Memory: What Remains | International Photography Open Call
- Deadline: 20 August 2026
- Website: https://chateaugallery.com/call-for-entries/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.
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.
Fees:
Paid
Prizes:
Approximately 35 selected images will be included in a curated online exhibition, promoted through TCG Gallery's website, email list, and social media, and retained in a permanent website archive. Optional sales inquiries are available.
Eligibility:
Photographers and lens-based artists worldwide. See the full prospectus for eligibility and submission terms.
Copyrights & Usage Rights:
Artists retain all copyright. By submitting, artists grant TCG Gallery a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display selected work in the online exhibition and permanent archive and to reproduce it for exhibition promotion, with artist credit wherever feasible. No ownership transfers.