what the streets hold
Know before you apply
- Street photographers with candid work
- Photographers documenting public life
- Artists seeking online exhibition exposure
- Entry fee covers up to 4 photographs
- Extra images cost additional fee
- Photographers retain all rights and copyright
WHAT THE STREETS HOLD is a Decagon Gallery open call for street photography, asking what becomes visible when no one is performing. A stranger can enter a photograph without ever knowing it, on the way home, avoiding someone, carrying good news, lost in a private life no one around them can see. We are looking for the moments when something private surfaces in public: how people wait, shield themselves, take up space, drift toward one another, or stay apart while standing side by side.
Work may be made on streets, in stations, markets, on public transport, in neighborhoods, or anywhere strangers briefly share a place. A person can be the center of the frame, barely there, or present only through what they left behind. Dramatic events, visual coincidences and perfect timing are not the point; we want photographs that make us stop because something in them feels familiar, even when we can't say exactly what happened.
The exhibition is juried by Teona Machavariani, Curator and Artistic Director of Decagon Gallery.
Submit JPGs sized to 2100 pixels on the long side, with no text, watermarks or borders. Photographers keep all rights, including copyright, to their work.