Michelle Bui: Naked Excess at Esker Foundation. Presented as part of Exposure 2022.
Exposure 2025 Call for Exhibitions
Join us as we celebrate photography across Alberta! Register your exhibition and related events to be featured in our festival promotions and expand our vibrant network of practicing photographers, visual artists, and engaged audiences.
Open to all galleries, arts organizations, DIY spaces, artist collectives, independent artists, photographers and curators. Through collaboration, we look forward to showcasing a wealth of perspectives, active practices, and stimulating conversation in Alberta’s photographic community.
Registration fee: $250 | Deadline: November 1st
Dirty Laundry - The Second Load at Lux Laundromat. Presented as part of Exposure 2023.
PARTNER EVENTS
Exposure is looking to actively involve its exhibition partners in the 2025 festival events programme. When registering your exhibition, all exhibition-related events are free to list as part of the festival. Exposure is also open to discussing the possibility of collaborating on events - such as talks, or panel discussions that include artists presented in Exposure curated exhibitions and Exposure Partner Exhibitions. We encourage you to share your event ideas and new initiatives. Please note that it is not necessary to host an event in order to register your exhibition.
PRINTED MAP
The Exposure 2024 Map allowed our audiences to enjoy the Festival and experience our great city! Supported by Tourism Calgary and The Camera Store, it pinned the Exposure 2024 exhibition venues, our Hotel Partner Sandman Group, local photo opportunity points, things to do in the city, and recommended coffee shops to visit between exhibition hops! For Exposure 2025, all registered Exhibition Partners will again be featured on the printed map, which will be distributed at Contemporary Calgary and other locations in the city. Please see the following link to view the Exposure 2024 Map.
ONLINE AUDIENCE
During Exposure 2024 we had 25,269 online users actively engaging with our online materials, including our website, social media, and newsletters. Exposure added 15,438 new audience members during the 2024 festival, and we continue to grow our online presence every day. See our Report to the Community to dig deeper into this data!
PRESS
Each year the Festival attracts the interest of local and international press. By registering your exhibition with Exposure, we can include you in our official press release, meaning that you may receive additional opportunities for promotions from third parties. Previous press has included stories in the British Journal of Photography, AnOther Magazine, Avenue Magazine, NEXT Magazine, Calgary Guardian, Calgary Herald, Curiocity Calgary, Daily Herald, Daily Hive, Ph Museum, PREVIEW, MUSÉE Vanguard of Photography Culture, Calgary Tourism, Cochrane Tourism and more!
About Exposure
Exposure plays a pivotal role in arts programming in photography throughout Alberta. The festival exhibition programme showcases the best contemporary and historic work from established, mid-career, emerging photographers and visual artists from the province and around the world! Exposure 2024 received over 450,000 visits from local and international, arts and non-arts engaged individuals to in-person programming in Alberta. From Japan to Chile, Ghana to New Zealand, Ireland to India, we also grew our online audience worldwide, with members based in 92 different countries engaging with our website, online exhibitions and events.
Exposure is inclusive and participatory – a collaboration amongst members of the photographic community and the public. The festival brings people together to celebrate, discuss and engage in the medium of photography and contemporary practices. Each year we introduce exciting new programming and international perspectives to our audiences, drawing attention to Calgary and Alberta as the site of an active, growing, creative community in the field of photography.
TIMELINE
Call for Events & Exhibitions goes live: August, 2024
Call for Exhibitions Deadline: November, 2024
Event Registration Deadline: December, 2024
Exposure 2025 website content goes live: January, 2024
Exposure 2025 Festival: February, 2025*
*Please note that we accept exhibition registrations from all exhibitions that are open for at least one day during the month of February.
YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
Exposure 2024 Exhibition Registration
Website Listing
Printed Map Listing
Exhibition-Related Event Registration & Promotion
Dedicated Social Media Marketing (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
Inclusion in the Exposure 2025 Press Release (and potential coverage
from third party press)Thank You in the Exposure 2025 Report to the Community
Event Partnership (optional)
Exposure Logo Usage
Registration fee: $250 | Deadline: November 1st
NEW Registrants
If you are thinking about registering an exhibition with Exposure for the first time and have questions about the festival or need support with registration, please email Exposure’s Festival Manager Emma Palm at Emma@ExposurePhotoFestival.com
need an exhibition space?
Want to get involved with Exposure but haven’t secured a venue for your exhibition? Exposure is partnering with cSPACE to provide discounted exhibition spaces in February 2025. This partnership is designed to support local artists, photographers, collectives, curators and creatives in their efforts to participate in the festival! Click here to learn more about the Exposure 2024 & cSPACE Partnership.
want to become an exhibition venue?
Do you have space to host an exhibition, but no work to fill it? Please email Exposure’s Festival Manager Emma Palm at Emma@ExposurePhotoFestival.com
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION PARTNERS
To learn more about Exposure previous Exhibition Partners please see the following links:
Exposure 2024 Exhibition Partners
Exposure 2023 Exhibition Partners
Exposure 2022 Exhibition Partners
Exposure 2021 Exhibition Partners
Exposure 2020 Exhibition Partners
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that the Exposure Photography Festival takes place on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We would also like to acknowledge that Exposure Photography Festival is situated on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, and that the traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh’kins’tsis”, which we now call the City of Calgary. Finally, we honour and acknowledge all Nations, indigenous and non, who live, work and play in Moh’kins’tsis and help steward this land and honour and celebrate this territory.