"Black and White" Open Call by Black Box Gallery

• Black Box Gallery

• Deadline: November 12th, 2025

• Theme: Black and White

• Prize: Exhibition in Portland (USA) + Sales

• Entry Fees: Yes

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Black Box Gallery invites photographers to participate in its Black and White Juried Group Show, an exhibition celebrating the timeless magic of monochrome photography.

There’s something undeniably powerful about seeing the world without color — where every tone, shadow, and highlight becomes a language of its own. Black and white photography has always held a unique place in visual storytelling: it can be bold and dramatic, or subtle and intimate; nostalgic yet strikingly modern.

This exhibition embraces that duality. It honors the great photographic traditions of composition, craft, and luminosity, while encouraging photographers today to explore their own voices within that legacy. Whether you work in analog or digital, street photography or abstraction, portraiture or conceptual art — Black Box Gallery is looking for work that expands the conversation of what black and white can be in the 21st century.

Juror: Todd JohnsonJuror Todd Johnson, founder and director of Black Box Gallery, brings deep expertise and passion for photographic art. Johnson earned his MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been an influential figure in the field for more than two decades. He has served as a portfolio reviewer for Photolucida, Critical Mass, Dodho Magazine (Barcelona), and Blue Sky Gallery, and has curated numerous exhibitions across the United States.

As an artist, his own photographic work has been exhibited extensively — from Portland, Oregon, to Brooklyn, Washington D.C., and San Francisco — in venues that highlight his commitment to both the craft and conceptual depth of photography.

This show invites photographers to join a global dialogue — one that stretches from the earliest darkrooms to the digital age — and to contribute their own light and vision to the continuum of black and white imagery.