THE OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED

Showcase your talent by submitting up to five images for Luna's inaugural print exhibition, Care & Defiance, taking place at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham from 1-27 May 2026. 

Ten artists will be selected to feature a body of work in the exhibition alongside 2 national female photography collectives, POST and UK Black Female Photography Community. 

Theme: Care & Defiance

Womanhood means holding multiple things in balance, switching roles, being both tender and tough. In this open call we want to see work that encompasses the contemporary female gaze in all its forms. 

We invite photography that represents not only how you experience the world as it is today but that gives us a glimpse into how it might be tomorrow. Revolutions whispered quietly. Moments of resistance shouted out loud. Love and rage and everything in between. 

Submission details:

- Submit a maximum of 5 images from one series of work.

- The work submitted must be made from 2024 onwards.

- File sizes should be between 3-4MB and in JPEG format only.

- The open call is only open to women, women identifying and non binary photographers based in the West Midlands.

Key Dates:

- The deadline to apply is 10pm, 23 February.

- The 10 selected artists will be announced on international women's day on 8 March. If selected it is your responsibility to print and mount your work for the exhibition.* 

- If you are one of the 10 selected artists you must be available to attend 1 x one hour mentorship session with the curatorial team in either March/April (online), we can be flexible with times. 

- If you are one of the 10 selected artists you must be available on either Wednesday 29 or Thursday 30 April to install your work at Centrala Gallery, Digbeth.**

- All other artists and their entries of work will have the opportunity to exhibit one physical art work in the curated salon hang in the exhibition. This artwork must be delivered to Centrala on Wednesday 29 April, between 10am - 1pm.*

- The opening of the exhibition is Friday 1 May, 5pm onwards

*UPDATE (16 Feb) Luna have successfully received funding from Birmingham City University RAAD to cover all printing costs for the exhibition. Please submit your work, and the Luna curatorial team will be in touch with printing enquiries. 

**UPDATE (16 Feb) If you are unable to make the install the curation team will be able to put your work up for you, however please ensure you state this on the entry form if possible. 

ENTER YOUR WORK HERE