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2026 Queer Conscience Exhibition at The Image Flow

Entry Dates	2026-04-05T23:59:00+00:00 - 2025-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 59 Days Left

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CALL FOR ENTRY: 4th Annual Queer Conscience LGBTQ+ Photography Exhibition

Submissions due Saturday, April 4th at 11:59PM!

Exhibition Dates: June 6 – September 4, 2026Juried by: Conor Moynihan (Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum), Nathan Lomas (The Image Flow Gallery Manager), & The Image Flow Staff

The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 4th Annual juried photography exhibition Queer Conscience 2026. Participants chosen for exhibition will receive a softcover catalog detailing all selected works, and will also be showcased in our online gallery and on our social media.We probably don't need to inform you that queer rights are under attack unlike ever before. Queer Conscience seeks to push back against these forces and affirm our own truths through the photographic medium. In this juried exhibition set to coincide with Pride month, we ask queer artists to express their resistance, and share their truest queer journeys with us. Join us in celebrating our community and our creativity with a clear conscience.

Eligibility

This call is open to all photographers who consider themselves members of the LGBTQIA2+ community; we absolutely cherish and love our straight friends and allies, but for this exhibit we hope to amplify queer voices.This national call for entry is open to all photographic artists living or working in the United States and its territories. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Accepted entries will be exhibited at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA and in our online gallery.All accepted artwork must be framed to professional standards. For details, see our Terms & Conditions.Registration & Fees

$40 non-refundable registration fee. Artists may submit up to 5 images for review.
Registration fees help us to provide an honorarium to our jurors for their time and expertise, and to compensate our gallery team handling shipping/receiving, installation/deinstallation, gallery promotion, and publication of exhibition catalogs for participating artists.Image File Requirements

2500 px on the longest edge, 72ppi, JPG saved at 80% quality in sRGB colorspace.File size must be limited to 5MB.For more information about submission policies, liability, and criteria please visit our Terms & Conditions. Call for Art Calendar

• Submissions Open | Friday, February 6, 2026• Submissions Close | Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 11:59PM PST• Selections Announced | Friday, April 17, 2026• Last Day to Receive Artwork | Monday, May 25, 2025• Exhibition Dates | Saturday, June 6 - Friday, September 4, 2026• Opening Reception | Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 5-7PM• Uninstall & Artist Pickup | Week of September 7, 2026

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to seeing your work!

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Jurors

Conor Moynihan is the Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum and a Visual Studies PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Considering the impact the past has on the present, he studies contemporary art with an interest in queer art/visual culture, Orientalism, primitivism, and transnationalism. More specifically, Moynihan is researching contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey working in Europe and North America and dealing with gender and sexuality.

Nathan Lomas is a photographer, artist, and educator living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a Production Manager, Instructor, and Gallery Coordinator for The Image Flow Photography Center. He has taught courses at Academy of Art University San Francisco in the Photography, Graphic Design, and Advertising departments, and is the owner of Heritage Tintype, a portrait studio specializing in wet plate collodion photography.

Nathan developed the concept for Queer Conscience out of a desire to create more opportunities for queer photographers and artists to share their work. He is currently pursuing the creation of an LGBTQ+ artist residency program that aims to provide mental health resources to its residents in addition to supporting their creative work and fostering connections to the broader art world.

The Image Flow aims to celebrate photography in all its forms and to provide a platform for photographers of all levels to create work, exchange ideas, and to innovate the medium of photography. Our staff and instructors are deeply engaged with photographic practice in their daily lives and bring that same dedication to our space each day. We remain committed to making photography accessible to the community by providing public exhibitions, free lectures, workshops, and imaging services.

Today, our workshops and services continue to be in support of The Image Flow founder Stuart Schwartz's mantra - "It's not a photograph until it's a print" - driving toward photography in print form. We possess the tools and expertise needed to help bring your vision to life.

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