Exhibition Run Dates: April 10th, 2026 – May 2nd, 2026
In-person at LACP Headquarters, 2nd Floor Gallery

Description

This open call invites submissions for images produced with analog cameras, toy cameras, snaps developed in the darkroom and/or images created using analog printing methods.

Life with social media is exhausting. AI floods the world with machine-generated images. The more connected we are, the more isolated we feel. In response, emerging voices and veteran visual storytellers turn to the tactility of the photographic object, the intentionality of the development process, and the uniqueness of a composition captured on a roll of film. They seek connection and community through photography. The future, so it seems, is analog.

Fast Forward considers how photography creates a space for camaraderie and interaction, and how analog processes play a pivotal role in such conversations.

We invite submissions of single images or series, collages and photomontages, Lomo explorations, experimental printing, or disposable magic that consider the emergence of analog aesthetics in the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

Show us how photography becomes a third space for you, how it captures and articulates intimate and familiar moments as well as communal belonging. We want to see how your community is shaped through cameras, and what communication and human interactions mean for you today.

And then we want to celebrate all of it! Selected images will be featured in an exhibition at LACP’s Second Floor Gallery and online.

Prizes

The top three selected winners will receive a combination of LACP gift cards and tangible analog prizes such as toy cameras, film, and fine art papers.

Honorable Mentions: Other artists will receive honorable mentions and have their work shown with the winners in an in-person exhibition at LACP Headquarters opening on April 10, 2026.