Portal – open photo call by Decagon Gallery

I have the pleasure of curating the next Decagon Gallery open call exhibition, Portal, At the Edge of Becoming.

A portal is not simply an opening. It is a condition — a space where something begins to shift, dissolve, or remain beautifully unresolved.

We are looking for photographs that hold tension rather than explain it. Images that exist at the edge of transformation: between visibility and disappearance, movement and stillness, intimacy and distance, entry and refusal. The work doesn’t need to describe transition — it needs to feel like one.

Physical passages — doorways, corridors, thresholds — are welcome, and so is everything else. What we’re looking for is not a subject but a quality of attention: the sense that something is at stake in the frame.

If your work carries that charge, we want to see it!

Poke here to find out more and how to submit: https://www.decagongallery.com/portal-entry

Here are some other the top line details:

Submission Deadline: June 6, 2026

Notification: June 15, 2026

Exhibition Dates: June 20 – August 20, 2026

Juror: Douglas Stockdale

Awards: $1,000 Total Cash Awards  

Entry Fee: $25 for up to 8 photographs

Cheers!

Doug