Soho Photo Gallery: Alternative Processes Competition

About the competition
Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce the 21st International Alternative Processes Competition. Located in Manhattan's Chelsea Arts District, Soho Photo is New York City’s longest running co-operative photography gallery. All selected photographs will be exhibited at the Gallery as well as on our website November 12–30. The opening reception is Thursday, November 13th from 6 to 8 pm.

What are Alternative Processes?
Alternative processes include, but are not limited to: Albumen, Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Platinum/Palladium, Gum Bichromate, Bromoil, Salt Print, Tintype, Ziatype, Daguerreotype, Image Transfers, Liquid Emulsion, Photogravure Chemigram as well as handmade prints created from digital negatives. As long as the image originates using Alternative Processes and is not generated by AI, it can be entered into the Competition.

Juror
We are excited to have Amy Arbus as our juror this year. From 1980 to 1990 she worked on The Village Voice photographing trendsetters who went on to become well known musicians, designers and artists. These images later became her award winning book, On the Street 1980-1990. Her other books include The Inconvenience of Being Born and The Fourth Wall. Her photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Magazine and The New York Times.
Arbus has taught portraiture and storytelling with images at the International Center of Photography and the Maine Media Workshop as well as at NORDphotography in Norway. She has had solo exhibitions worldwide. Her photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library and the National Theatre of Norway. In 2025 The Briscoe Center for American History Austin, Texas acquired her archive. Jill did a series on immigration which was first shown on Ellis Island in 2017 and has been exhibited around the country. The show included portraits as well as The Glasshouse of Immigrants which features images taken on Ellis Island. Her newest work is entitled The Way Home. It consists of landscapes along the Hudson River, Both series were photographed using the wet plate collodion process to make ambrotypes. The work was then printed with Palladium to make prints 20" x 24."

Awards
1st Place: $300, 2nd Place: $200, 3rd Place $100 and 4 Honorable Mentions