The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 4th Annual juried photography exhibition, Queer Conscience 2026. Participants chosen for exhibition will receive a softcover catalog detailing all selected works, and will also be showcased in our online gallery and on our social media.
We probably don’t need to inform you that queer rights are under attack, unlike ever before. Queer Conscience seeks to push back against these forces and affirm our own truths through the photographic medium.
In this juried exhibition, set to coincide with Pride month, we ask queer artists to express their resistance and share their truest queer journeys with us. Join us in celebrating our community and our creativity with a clear conscience.
This call is open to all photographers who consider themselves members of the LGBTQIA2+ community; we cherish and love our straight friends and allies, but for this exhibit, we hope to amplify queer voices.
This national call for entry is open to all photographic artists living or working in the United States and its territories. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Accepted entries will be exhibited at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA, and in our online gallery.
All accepted artwork must be framed to professional standards.
For more information about submission policies, requirements, liability, and consent criteria please visit our Terms & Conditions.
Conor Moynihan is the Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum and a Visual Studies PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Considering the impact the past has on the present, he studies contemporary art with an interest in queer art/visual culture, Orientalism, primitivism, and transnationalism. More specifically, Moynihan is researching contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey working in Europe and North America and dealing with gender and sexuality.
Nathan Lomas is a photographer, artist, and educator living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the Production Manager, Instructor, and Gallery Coordinator for The Image Flow Photography Center. He has taught courses at the Academy of Art University San Francisco in the Photography, Graphic Design, and Advertising departments, and is the owner of Heritage Tintype Parlor, a portrait studio specializing in wet plate collodion photography.
Nathan developed the concept for Queer Conscience out of a desire to create more opportunities for queer photographers and artists to share their work. He is currently pursuing the creation of an LGBTQ+ artist residency program that hopes to provide mental health resources to its residents in addition to supporting their creative work and fostering connections to the broader art world.
Submissions Open | February 6, 2026
Submissions Close | April 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM
Selections Announced | April 17, 2026
Exhibition Dates | June 6 – September 4, 2026
$40 non-refundable registration fee.
Artists may submit up to 5 images for review.
2500 px on the longest edge, 72ppi, JPG saved at 80% quality in sRGB colorspace. File size must be limited to 5MB.
