© Brent Jones
In 2023, we launched To The Sea, a year-long exhibition on the French coast celebrating all of our visions of the sea. The exhibition featured over 400 images by 120 photographers from around the world. The exhibition has been such a pleasure that we’re re-exploring the theme with our next exhibition in the same location: (Return) To The Sea.
You’re invited to submit your work and join us in celebrating the sea. The exhibition will encompass multiple interpretations of the sea – environmental, actual or emotional. This call is open to creative interpretation – take the theme and go with it, wherever the tide takes you.
An ode to the ocean, something for the sea.
The exhibition will run for a year, and will be on show 24/7 at the outdoor exhibition site in the centre of St Gilles Croix de Vie, an area that attracts thousands of visitors day and night throughout the seasons, making the exhibition accessible to all. We aim to showcase hundreds of images in this exhibition, and in the run up to the exhibition we’ll be sharing inspirational entries across our social media.
Our relationship with the town of St Gilles Croix de Vie began all the way back in 2018, when we were invited to take an exhibition to Festival Pil’Ours, it was called Because We Can! and it went down a storm. Popping up outside the popular Les Alizes venue, we returned year on year with Time to Think and Your Body Belongs to You, exhibitions that celebrated the work of non-binary and female photographers. When the festival came to an end, we weren’t going to let that break our connection to the beautiful seaside town – we went back, To The Sea.
The exhibition will run from October 2024 – October 2025. (exact dates to be confirmed)
Deadline for entries: 25 July 2024 (5pm BST)
Each entrant can submit up to 12 images. These can be from a series or individual images.
Entry fees: £8 per image
Once you’ve entered there are no further fees – if your work is selected we’ll print, promote, deliver and install everything. 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: 25 July 2024 (5pm BST)
Please do not leave your entry until the last minute, we cannot accept any late entries.
Entry Fees
£8 per image
Enter up to to 12 images as 6x4in 300dpi uncompressed jpeg digital files. These can be from a series or individual images. All submitted files must be named with photographers name and title of work.
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.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR WORK
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
- Files must be 6x4in 300dpi uncompressed jpeg digital files.
- The orientation of the images can be in landscape or portrait format.
- Images must fit 6x4in proportions or be cropped to fit. Images that do not match these proportions may be cropped to fit at our discretion.
- Please do not place multiple images together, please submit them as separate images. No multiple image composites, borders or added text can be accepted.
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.
Photographers retain copyright and ownership, as always.
We will be in touch to inform entrants of the outcome whether they have been selected or not within 28 days of the deadline. We always get in touch, so, if for any reason you don’t hear from us, please email.
SALE OF WORK
Work will not be for sale. 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 exhibition and its promotion and publicity. Copyright remains with the originator and each exhibitor 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 and the venue reserve the right to refuse work that they deem to be inappropriate, offensive or explicit. Neither Shutter Hub nor the venue can be held responsible for the damage or loss of any of the work entered or exhibited.
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.