Decagon Gallery
🏛 Forgotten Architecture
Rediscover, Document & Reimagine the Hidden Ruins
online photo exhibition*
Cash Awards • Solo Exhibition • Global Exposure
Deadline: November 3
“One of the great challenges is to tell a story about a place people think of as a blank space and let the land tell the story rather than well-known clichés.”
- Andrew Moore, juror
Why Submit?
💵 Entry Fee starts at just $5
🖼 Solo Exhibition for the First Place winner
💵 Cash Awards: $1,000 in total prizes
📕 Exhibition Catalog
professionally designed, available in print & digital
🎥 YouTube Video
showcase of all selected works
🌍 International Reach
promoted via newsletters, press, and social media
🚚 No Shipping Costs — entirely online
Theme: Forgotten Architecture
These are the structures left behind: ruins, abandoned buildings, decayed monuments, lost modernism.
We invite photographers to explore the interplay of memory, time, entropy, and architecture. Whether it’s industrial relics, urban decay, forgotten modernist facades, or infrastructural fragments — show us what remains when architecture is no longer inhabited.
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In the event that we decide to do a limited physical exhibition, you may be asked to supply a high resolution file suitable for printing. This will be at your discretion, and will not cost anything to participate.
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Awards & Recognition
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First Place: $500 + Solo Online Exhibition
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Second Place: $300
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Third Place: $200
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Juror’s Awards and Honorable Mentions
Above awards will receive a free catalog*
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All Selected Photographers: Featured in the Sanctuary exhibition, catalog, video, and social promotions
*Free catalogs are offered only to places Blurb delivers to.
Key Dates
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Deadline: November 3
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Notification of Acceptance: November 15
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Exhibition Launch: Nov. 15 — Jan. 15, 2026
Entry Fees
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Special Offer: Enter just one image: $5
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$24 for entering 2 to 4 images
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Additional Images (after 4): $4 each
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Bonus: Enter 8, get 2 more free (up to 10 total)
How to Submit
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Submit below
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JPEG files, 2100px minimum, max 4MB each (300 dpi accepted)
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Title each file with your name + title
Timeline & Terms
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Selected works announced by email
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All participants receive a digital badge
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Artists retain full copyright. Decagon requests only exhibition/marketing rights
Juror: Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore is widely acclaimed for his long term photographic series, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library of Congress.
