Opportunities

Shutter Hub OPEN 2026

Closes: 30/10/2025 5:00 pm

 

We’re returning to our favourite exhibition space at Cambridge University in 2026 with the Shutter Hub OPEN, bringing together international photographers in a selected exhibition and promoting the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery… and, we want you to be part of it!

From 19 January – 02 April 2026, we’ll take over four floors of the ARB building (where we’ve shown many other awesome Shutter Hub exhibitions, including  Shutter Hub OPEN 2025,  POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE and EVERYTHING I EVER LEARNT) transforming the space and covering the walls with hundreds of images printed by our favourite newspaper print partners Newspaper Club. As an added bonus for 2026, the last two weeks of the exhibition will also see it featured as part of the Cambridge Festival.

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. We want to see a diverse selection of styles and subjects and bring them together in an exhibition that explores every corner of photography.

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 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.

Deadline for entries: 30 October 2025 (5pm UK time)

Entry fees:

This call for entries is ‘pay what you can’, with a minimum donation of £25. We ask you to make a donation based on your means – if you are able to donate more than the minimum entry fee, please do. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too.

Each photographer can submit 10 images in their entry, and enter as many times as they’d 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.

 

 

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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: 30 October 2025 (5pm UK time)

Entry fees:

This call for entries is ‘pay what you can’, with a minimum donation of £25. We ask you to make a donation based on your means – if you are able to donate more than the minimum entry fee, please do. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers too.

Each photographer can submit 10 images in their entry, and enter as many times as they’d 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.

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 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

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.

This form is currently closed for submissions.