In Community: LACP’s Annual Members’ Exhibition – Call for Entries

Open Call

This open call invites submissions for photographs that consider the relationship between photography and community building, creative practice and collaboration, and the photographic act as the foundation for connection.

Artists need a network of peers—to share skills and lessons, connect, be inspired and drive their work forward. LACP’s members constitute a community of collaborators, who connect from across the country and the world around their shared dedication and commitment to photography. This exhibition suggests that all images and image-makers need a human mechanism of support and reciprocity as the foundation of their practice, and shines a light on the connections that inform the work. It also considers the act of taking a photograph as the beginning of a conversation that extends beyond the frame.

This call is open to all genre and forms of still images, including, but not limited to, conceptual work, reportage, portraiture, street, alternative processes, or documentary.

Selected works will be shown at an exhibition at LACP’s Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.

Juror

Chandra Glick is Photo Director at Artforum, where she has shaped the magazine’s visual identity for over a decade. She is also Faculty at the International Center of Photography. Chandra holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an AB in Visual Art from Brown University. She began her publishing career working as a Photo Researcher at VISIONAIRE and in the photo department at Details magazine (Condé Nast), experiences that gave her a grounding in both experimental art publishing and high-volume editorial production. As an educator and curator, Chandra has taught at Rutgers University, the School of Visual Arts, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Maine Photographic Workshops, and has lectured at Hunter College, SVA, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She juried Halide Project’s (Philadelphia) first annual call-for-entry exhibition “Living Image.” Her writing and interviews have been published in Artforum, Artforum.com, and Bookforum. Chandra is particularly drawn to experimental approaches to photography and conceptually driven projects.

Eligibility and Guidelines

This exhibition is open exclusively to current LACP Members ONLY. The juror will select works based on creativity, originality, and quality. LACP invites member photographers working in all mediums and styles to take part in the exhibition.

We do not accept images and texts created by AI for this open call.

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The deadline to submit digital files through Submittable for consideration in this call is: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at Midnight PST. No exceptions.

Acceptance Notice

The selection process will be blind. Once the juror has made selections, all entrants will be notified. Those selected will receive an email from LACP with the image selected for the show. The selected image and artists’ names will be posted on LACP’s website.

LACP reserves the right not to use a particular selected image(s) for promotional purposes if the image(s) is deemed inappropriate for use on LACP’s social media, newsletter feed, and/or on in any other marketing material.

Entry Fee

$18.75 for 1 image
$37.50 for 2-5 images
$56.25 for 6-10 images
$75.00 for 11-15 images
$93.75 for 16-20 images
$112.50 for 21-25 images
$131.25 for 26-30 images
$150.00 for 31-35 images

Click HERE to enter and pay. You will be taken to Submittable to create your submission.

NOTE: Please DO NOT watermark your images when submitting. Thank you.

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Each photographer retains all copyrights to their images & works. Photographers whose submissions are chosen for the exhibition grant the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) the right to use their images for display on LACP’s website and for the purpose of promoting exhibitions, promoting LACP’s programs, and promoting the artist. Promotions and images may also be placed on social networks for LACP with artist credit. Artists grant the use of their image(s) as stated without further contact from LACP. The artist understands that LACP will not be held responsible for loss, theft or other damage, whether caused by the negligence of its officers, members, or others. Photographers are welcome to sell their photos during the online exhibit, with 50 percent commission to LACP. Submission of application will constitute an agreement to all these terms and conditions.

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