Call For Entry: Memory: What Remains

Photography has always occupied a unique position between documentation and remembrance. It preserves fragments of experience, records histories, and captures moments that might otherwise disappear. Yet memory is rarely fixed. It shifts, fades, distorts, resurfaces, and evolves over time. What remains is often incomplete: a photograph, a place, an object, a gesture, a face, or a feeling that persists long after the original moment has passed.

TCG Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit work for Memory: What Remains, an exhibition exploring memory in all its forms—personal, collective, cultural, historical, and imagined.

We welcome photographs that examine the traces people leave behind and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present. Memory may be found in family archives, abandoned places, domestic interiors, personal artifacts, landscapes, portraits, traditions, rituals, communities, or the quiet evidence of lives once lived. We are equally interested in photographs that explore absence, nostalgia, loss, inheritance, identity, belonging, and the passage of time.

Memory does not have to be represented literally. We encourage submissions that approach the theme through documentary, fine art, conceptual, experimental, and alternative photographic practices. The strongest work often exists in the space between remembering and forgetting.

Submission Deadline: July 25th, 2026
Juror Notifications: July 28th, 2026
Format: Online Exhibition
Exhibition: August 1st, 2026 - September 1st, 2026

Possible Interpretations

• Personal and family histories

• Cultural and collective memory

• Archives and found photographs

• Identity, ancestry, and belonging

• Nostalgia and remembrance

• Loss, absence, and grief

• Aging and the passage of time

• Objects as vessels of memory

• Memory embedded in landscapes and architecture

• Home, migration, and displacement

• Reconstructed or imagined memories

• The relationship between photography and remembrance

Eligibility

• Open to photographers worldwide

• All photographic genres and processes accepted

• Digital, film, alternative process, and mixed-media photographic works welcome

• Individual images and cohesive series may be submitted

About TCG Gallery

TCG Gallery is an independent artist-run exhibition platform dedicated to supporting emerging and established photographers through curated exhibitions, publications, and collaborative projects. Operating outside traditional institutional structures, TCG focuses on accessible opportunities for artists while maintaining a commitment to thoughtful curatorial practice.

Curatorial Statement

Every photograph becomes a record of something that no longer exists in precisely the same way. A moment passes. A place changes. A person ages. A relationship ends. A building disappears. Even as photography attempts to preserve experience, it simultaneously reminds us of its impermanence.

Memory: What Remains explores this tension between preservation and loss. The exhibition seeks photographs that investigate what endures after time has passed and what traces remain when people, places, and experiences recede into memory.

We invite artists to reflect on the visible and invisible remnants of the past and to consider how photographs themselves function as vessels of remembrance.

We look forward to seeing your work.

— TCG Gallery

Terms of Entry

All entrants, by their submission, attest that the images submitted are their work and there has been no copyright infringement of any artist, living or deceased. All submissions must be original and completed by the artist’s hand. Submitting work created by or otherwise altered with artificial intelligence is strictly prohibited.

Selection and Exhibition

The Curator, Director, and Juror(s) will select approximately 35 images for exhibition in The Chateau's Online Gallery (TCG). TCG's management system (CRM) creates an entrant profile and categorizes submissions into themes upon successful submission. You will receive a confirmation email upon receipt of a successful submission. Submissions will be stored in the CRM "digital flat file" for one year for consideration in the current and future exhibitions.

Jurying Process

Jurors for TCG are a rotating assortment of past exhibitors, curators, editors, and members of various fields in the arts and culture sector. We believe in a "blind" jury process in which the juror is unaware of the photographer's identity. The selection process is based solely on the image and its title. Providing an image description is optional but is highly encouraged. TCG will notify entrants by email of the juror's selections.

Selling Your Work (Optional)

While TCG is a commercial gallery, participants may list their work as Not for Sale (NFS). However, participants are strongly encouraged to price their work. Once priced, TCG's agent will promptly contact a participant regarding any purchase inquiry. TCG will retain a 30% commission on any work sold through TCG and its agents.

Copyright and Usage

You retain all rights to your work at all times. You grant TCG the non-exclusive right to reproduce your image in the exhibition catalog, on our website, and for extensive promotion on social media (with proper attribution whenever possible). We will always credit you wherever feasible. You have the option to rescind this agreement in writing at any time.

Submission Fee

There is a $15 USD entry fee for up to three (3) image submissions. These funds directly support TCG Gallery’s administrative, advertising, and operational expenses.

We firmly believe that financial circumstances should not prevent artists from sharing their work. Fee waivers are available on the honor system for anyone who needs one. If you would like to request a waiver, please contact us through our contact form or by email

.Since 2019, TCG Gallery has operated continuously in various forms as an independent, de facto non-profit passion project dedicated to supporting emerging and established creators, experimental photography, and independent artistic practices outside of traditional institutional funding structures. As we work toward expanding future operations in New York City, submission fees help sustain our promotional campaigns, web hosting, exhibition materials, and other essential costs associated with maintaining the gallery.

US Foreign Compliance Statement

We cannot accept submissions or provide services from citizens residing in the following sanctioned countries: Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Belarus, Russia. Visit our Terms of Service page and US Foreign Policy Compliance Statement for more information.

Entry Form Instructions | Frequently Asked Questions

• You may submit up to (3) images per entry. You may submit more than one entry.

• There is no size or production year restriction for submitted images.

• Please list your print dimensions in inches or centimeters. (If something is not for sale, then you do not need to provide this information.)

• Please name your images in the following format: firstname_lastname_title-01.jpeg.

• Please upload your files with a minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and a minimum size of 500kb.

• Contact us if you need help or have any questions, and we’ll get back to you shortly.