The Exhibition

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“Not everything leaves when someone does.”

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Some forms of love do not disappear when a relationship ends. They remain in altered states — quieter, less visible, but still present. Sometimes they survive as tension inside a room, as an unconscious gesture repeated years later, as distance that continues shaping two people long after separation. Sometimes they remain inside objects, routines, memories, or photographs themselves.

Decagon Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit work for The Space Between Us, an exhibition exploring the emotional residue of human connection and the invisible architecture that feelings leave behind.

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We are not searching for literal representations of romance, sentimentality, or simplified ideas of love. We are interested in photographs that approach emotion indirectly — through atmosphere, absence, intimacy, silence, attachment, longing, routine, emotional distance, memory, or unresolved psychological presence.

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Love is not always visible in the moment it happens. Often it reveals itself afterward: in what remains unfinished, unspoken, carried across time, or impossible to fully leave behind. The strongest photographs will hold this complexity without trying to explain it.

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We are drawn to images that feel emotionally lived rather than constructed. Photographs that carry fragility, restraint, ambiguity, tenderness, contradiction, or emotional weight beneath the visible surface. Some may depict closeness. Others may depict separation, distance, or the quiet transformation of connection over time. Long-distance relationships, fractured intimacy, emotional absence, memory, grief, attachment, and human presence existing through traces rather than direct visibility are all welcome approaches to the theme.

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The strongest works will not illustrate love literally. They will allow it to exist as atmosphere, tension, residue, or psychological imprint inside the frame.

What matters is whether something remains.

What Selected Photographers Receive

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– Inclusion in the curated online exhibition

– Dedicated exhibition page on Decagon Gallery

– Feature on Decagon’s Instagram

– Inclusion in the exhibition catalog

– Individual curatorial reflections written by the Decagon team in response to the submitted work 

Submission Details

 

Open to photographers worldwide. All photographic styles and processes are welcome. Each submission may include up to 8 images.

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Please submit JPG files sized to 2100 pixels on the long side. Images should not contain text, watermarks, borders, frames, or additional graphic elements. We want the work to be experienced as directly and clearly as possible.