APA NY - 3rd Annual Exhibition & Competition - Call for Entries

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Overview

APA's New York chapter invites all APA members to participate in our 3rd Annual Juried Photography Competition and Exhibition at the renowned Soho Photo Gallery. Soho Photo Gallery was founded in 1971 by a group of New York Times photojournalists and avant-garde photographers, as a co-op gallery, which it remains to this day. It is New York City’s longest-running co-op gallery.

• This one-week, open-gallery event, to be held December 3-8, 2024, will give each photographic artist a chance to promote their work to New York’s top art buyers and editors, as well as the public.
• What kinds of work should you submit? All kinds! You can submit personal work or assignment work; commercial or fine art; reportage, fashion, street photography, still life, landscape, macro or portraits; fantasy or reality; digital or old-school alternative processes; color or black & white; animal, vegetable or mineral; you name it (including any photographic genre we forgot to mention), and if it’s your best work, we want to see it.
• There are two categories: Single Image Entries and Series Entries.
• Work from APA members will be featured on the gallery walls at this special event, juried by famed gallerist Michael Foley. The promotional effort for this event will include: Features on the APA website, a social media and PR campaign, a fully illustrated show catalogue, and a Gala Opening Reception to bring the industry professionals who buy photographs and hire photographers to see the exhibit. You might even win one of the fabulous prizes!

About the Juror: Michael Foley

Michael Foley opened his eponymous gallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries, including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, and Yancey Richardson Gallery.

In 2002, Foley continued his interest in educating and working with artists by serving on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and International Center of Photography, where he teaches and lectures on contemporary photography issues at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

He joined Leica in 2023 as the Gallery Director of the New York Meatpacking Store & Gallery. Foley lives in Manhattan with his wife, Maya, and son, Jack. (Image by Tammana Islam)

Single image selections from APA New York's 2023 Juried Exhibition. Images by Keith Greenbaum, Samantha Zauscher, Markku Lahdesmaki, and Rebecca Grant

Entry Fees

Single Image Entry:

• APA Members: $25 per image
• Non-Members: $50 per image

Series Entry (a series of up to 5 images):

• APA Members: $25 for each image
• Non-Members: $50 for each image

A special entry bonus for APA members

Special entry bonus for APA members—as a special bonus for APA Members, we are offering discount codes that will give you added free entries:

• For every 3 Single Image Entries you submit, we will send you a discount code for one free additional entry.
• For every Series Entry (of at least 4 images) you submit, we will send you a discount code for two free additional single image entries.
• Please note: These bonus discount codes will come to you via email after you have submitted your initial entries. You will then be able to use your discount code to go back to the submission portal and enter you additional entries.

The competition is open to all members of APA nationwide. If you are not a member of APA and would like to join, please visit our Join page for more information. There are five membership levels (starting at just $50), so there is bound to be one just right for your needs.