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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.
Application Fee:
Sending an application is free of charge.
Participation Fee:
Upon selection, 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.
“MEMORIES”
A Photography Exhibition
Carlotta Gallery X ZOOM OUT Magazine
Memory fades, fragments, and changes with time. Photographs can preserve a moment, but they can also transform it, allowing us to revisit places, people, feelings, and versions of ourselves that no longer exist in quite the same way. In this space between what was and how we remember it, photography becomes a way of returning, reimagining, and questioning the past.
Carlotta Gallery and ZOOM OUT Magazine invite photographers from around the world to submit work for Memories, a joint Open Call exploring photography, time, nostalgia, and the act of looking back. We invite photographers to look back into their archives and rediscover forgotten images, older works, or unfinished projects. Consider what changes when an image is seen again through the present.
Selected photographers will take part in an online Virtual Exhibition hosted by Carlotta Gallery and be featured in ZOOM OUT Magazine’s online Issue 5.
This collaboration brings together two shared perspectives: ZOOM OUT’s mission to redefine the photographic lens through community, not competition, and Carlotta Gallery’s belief in celebrating art without borders. Together, we want to create a space where photography can move freely between artists, perspectives, and audiences, connecting photographers through a shared theme while giving their work a platform beyond a single place or format.
Participation Fee:
A submission fee applies to this Open Call, following Carlotta Gallery’s standard Open Call process:
Upon selection, 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.
Please note: ZOOM OUT Magazine does not charge photographers a submission or participation fee. The submission fee above is part of Carlotta Gallery’s usual Open Call process and is paid directly in connection with the gallery’s submission and exhibition process.
Selection & Exhibition
Selected photographers will take part in a Virtual Photography Exhibition hosted by Carlotta Gallery and will be featured in ZOOM OUT Magazine’s online Issue 5. All submissions will be reviewed in relation to the theme “Memories”, with consideration given to the artistic approach, concept, and relationship to the Open Call theme.
Submission Deadline:
October 15, 2026
“UNTITLED”
A Photography Exhibition
Untitled is an open theme Photography Exhibition inviting artists to submit work without restrictions on subject, style, or approach. The Collection welcomes photography projects that explore personal perspectives, stories, and ideas through a unique visual language.
With no fixed theme, Untitled celebrates the freedom of expression and the many ways photographers interpret the world around them.
Submission Deadline:
October 20, 2026
“ABSTRACT II”
A Photography Exhibition
Carlotta Gallery presents the second edition of Abstract, a Virtual Exhibition and Collection centred on artists who approach abstraction with a distinct point of view.
For Abstract II, Carlotta Gallery is interested in work that feels resolved, intentional, and visually engaging. The selection focuses on artists who bring a personal perspective to abstraction and approach the form in a way that feels distinctive rather than familiar.
Submission Deadline:
November 20, 2026
“NORTH AMERICA”
A Photography Exhibition
North America is vast, restless, and difficult to define. It is a place of extremes, where immense distances can separate lives that exist side by side. The landscape changes constantly, yet certain images of North America remain familiar, forming how the place is understood both from within and from afar.
There is always a tension between the North America that is imagined and the North America that is lived. Photography can enter that space, revealing a place that is more complex, unexpected, and unfinished than the images that usually represent it.
Submission Deadline:
November 30, 2026
“DREAMS”
A Photography Exhibition
DREAMS explores the space between reality and imagination through photography. Dreams can take the form of memories, fantasies, or imagined worlds, whether found in sleep or within everyday life.
Photographers are invited to explore the theme through personal and unexpected perspectives. Surreal, abstract, experimental, or atmospheric photography is welcome. There is no fixed definition of a dream, leaving space for individual interpretation and imagination.
Submission Deadline:
December 10, 2026
“BLUE”
A Photography Exhibition
Blue occupies a curious position between the physical world and the imagination. It is the colour of atmospheric distance, of deep water whose depths remain unseen, and of pigments that have travelled across centuries and continents.
Its history is inseparable from the ways it has been observed, produced and understood, carrying associations that are never entirely constant.
Submission Deadline:
December 20, 2026
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