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Black & White Photography Art Gallery – Artist Registration

Presented by The Collective & Lounges Content Studios | August 30th 2025

THE 2ND ANNUAL BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY ART GALLERY

🖤 Curated by The Collective

🗓️ Saturday, August 30, 2025 – Lounges Content Studios (The Gallery will be on display through the middle of September )

🎨 Theme: BLACK LUX

📸 Medium: Photography (Black & White only)

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025
We’re calling on Cleveland’s dopest photographers and visual storytellers to be part of the 2nd Annual Black and White Photography Art Gallery, curated by The Collective.

This year’s theme is BLACK LUX — The luxury embedded in the Black Experience. 

We're curating a gallery that explores the concept of BLACK LUX - not as material wealth, but as the richness of our stories, our families, our culture, our survival, our imagination, and our artistic expression.

What "Black Luxuries" are afforded to you as a Black artist?

What’s present in your experience; your memory, your rituals, your family, and your struggle that makes your art more layered, more necessary, more you? Those are the stories and imagines we want to highlight.

You don’t have to box yourself into a specific genre. We’re not looking for one "kind" of work.

We’re looking for work that embodies the richness of the black artistic expression.

Whether you’re highlighting the Black experience directly, or simply bringing your truth to the frame—your work should reflect that embedded luxury of our black experience through your artistic eye. Doing so in the most classic medium, Black & White Photography.

This Year's Curation - Exploring Duality

This year, we’re exploring duality in our curation and encouraged artists to submit photography that deepen that narrative. So we are encouraging submissions in duos (pairs) that either tell a story or are connected in some way. Single art pieces/images will also be considered and accepted.

Personal details

Artist Background

How would you describe your experience level?

How would you describe your experience level?

Is this your first time showcasing Art in a Gallery?

What themes or messages do you explore most in your photography?

How do you decide when a photo belongs in Black & White

Submission Materials

Upload 2 -5 sample photos (JPEG or PNG – max 10MB each)
These should reflect the vibe and intention of what you’d bring to the show. This is not your final submission—just a preview of your voice and eye.