Photography Contest

2025 CPA International Juried Exhibition

2025 CPA International Juried Exhibition

Deadline |

10/01/25

Theme |

Open

Territory |

Worldwide

Eligibility |

18+

Entry Fees |

$45

Prizes |

Exhibition
The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2025 International Juried Exhibition with over $5,000 in awards! Forty-five juror-selected photographs will be exhibited from December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026 in our historic gallery in Carmel, California, and vie for eight cash awards totaling more than $5,000. These photographs will also be featured in an online gallery on the CPA website along with an additional forty-five juror selected images. An exhibition catalog of the entire gallery and online exhibition will be available for purchase. An entry discount is available for new and current CPA members.

2025 IJE Juror
CPA is pleased to announce this year’s International Juried Exhibition juror: Cig Harvey. Cig Harvey is a British-born artist and writer, who lives in Maine, USA, working in large-scale color photography and poetry, whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. She uses both images and language to explore sensory experiences and elevate the everyday. Rich in implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel. Cig has published four sold-out monographs: You Look at Me Like an Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012); Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015); You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017); Blue Violet (Monacelli/Phaidon, 2021). Her latest book, Emerald Drifters, was just published by Monacelli/Phaidon in 2025. Cig’s photographs and books are in the permanent collections of many museums across the world, including The Library of Congress (New York); Yale University; Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas); the Farnsworth Art Museum (Maine, USA); and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, (New York). Cig is represented by galleries worldwide and has exhibited at Paris Photo, Art Miami, and at AIPAD (New York) for the past twenty years. Cig had her first solo museum show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway (2012), and more recently at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine (2019). She was awarded the Prix Virginia Laureate (2018) and The Maine in America Award by the Farnsworth Art Museum (2021). She was a nominee for the John Gutmann Fellowship, the Santa Fe Prize, the Prix Pictet, and a finalist for the BMW Prize, the Estee Lauder Collection, the Karl Lagerfeld Collection at Paris Photo, the Clarence John Laughlin Award, and The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Cig featured in Ross McDermott’s documentary Return to Cuba - In the Footsteps of Walker Evans (2016) of her endeavor with fellow photographers Mark Klett, Abe Morell, Sam Abell, and Greg Gorman to retrace Walker Evans’s footprints and photographs in Cuba. She is currently the subject of a new short film, Eat Flowers, by River Finlay, which will premiere at the Camden International Film Festival in 2022. Cig Harvey lives in a farmhouse in Maine with her husband Doug and daughter Scout. The passing of time and the natural surroundings of her rural home has made her alert to the magic in the mundane. Cig brings a deep understanding of photography and a broad appreciation of diverse photographic styles, genres and mediums to CPA's 2025 International Juried Exhibition.

Elizabeth brings a deep understanding of photography and a broad appreciation of diverse photographic styles, genres and mediums to CPA's 2024 International Juried Exhibition.

The juror will grant the following awards:
First Place: $2500
Second Place: $1000
Third Place: $500
Four awards of merit: $250 each
Salon Jane Award for Women in Photography: $1,000
The public will vote for a People’s Choice Award: $150 plus cool CPA gear!

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