Calls For Entry

Submissions
The competition is open to all photographers 18 years old and older, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. Use the Enter link below to upload your digital entries and payment. Please be sure that the email address you are using for CaFE is your current one.

Awards
First Place $300, Second Place $200 and Third place $100. Three Honorable Mentions will be awarded as well as gifts from our sponsors.

Juror
Our juror is Paula Tognarelli who recently retired as a cultural administrator and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

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For over a century, artists have reinvented photography through cutting, layering, and reassembling images. From early Cubist experiments to today’s digital, analog, and hybrid approaches, photo-collage remains a powerful way to explore identity, history, culture, and the construction of images.

PhotoPlace Gallery invites submissions of photo-based collage in any form—handmade or digital, sculptural or time-based, traditional or experimental. Show us work that pushes the boundaries of photography, engages with meaningful themes, or transforms found and photographic materials in compelling ways.

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Hosted annually by Spiva Center for the Arts, the competition is open to all amateur and professional US photographers.

Established in 1977, PhotoSpiva is the longest-running competition of its kind.

PhotoSpiva is a national competition hosted annually by Spiva Center for the Arts. Founded in 1977, PhotoSpiva has become the longest-running photographic competition of its kind in the U.S. As stated by the founders, the objective of PhotoSpiva is to “present an exhibition of excellence in photography, celebrating the scope and vigorous activity of today’s contemporary photographers.”

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PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a solo exhibition opportunity. Please submit a cohesive portfolio suitable for a solo exhibition, along with an artist statement, and a short bio. The portfolio should include a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 35 images. Submission may feature one or two series, provided that the series can be harmoniously presented in a single exhibition. There are no stylistic, thematic, or genre restrictions; photographers working in all areas of photography are encourage to apply.

The winner of this competition will be awarded a solo exhibition, scheduled to take place our new Barcelona Gallery from March 7 to 31, 2026.

PH21 Gallery will cover all printing and installation expenses for the solo exhibition. In addition to the brick-and-mortar solo exhibition, the winner’s work will also be presented on a dedicated page of our website.

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Open Call: Virtual Exhibition

Juror & Curator: Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery

Prizes: 1st Place winner will receive $1,000; 2nd Place winner will receive a $500 LACP gift card; 3rd Place winner will receive $250 LACP gift card. Honorable Mentions: Other artists will receive honorable mentions and have their work shown in our online gallery.

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Family Diary 2026 invites photographic works that trace the contours of daily life: intimate, diaristic explorations that blur the line between personal record and creative expression. Artists are encouraged to submit projects that chronicle lived experience, memory, and emotion through sequential or documentary approaches that echo the structure of a diary.

This exhibition seeks images that form visual narratives of family, biological, chosen, or imagined and the evolving definitions of belonging, love, and connection. Submissions may take the form of personal archives, found or vernacular photography, or new works that reinterpret the idea of family through a contemporary lens. Projects can range from single bodies of work developed through disciplined daily practice, ongoing visual journals, family albums reexamined, or constructed fictions that challenge our understanding of what a family is and how it’s remembered.

All photographic approaches are welcome — analog, digital, mixed media, or video stills.

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Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2026, our twelth annual spring open call for photography-based work. This year’s exhibition will be juried by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography

All types of photographic work will be considered for this annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. This open theme allows for the widest understanding of current photography practices.

Context 2026 will open on March 6th and will remain open through April 18th. A juror’s choice award and an honorable mention will be awarded. The juror’s choice award includes a $500 cash prize.

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Perspective Gallery is pleased to announce LENS 2026, our 16th annual juried international exhibition of fine art photography. Photographers are invited to submit work for possible inclusion in the exhibition. All subject matter and photographic processes, except AI, are welcome.

Ann M. Jastrab is LENS 2026’s juror.

Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. Before CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center and the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery, both in San Francisco, California. Besides being a curator and an educator, Ann is a writer and editor, and a fine art photographer who still carries around a wooden view camera…and a metal one too.

Photographers are invited to submit up to five (5) JPEG) photographic images which have been created within the past five years. International artists are welcome to submit work.

