We’re returning to our favourite exhibition space at Cambridge University in 2026 with the Shutter Hub OPEN, bringing together international photographers in a selected exhibition and promoting the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery… and, we want you to be part of it!

From 19 January – 02 April 2026, we’ll take over four floors of the ARB building (where we’ve shown many other awesome Shutter Hub exhibitions, including  Shutter Hub OPEN 2025,  POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE and EVERYTHING I EVER LEARNT) transforming the space and covering the walls with hundreds of images printed by our favourite newspaper print partners Newspaper Club. As an added bonus for 2026, the last two weeks of the exhibition will also see it featured as part of the Cambridge Festival.

Our OPEN exhibition is open to everyone (it’s in the name!) Enter the OPEN and have the chance to exhibit the work that you think best promotes you and your practice. We want to see a diverse selection of styles and subjects and bring them together in an exhibition that explores every corner of photography.

As always there’ll be an award for the ‘Best in Show’, where viewers will get to vote for their favourite photographs from the exhibition. This is much more about audience participation that it is about big prizes, but it’s a fun and engaging way to involve more people in responding to photography.

In the run up to the exhibition we’ll be sharing submitted images throughout the call for entries on our social media and blog, so it’s worth entering as soon as you’re ready and making the most of it.

GET INVOLVED! Find out more and enter your images here.

Deadline for entries: 30 October 2025 (5pm UK time)

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