Call For Entries
TCG Gallery hosts juried photography exhibitions featuring photographers from around the world. Each exhibition begins with an international call for entry and is selected from hundreds of submissions exploring a wide range of themes, styles, and photographic approaches.
Whether you are an emerging photographer exhibiting for the first time or an established professional continuing your practice, we invite you to submit your strongest work for consideration. Current opportunities are listed below.
Call For Entry: The Surreal
Extended Submission Deadline:
July 20, 2026 11:59 PM
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The Surreal explores the strange space where reality stops behaving.
For this exhibition, we are looking for photographic works that distort the familiar, unsettle perception, or reveal the dream logic hiding inside everyday life. The surreal does not have to be loud, theatrical, or digitally impossible. It can appear in a strange shadow, an uncanny gesture, a misplaced object, a distorted body, a vacant room, a symbolic landscape, or a moment that feels almost normal until it doesn’t.
We welcome images that blur the line between the real and imagined, the beautiful and unsettling, the conscious and unconscious. Submissions may engage with dreams, memory, desire, fear, absurdity, fantasy, hallucination, transformation, or psychological tension.
The Surreal asks artists to show us a world bent out of shape, where logic slips, meaning multiplies, and the ordinary becomes impossible to trust.
Submission Deadline: July 20, 2026
Juror Notifications: July 25, 2026
Format: Online Exhibition
Exhibition: August 1 – August 31, 2026
Call For Entry: Memory: What Remains
Submission Deadline:
August 20, 2026
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.
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: August 20, 2026
Juror Notifications: August 25, 2026
Format: Online Exhibition
Exhibition: September 1, 2026 - October 1, 2026
Call For Entry: Elemental •Earth •Air •Fire •Water
Submission Deadline:
September 20, 2026
Elemental is a photography exhibition centered on earth, air, fire, and water.
The elements are not just scenery. They are pressure, weather, heat, erosion, breath, flood, smoke, stone, ash, light, atmosphere, and survival. They shape the physical world, but they also carry emotional weight. They can suggest beauty, danger, memory, destruction, renewal, and transformation.
We are seeking photographic and lens-based work that engages with one or more of the four elements, either directly or symbolically. The work may be quiet, violent, minimal, surreal, documentary, abstract, staged, or experimental. A photograph of water does not have to be about water. A photograph of fire does not have to show flame. The strongest images may come from what the elements leave behind.
Elemental is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. All forms of two-dimensional images, traditional and non-conventional media, and conventional or alternative photographic processes with an analog or digital photographic base are welcome for submission.
Submission Deadline: September 20, 2026
Juror Notifications: September 25, 2026
Format: Online Exhibition
Exhibition: October 1, 2026 - November 1, 2026