The Human Experience
A juried exhibition by PhotoPlace Gallery exploring the richness, complexity, and diversity of human life through photography.
PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers to submit work exploring what it means to be human, welcoming portraits, street photography, documentary work, current affairs, family, labor, culture, identity, community, and related subjects. Juror Meredith Fleischer will select up to 35 images for exhibition in the gallery's Middlebury, Vermont space and 40 for its Online Gallery, with all 75 selected works reproduced in an exhibition catalog and featured permanently online. The contest is open to a broad interpretation of the human experience, in both documentary and conceptual styles.
Deadline: October 5, 2026 (Closed)
Country: United States
Entry fee: Fee not listed
Prize: Juror's Award, Director's Award, and Honorable Mention distinctions; selected images exhibited in Middlebury, Vermont gallery and PhotoPlace Gallery's Online Gallery, published in the exhibition catalog, and promoted on social media.
Theme: portrait, street photography, documentary, conceptual, people