Portrait 2025

The Glasgow Gallery of Photography is running a 6 week exhibition in May and June called Portrait.  

One of our most popular exhibitions is back, and this time it is a six week long exhibition.

Portraiture is one of the most popular genres in photography, from the studio photoshoots to the candid holiday snapshots and infamous selfie, portraits are all around us.

We want to see how you approach the genre, whether that be looking back to classical portraits of the past for inspiration, or taking a more modern approach, we would love to see what you submit.

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Portrait is an open call for photographers to submit up to 8 images.

Photographers who are selected will have their work displayed in our gallery, with their work also appearing online in an online gallery on our website.

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All participants that are selected to take part in the exhibition will receive a digital certificate of participation and will also be put forward for a chance to be named Photographer of the Month.

We want to see work from both emerging and established photographers. You do not need to be a professional photographer to participate as we believe that photography is for everyone.

Both Scottish and International photographers are welcome.

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How to participate: 

Submission are FREE.  If your work is selected there will be a participation fee of £58.00. This fee covers the cost of everything. We will print, install and un-install the work our gallery space.

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Please note that the frames used belong to the gallery

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Unless otherwise stated by the gallery, images will either be printed 18"x12, 16"x12", or 12"x12" in size depending on the image.

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Photographers are can collect their work after the exhibition, photographers must let us know in advance that that they wish to collect. Prints put aside for collection will held of one month.

The submission deadline for this exhibition:  7th February 2025

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1. Choose up to 8 images that are 300ppi and 3000 Pixels minimum on the shortest side. Work will be displayed various sizes depending on the image selected. (You will be asked to resubmit if you do not follow these guidelines)

2. Name your image files with your name in this format Firstname-Surname, e.g John-Smith1, John-Smith2.

   If you do not name your files correctly, it could result in your files getting lost or misplaced.Please only use your name, do not include image titles or any other information, this can be added elsewhere in you submission.

3. Make sure your images are JPEG files. We can only accept jpegs as this is what the printing company that we use requires.

4. Send your 1 - 8 files using either Wetransfer or Dropbox (which are free to use) to our submission email address submissions@glasgowgalleryofphotography.com. Please do not send image via email as this tends to compress your files. Also please send all your images at the same time, and not one image at a time.

5. Please remember to tell us your name, nationality and/or where you reside (these will be displayed along with your selected images) which exhibition you are submitting to e.g Portrait.

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If you are selected to participate or on the reserve list, you will be notified by email. Those not selected will not be notified. If you have been selected and you wish to participate, this is when you can supply us with addition information such as titles of works, or the series it comes from, website links and social media handles. This information will be added to the online gallery for this exhibition.

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Good Luck!