21st National Photography Competition
Quick Details
- Exhibition Dates: February 12, – March 7, 2026
- Reception: Saturday February 21, 2026
- Juror: Alex Ferrone, Owner, Director, and Curator at Alex Ferrone Gallery
- Fees: 5 images – $45. Images 6 -15 may be submitted for an additional charge of $6 per image.
- All submissions due: Friday January 16, 2026. Midnight (standard mountain time)
- Notifications: Sunday January 25, 2026
- Awards:
- 1st place, $300 | 2nd place, $200 | 3rd, place $100
About the Juror
Based on the North Fork of Long Island, NY, Alex Ferrone Gallery represents regional to international mid-career and emerging artists working in photo-based art, painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture. Owner, Director, and Curator Alex Ferrone has mounted numerous exhibitions and presented hundreds of artists in the Gallery since 2013. In addition to her Gallery, Alex Ferrone is a fine art and commercial aerial photographer whose works have been included in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums nationally, and internationally in Italy and Spain. Additional accolades for Ferrone’s works include awarded grants and prestigious regional and international awards, including the Budapest International Foto Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and International Photography Awards, among others. Her photographs have been widely published including Wine Spectator, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair Magazine, and Pinhole Journal, and more. Her works are held in private collections in the United States and abroad.

