SE Center Open

Open Call is just that, an open theme - all subjects, The SE Center is looking for images of any theme, media, digital, analog, or antique processes that show your best work. Analog and digital manipulation in all its forms welcome. Monochrome or color, all subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Entering Your Images  

We are testing an alternative Call for Submission program and you will notice a few changes primarily in the Pricing format and Member Pricing. There are no actual change. When submitting an image you’ll notice the prices are running totals, so a non-member pays $35 for their first photo, nothing more for photos 2 through 5, and $6 for each one after that.

Members should be automatically recognized, no more Codes. Members will see Member pricing presented in the same format.

You can enter your images online at Smarter Entry. For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side. Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Please name your files: Open.Last Name.First Initial_Image#.jpg (Examples: Open.Smith.J.Image1.jpg, Open.Jones.R.Image3.jpg) If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please contact info@sec4p.com . No exceptions will be made for late submissions. Please allow for ample time to complete your entry.

Eligibility 

Submissions are welcome from anyone who makes photographs. This program is inclusive, and work will not be chosen on the basis of the status of the photographer. It is the imagery that counts. All photographers regardless of location, age or skill level. Images previously selected for exhibition at the SE Center for Photography within two years of the current exhibition are not eligible.

Fees 

$35 for up to 5 Images, $6 for each additional image up to 15. 

Members, $28 for up to 5 Images, $5 for each additional image up to 15.

No refunds for images not selected for inclusion.

Juror

Our juror for this year’s Open is Richard McCabe. Richard McCabe is a curator, photographer and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. In 1998, he received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. Since 2010, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has organized and curated over thirty exhibitions including: Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, The Mythology of Florida, The Rising, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s - 40s, The Colourful South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and New Southern Photography.

Richard McCabe’s photographs have been included in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States including: Size Matters, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, Instant Joy, AM Richard Fine Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, and Once Around The Sun, Boyd/Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2017, AINT - BAD press published LAND STAR, a monograph of McCabe’s photography. McCabe’s thoughts and writings on photography have been published in the New York Times, Time, National Public Radio(NPR), Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spot, The Bitter Southerner, AINT - BAD, Hotshoe, Huck and LENSCRATCH magazine. In 2018, he contributed the introduction essay  -The Reality on the Ground for the University of New Orleans press publication: New Southern Photography: Images of the Twenty-first Century South.

Exhibition Details

35-40 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s virtual gallery space for approximately one month. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slide show. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

Sales & Copyright

The SE Center encourages sales during exhibitions. If someone expresses interest in a piece we will put them in touch with the artist. If a transaction is completed the SE Center will take 0% commission, the artist retains all monies. 

Artist retains all copyrights to their own images. Artists whose work is chosen for exhibition inclusion grant the SE Center for Photography permission to use images for promoting the exhibition, artist, or SE Center and its programs, and current and past exhibitions. Images may be placed on social media for promotion and features. Artists grant usage as stated without further compensation.

Calendar          

Submissions Open 10/15/26

Submissions Close 12/30/26

Selections Announced 12/30/26

Exhibition Opens 1/15/27

Exhibition Closes 3/6/27

Thank you for submitting and good luck!