Opportunities

Feeling Seen

Closes: 19/02/2026 5:00 pm

© Kali Tiruneh

Image caption: © Kali Tiruneh

© Kali Tiruneh

Image caption: © Kali Tiruneh

Feeling Seen is a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now. We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.

It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real emotional resonance. It is about creating the space for others to feel something.

By sharing these images in our community, this project aims to amplify diverse voices and create opportunities for new perspectives in photography. Growing from a desire to embrace a raw, inclusive, and emotionally open process, we hope to empower others to do the same. We want to see everyone’s take on what it means to feel – and we want to give space to those who might not consider themselves “photographers” but have powerful, untold stories to share.

Curating for the Community

Feeling Seen is an online exhibition curated by guest curator Jenna Eady. She is a curator and cultural producer with a focus on contemporary photographic practices and fostering sustainable community partnerships. Previously the Coordinator for FORMAT International Photography Festival, Jenna has curated shows internationally, and developed programmes that support both established and emerging photographers. She’s passionate about visual storytelling and exploring photography’s role in shaping identity and driving social change.

Jenna will be producing this exhibition as part of our Curate for the Community project, which sees the production of a series of online exhibitions, curated by Shutter Hub members and selected guest curators for the wider photographic community.

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 £10. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too.

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.

Deadline for entries: 19 February 2026 (5pm UK time)

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THE BRIEF

Feeling Seen is a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now. We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.

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: 19 February 2026 (5pm BST)

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 £10. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too.

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.

10 images can be entered per photographer.

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 can be landscape or portrait format.

Submitted images must be jpegs, 2000 pixels wide, 300ppi and no more than 5MB in size. Please submit images in sRGB colour profile.

Images must not include visible watermarks.

Each photographer can submit up to 10 images.

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 always get in touch to let you know the outcome of your submission, so if for any reason you haven’t heard from us within 12 weeks of the deadline, please email.

 

SALE OF WORK

Work will not be for sale during the exhibition. Any enquiries from interested parties will be noted and passed directly to the photographers.

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 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.

Feeling Seen
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Maximum file size: 5MB

Please upload a .jpg file at least 2000 pixels wide, 300ppi and no more than 5MB in size. Please submit images in sRGB colour profile. 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.
To make your image accessible to more people, including those who are blind or visually impaired, please describe your image - we will add this as Alt text. This should be a description of what is shown in the image for those who are unable to see it, rather than an explanation of process or context, e.g. 'Photograph of a red car parked in the middle of a field of grass, with a pigeon flying in the blue sky overhead'.
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Help support Shutter Hub

There is a minimum donation of £10 to take part in this call for entries, and all contributions will go directly to the production of the project. 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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