This open call invites submissions for photographs that consider the relationship between photography and community building, creative practice and collaboration, and the photographic act as the foundation for connection.

Artists need a network of peers—to share skills and lessons, connect, be inspired and drive their work forward. LACP’s members constitute a community of collaborators, who connect from across the country and the world around their shared dedication and commitment to photography. This exhibition suggests that all images and image-makers need a human mechanism of support and reciprocity as the foundation of their practice, and shines a light on the connections that inform the work. It also considers the act of taking a photograph as the beginning of a conversation that extends beyond the frame.

This call is open to all genre and forms of still images, including, but not limited to, conceptual work, reportage, portraiture, street, alternative processes, or documentary.

Selected works will be shown at an exhibition at LACP’s Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.