Silver Eye

Silver Eye Center for Photography announces the Call for Entries for Fellowship 25 our annual photography competition.

All awardees and honorable mentions will be included in the Fellowship 25 exhibition in May, 2025. Awardees and honorable mentions will receive curatorial support to ensure that the exhibition provides new opportunities for creative growth. Awardees and honorable mentions receive a cash prize and free production support from the Lab @ Silver Eye for the exhibition.

The Fellowship Award recognizes a rising talent or established photographer from anywhere in the world, and the Keystone Award is given to an exceptional photographer living or making work in the state of Pennsylvania.

Fellowship Award: $1,000 cash prize
Keystone Award: $1,000 cash prize
Honorable Mentions: $500 prizes

This year’s awards will be juried by Nelson Chan, co-founder of TIS books and Assistant Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts, and Dionne Lee, artist and Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.

The deadline for submissions is NOV 18, 2024, NOON EST.

Applications are closed

About the Jurors

Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of his work. Nelson received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and received his MFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally and his books are in the libraries of the Harry Ransom Center, The MET, The Guggenheim, The Whitney, and MoMA. He is a co-founder of TIS books, and is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.

Dionne Lee explores power and personal history in relation to the American landscape and interrogates historical narratives that exist within photographic representations of land and place. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, Aperture Foundation, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others.

Eligibility Notice

Photographers who have been a featured artist in a solo or group show (of up to eight artists) at Silver Eye in the last four years are not eligible to apply to Fellowship.

What to Enter

-Work sample of twenty images or less
-One page Artist's Statement in PDF format
-One page Artist bio and/or CV in PDF format
-One page checklist that includes the file number, title, and date of all submitted images.

You may submit up to 20 images, and up to a total of 30MB. Image files should be JPGs or a single PDF file. Images files must be titled with the image number (01-20) and the artists last name. For example: 02_smith.jpg

How to enter

Submit using our online entry form!

Full Guidelines/Eligibility/Terms & Conditions/FAQs

Fellowship Fees: $40 for one submission of 20 images

Deadline: NOV 18, 2024, NOON EST

If you cannot find answers to your questions on the entry form, or at the Full Guidelines/Eligibility/Terms & Conditions/FAQs above, you can email Leo Hsu, Executive Director, at leo@silvereye.org

Previous Winners

Fellowship 24
Fellowship Award, William Camargo
Fellowship Award, Anthony Francis
Keystone Award, Vikesh Kapoor

Fellowship 23
Fellowship Award, Samantha Box
Keystone Award, Dominick McDuffie

Fellowship 22
Fellowship Award, Carla Liesching
Keystone Award, Eva Alcántara

Fellowship 21
Fellowship Award, Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Keystone Award, J Houston and Aleem Hurst

Fellowship 20
Fellowship Award, Rory Doyle
Keystone Award, Erik Hagen

Fellowship 19
Fellowship Award, Tim Carpenter
Keystone Award, Rebecca Arthur

Fellowship 18
Fellowship Award, Soohyun Kim
Keystone Award, Tamsen Wojtanowski

Fellowship 17
Fellowship Award, Kris Sanford
Keystone Award, Francis Crisafio

Fellowship 16
Fellowship Award, Ka-Man Tse
Keystone Award, Aaron Blum

Fellowship 15
Fellowship Award, Christopher Meerdo
Keystone Award, Matthew Conboy