PhotoPlace Gallery - "Cut. Paste. Transform." Call for Entries

• PhotoPlace Gallery

• Deadline: January 5th, 2026

• Theme: Cut. Paste. Transform.

• Prize: Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales

• Entry Fees: Yes

• REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE

Today, photo-collage flourishes as an accessible, adaptable, and emotionally powerful artistic practice. Rooted in traditions of experimentation and reinvention, collage continues to evolve through contemporary movements focused on sustainability, nostalgia, archival research, digital manipulation, and collective forms of making. As a result, photo-collage occupies a unique position within contemporary art, bridging grassroots online creative communities with prominent museums, galleries, publications, and international art fairs.

Contemporary artists including Mickalene Thomas, Lorna Simpson, Colette Fu, Sohei Nishino, Wangechi Mutu, John Stezaker, Deborah Roberts, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Antonio Pulgarín exemplify the enduring relevance of collage. Their work demonstrates how photo-collage can interrogate identity, memory, and history, while also revealing how images are constructed, circulated, and reinterpreted over time. Through fragmentation and reassembly, collage offers a powerful language for questioning representation and reclaiming visual narratives.

We welcome submissions from artists working with photo-based collage in all its forms, including digital, analog, sculptural, time-based, and hybrid approaches. We encourage work that thoughtfully engages with themes such as identity, history, narrative, aesthetics, and social or political issues, as well as projects that challenge conventional boundaries between photography and collage. Whether handmade or digitally constructed, traditional or experimental, we invite artists to share innovative photo-collage work that expands the possibilities of the medium.

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