"Cut. Paste. Transform." Open Call by PhotoPlace Gallery

• PhotoPlace Gallery

• Deadline: January 5th, 2026

• Theme: Cut. Paste. Transform.

• Prize: Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales

• Entry Fees: Yes

• REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE

Photo-collage continues to thrive today as a versatile and resonant artistic form, uniquely suited to our image-saturated world. Informed by contemporary concerns such as sustainability, nostalgia, archival exploration, digital manipulation, and community engagement, collage has become a vital bridge between online creative spaces and established art institutions, appearing in major museums, galleries, publications, and art fairs worldwide.

Artists such as Mickalene Thomas, Lorna Simpson, Colette Fu, Sohei Nishino, Wangechi Mutu, John Stezaker, Deborah Roberts, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Antonio Pulgarín exemplify the transformative potential of collage. Their practices reveal how photo-collage can be used to unpack identity, reframe history, and critically examine the ways images are constructed, circulated, and consumed.

We welcome submissions from artists working with photo-based collage in all its forms, including digital, analog, sculptural, time-based, and hybrid approaches. We seek work that engages deeply with themes of identity, history, narrative, aesthetics, or social and political inquiry, as well as projects that expand or challenge the boundaries of photography and collage itself. Whether crafted by hand or created digitally, rooted in tradition or driven by experimentation, all photo-collage practices are encouraged.

We are proud to have Francine Weiss as the juror for Cut. Paste. Transform. She will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and an additional 40 images for our Online Gallery. All 75 selected works will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog, permanently archived on our website, and actively promoted through social media, with links directing viewers to each photographer’s URL.