We ❤ LA: Re-inventing the Horizon – Call for Entries

Open Call

Our beloved Los Angeles has been experiencing devastating loss and grief in the wake of the recent fires. We at LACP are heartbroken with our community and treasured city, and we are committed to create spaces for convening, forming connections and finding support.

This open call invites submissions from LACP staff, faculty and work-study students, of images that imagine, document and observe life in Los Angeles in all of their multi-faceted iterations. Your perspective can be documentarian, aspirations, conceptual or candid – all are welcome. We want to see how you see this moment, and how you’re thinking about the near and far future.

You can submit up to five images, and the juror will select one image for the exhibition. No fees are required to submit.

Juror & Curator

Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.

Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.

Eligibility and Guidelines

The exhibition is open to LACP staff, faculty and current work-study students only.

The deadline to submit digital files through Submittable for consideration in this call is: Saturday, February 15th, 2024 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

FREE for 5 image submissions.

We are only accepting 5 images from each person. Juror will pick 1 print from the 5 for the show. Print will be mounted with magnets to the wall, so no frame needed.

LACP staff, faculty and current work-study students will be emailed the link to submitt. You will be taken to Submittable.com. You will need  to create a FREE Submittable profile to submit your images.

If you haven’t’ received an email from LACP with the link please email us at info@lacphoto.org

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

Please do not share this link with anyone as only a small group is invited to participate in this show.

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