The Halide Project is hosting its annual juried exhibition, The LIVING IMAGE 2025/26, which celebrates traditional and historic photographic processes. The exhibition will be on view from December 6, 2025, to January 18, 2026. The Halide Project was founded in 2015 to support and appreciate chemistry-based photography, and it invites practitioners from around the world to submit their work for consideration.
Selected works will be featured in an exhibition at The Halide Project gallery in Philadelphia and will also be published in an accompanying printed catalog. All selected artists will receive a complimentary copy of the catalog. This year’s juror, Stig Marlon Weston, will also select one artist for an artist residency at the CYAN darkroom in Oslo, Norway. Additionally, one Grand Prize winner will receive a $250 cash prize and the opportunity to showcase a body of work in the gallery’s annual spring invitational exhibition.
Artwork must be made using traditional, pre-digital photographic printing techniques, including but not limited to: silver gelatin, c-prints, instant film, platinum/palladium, cyanotype, gum bichromate, wet plate collodion, and other alternative and historic printing processes. Traditional, analog prints made from digital negatives are eligible. Inkjet prints and digital c-prints are not eligible, even if made from film negatives.
Entry Fees:
- $30 for up to three entries, $10 for each additional entry, with a maximum of ten total.
- Darkroom and Annual Supporting Members of The Halide Project receive a $5 discount off the total entry fee.
- Entrants may purchase a new $40 annual membership at the time of entry to be eligible for the discount.
Accepted works must be received by Friday, November 21, 2025, framed and wired to professional standards.
Framed artwork must not exceed 30” in any dimension, including frame.
