Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts - Landscapes: Real or Imagined

• Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts

• Deadline: September 14th, 2025

• Theme: Landscapes: Real or Imagined

• Prize: $150 + Exhibition in Providence (USA)

• Entry Fees: Yes

• REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE

We are pleased to announce this call for entries, designed to spark new conversations about what landscape photography can be. This is not simply a search for beautiful scenery, but an invitation to question and reimagine the genre itself: What kinds of landscapes deserve our celebration? Which ones should be preserved in memory? And how can these images help us envision a brighter, more interconnected future?

Photographers and artists are encouraged to seek out, capture, and share landscapes in their widest possible sense — whether wild and untouched, urban and constructed, or somewhere in between. Your work might feature familiar terrain or reveal something entirely unexpected: a trick of perspective, an unusual detail, or a scene that exists solely in your imagination yet resonates as a place. We welcome both the real and the surreal, the observed and the invented.

The history of landscape photography is deeply tied to the work of pioneers such as Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, and Ansel Adams, whose images have shaped the genre’s public image for decades. While we continue to honor these legacies and acknowledge the contemporary practitioners who carry forward their traditions, we are also committed to widening the scope. This exhibition aims to offer a fresh, expansive, and inclusive vision of Landscape Photography Today, reflecting the many ways artists engage with the world’s spaces — physical or imagined.