Exposure Photography Festival 2025 Open Call

Exposure welcomes diverse and innovative submissions from photographers and visual artists around the world who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practice.

Overview

For the first time, the Emerging Photographers Showcase is open to artists across Western Canada. Artists based in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, or the Northwest Territories who can consider themself to be in the “early years” of their professional career, and do not have commercial gallery representation, are invited to apply to the open call.

Practical Info

All photographers, visual artists and creatives working with the medium of photography worldwide are eligible to submit their work. Exposure encourages submissions from members of underrepresented groups, and welcomes submissions from gender and sexually diverse individuals, racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities. Applicants need to send a series of photographs that best represent their practice and a written statement about their work. Images can be shot in any format, using any camera, on film or digital. Diverse submissions from photographers and visual artists who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practice, including photo collage and experimental photography are welcome.

Selected artists will be part of a curated exhibition held in Contemporary Calgary in February 2025. All exhibiting artists are paid $181 (CARFAC fees) and receive a production allocation expense to assist with printing through their partner Calgary Print Shop. In addition, selected artists will receive $150 Production Expense Allocation with Exposure 2025 Print Partner, ABL Imaging Group, to cover/support the cost of printing work for the exhibition.

About Exposure Photography Festival

The annual Exposure Photography Festival presents exhibitions that showcase photographic work by internationally renowned practitioners, alongside emerging and established talent from Alberta. The festival provides an exciting, innovative meeting place for photographers and art lovers to connect with one another, along with curators and photography professionals from around the world. Exposure is inclusive and participatory – a collaboration amongst members of the photographic community. Recent festivals have received over 900,000+ visits to its exhibitions from Exposure’s community of local and international, arts and non-arts engaged individuals and audience members. The festival brings people together to celebrate photography and Alberta’s thriving creative communities. Established in 2004, the Calgary/Banff Photography Society aka Exposure is a registered non-profit run by an enthusiastic Board of Directors who are devoted to photography.