Call for Work – Picturing Resistance

Submit your images taken from marches, protests, rallies, and demonstrations, whether you are in solidarity with the marchers or documenting their voices. Your images should show people, in the public view, voicing their passion for change. This Picturing Resistance exhibition in Gallery 4 gives your photographs visibility and exposes the energy you captured.

There are no timeframe restrictions for photographs, only that you are the photographer or you own the copyright to an historical image from your collection. We wish to present the landscape of people engaged in the act of creating change by exercising their right to be noisy.

Let us know if you need help printing and framing images for this exhibition, we can support you through our photo arts lab.

Our juror, Ken Light, photographer, author, and a Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the University of California, Berkeley, will select from submitted images.

Melanie Light and Ken Light’s book, Picturing Resistance, serves as the inspiration for this juried exhibition, and a must own book for anyone interested in social justice movements in the past seven decades. 

About the Juror
Ken Light, a freelance documentary photographer for over fifty years, focuses on social issues facing America. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work has been published in twelve books, in magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture.

Important Picturing Resistance Exhibition Dates

• June 27: Online submissions due by midnight Arizona time
• July 5: Email notification of artists selected for exhibition
• July 28: Deliver selected work ready to install
• August 12: Opening reception 5pm to 8pm
• August 12 through September 29: Exhibition dates
• October 4: Work available for pickup 
• October 11: Work shipping begins 

Banner image by Bruce Charles