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Bay Area Photography Open 2025 Exhibition at The Image Flow

Entry Dates	2025-07-05T23:59:00+00:00 - 2025-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 50 Days Left

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CALL FOR ENTRY: Inaugural Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: September 27, 2025 – January 12, 2026Juried by: Allie Haeusslein (Director, Pier 24 Photography), Shana Lopes (Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA), and The Image Flow Staff

The Image Flow is proud to announce its inaugural Bay Area Photography Open exhibition, a juried call for entry that seeks to showcase the exceptional creative talent of photographic artists in the extended Bay Area region.
From digital images to alternative processes, and everything in between, this exhibition is open to all styles and disciplines that utilize a photographic element. This will be an open theme show; all subject matter and media explorations are eligible for consideration (with the exception of AI generated images).
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.

Eligibility

This call for entry is open to all photographers based in the extended San Francisco Bay Area. This will include each of the 9 Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant.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 3 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 | Monday, May 5, 2025• Submissions Close | Saturday, July 5, 2025 at 11:59PM• Selections Announced | Monday, July 28, 2025• Last Day to Receive Artwork | Monday, September 15, 2025• Exhibition Dates | Saturday, September 27, 2025 - Monday, January 12, 2026• Opening Reception | Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 5-7PM• Deinstall & Artist Pickup | Week of January 12, 2026

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

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Jurors

Allie Haeusslein is a Director at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, the largest space in North America dedicated to photography. She conceived and edited the book Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation, published in 2019. Her writing and interviews have been included in exhibition catalogues and monographs, and have appeared in publications such as Aperture, ART21 Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Foam Magazine. In addition to her curatorial work at Pier 24 Photography, Haeusslein has also curated exhibitions for outside venues including Filter Photo in Chicago and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, among others.

Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Born and raised in San Francisco, she earned her doctorate in art history from Rutgers University, specializing in the history of photography. Over the past fifteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has recently curated or co-curated exhibitions including Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, Sea Change, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, 2024 SECA Art Award, and Zanele Muholi: Eye Me. She is currently working on the upcoming exhibition Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules, which will be accompanied by a book from Aperture. Her writing has appeared in History of Photography, Art Journal, and 1000 Words.

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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