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Applications for İstanbul Photo Awards 2026, an international contest where the photos that set the world’s stage compete at the top level, opened on Nov. 13.

Organized by Anadolu for the 12th consecutive year, the contest aims to promote press photography globally.

Each year, around 20,000 images are submitted to İstanbul Photo Awards, which is widely seen as one of the world’s top photography contests.

Professional photographers, regardless of their press affiliation, are eligible to enter the contest provided their newsworthy photos were taken between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2025.

The contest features 10 categories, including Single News, Story News, Single Sports, Story Sports, Single Nature and Environment, Story Nature and Environment, Single Daily Life, Story Daily Life, Single Portrait, and Story Portrait.

Photographers may submit both published and unpublished work in all categories, with the responsibility to provide accurate personal and image details.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce an open themed juried group photo show. Show us your favorite photographic shots! Open to all themes and ideas, all styles and genres, all perspectives on crafsmanship and photographic creativity. Great opportunity for landscape, architecture, portraiture, documentary, fashion, still life, conceptual projects, street, color and black and white, nature, night photography. This will be an exciting exhibition with a great diversity of photographs!

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University of West Georgia 2026 National Juried Photography Exhibition is seeking contemporary photographic and lens-based works. The exhibition looks to explore ideas from the conceptual to the speculative, while recognizing photography’s inherent
referential capacity. Any photographic or lens-based medium, such as, but not limited to: historicprocess, silver-gelatin, digital production, including all single channel video works are encouraged for entry. This exhibition is open to national artists of all levels (18 years and older).

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Submissions
The competition is open to all photographers 18 years old and older, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. Use the Enter link below to upload your digital entries and payment. Please be sure that the email address you are using for CaFE is your current one.

Juror
Our juror is Paula Tognarelli who recently retired as a cultural administrator and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. As the Executive Director she produced 54 exhibitions a year. Paula frequently reviewed at national and local portfolio events and jumpstarted hundreds of photographers’ careers. She holds an M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University, a B.A. from Regis College, is a graduate of the New England School of Photography and has finally given up on her never-ending journey towards finishing her
Masters in Education.

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FRAME/SEQUENCE’s second edition, A Light in the Dark, allows for multiple interpretations from artists across different walks of life.

Our country is experiencing a dark time, and we want to provide a space that highlights what still brings joy and defines the relationship between the light and the dark. From the literal interpretation of photography as a source of light, to illuminating aspects of life in our current reality, we welcome work encapsulating all angles of this theme. As always, we want to offer a platform to voices often unheard.

This edition will be curated from an open submission process, inviting individuals across Philadelphia and Greater Pennsylvania to share their stories. FRAME/SEQUENCE is committed to telling the rich and diverse stories of this region’s artists and communities.

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Issue #135 will focus on constructed still life – photographs of objects like a still life that only live in photograph form, this could be any sort of construction that is made or set up just for the photograph.

Submit up to 12 photographs. Please see the submission guidelines for details on how to submit your work.

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Decagon Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in Monday Flash – A Photo That Changed You, an open call dedicated to the photographs that transformed us.

It’s more than an open call; it is an emotional experiment — a shared space where we reflect on our lives through images and words.

Participants are asked to submit one photograph that has changed them — an image that carries a story, emotion, or a personal turning point in life.

Along with the photograph, each participant is invited to take part in the emotional experiment: to write a short letter to themselves in that moment — not a description of the photo, but an honest and personal message to the person they once were.
The submission template is available on the open call page of the Decagon Gallery website.

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Photography of the Year 2025 at Grid Photo Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in our most important annual challenge and compete with the most outstanding images showcased in our gallery throughout the year. With no thematic limitations, this open call celebrates the very best in photography. What truly matters is the strength of a single photograph: its impact, its clarity of intent, and its ability to stay with the viewer.

This call is an invitation to bring your finest work forward: images that capture decisive moments, quiet subtleties, bold experiments, or refined craft. We welcome diverse genres and approaches, provided the photograph shows a high level of artistic and technical excellence.

