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OPEN CALLS
How to apply:
Submit applications via email to: photography.carlotta@gmail.com
Submit up to 3 images per Open Call.
Please submit your files in JPG format.
Please include:
- Your name and surname.
- Your Instagram handle.
- A short biography + an artist statement.
Artwork(s) details, including: Title, year of creation, price in GBP (if applicable).
Participation Benefits:
- One or more of your photographs will be showcased in a Virtual Online Exhibition. The Exhibition is temporary in nature and will be presented online for a minimum duration of six months, extending up to one year.
- Participants will have their work permanently featured on the Collections page of www.carlottagallery.co.uk, included within curated collections alongside a biography and artist statement.
- Selected photographs will be permanently featured on Instagram @carlottagallery.
- Participants will receive a free PDF copy of the Exhibition Catalogue.
- Participants will receive a free Certificate of Recognition.
- Photographers may also have their work featured in social media posts and stories.
Application Fee:
Sending an application is free of charge.
Participation Fee:
Upon selection for an Exhibition, a nominal fee of £20 will be applicable for one showcased artwork. The following structure has been devised to ensure affordability, enabling the display of multiple pieces.
£20 for one showcased artwork.
£30 for two showcased artworks.
£35 for three showcased artworks.
Copyright and Usage:
Artists retain the copyright to their submitted works.
By submitting, artists grant permission for the Exhibition's Online display and promotional materials, including authorisation for the curator to use their photo(s) on Instagram, Artplacer and www.carlottagallery.co.uk
Eligibility:
- Open to photographers worldwide.
- Participants must be 18 years of age or older.
“Flora”
A Nature Photography Exhibition
Flora explores the quiet intensity of plant life through photography. From delicate details to expansive growth, the exhibition centres on the presence, resilience, and beauty of the natural world as seen through flora. The project welcomes diverse photographic approaches; documentary, conceptual, experimental, and poetic, that engage with plants, vegetation, and botanical forms in their natural or altered environments. Works may reflect ecology, intimacy, memory, or the subtle dialogue between humans and the green world that surrounds us.
Submission Deadline:
April 20, 2026
“Europe”
A Photography Exhibition
Europe presents a continuous negotiation between tradition and innovation, memory and experimentation, particularity and universality. Its archives, works of art, and built environments testify to centuries of intellectual endeavour, cross-cultural exchange, and social inquiry. This collection seeks to trace these continuities and disruptions, highlighting the networks of ideas and practices that underpin European history.
In doing so, it encourages a sustained engagement with questions of belonging and interrelation, allowing visitors to perceive Europe as a complex web of human action, thought, and reflection too.
Submission Deadline:
May 10, 2026
“Candid”
A Candid Photography Exhibition
Candid photography is the art of attention. It is rooted in presence, patience, and trust in the unfolding moment. Rather than directing or staging, the photographer observes and responds. Unscripted gestures, fleeting expressions, and everyday interactions become the substance of the image. What remains is honesty within the frame.
This Open Call invites photographers to submit unstaged and unposed work that reflects genuine human experience. Street scenes, intimate domestic spaces, public encounters, and quiet daily rituals are all welcome. The focus is on images that carry emotional truth and reveal life as it is lived. The selected images will form a record of life as it unfolds, direct and unembellished.
Submission Deadline:
May 20, 2026
“Summer”
A Summer Photography Exhibition
Summer is experienced differently across the world. For some it brings intensity, brightness, and a sense of movement, while for others it unfolds more quietly through atmosphere, memory, and subtle changes in the environment. The season carries different meanings depending on where we are, how we live, and the personal associations we attach to it.
Submissions may capture its feeling, presence, or atmosphere through any photographic approach. Both literal and conceptual works are welcome, offering diverse perspectives on how summer is perceived, remembered, and experienced.
Submission Deadline:
June 10, 2026
“Landscape”
A Landscape Photography Exhibition
Landscape photography is not only about places. It is about the feeling of being in front of space that feels larger than you, quieter than you, or completely indifferent to you. It can create distance, calm, unease, nostalgia, or emptiness without needing to explain itself.
A landscape image holds time in suspension. It turns movement into stillness and makes absence feel present. Carlotta Gallery is interested in how landscape photography makes us feel, and how it shapes those feelings through light, scale, and framing.
Submission Deadline:
June 20, 2026
“Self”
A Self-portrait Photography Exhibition
Since the earliest days of photography, people have turned the camera toward themselves. Not as performance, but as experiment, necessity, and curiosity. Some of the first photographic images were self portraits made through mirrors, long exposures, and carefully arranged stillness. The medium almost immediately contained this inward gesture.
What continues to make self-portrait photography compelling is not novelty, but persistence. The image is never only descriptive. It becomes a meeting point between how one appears and how one is momentarily held by the camera. This Collection considers self-portraiture as part of photography’s foundation rather than its margins.
Submission Deadline:
July 10, 2026
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