    • Example: MyPhoto_by_Amy_Johnson.jpg

For digital formatting questions, contact info@praxisgallery.com.

 

Exhibit Artwork Submission & Printing for Selected Artists

Selected artists have two options for submitting exhibition prints:

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Option 1: Submit Original Prints

  • Praxis accepts original prints that fit one of our four precut matte sizes.

  • No framed artwork will be accepted.

  • Praxis will mat and frame the prints for exhibition.

  • Prints must be shipped with return postage and packaging and labeled with:

    • Artist's name

    • Exhibition title

 

Option 2: Praxis Printing Service

For convenience, Praxis can print exhibition images for a $37 fee (includes printing, matting, framing, and installation).

  • High-resolution files must be uploaded to our secure Dropbox.

  • Praxis print technicians have 50+ years of fine art printing experience.

  • Images will be printed on a Canon Pro-4000 using Epson Premium Luster Fine Art Photo Paper.

  • Praxis provides frames for all exhibitions.

 

Exhibition Frame & Print Size

Praxis features museum-quality 22x22-inch black frames with four standard precut white mattes.

The following dimensions represent the maximum image area for prints. These sizes fit precisely within our precut mattes, with a 0.5-inch border around the edges to prevent cropping by the matte:

  • 11” x 11”

  • 10” x 15”

  • 11.8” x 15”

  • 8” x 15”

 

  • Images must fit within these dimensions. If an image exceeds the maximum size, portions of the image will be cropped by the matte.

  • We never crop submitted digital files. Instead, we scale the final high-resolution images for the best presentation.

  • Selected photographers will receive detailed instructions on shipping their print or submitting a high-resolution digital file for Praxis to print.

 

Sales & Archive

  • Artists may offer their exhibition prints for sale. Praxis Gallery will notify artists of any purchase inquiries.

  • Praxis takes a 50% commission on all sales.

  • Selected works will be archived in the Praxis Gallery & Photographic Art Center’s online gallery.

 

Copyright & Usage Rights

  • Artists retain all copyrights to their images.

  • By submitting, artists grant Praxis Gallery a non-exclusive right to use their images for:

    • Exhibition display

    • Promotion of the artist and related programs

    • Online exhibition archives

    • Social media and website features

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  • The artist's name will always be credited wherever their work is displayed.

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For any additional questions, please contact info@praxisgallery.com.

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