Photography without the museum fog machine.
TCG Gallery presents juried online exhibitions, international calls for entry, artist resources, and long-term exhibition archives for photographers and lens-based artists worldwide.
The Surreal
Memory
Elemental
Submit the work that won’t behave.
Three open calls are currently active. Use the main Call for Entries page for current deadlines, eligibility, fee waivers, submission guidelines, and live entry links.
The Surreal 2026
For photographic work that bends reality, distorts the familiar, unsettles perception, or reveals the dream logic hiding inside everyday life.
Memory: What Remains
Personal, collective, cultural, historical, and imagined memory — traces, archives, absence, inheritance, identity, place, and what refuses to disappear.
Elemental
Earth, air, fire, and water as physical forces and symbolic structures: weather, atmosphere, erosion, heat, flood, smoke, stone, breath, survival, and transformation.
The Art of Abandonment
Forgotten structures, overlooked objects, and landscapes shaped by time. This exhibition looks beyond decay and toward memory, change, and the histories embedded in spaces we leave behind.
Long-term visibility
Selected work is presented online and added to the TCG Gallery exhibition archive.
Artist-first terms
Artists retain copyright. Accepted images may be used by TCG for exhibition and related promotion with credit.
Accessible entry
Standard entries are $15 for up to 3 images, with fee waivers available on request.
No mystery meat submission process.
Choose a call, submit up to three images, wait for notifications, and selected work goes live in a curated online exhibition.
Choose
Review the current calls and pick the theme that actually fits your work.
Submit
Send up to three images through the entry form with clean artwork details.
Review
Work is considered for image quality, theme relevance, originality, and exhibition cohesion.
Exhibit
Accepted artists are published online, credited, archived, and promoted through gallery channels.
Answers before the inbox catches fire.
New pages make the submission process clearer: guidelines, FAQ, open calls, and contact information are all easier to find.
Submission Guidelines
Eligibility, file prep, artist statements, copyright, fees, waivers, notifications, and what to expect after submitting.
Artist FAQ
The straight version: how selection works, why file sizes matter, what fees cover, and what happens if you are accepted.
Journal
Exhibition news, artist resources, photography notes, and occasional gallery brain weather.
Same backbone. Better site.
TCG Gallery began with roots in Louisville, Kentucky and has evolved into an independent online platform for contemporary photography, open calls, publications, and special projects.
The refreshed site is built to make the important stuff easier to find: current calls, submission standards, exhibition archives, artist resources, and contact information.
Bring the photograph that keeps looking back.
Browse current opportunities, submit to an open call, or explore recent exhibitions from photographers around the world.