Call for Entries

Analog — Made by Hand: Film, Alternative, and Handmade Photographic Processes 

This exhibit celebrates photography as a slow, tactile, and intentional practice. In contrast to digital reproduction, analog photography emphasizes craft, material engagement, and presence—from the moment light meets film to the physical act of printing. This exhibition highlights photographs shaped by time, chemistry, and handwork, where process is central to the photographic experience.

We seek photographs captured using analog processes and/or printed using historical or handmade methods, including darkroom and alternative techniques. All work must be rooted in hands-on practice. Submitted work is reviewed digitally, so images should clearly convey the physical qualities of the final print, including surface, texture, tonality, and edge detail where relevant. See details on eligibility below.

We are honored to have Christina Z Anderson as juror for Analog - Made by Hand. She will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and another 40 images for our Online Gallery. All 75 images will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog and remain permanently on our website, and be promoted on social media with links to photographer’s URL. 

Awards: Juror’s Award $300, Director’s Award $200, Honorable Mentions $50
All selected artists will be published in a printed exhibition catalog and featured on our website and social media.

Submission Fee: $39 for 5 images, $6 for each additional image

Image: Elizabeth Herrmann

Find more information about submitting your images here.

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Ann Wenzel

Michelle Robinson

Brian Powers

Barbra Riley

Leah Macdonald

About the Juror

Christina Z. Anderson’s work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of alternative photographic processes, such as gum and casein bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, vandyke brown, argyrotype, chrysotype, platinum-palladium, chemigrams, chromo, mordançage, lumen prints, and combinations thereof.

Anderson’s work has shown nationally and internationally in over 130 shows and 90 publications. She has six books in print which have sold in over 40 countries: from newest to oldest, The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials, Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (co-authored with Ron Reeder), Cyanotype, The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice (now in a French edition Cyanotype, L’Art et La Technique), Salted Paper Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists, Gum Printing, A Step by Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, and Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes. Her seventh book Platinum-Palladium PRINTING A Step-by-Step Manual of the Develop-Out Process will be released Fall 2026.

Anderson is Editor for Focal Press/Routledge’s Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work, visit christinaZanderson.com and @christinaZanderson.

Eligibility & Process Guidelines

All accepted works must be printed and/or captured using historical, traditional, or handmade photographic processes, including but not limited to the examples below:

·       Silver gelatin

·       Chromogenic (C-prints)

·       Platinum/Palladium

·       Cyanotype

·       Gum bichromate

·       Photogravure

·       Other darkroom or chemical-based processes

·      Inkjet transfers 

·      Polaroids

We welcome photographs created through analog or hands-on processes. Techniques that combine digital capture with manual, process-driven interventions—such as inkjet transfers, hand-applied chemicals, or surface treatments—may be eligible if the artist’s hand is central to the creation of the final print.

Email us at [email protected] for questions about eligibility.

Digital Prints (Limited Exceptions):
If your work is selected, digitally produced prints may be accepted only when a handmade or analog print cannot be shipped. In these cases, the digital print must accurately represent the analog or process-based original and remain consistent with the artist’s intent.