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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