Call for Entry: Online Group Exhibition - “Regional Resonance” - Fall 2025

Online Group ExhibitionCalls for Entry
Written By Michael Behlen
 

©Jessi Bowman

Analog photography thrives on locality—what’s close, what’s familiar, what’s specific. It asks us to slow down and really see.

Places carry the weight of memory and the imprint of those who move through them. Photography captures the layered relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit, whether intimate or public, fleeting or enduring. Communities shape place as much as place shapes them.

This call invites work that resonates with place: not just where you are, but how you move through it, how you belong to it, and how people in your community shape or challenge it.

Deadline for Submissions: November 1st, 2025.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Jessi Bowman is a Houston-based photographer and curator with over 15 years of experience in arts nonprofits. Bowman has curated various exhibitions, including Sight Lines at Houston Center for Photography, and has worked with notable organizations like FotoFest International and Project Row Houses. She is the Founder and Curator of FLATS, a community darkroom and photo lab that began as a nomadic exhibition series showcasing local artists. Bowman’s passion lies in collaborating with organizations to bring art into non-traditional spaces, fostering vibrant photo communities. Additionally, she has started FLAT Files, the only photo publication dedicated to highlighting Southern Central photographers and curators.

Learn more about FLATS on their website and Instagram

Connect with Jessi on her Instagram

 
Michael Behlen
Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. He has self- published two Polaroid photobooks--“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. He exhibited a variety of his photos at Raizana Teas, a Fresno tea room and health food store; his work there, “Polaroid Prints of Landscapes and Strangers,” was up for viewing during the months of June and July, 2014. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines, from” F-Stop” and “ToneLit” to “The Film Shooter’s Collective.” He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. Behlen is the founder and Publisher of “Pryme Magazine.” You can see his work here: www.dontshakeitlikeapolaroid.com
www.prymemagazine.com
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