June 20, 2026
Decagon Gallery - THAT ONE PHOTOGRAPH the image you never left behind
Years pass. People change. Places disappear. Entire parts of our lives quietly fall out of reach. And yet, some photographs remain impossibly close to us. Not because they are perfect, but because they continue holding something we were never fully able to leave behind. Decagon Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit one photograph only: the image they never left behind. The strongest photographs will feel lived rather than constructed. They may be quiet, unresolved, visually restrained, or emotionally difficult to explain. What matters is whether something remains inside it.
First Place: $500 plus a solo exhibition on the gallery's website. Second Place: $300. Third Place: $200
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