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The Human Experience
Call for Entries
PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers to submit work for The Human Experience, a juried exhibition exploring the richness, complexity, and diversity of human life. From portraits, street photography, and documentary work to current affairs, family, labor, culture, identity, community, and the places we inhabit, we welcome a broad interpretation of what it means to be human.
We seek photographs that engage with the ordinary and extraordinary, the personal and collective, and the joyful, difficult, and complex realities of our lives. Work may be documentary or conceptual, quiet or dramatic, focused directly on people or on the places, events, and traces of human presence that tell our stories.
We are honored to welcome Meredith Fleischer as juror for The Human Experience. She will select up to 35 photographs for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, along with approximately 40 additional photographs for our Online Gallery. All selected work will be reproduced in the exhibition book, remain permanently on our website, and be promoted through PhotoPlace Gallery's publications and social media channels.
If Selected
Juror Meredith Fleischer will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and another 40 images for our Online Gallery.
All selected artists receive:
- Inclusion in the exhibition catalog
- Permanent placement on the PhotoPlace Gallery website
- Promotion through PhotoPlace Gallery's social media channels with links to photographers' websites
- Eligibility for exhibition awards
Online Gallery selections receive the same catalog inclusion, permanent website archive, and promotional opportunities as Exhibition Gallery selections.
Important Dates
- Call for Entry Opens: September 7, 2026
- Submission Deadline: October 5, 2026
- Juror Selections Announced: October19, 2026
- Print Deadline (Exhibition Gallery): November 20, 2026
- Exhibition Dates: December 4-26, 2026
- Opening Reception: Friday December 4th from 4-7pm
Submission Information
Submission Fee: $39 for the first 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image.
There is no limit to the number of images you may submit.
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The images below are provided as inspiration and examples of the breadth of work that may resonate with this exhibition theme. Click any image to enlarge.
About the Juror
Meredith Fleischer is the founder of The MF Gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan, and serves as Director of The Detroit 15, an archival photography institution. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her career is rooted in the high-intensity New York photography market, where she managed the legacy portfolios of internationally recognized photographers including Deborah Turbeville, Miles Aldridge, and Gilles Bensimon.
Her work centers on the primacy of the original photographic print, the integrity of authorship, and independent literary publishing. In May 2026, she published The Orbit: A Study of Presence and Power, a forensic nonfiction novella released as a first edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.
In addition to her curatorial and publishing work, Fleischer offers portfolio reviews for photographers at critical stages in their artistic practice.