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by June 5, 2026
Photographers' Journey 2026
Exhibition dates August 11 to September 6, 2026
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Image City Photography
Gallery in partnership with our sponsors,
Lumiere
Photo,
Adobe,
Archival Methods, and
Scott's Rochester Photo Supply is proud to present
Photographers' Journey 2026 -- a major juried exhibition
celebrating photographic vision, creativity, and technical excellence.
We invite photographers
to participate in this exciting opportunity to exhibit their work,
compete for significant prizes, and be recognized in one of Rochester's
premier photography galleries. The juried competition will be
judged by two distiguished, independent judges.
Entry
Fee: $40. Four Photographs for each single
entry.
Photographers
may enter as many times
as they wish.
Your four submitted images will be reviewed individually and
assigned by Image City to one of eight categories.
The categories are:
1.
Landscape/Seascape
2.
Architectural/Cityscape
3.
Conceptual/Abstract
4.
Journalism/Street
5.
Portrait
6.
Wildlife
7.
Botanical/Still
Life
8.
Travel
A few details:
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Final Date for submission of entry forms is June 5.
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The 8 winning
photographs in each category, will be
displayed and offered for sale at the August 11 - September 6 show.
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From the top photographs selected in each category, our independent
judges will select the best single photograph in each category.
From these top photographs an overall Grand Prize and two runners-up will be selected
as winners.
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Prizes totaling a value of $3,500
will be given to the winners, generously offered by our sponsors and
the Gallery.
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We will publish a catalog
displaying all of the winners
in each category. The category winners will receive a copy. The catalog
will be on sale at the gallery.
- For selected photographs, Lumiere Photo is
offering a 20% discount on printing and custom framing orders, from
June 23rd to July 11th. Note they
will be closed July 3rd and 4th.
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The distinguished judges for the exhibition are Olivia Kim, an artist and sculptor based in Rochester, NY,
and Andrea Zuchegno
of National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID),
serving as the Department Chair of Visual Communications Studies.
The Winners
in each of the eight categories will receive:
The Grand Prize Winner,
announced at the August 14 Opening Reception, will receive
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A gift card for $200 from
Lumiere Photo valid for printing and custom framing
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A gift certificate for $200
from Scott's Rochester Photo Supply
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An award certificate for
$300 from Archival Methods
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1 year certificate - Adobe Creative
Cloud All Apps Plan,
Get 20+ Creative Cloud apps including Lightroom, Photoshop,
Illustrator, lnDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Acrobat Pro, and
more with 100GB of cloud storage, Adobe Portfolio, Adobe Fonts, and
access to the latest features and updates as soon as they're
released. ($840 value)
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$300 cash from Image
City Photography Gallery
The 2 Runner-Up Winners,
announced at the August 14 Opening Reception, will receive:
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A gift card for $100 from
Lumiere Photo good for printing and custom framing
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A gift certificate for $100
from Scott's Rochester Photo Supply
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An award certificate for
$100 from Archival Methods
-
1 year certificate - Adobe Photography Plan
(Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop, $240 value)
-
$100 cash from Image City Photography Gallery
If you have
questions please email
Steve.Levinson@ImageCityPhotographyGallery.com
Judges' Biographies
Olivia Kim
is a talented artist and sculptor based in Rochester, NY, known for her
captivating works that explore human movement and the essence of the
human experience.
Olivia was born in the Philippines and came to Rochester when she was a
child. Her travels to countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, Central
and South America and study of world art and culture have helped her
start to see the universal roots of humanity. She draws, paints,
and primarily sculpts the human figure. She specializes in clay,
bronze and glass materials, as they reflect different qualities of
existence. She is best known for having made numerous public
statues of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY. Her work has
received national and international awards, including Prize for Best
Sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art, a Chairman's Extraordinary
Action Award from the National Endowment for the Arts as a part of the
Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes executive order
(bronze Frederick Douglass at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester
International Airport) and Structural Award of the Year from the
National Public Works Association (bronze Douglass and Lincoln shaking
hands for the Riverwall Improvement Project on Exchange St, Rochester,
NY). Plans are being made for her to make a statue of Susan B
Anthony for the Susan B Anthony House, children to go with the Frederick
Douglass Airport bronze and other public works.
Andrea Zuchegno
is
an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Visual Communications
Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one
of the colleges of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). A
Rochester native, Andrea grew up immersed in the visual culture of her
hometown—known as “The World’s Image Center.” Her passion for
photography began early, influenced by a family legacy at Eastman Kodak
and the constant presence of cameras at family gatherings. She went on
to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Photographic
Communications and Master of Science degrees in both Graphic Media
Publishing and Secondary Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of
Hearing, all from RIT.
With
a teaching career spanning over two decades, Andrea is dedicated to
fostering visual literacy and creativity in her students. Her
photographic interests include macro, micro, and travel photography. Her
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in
Athens, Greece, and featured in publications such as FEEL magazine.
