Decagon Gallery
Human Body
the art of seeing ourselves
CALL FOR ENTRY — Human Body: The Art of Seeing Ourselves
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026
Online Exhibition: February 20 – April 20, 2026
Juror: Lynn Bianchi, Fine Art Photographer & Multimedia Artist
Location: Decagon Gallery — Online | Global Audience
Deadline: January 31
“In my work … I combine still photography and video to capture these extended moments of reflection and allow for the grandeur and magic of The Everyday to unfold.”
- Lynn Bianchi, juror
Why Submit?
💵 Submissions start at only $5
💵 Cash Awards:
$1,000 total in prizes
🖼 A Solo Exhibition for the First Place winner
📕 Exhibition Catalog
professionally designed, available in print & digital
🎥 YouTube Video
showcase of selected works
🌍 International Reach
promoted via newsletters, press, and social media
🚚 No Shipping Hassles — entirely online
Theme: Human Body
the art of seeing ourselves
The human body is more than form — it is evidence of experience, memory, movement, and life itself.
Human Body: The Art of Seeing Ourselves invites photographers to look beyond surface appearances and explore how the body becomes a language of presence — where vulnerability and strength, gesture and stillness, identity and universality intersect.
We seek photographs in which the body is not simply depicted but felt: a mirror of emotion, history, culture, and the quiet truth of being alive. Whether through intimate portraiture, expressive gesture, formal abstraction, or experimental approaches, show us how your vision of the human body reveals what is deeply human.
This call is open to photographers worldwide and welcomes interpretations that go beyond traditional portraiture — not limited to self-portraits or classical nudes.
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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 are featured in the Human Body exhibition, catalog, video, and social promotions
*Free catalogs are offered only to places Blurb delivers to.
Key Dates
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Deadline: January 31
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Notification of Acceptance: February 20
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Exhibition Launch: Feb. 20 — Apr. 20, 2026
Entry Fees
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Special Offer: Enter just one image: $5
(valid once per contest)
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$25 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: Lynn Bianchi
Lynn Bianchi is a fine art photographer and multimedia artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in more than thirty solo shows and in major museums around the world. Her photographs have appeared at the Brooklyn Museum, Yale Art Gallery, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. Servitude I from her renowned Heavy in White series was acquired by the Walker Art Center in 2019 and featured in its catalogue The Expressionist Figure, alongside works by Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, David Hockney, and Pablo Picasso.
Bianchi’s art explores the intersection of stillness and movement, merging photography and video to create meditative reflections on the grandeur and magic of the everyday. In her words, she seeks to use technology “to capture extended moments of reflection and allow for the grandeur and magic of The Everyday to unfold.” Her work has been featured in over forty publications, including The Huffington Post, Vogue Italia, AnOther Magazine, Frames Magazine, and Analog Forever Magazine, and is held in numerous private and public collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Ken Damy in Italy, and 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Based in New York City, Bianchi continues to push the boundaries of photographic expression, recently exhibiting at The Untitled Space and The Armory Show.