Selected photographs will appear in a global online exhibition launching February 1, 2026. The 1st Place winner will hold the title “Grid Photo Gallery Photography of the Year 2025”, receive a €300 cash prize, and be featured prominently within the exhibition. The top three images will be highlighted as part of the showcase, and selected works may be included in a printed catalog available for purchase.

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Our annual members’ exhibition returns January 23 – March 8, 2026 — celebrating the creativity and talent of the PRC community.

Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, February 20th, 6–8 PM!

This unframed, print-only exhibition features one print from each participating PRC member, creating a vibrant snapshot of the photographers who make up our community.

How to Participate
• Open to all current PRC members (membership must be active through March 2026)
• Submit one unframed print, max 20 inches on the longest side
• Mailed prints must arrive by January 19th

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POLAROID: The Instant Image explores the instant photograph as both image and object. More than a picture, the instant print carries its own material logic—shaped by chemistry, scale, handling, and the visible traces of its development. Each work exists as a physical artifact, marked by immediacy and touch.
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This exhibition welcomes all analog instant formats, including Polaroid, Fuji Instax, peel-apart films, large-format 4×5 instant processes, and other legacy or contemporary instant materials. The focus is not brand, but materiality: surface, unpredictability, and the direct relationship between image, process, and time.
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Artists may submit original instant prints or high-resolution scans printed by Praxis at true instant-film scale. Sculptural works must be submitted as 2D photographic documentation. Created by Praxis Directors.

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Jurors Lori Pond & Ann Mitchell say, “We invite photographers from around the world to submit work for The Expanded Image, an exhibition celebrating the bold, the experimental, and the beautifully unconventional. This juried show is dedicated to mixed media and altered photography—artworks that extend beyond the single photographic image and push the boundaries of traditional practice through integration, manipulation, or transformation.

We Are Seeking:
Photographic works that expand, combine, or physically alter the medium through one or more of the following approaches (among others):
– Painting, drawing, or mark-making
– Collage, montage, or assemblage
– Textiles or stitching
– Transfers, encaustic, or printmaking
– Digital–analog hybrids
– Sculptural or dimensional photographic forms
– Experimental surface treatments or material transformations”

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nice grant is an unrestricted grant of $500 that supports emerging and mid-career artists. this annual grant is due january 20; each cycle, at least two artists will be selected to enhance their creative practices. this grant will be juried by midwest nice art co-founders tim rickett + epiphany knedler, and previous nice art grant winners josh johnson and emma mckay Ryan.

winners will be asked to help jury nice grant in the following year. winners will receive unrestricted grant funds, a blog profiling their art and creative practice, a post pinned to our profile, and consideration for future jurying and curatorial opportunities.

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Each month, a talented photographer will be featured in a Solo Exhibition on our dedicated showroom pages, providing incredible visibility.

Next Exhibition Dates: February 1 – 28, 2026.

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work to a global audience!
Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition for a Month-Long Online Showcase

At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level.

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LoosenArt is launching a call for photographerfor the selection of works to be included in the exhibition “Homo Technologicus”.

The exhibition aims to explore the relationship between human beings and technology, investigating the social, environmental, physical, cognitive, and emotional transformations brought about by technological and digital innovation.
Photos that interpret the theme either directly or metaphorically, with full freedom of language and experimentation, are welcome.

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Theme:
From Madrid to heaven

Although the origin of the saying “From Madrid to heaven” is unclear, the meaning is clear: There is no place like Madrid. In this edition we invite photographers to interpret this concept, showing in images everything that makes the capital unique. It is about looking around and inward and capturing moments of beauty and wellbeing in Madrid.

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Winter strips it all down with its bare trees, frosted mornings, and that sharp breath of cold air. But it’s not all icy; there’s cocoa, cozy fires, and the sparkle of snowflakes, too. Show us your version of winter’s beauty and transformation… show us THE BIG CHILL from your perspective.

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“To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Calling All Visionaries! Unleash Your Creativity at All About Photo Awards 2026 – The Mind’s Eye!

