Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme Elements. Free to submit and open to everyone.

The Glasgow Gallery of Photography is running an exhibition in January called Elements.  

A new theme we wanted to explore is Elements, the literally building blocks to the world around us.

This theme is open for you to explore in how ever you interpret the notion of Elements.

This could be exploring one or more of the "Four Elements", Earth, Wind, Water and Fire.

You interpret the elements as the weather that we experience and how that impacts our lives.

Or you explore the elements as the building blocks of the universe, using the periodic table as a starting point to explore the theme.

How you interpret this theme is up to you, we are excited to showcase the results.

Elements is an open call for photographers to submit up to 8 images.

Photographers who are selected will have their work displayed in a month-long exhibition in our gallery, which receives, on average, over 500 visitors every month, and will also have their work appear online, via our social media (over 15K followers on Instagram) and in an online gallery on our website (approx. 75K visitors a year). 

If selected, participants will have:

• Their work printed and displayed in the gallery
• Their work displayed in an online gallery on our website

• Their work be included in an exhibition catalogue

• A digital certificate of participation sent out before the start of the exhibition
• Their work will be photographed in situ once installed. These photos will be shared with participants directly via email and through our social media after the exhibition has started. 

• Their work will be videoed. These videos will be share via the gallery’s social media pages. 

• Have their work automatically put forward for a chance to be named Photographer of the Month.
  
  

Any work selected can be listed for sale during the exhibition. Please visit our website for more information.

You do not need to be a professional photographer to participate, as we believe that photography is for everyone and exhibiting your work is a great way of developing your practice and helping you towards the next stages of your learning or career goals. 

How to participate:

Submissions are FREE.  If your work is selected, there will be a participation fee of £50.

This fee covers the cost of everything. We will print, install and un-install the work in our gallery space.

*Please note that the frames used belong to the gallery*

Unless otherwise stated by the gallery, images will either be printed 16"x12, 18"x12", or 12"x12" in size, depending on the image.

Photographers can collect their work after the exhibition; we will hold prints for one month.

The deadline for this exhibition:  18th September 2026

1. Choose up to 8 images, 72 ppi is fine for the initial submission.
   (If selected you will be asked to supply images at 300ppi and  3000 Pixels minimum on the shortest side. Work will be displayed in various sizes).

2. Name your image files with your name e,g Firstname-Surname1, Firstname-Surname2, etc
   If you do not name your files correctly, it could result in your files getting lost or misplaced.
   Please only use your name, do not include image titles or any other information, this can be added elsewhere in your submission.

3. Make sure your images are JPEG files. We can only accept jpegs as this is what the printing company that we use requires.

Once the deadline has passed, photographers who have been selected will be contacted and asked to pay the participation fee.

The gallery then does the rest.

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