OVERCOMING — what remains standing

Overcoming— what remains standing

Call Type: Photography
Eligibility: International
Exhibition Type: Online
Entry Fee: $25 up to 4 entries, $5 each additional entry
Deadline: August 3, 2026
Notification Date: August 15
Exhibition Dates: August 20 — October 20

Juror: TBD
 

Things break. People struggle. Places change. And yet — something endures.

Overcoming — What Remains Standing invites photographers to submit work about survival, resilience, and what's left after hardship. We're looking for images that show what it means to get through something — whether that's personal loss, illness, grief, displacement, or simply the passage of difficult time. There's no single right approach: your work can be documentary or staged, abstract or portrait, raw or quiet. What matters is that it's honest.

​All photographic processes and experience levels are welcome.

​Submission Details:

Open to all photographers worldwide
All photographic styles and processes welcome
Maximum 8 images per submission

Please submit jpg files at 2100 pixels, or more, on the long side without any text, watermarks, borders, or frames. We want the work to be seen as it is, without any added elements that might distract from the image itself.

What Selected Photographers Receive

First Place: $500 plus a solo exhibition on the gallery's website
Second Place: $250
Third Place: $150

Two Honorable Mentions: $50 each
Human Presence Nomination: Free entry to one future Open Call of the photographer’s choice

• Inclusion in the curated online exhibition
• Permanent exhibition page on Decagon Gallery
• Feature on Decagon’s Instagram
• Inclusion in the exhibition catalog

Juror​: Douglas Beasley

Photographers retain all rights, including copyright, to their photographs.