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The City Series: London – A Shutter Hub Editions Publication

Closes: 24/09/2026 5:00 pm

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.

For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities.

We want to see London in all its forms: iconic and overlooked, monumental and intimate, historic and contemporary. From landmarks to backstreets, communities to individuals, rituals to routines, show us the city as you encounter it. Capture its energy, tensions, beauty, diversity, humour, ambition, and everyday life.

This collaboration brings together photography, heritage, and cultural exchange. Battersea Power Station stands as one of London’s most recognisable landmarks, a symbol of innovation, transformation, and collective vision. Together, we invite you to help create a compelling photographic portrait of London today.

Show us your London!

Selected submissions will be featured in the 100 image photobook, produced by Shutter Hub Editions and available at Battersea Power Supplies Museum shop, online through shutterhub.org.uk and with selected stockists.

The City Series: London will launch on Friday 20th November at Battersea Power Supplies Museum, London. All photographers who submit their work will be invited to come together for the celebration and connect with the wider Shutter Hub community.

The City Series: London is created in collaboration with Battersea Power Supplies Museum.

Deadline: 24 September 2026 (5pm UK time)

Pay what you can, minimum fee of £15. Photographers can enter up to 10 images.

 

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THE BRIEF

An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.

For our second edition, we’re turning our attention to London and teaming up with Battersea Power Supplies Museum – inviting photographers from around the world to capture the city in all its complexity – show us your London!

The collaboration aims not only to spotlight creative talent but also to connect communities and promote cultural exchange. Battersea Power Supplies Museum celebrates the London landmark, tracing its journey from pioneering electricity supplier to cultural icon, highlighting the vision, innovation and collaboration behind its transformation into one of London’s most vibrant destinations.

We’d love to see creative and considered images of London, the sense of place, the landmarks, the people, the everyday – show us what you see.

Selected submissions will be featured in the 100 image photobook, produced by Shutter Hub Editions and available at Battersea Power Supplies Museum shop, online through shutterhub.org.uk and with selected stockists.

HOW TO ENTER

All submitted files must be named with the photographer’s name and title of work as described in the specifications. Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted.

Please read the specification information below.

Deadline: 24 September 2026 (5pm UK time)

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 £15. 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.

We’re making this opportunity as affordable as possible for all photographers, but photobook production is costly and we aren’t able to pay royalties or supply free copies.  We will promote the publication and photographers involved across our networks, making the book available to purchase in a variety of locations, as well as directly from our online shop, and adding it to archives and collections such as Cambridge University and the British Library.

10 images can be entered per photographer.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR ENTRIES

  • All submitted files must be named with photographers name and title of work. Image Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted. Correct file naming looks like this: lastname_firstname_imagetitle.jpg
  • Images can be landscape or portrait format but keep in mind that the publication itself is portrait orientation.
  • Please do not place multiple images together (such as diptychs or triptychs), please submit them as separate images. Please do not include captions or titles as part of the image, unless it is a graphic element of the image itself.
  • Submitted images must be 300dpi jpegs, to fit within the A5 size of 148 × 210mm, CMYK colour profile (Coated GRACoL 2006 (ISO 12647-2:2004) and no more than 5MB in size. 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

Shutter Hub Edition publications will be for sale by Shutter Hub as open editions, featuring images selected from this call for entries. By entering the photographer agrees that we can publish the image in this publication and in future editions/print runs of this title.

Any enquiries such as for commissions or print sales from readers will be noted and passed directly to the photographer.

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 publication 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. 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.

Got any questions? Email us at info@shutterhub.org.uk

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There is a minimum donation of £15 to take part in this call for entries, and all contributions will go directly to the production of the publication. 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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