CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

IC: MARIA DEL RIO

PHOTOGRAPHY AS RESISTANCE

IC: LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER

This group show gathers women, nonbinary, trans, and gender expansive photographers based in the Bay Area who are using the image creation process as a site of resistance and to look toward liberatory futures.

Photo Saloon invites submissions from women, nonbinary, trans, and gender expansive photographers based in the Bay Area for our upcoming group exhibition themed: Photography as Resistance.

This exhibition gathers artists who are using image making as a site of resistance, as memory, as refusal, as care, as possibility.

We invite work that interrogates power and is rooted in imagination, accountability, and collective care.

MARCH 1ST - ARTWORK SUBMISSION DEADLINE
MARCH 8TH - ARTISTS NOTIFIED
MARCH 20TH - ARTWORK DROP OFF DEADLINE. ARTWORKS MUST BE DELIVERED READY TO HANG / INSTALL.
APRIL 3RD - SHOW OPENING @ HAPPY HOUSE IN NORTH BEACH

Questions?
Email: hello@photo-saloon.com

Why This Exhibition

In times of rupture, photography and art can function as archive, witness, and connective tissue. This show is an offering toward collective imagination. A gathering of artists thinking critically about how and why we make pictures.

We look forward to seeing what you are making!

Submit Your Work →

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work.”
Toni Morrison

Submission Guidelines:

  • Each artist may submit 1 photographic work for consideration.

  • Work must be using a lens based medium.

  • Non traditional formats (zines, sculptural or installation based photographic work etc.) are welcome, though please keep in mind that this is a smaller gallery space.

  • Artists must be based in the Bay Area and identify as women, nonbinary, trans, or gender expansive.

Your submission must include:

  • Title, medium, dimensions as you plan to present the work, and year created

  • A very short statement (around 150 words) addressing:

    • How does your work function as resistance?

    • Is there an action, resource, or invitation you’d like viewers to engage with along with your work?

By submitting, you confirm the work is yours to share and you grant Photo Saloon permission to publish it on our website + social channels to promote the feature (with credit + links).

Submit Your Work →

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