SELF — Self Portraits Beyond Likeness, Decagon Gallery Online Exhibition (Juror Douglas Beasley)
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SELF — Self Portraits Beyond Likeness, Decagon Gallery Online Exhibition (Juror Douglas Beasley)

Decagon Gallery

November 17, 2026 (49 publicSeo.openCall.daysLeft)Online — decagongallery.com

Spotlight call of Decagon Gallery for self portraits that go beyond likeness — images made in the act of looking at oneself honestly, uncomfortably, tenderly or strangely: work about identity, aging, illness, grief, joy, gender, memory, solitude, family, transformation and the body, with real emotional stakes.

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Online exhibition at Decagon Gallery, 6 December 2026 – 6 February 2027, with a professionally designed exhibition catalogue, digital badges and certificates. First place $500, second $250, third $150, two honourable mentions $50; Human Presence award: free entry to a future exhibition. Juror: photographer Douglas Beasley. Photographers keep all rights.

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Open to photographers worldwide; all photographic processes and styles welcome. Photographic self portraits in any style — documentary, constructed, conceptual or experimental; series or single images accepted.

Dates & details

Programme dates
Online exhibition 6 December 2026 – 6 February 2027
Results
30 November 2026
Costs to the artist
Entry fee only; the exhibition is online
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$1,000 total cash awards
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$25 for up to 4 photographs; $5 each additional (waivable on request for hardship, war zones, sanctioned countries)