Filling the Frame

About the Open Call

"The more stuff in the picture, the better. . . . In a sense it’s more fun to add more stuff if you can, and still make the picture.” — Lee Friedlander. For FILLING THE FRAME, PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers to celebrate more: layered compositions, intersecting subjects, overlapping lines, patterns, and textures that fill the space with intention. Think of street scenes bursting with energy, crowded markets, tangled forests, intricate still lifes, or abstractions that challenge our sense of visual harmony. This exhibition celebrates the art of composition under pressure—the creative act of finding beauty, coherence, and story in the midst of visual complexity. How close to chaos can you come and still make an engaging, aesthetically compelling picture? We are honored to have Dallas Crow as the juror for Filling the Frame. He will select up to 35 images for our Middlebury, Vermont Exhibition gallery and another 40 images for our Online Gallery. All 75 images will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog and remain permanently on our website, and be promoted on social media with links to photographers' URL. Banner Image: Robert Anderson. Dallas Crow is a teacher, photographer, and writer who lives in Atlanta. He has had work in juried shows in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Halifax (Canada), Athens (Greece), and Tokyo (Japan). In addition, his solo exhibition of photographs from the 49th parallel, "The Other Border," was mounted at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis in the fall of 2018, and in the spring of 2021 he had another solo exhibition, "Thankful for the Blues," at Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. He has previously juried eight exhibitions for Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, including Words, Words, Words; Letters, Numbers & Signs; Frames Within Frames; and On the Road Again. His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals. His first poetry chapbook, www.dallascrow.com.

What is Offered

Selected images will be exhibited in a physical gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, and in an online gallery. All 75 images will be reproduced in an exhibition catalog, remain permanently on the gallery's website, and be promoted on social media with links to photographers' URLs.

Requirements

Photographers are invited to submit work that celebrates layered compositions, intersecting subjects, overlapping lines, patterns, and textures that fill the space with intention, exploring visual complexity and harmony.

How to Apply

Submit images via the provided link: https://submit.photoplacegallery.com/landing/default. Further information about submitting images can be found at: https://photoplacegallery.com/juried-photo-gallery-submissions.