LOOP
Photography Exhibition Open Call
Calling for emerging photographers for the Loop exhibition at the Four Corners Gallery in London in the spring of 2026.
LOOP
LOOP
The exhibition theme is Loop :
Loop is a process that repeats the same pattern to create something different.
Loop is coming back to what we thought we knew
Loop is stuck and can’t escape
Loop is leaving and returning
Loop is death and rebirth
Loop invites works that embrace the process more the result; that demonstrate the round and round of attempts, that shows the determination of reaching the end, yet continues; Loop is still, and in motion. Loop allows you to challenge the understanding of photography that is singular and still.
The works selected by this open call will be exhibited in the Four Corners gallery in central London. Theme around loop, the exhibition will make space for the artist's creative process and create the exhibiting experience not as an end result but as a circular journey in the art industry. The selected works will also experience the circular motion in 4 stages: exhibition, production, publication, on-line collection. We would like to invite artis to experience the full loop of the current art industry in the UK.
The application deadline is: 18 January, 2026
Timeline
Opencall: 2025/11/18-2026/1/18
Judge Result: 2026/2/28
Exhibition Date: 2026/5/5-2026/5/11
Who can apply?
The open call is open to emerging artists engaged in photographic and visual practices. Applications are welcome from people based in China and the UK.
How to apply?
Please fill out the form and upload your images here
Fee
Submission One single image: £15
Submission of 2 images or more / series of works: £25 per person
Exhibition + printing production fee is £60 per art piece selected. +£20 for each more
Collaborative Exhibition Curation
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The Little Studio
Curation and Design
The little studio, based in London, is a design practice focusing on printed matter. Printing is explored as an aesthetic technology of communication between bodies, minds and communities. Our projects explore printing, publishing and exhibition making as transforming ways of knowing and creating knowledge in its becoming.
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Shushuo Studio
Curation and Design
Shuoshuo Studio is an international narrative spatial design studio. We create exhibitions, installations, retail environments, performances, and cultural spaces—transforming every space into an immersive story. We work with artists, cultural institutions, and commercial brands, blending creativity with functionality to craft experiences that resonate.
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Image Print Centre
Exhibition Production
The Image Print Centre is a Canson Certified Lab that specialises in professional Archival Pigment Print and PIEZOGRAPHY PRO, dedicated to bringing your digital works to life, whether you're a professional artist, photographer or a collector.
Judges
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Henry Rice is a London-based photographic artist whose work explores the interplay between memory, technology and the digital image. Rice is a graduate of the MA Photography Arts at the University of Westminster. Rice’s practice explores how images exist in a state of digital superposition and how this affects the formation, mediation, and recall of individual memories.
His multi-award-winning projects, including Mapping and Viewing, have received international recognition. Rice was selected for the Source Graduate Photography series and has been awarded Best in Show at the London Photo Festival (2017), as well as the Top Prize at New Art West Midlands and Photography Winner at F the Art World, New York (2017). His work has been exhibited widely across the UK and abroad, and has appeared in publications such as Tate’s The Photography Ideas Book, 100 Artists of the Future, and various independent photography platforms and magazines.
Working with experimental digital techniques and often underpinning his projects with poetic text, Rice creates layered visual conversations between “the original”, “the memory” and the digitally born image.
As a judge, he is particularly interested in work that pushes the boundaries of photographic experimentation, engages critically with technology, or offers a distinctive personal perspective on place, time and memory.
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Arun Misra is a London-based photographer and bookmaker whose practice centres on ideas of entropy, transience and the fragile narratives that bind people, places and time. Misra originally studied Engineering at the University of Wales before completing an MA in Photography Arts at the University of Westminster. This combination of scientific training and artistic inquiry underpins the conceptual and formal rigour of his work.
In 2022 Misra received the FORMAT Daylight Portfolio Award. He served as editor of fLIP magazine and founded fLIP INSIGHTS, a platform for critical writing and portfolio reviews published by London Independent Photography. He is also a founding member of FIKA, a photography book and zine collective.
Misra’s projects, including Transience, A New Life in Zambia and Memory & Space, weave together digital and analogue experimentation, found and self-generated materials, and carefully sequenced imagery to create delicate, thought-provoking stories. His work has been shown internationally, with his book A New Life in Zambia featured at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and Transience exhibited at London Gallery West and Ambika P3.
As a judge, Misra brings particular expertise in narrative sequencing, photobook and zine-making, and projects that thoughtfully re-contextualise materials. He is drawn to work that explores time, loss, memory and the poetics of everyday life, while remaining open to bold experimentation in both form and process.
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QIU Yangzi is a London-based visual artist of Chinese descent whose work centre on experimental and conceptual photography. Her practice explores the relationship between humans and nature, using land, sky, and clouds as recurring elements. Drawing on the philosophy of Shanshui, she reflects on connection, time, and belonging, creating images that capture the fluid and transitional nature of experience. Through experimental methods that embrace chance and challenge traditional photographic boundaries, she reinterprets Chinese landscape thinking within a contemporary framework and brings together questions of identity, memory, and cultural fluidity.
QIU’s work spans photo sculpture, artist books, installation, and interdisciplinary collaborations combining sound, scent, and performance. She has exhibited internationally at institutions such as Beijing’s Palace Museum, Incheon Open Port International Photo Festival, Hong Kong Fringe Club, AIPAD New York, The Photographers’ Gallery London, ST.ART Gallery, and London Gallery West. Her projects have also appeared at major fairs including Polycopies Paris, Unseen Amsterdam, and Fine Art Asia Hong Kong, with additional exhibitions in Berlin, Athens, Dallas, Shanghai, and Cardiff.
Her key series include Cloud and Stone, Rotation, Soundscape, and Mindscape. QIU has been shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society IPE 166, received a Highly Recommended award at the Belfast Photo Festival, and won the FORMAT / Source Portfolio Award. Her work has been featured in City Magazine, Photo book published by Art Paper Edition and Nearest Truth Editions.