Thresholds 2025: The Bold Edition – Open Call

Open Call

This call invites submissions for works by international street photographers who are looking at our changing world with fresh eyes, capturing the colors, shapes, stories and attitudes that will define public spaces in the weeks and months to come.

Whether it’s urban architecture, unexpected portraits, surprising encounters or sensorial compositions, whether you’re seeking vivid verité or mute vintage aesthetics, we want to see your bright and daring outlook on the world around you. The question at the heart of this exhibition is about transition, and our ability to capture a single public moment that will tell a daring story about the shifts and pivots that define life.

Offering an expanded view of the world and street photography as a practice, this juried annual open call will bring together sights and visions for a virtual exhibition and a month-long projection-based exhibition at the Helms Design District in Culver City, CA, to be held every night during May 2025.

The Juror

Kara Felt is the Lawrence S. Friedman Curator of Photography at The San Diego Museum of Art. She joins the Museum from the Denver Botanic Gardens where she curated multiple exhibitions including Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature and Ansel Adams: Early Works. In 2023 she curated This Is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photographs from 2017 to 2021. Felt has held curatorial roles in several major photography departments, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the New York Public Library, and has taught at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Metropolitan State University of Denver. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Eligibility and Guidelines

The exhibition is open internationally to photographers of all levels. The juror will select images based on creativity, originality, and quality. LACP invites photographers working in all mediums and styles to take part in the exhibition.

LACP Members are eligible for a discounted submission rate. Not an LACP Member? To become a Member, click HERE

The deadline to submit digital files through Submittable for consideration in this call is: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 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 a list of images and artists selected for the show. The selected images and artists’ names will be posted on LACP’s website.

LACP is not responsible for connecting the selected artists with the juror. In addition, 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

$25 for 1 image ($18.75 for LACP Members)
$50 for 2-5 images ($37.50 for LACP Members)
$75 for 6-10 images ($56.25 for LACP Members)
$100 for 11-15 images ($75.00 for LACP Members)
$125 for 16-20 images ($93.75 for LACP Members)
$150 for 21-25 images ($112.50 for LACP Members)
$175 for 26-30 images ($131.25 for LACP Members)
$200 for 31-35 images ($150.00 for LACP Members)

Click HERE to enter and pay. You will be taken to Submittable.com. You will need  to create a FREE Submittable profile to submit your images.

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

LACP Members are eligible for a discounted submission rate. Not an LACP Member? To become a Member, click HERE

All works accepted for exhibition must be sent to LACP as a high resolution file for projection purposes only (specifications to be sent upon acceptance). Accepted image sent MUST match the image submitted, or it could lead to disqualification.

Accepted files for exhibition must arrive by Saturday, April 18, 2025. There are no exceptions.

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.

For questions please email info@lacphoto.org