Jacob McGuinness, 2024/25 Grand Prize Winner

THE HALIDE PROJECT presents

LIVING IMAGE 2025/26

Our annual juried exhibition of traditional/historic photographic processes

Submission Deadline extended to October 1 at 11:59pm - Submit here: https://client.smarterentry.com/Halide

Juror - Stig Marlon Weston - Founder and Director of Oslo’s CYAN Studio & Community Darkroom

Opening Reception - Saturday, December 6th 2025, 5 - 8pm

On View - December 6th 2025 -  January 18, 2026

The Halide Project was founded in 2015 to support the continued practice and appreciation of historic and alternative photographic processes. Based in Philadelphia, The Halide Project serves local and global communities by providing exhibition opportunities, educational programming, and other resources. We enthusiastically invite practitioners of chemistry-based photography from around the world to submit work to be considered for Living Image 2025/2026 as a means to share their work with others and connect with like-minded artists. 

Living Image showcases contemporary artists working in historic and alternative photographic techniques. Selected works will be included in an exhibition held at The Halide Project gallery in Philadelphia and published in a printed catalog to accompany the exhibition. All selected artists will receive a copy of the catalog with additional copies available for a donation. 

One Grand Prize winner will be selected to receive a $250 cash prize along with the opportunity to show a body of work in The Halide Project’s annual spring invitational exhibition curated by co-founder Dale Rio.

This year’s juror, Stig Marlon Weston, will also look for a photographer to invite for an artist residency at the CYAN darkroom in Oslo, Norway. Suitable timing and terms will be worked out with the invited artist.

Juror Bio:

Stig Marlon Weston is based in Oslo, Norway. As the founder and director of the CYAN studio community darkroom, he initiated the Nordic Analog Network of community darkrooms, running a program of artist residencies that will result in an exhibition of contemporary Nordic analogue photography in 2025. Weston has curated more than two hundred exhibitions at the CYAN studio gallery, as well as for the Oslo Negativ Photo Festival. He has juried national photo competitions and diverse photo festivals including the Helsinki HelPhoto and Zrno Macedonian festival of analog photography. 

In his own artistic career, Weston exhibits with galleries and festivals locally and internationally. Focusing on process-based and conceptual photography, he seeks to expand the idea of landscape photography in order to encourage the viewer to reflect on what they expect to see and understand in a photograph compared to what is actually there.

His work is in the collection of the Preus National Museum of photography in Norway, he published the photobook More Somehow as a collaborative project with US photographer Meggan Gould, and runs workshops at several different photo festivals in Europe.

Learn more here: https://www.weston.no/home

    • Artwork must be made using traditional, pre-digital photographic printing techniques, including but not limited to: silver gelatin, c-prints, instant film, platinum/palladium, cyanotype, gum bichromate, wet plate collodion, and other alternative and historic printing processes. Traditional, analog prints made from digital negatives are eligible. Inkjet prints and digital c-prints are not eligible, even if made from film negatives.

    • Artists aged 18 years or older, residing in any country, are eligible to submit.

    • Accepted works must be received by Friday, November 21, 2025, framed and wired to professional standards.

    • Framed artwork must not exceed 30” in any dimension, including frame.

    • If you are unsure whether or not your work is eligible, please contact exhibitions@thehalideproject.org before making your submission.ext goes here

    • $30 for up to three entries, $10 for each additional entry, with a maximum of ten total.

    • Darkroom and Annual Supporting Members of The Halide Project receive a $5 discount off the total entry fee.

    • Entrants may purchase a new $40 annual membership at the time of entry to be eligible for the discount. Learn more about membership at www.thehalideproject.org/support-us.

    • Payment must be made by credit card or PayPal at the time of submission

    • Submit entries at https://client.smarterentry.com/Halide by October 1, 2025, 11:59pm.

    • Select number of entries submitting, add promo code where applicable (details below), and enter payment. 

    •  For current Halide Project Members: enter promo code CURRENTMEMBER to receive $5 discount. • To purchase a new $40 annual membership and receive discount, enter promo code .NEWMEMBERSHIP. Submit, add, or edit entries from your account page, under “Registered Competitions.”

    • Upload images as JPG, TIF, PDF, or PNG files not greater than 8MB.

    • Please name the file: lastname_firstname_##.jpg (Example: doe_jane_01.jpg)

    • Enter title, medium,  (or NFS), and framed work dimensions where prompted.

    • For any questions about entry or current membership status, contact us at: exhibitions@thehalideproject.org.

    • Submissions open: Wednesday, August 13, 2025

    • Submissions close: Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 11:59pm EST

    • Selections announced: Friday, October 10, 2025

    • Confirmation/high res digital files due: Friday, October 17, 2025

    • Delivery/drop-off deadline: November 21, 2025

    • Opening reception: Saturday, December 6

    • On View: Saturday, December 6, 2025 – Sunday, January 18, 2026

    • Return/pick-up: Monday, February 9, 2026

    • Each artist is responsible for shipping/delivery costs to and from the exhibition.

    • The Halide Project reserves the right to disqualify any delivered work that differs substantially from the online submission, does not meet guidelines, or is not in exhibition-ready form.

    • The Halide Project is not liable for any loss or damages that may occur during shipping or delivery to or from the exhibition. The Halide Project will insure artwork against loss and damages from the date the work is received until the pick-up date stated in Important Dates.

    • Artists retain the copyrights to their own images. Artists whose work is chosen for exhibition inclusion grant The Halide Project permission to use images for promoting the exhibition, the artist, or The Halide Project and its programs. Images may be placed on The Halide Project’s website, on social media for promotion and features, in emails, and in printed materials.

    • Images chosen for the exhibition will also be published in a printed catalog. Artists grant usage as stated without further compensation.

    • The Halide Project will retain a 25% commission on artwork sales.

    • If the exhibiting or marketing of work is in any way contractually restricted by a representing gallery, agent, or otherwise, or if any terms of another agreement affecting the work conflicts with this agreement, the artist or representative must make The Halide Project aware of this situation in writing at least 30 days prior to the exhibition. Conflicts may preclude the work from being included in the exhibition.

    • Submission of work and application indicates acceptance of all terms and agreements in this document and in the Agreements section of the application.