The Woman’s Gaze Prospectus

The history of photography has a long tradition of representing women as subjects but has less to say about women as artists. Today, the roles of women in photography are both behind the camera and in front of it. Who understands women better than women? The female perspective offers an important view of the many facets of womanhood and women’s role in society. This exhibition seeks women photographers who explore and celebrate the myriad ways that they render female-identifying subjects. 

Entering Your Images  

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: Women.Last Name.First Initial_Image#.jpg (Examples: Women.Smith.J.Image1.jpg, Women.Jones.R.Image3.jpg) If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please contact info@sec4p.com or call 864.214.6114. No exceptions will be made for late submissions. Please allow for ample time to complete your entry.

Eligibility 

Submissions are welcome from Women who make 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. Women 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.

Our juror for Women by Women is Renee Jacobs. Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time. Recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude, her work has been exhibited and published around the world.

Juror

Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist whose work considers how narrative is constructed, altered, and embodied through storytelling. Through sculpted light and enacted gesture, her photographs explore the porosity between memory and myth.

She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her photobooks Kavana (Kris Graves Projects, 2020) and We Will Return to You (Saint Lucy Books, 2025) are held in libraries including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty, Harvard University, and Stanford University. 

Altman’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, LensCulture, and British Journal of Photography. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, MK&G Hamburg, Houston Center for Photography, Koffler Arts, Athens Photo Festival, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography.

She was a 2022 Hopper Prize finalist, the 2022 Portraits Hellerau Photography Award First Prize winner, a 2023 Innovate Grant recipient, and a 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist. She was the inaugural Blanksteen Artist in Residence at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale in 2022–2023. Altman lives in Boston and is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Brandeis University.

Exhibition Details

35-40 selected images will hang in the 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 11/19/25

Submissions Close 2/1/26

Selections Announced 2/15/26

Exhibition Opens 3/1/26

Exhibition Closes 3/30/26

Thank you for submitting and good luck!