Step into a world of creativity and recognition with the 11th edition of the All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye. For over a decade, we have provided photographers from around the world with a global platform to showcase their work, gain international exposure, and compete for over $100,000 in prizes awarded to date.

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We’re looking for your best monochrome work! Whether you shoot street, fine art, documentary, portrait or landscapes, we want to see how you use light and composition to tell a story. Show us how a monochromatic lens defines your perspective.

1st Prize – $1000

2nd Prize – $600

3rd Prize –  $400

Each of the 7 finalists also receive $100.

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The 2026 Edition of the renowned Gomma Black and White Awards is now open.

Submit your strongest work and join a global community of visionary photographers.We’re looking for originality, depth, and photographic integrity — across all genres.

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Mythography VI is open: a free international call exploring the tension between Jupiter (order, strength) and Bacchus (ecstasy, transformation). Submit single photos and/or portfolios by 31 January 2026 for a chance to be published in the Mythography VI book and exhibited at Trieste Photo Days 2026, with prizes including STELE, SIGILLO awards and PhotoPoints for the best authors.

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CPW (formerly the Center for Photography at Woodstock) is launching the first-ever Upstate Photography Biennial in Summer 2026, alongside a free, open call for submissions open until January 31, 2026.

Conceived as a major recurring platform for photographers living and working in Upstate New York, the Biennial will spotlight the region’s dynamic and diverse lens-based practices—from fine art and documentary to experimental and installation work—across CPW’s newly renovated Kingston space. Building on nearly 50 years of supporting photographers beyond NYC, CPW is positioning this as a landmark moment for the upstate photography community.

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Woodstock AIR, our nationally recognized artist-in-residence program, was established in 1999. It is committed to providing direct support to artists who are working with photography and expanding the critical dialogue around diversity, race, and identity in the context of social justice. The one-month residencies allow photographers the time and space to break new ground, complete ongoing projects, and advance their artistic vision within an environment that has inspired artists for over a century. To date, over 175 artists have participated, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

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Why do we do the things we do? What forces shape our choices, behavior, and sense of identity?

Analog Forever invites photographic artists working with film and analog processes to submit works that explore the cultural, social, and psychological pressures that inform our actions. As we consider the expectations placed upon us, what motivates conformity, rebellion, and everything in between?

We are looking for work that investigates the forces that mold identity, broadly or personally.

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The history of photography has a long tradition of representing women as subjects but has less to say about women as artists. Today, the roles of women in photography are both behind the camera and in front of it. Who understands women better than women? The female perspective offers an important view of the many facets of womanhood and women’s role in society. This exhibition seeks women photographers who explore and celebrate the myriad ways that they render female-identifying subjects.

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H2O – one of the first chemical equations we learn.

Water surrounds us as rivers, lakes, oceans, seas. It is also so very central to much of our lives – the rain that makes our flowers grow, the ice cubes that cool our drinks, and on and on.

And it is beautiful to photograph. This call is about how you, the photographer, capture water in all its forms. Is it the crest of water hitting a seaside rock? Is it water heated to become steam or frozen like ice? There are the glistening droplets of water from a puppy shaking itself off, tears expressing heartfelt emotion, reflections in a city pond as well as active steam from a geyser. Maybe you used a slow shutter to create the soft image of flowing water in a stream or ventured out on a winter day to watch patterns emerge in the city ice rink. Raindrops, dew drops …. ice floes, waterfalls, rapids and serene lakes. The list goes on. Black and white, color, abstract – all 2D mediums are welcome.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on Trees and Water. This exhibition will look to feature both subjects in a dynamic and diverse exhibition on contemporary photography. Trees and Water are both powerful and important subjects. Water can be an ocean, a river, a pool, a fountain, rain or mist or fog, lakes, snow and waves. And Trees can be great subjects of composition, giving the picture a strong foundation to play with the visual elements of space and time. This exhibit will look at both subjects and the powerful visual language of contemporary photographers who are exploring and documenting these exciting subjects. There is a lot of space here for magical and poetic pictures, explore your technique and ideas, the gallery looks forward to hosting a dynamic and exciting exhibition.

