What the Streets Hold: Street Photography Open Call

About this call

Decagon Gallery, a contemporary photography platform based in Brooklyn, New York, invites street photography for What the Streets Hold. The call looks for what people reveal without intending to: how they wait, protect themselves, occupy space, move toward one another or remain apart. Photographs may be made on streets, in stations, markets, public transport, neighborhoods or anywhere strangers share the same place, and a person may be central, barely visible or present only through what they left behind. The juror is Teona Machavariani, curator and artistic director of Decagon Gallery. Selected artists are shown in an online exhibition from February 10 to April 10, 2027, published in an exhibition catalog and given digital badges and certificates. Cash awards total $1,000.

Who can apply

• Open to applicants of any nationality
• Medium: Photography
• Entry fee: $25
• Open to photographers worldwide; all photographic processes and styles welcome. The call is for street photography: photographs made on streets, in stations, markets, public transport, neighborhoods or anywhere strangers share the same place. Entry fee: $25 for up to 4 entries, $5 for each additional entry. Submit JPGs sized to 2100 pixels on the long side, without text, watermarks or borders, preferably under 4 MB, named First Name-Last Name_Title.jpg. Cash awards are limited to one per photographer; a photographer selected for several awards receives only the one of greatest value. Entrants grant Decagon Gallery the right to publish the photographs in the online exhibition and catalog and to promote the exhibition; photographers keep copyright. Notification February 1, 2027.