The Shutter Hub OPEN 23/24 will bring together international photographers in a selected exhibition and promote the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery… and we want you to be part of it.
Under the cloak of the covid restrictions we managed to successfully deliver the Shutter Hub Open 20/21 in London, but now we’re ready to hit some walls again, on a bigger scale, with a jam-packed, signature-style Shutter Hub exhibition.
From 27 November 2023 to 02 February 2024, we’re taking over four floors of the ARB building at Cambridge University (where we’ve shown many other awesome Shutter Hub exhibitions, including POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE and EVERYTHING I EVER LEARNT) transforming the space and covering the walls.
We’ve teamed up with our favourite newspaper print partners, Newspaper Club, to produce this exhibition and we’ll fill the space with 100s of fabulous images.
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. The theme is ‘Open’, and we mean that – we want to see a diverse selection of styles and subjects and bring them together in an exhibition like no other.
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 also 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.
We’ll be launching the exhibition on 10 December 2023 and alongside our ‘private view’ get-together, we’ll be hosting a mini Book & Zine Fair too! (Interested in showcasing your publications? Register your interest here before 01 October 2023)
Deadline for entries: 8 September 2023 (5pm UK time)
Enter up to 6 images (single images, or series) each time.
Enter as many times as you like.
Entry fees:
Members: £15 (up to 6 images)
Non-members: £28 (up to 6 images)
Once you’ve entered there are no further fees to take part – if your work is selected we’ll print, promote, deliver and install everything for you. These conditions of entry allow exhibitors to save on print, framing and courier fees, which we hope encourages wider participation in our international exhibitions.
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HOW TO ENTER
Please read the specification information below. Files that do not meet the specification or are not labelled correctly may not be accepted.
Deadline for entries: 8 September 2023 (5pm UK time)
Please do not leave your entry until the last minute, we cannot accept any late entries.
Entry fees:
Members: £15 (up to 6 images)
Non-members: £28 (up to 6 images)
Enter up to 6 images (single images, or series) each time. Enter as many times as you like.
Once you’ve entered there are no further fees to take part – if your work is selected we’ll print, promote, deliver and install everything for you. These conditions of entry allow exhibitors to save on print, framing and courier fees, which we hope encourages wider participation in our international exhibitions.
If you’re not a Shutter Hub member but would like to benefit from free and lower entry fees on this and other exhibitions, as well as all the other lovely stuff we offer, you can join here for just £87 per year.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR ENTRIES
All submitted files must be named with photographer’s name and title of work. Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted. Correct file naming looks like this: lastname_firstname_title_of_image.jpg
- Images must be able to fit within the proportions of 562mm x 365mm. Images that are submitted in other ratios may be cropped to fit at our discretion.
- CMYK or greyscale images only.
- Colour profiles – You can use any generic CMYK colour profile. We will manage colour before printing, to reduce ink coverage to an acceptable level for newsprint.
- Submitted images must be no more than 5MB 300dpi uncompressed jpeg digital files.
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 8 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
Any enquiries from interested parties with regards to sales or commissions will be noted and passed directly to the photographers.
EXHIBITION 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 project 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. If relevant, insurance of the artist’s work is the responsibility of the artist. Shutter Hub reserves 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.
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED