American Photographic Artists National
Mon 15th Sep, 2025
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Untitled is an annual competition and exhibition designed to showcase the best work of APA members and beyond – Images that show your unique vision, creative passion, and individualistic style, titled or untitled. This contest is open to all photographers at any level. All entries will be curated by our jurors and the top 20 images will be selected to display for exhibition; the top three (3) images will be awarded prizes to those photographers living in the U.S.
Entry fees help support programming and events for APA San Diego and Outside the Lens, donating 10% of all entry proceeds to support their mission and programming.
While an APA membership is not required to enter, members receive discounts on annual call for entries, portfolio reviews, APA events as well as sponsor benefits and discounted pricing on gear and services throughout the year.
Thank you for supporting our creative community!
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Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA. Born and raised in San Francisco, she earned her doctorate in art history from Rutgers University, specializing in the history of photography. Over the past sixteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has recently curated or co-curated exhibitions, including:
Around Group f.64, Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, Sea Change, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, 2024 SECA Art Award, and Zanele Muholi: Eye Me. She is currently working on the upcoming exhibition Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules, which will be accompanied by a book from Aperture. Her writing has appeared in History of Photography, Art Journal, and 1000 Words.
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman is an independent photo and photobook editor, writer, picture researcher, and consultant based in Austin, Texas. She loves helping photographers craft powerful, cohesive edits of their work and work with them editing and sequencing zines and photobooks for publication. She is also Art Editor at the Oxford American magazine.
For 20+ years, Alyssa worked with Harper’s Magazine—most recently as Deputy Art Director—and continues to freelance for them. She has worked as a senior photo editor for National Geographic; picture researcher for publishing companies, sourcing images for publication on ficBon and non-ficBon book covers; and was the Archival Producer for PBS NewsHour’s Emmy-nominated interview series, Brief But Spectacular, sourcing creative and sensitive visual accompaniment for segments featuring a wide variety of guests. Several artists she pitched as guests on the show were featured in episodes.
She has interviewed artists for feature articles published in print and online by Oxford American. Alyssa loves speaking to undergraduate and graduate photography students about their potential career paths; and enjoys the intensity of teaching day-long photo editing workshops.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS 11:59 PM PST ON October 13, 2025
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