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Artists retain full copyright to their submitted images and text. Any use of these materials by Decagon Gallery will include proper credit to the artist. Images will not be sold, distributed, or used for commercial purposes beyond the promotion and documentation of the exhibition without the artist’s explicit written permission.
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You grant Decagon Gallery the right to publish your photographs in the online exhibition, the catalog, a short video on our YouTube channel and website, and to promote the exhibition.
Forgotten Architecture – Call for Entries - Juried Exhibition
Around the world, empty buildings remain quiet witnesses to what once was. Fading paint, weathered walls, and vacant interiors reveal layers of memory, history, and change. For this juried exhibition, Decagon Gallery invites photographers to interpret the haunting beauty and evocative presence of structures left behind.
We welcome work that addresses the theme of abandonment and neglect in architecture: buildings reclaimed by nature, interiors showing the weight of time, or places resonating with absence. Submissions may take the form of documentary studies, imaginative reinterpretations, or abstract explorations. Whether your approach is rooted in urban exploration, formalism, or surrealism, we encourage you to share how you uncover meaning in decay.
Juror: Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore is recognized internationally for his long-term photographic projects examining the passage of time on both the built and natural environment. His work spans locations as varied as Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the Great Plains, the American South, and most recently the Hudson Valley.
His photographs are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress, among many others. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Moore has taught widely, serving as a lecturer in Princeton University’s Visual Arts Program (2001–2010) and currently as a graduate seminar instructor in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Visit: https://andrewlmoore.com
Awards
First Place: $500 cash prize + online solo exhibition
Second Place: $300 cash prize
Third Place: $200 cash prize
Additional Recognition: Juror’s Awards & Honorable Mentions
All awardees will receive a complimentary exhibition catalog
All selected photographers will also:
Receive a digital award badge
Have work published in a printed catalog available for purchase
Be featured in a short video presentation shared on the gallery website, social media, and YouTube channel
Entry Guidelines
Fee: $24 for up to 4 images
$4 each for images 5–8
Two additional entries (9–10) free if you enter 8
Format: JPEG/JPG, 72 dpi, minimum 2100px on the longest side
Labeling: “FirstName-LastName_Title”
Eligibility: Open worldwide to photographers 18+
Submission: All entries must be uploaded via the online form
Timeline
Deadline: October 31, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2025
Exhibition Launch: November 15, 2025
For more information about this call for entries, please visit the Event Website.
