Alt: A Photo Opp Gallery

Description

We are excited to announce this year’s gallery and fundraiser taking place this October! 
At Photo Opp, we celebrate photography as a medium without limits. ALT explores what happens when artists step outside the expected and redefine what a photograph can be.
This exhibition embraces alternative creations in every sense; from cyanotypes and salt prints to film soup, unconventional printing surfaces, digital manipulation, sculptural photography, emulsion lifting, collage, and beyond. If it challenges convention, questions process, or expands the definition of photography, it belongs here.
“Alternative” isn’t just about technique,  it’s about mindset. It’s about curiosity over perfection. Process over predictability. Risk over routine.
ALT may reference photography’s earliest methods; others may push the medium into entirely new territory. What unites them is a willingness to experiment; to blur boundaries between analog and digital, object and image, photograph and artifact.
This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the photograph not just as a captured moment, but as a constructed, transformed, and reimagined experience.
Anyone can enter up to three pieces, and there is no submission fee.

Deadline for submissions: August 10, 2026 at 11:59 pm CST

Important Dates
July 3, 2026: Gallery submissions open
August 10, 2026: Submissions deadline at 11:59 pm CST
August 10-21, 2026: Online jury process
August 24, 2026: Artists are notified
September 1, 2026: Tickets go on sale
September 1, 2026: Deadline for artist to submit images for zine and promotion
October 16, 2026: Opening reception and awards announcement 5-9pm

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