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The Colour Library: Yellow – A Shutter Hub Editions Publication

Closes: 16/07/2026 5:00 pm

The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.

Our next edition is a dedication to yellow. Bright and joyful, energetic and optimistic, but it can also be a sign of caution, a warning.

What does yellow mean to you? It can be radiant or haunting, loud or barely there. How you showcase the colour yellow is up to you. From bold monochromes to subtle glows, conceptual pieces to documentary moments, we want to see a wide range of creative expressions and invite you to share them with us for our next book, The Colour Library: Yellow.

Shutter Hub Editions is the publishing house from Shutter Hub – creating a collection of printed publications for people who love photography. Our publications are held in many international collections including the British Library, the V&A, and the Portuguese Center of Photography.

The book will be available to buy worldwide, with several stockists across the UK.

We’re making this opportunity affordable for all photographers. There are no set entry fees, but we’re asking you to ‘pay what you can’, with a minimum donation of £15. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too. We intend it to be a showcase for the photographers involved. We will promote it heavily across our networks, make it available to purchase in a variety of locations as well as directly from our online shop, and it will be held in national archives around the world.

We receive no external grants or funding, but we’re determined to do what we can to keep photography open to all. In order to make this opportunity as accessible as possible for all photographers, we are offering a number of free image submissions to those with limited income – to be considered, please send us an email before entering your submission, detailing why you should receive a free submission.

100 images will be selected for inclusion in the book. You can enter single images or a short series of images, up to 10 images can be entered per photographer.

The publication will be perfect bound, portrait orientation 140gsm matte paper at 148 x 210mm with a 350gsm cover. The design, layout and editorial decisions will be at our discretion.

Deadline: 16 July 2026 (5pm BST)

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THE BRIEF

Our next edition of The Colour Library is a dedication to yellow. Bright and joyful, energetic and optimistic, but it can also be a sign of caution, a warning.

What does yellow mean to you? It can be radiant or haunting, loud or barely there. How you showcase the colour yellow is up to you. From bold monochromes to subtle glows, conceptual pieces to documentary moments, we want to see a wide range of creative expressions and invite you to share them with us for our next book, The Colour Library: Yellow.

HOW TO ENTER

All submitted files must be named with the photographer’s name and title of work as described in the specifications. Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted.

Please read the specification information below.

Deadline for entries: 16 July 2026 (5pm UK time)

Please do not leave your entry until the last minute, we cannot accept any late entries.

FEES & ENTRY

We’re making this opportunity affordable for all photographers. There are no set entry fees, but we’re asking you to ‘pay what you can’, with a minimum donation of £15.

Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too. We intend it to be a showcase for the photographers involved. We will promote it heavily across our networks, make it available to purchase in a variety of locations as well as directly from our online shop, and it will be held in national archives around the world.

We receive no external grants or funding, but we’re determined to do what we can to keep photography open to all. In order to make this opportunity as accessible as possible for all photographers, we are offering a number of free image submissions to those with limited income – to be considered, please send us an email before entering your submission, detailing why you should receive a free submission.

We’re making this opportunity as affordable as possible for all photographers, but it isn’t cheap to produce and we intend to recoup some of our costs with book sales. Unfortunately, this does mean we won’t be able to pay royalties or supply each entrant with a free copy, but we intend this to be a showcase for photographers and will promote the publication across our networks, making it available to purchase in a variety of locations as well as directly from our online shop, and create a page on our website to allow people to connect directly with the photographers that are featured in the book, as we’ve done with all our previous publications. Having considered many different possibilities and options we feel this is the fairest approach.

10 images can be entered per photographer.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR ENTRIES

  • All submitted files must be named with photographers name and title of work. Image Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted. Correct file naming looks like this: lastname_firstname_imagetitle.jpg
  • Images can be landscape or portrait format but keep in mind that the publication itself is portrait orientation.
  • Please do not place multiple images together (such as diptychs or triptychs), please submit them as separate images. Please do not include captions or titles as part of the image, unless it is a graphic element of the image itself.
  • Submitted images must be 300dpi jpegs, to fit within the A5 size of 148 × 210mm, CMYK colour profile (Coated GRACoL 2006 (ISO 12647-2:2004) and no more than 5MB in size. We will contact successful entrants to request larger files for print if they are required.
  • Images must be suitable for a family audience.
  • Shutter Hub reserves the right to not display work.
  • Please read the Terms and Conditions for further details.

We will be in touch to inform entrants of the outcome whether they have been selected or not within 12 weeks of the deadline. We always get in touch, so, if for any reason you don’t hear from us, please email.

SALE OF WORK

Shutter Hub Edition publications will be for sale by Shutter Hub as open editions, featuring images selected from this call for entries. By entering the photographer agrees that we can publish the image in this publication and in future editions/print runs of this title.

Any enquiries such as for commissions or print sales from readers will be noted and passed directly to the photographer.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Shutter Hub reserves the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media any entry, without payment, for the purpose of the publication and its promotion and publicity. Copyright remains with the originator and each photographer shall be deemed to warrant that they own the entire copyright in the work or that they have permission from the licensee and/or copyright owner/s for the uses and that all necessary model releases and clearances have been obtained. Shutter Hub reserve the right to refuse work that they deem to be inappropriate, offensive or explicit.

Please make sure you read and agree with the above information before you submit your application. By submitting your application you are agreeing to abide by the terms and conditions and the information set out above.

Got any questions? Email us at info@shutterhub.org.uk

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Maximum file size: 5MB

Please upload a .jpg file to fit within 148x210mm at 300dpi, CMYK colour profile (Coated GRACoL 2006 (ISO 12647-2:2004)), with a maximum file size of 5MB. All submitted files must be named with the photographer's name and title of work e.g. lastname_firstname_title_of_image.jpg It is important that this is correct and each is unique as this is how we will let you know which images have been accepted. Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted.
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Help support Shutter Hub Editions

There is a minimum donation of £15 to take part in this call for entries, and all contributions will go directly to the production of the publication. If you would like to donate more to further support our production costs, we thank you. We are a small organisation and receive no external grants or funding but we’re determined to do what we can to keep photography open to all, and if you are in a position to help us do that it is very much appreciated!

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