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Illuminance
A national competitive exhibition featuring photographic work. The Fine Arts Program of the Buddy Holly Center is committed to the promotion of contemporary visual arts and educational programs.

Theme: Darkness After Light
This exhibit explores the way light transitions into darkness and how shadows shape emotion from mystery and tension to calm and quiet serenity. Darkness invites viewers to look deeper and use their imagination to complete the story, highlighting the power that follows the light. All capture methods and processes are welcome.

Eligibility
Illuminance is open to all artists using photographic processes as their media. Please do not submit work that has been shown in a previous Illuminance exhibition.

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Here we go for a 5th edition of the Black & White International Photo Awards competition. After the previous edition which crowned the work of the photographers Simone Morelli and Adam Neuba, our competition come back this year with the renewed ambition of revealing new talents and introducing the public to new winning photographers.

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WABI-SABI is a Japanese term that refers to that which is impermanent, imperfect, aged, humbled, and unconventional. It is a state of mind and a way of being. It expresses a whole new world of seeing. Perhaps being open to mistakes and accidents will lead us somewhere new, beautiful, and authentic. As artists, we know this all too well. Visually, it is the simplicity of composition and exploring the meaning and beauty of everyday objects. Show us WABI-SABI from your perspective.

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Issue #136 will feature all black and white photography.

Submit up to 12 photographs. Please see the submission guidelines for details on how to submit your work.

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Lucie Foundation invites you to join us “on the block”, where stories unfold in the open and every corner hides unexpected beauty. ‘On the Block’ celebrates the unposed, unfiltered, and fleeting moments that define the art of documenting everyday life, whether in dense urban streets or sleepy rural towns. From street photography to urban landscape, this competition seeks images that reveal the quiet truths and vivid stories concealed beneath everyday moments.

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In 2026, SPMOP will select its fourth Photo Laureate, who will have the honor of documenting and representing Tampa Bay for one year. The final five nominees will be exhibited during the Saint Petersburg Month of Photography in May 2026 at the Morean Arts Center. Work created by the new Photo Laureate will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts during SPMOP 2027.

What Does a Photo Laureate Do? A Photo Laureate is tasked with creating a documentary record of life in Tampa Bay, its people, events, and everyday moments, over the course of one year. The ideal candidate is engaging and curious , interested in and inclusive of all Tampa Bay communities, and able to convey strong storytelling through photography.

Photographers of all genres are encouraged to apply, including conceptual, fine art, portrait, street, and nature photography. We are seeking an artist with a unique vision and style to capture the stories of Saint Petersburg and the wider Tampa Bay region.

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The Asian American Museum of Orange County (AAMOC) is announcing a Juried Photo Art Contest to celebrate storied images of Asian American life. We are creating a visual that highlights our vibrant Southern California Community by inviting photo artists to express their individual and/or shared interpretations of Asian America through their lenses. Just as a mosaic is composed of countless unique pieces that, together, create a singular work of art, so too is the Asian American experience. Our identity is not a monolith, but a fluid diverse, multiracial, multigenerational spectrum. Both professional and amateur photographers are encouraged to submit black and white and/or color photos for the contest.

We invite you to contribute your creative vision to this mosaic. Our distinguished judges include professional photographers, artists, photo educators, and members of the media.

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The COTM | BarTur Grant was created for photographers who carry a story not only in their imagination, but in their daily effort, those who have already invested their own time, resources, and heart into bringing a vision to life. Developed in collaboration with Cortona On The Move, this international award honors visual storytellers who push the medium forward through courage, curiosity, and steadfast commitment.

We believe every photographer has a project that won’t let them go – an idea they have nurtured, returned to, and pursued as far as they could on their own. The COTM | BarTur Grant exists to meet them at that threshold, offering the support needed to take that work further: to refine, complete, and elevate a story already born from dedication.

This grant celebrates photography shaped by authorship and intention, grounded in cultural resonance, and expressed through a clear, fearless point of view. It is an invitation for committed storytellers to step deeper into their vision and bring long-imagined projects to their fullest realization.

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