Do you want to become the 2025 SPMOP Photo Laureate?
In 2025, SPMOP will select its third Photo Laureate, who will have the honor to document and represent Tampa Bay for one year. Additionally, with the work the new Photo Laureate will create, they will get a solo exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts during SPMOP 2026.
Submission starts December 15, 2024
The deadline for submission is March 17, 2025, 11:59 pm
To apply, please send us your application using the form below.
After the deadline, a jury will create a shortlist of 5 nominees. These nominees will be exhibited during the Saint Petersburg Month of Photography in May 2025 at the Morean Arts Center. At the opening of this exhibition, a final winner will be announced and named Photo Laureate 2025.
What is the task of a Photo Laureate?
A Photo Laureate must be willing to create a document of Tampa Bay life, events, and its people for a year. The Photo Laureate must be engaging, curious, interested in, and inclusive to all Tampa Bay’s inhabitants. The Photo Laureate will be selected based on technical quality, creativity, originality, storytelling, and relevance. We enthusiastically encourage photographers of all genres to apply! Whether you are into conceptual photography, fine art photography, portraits, street photography, or nature, we are looking for a Photo Laureate who uses their own vision and style to capture the stories of Saint Petersburg and Tampa Bay.
Submission criteria:
- The photographer must be a resident of the wider Tampa Bay area (see Terms & Conditions for details)
- Entries, i.e., portfolios, can only be delivered digitally via the form on the website (starting December 16, 2024)
- All entries must bear the name, full address, e-mail address, and telephone number of the photographer
- Participants must submit a portfolio with at least 4 photos and a maximum of 10. This may either be a series or individual photos.
- Submitting portfolios is only possible until (and including) March 17, 2025, 11:59 pm, EST. Photos submitted after this deadline will be rejected.
- The photos may be in color or black and white.
- In addition, the portfolio must contain a bio and artist statement/description of the work. These texts must be in English and no more than 400 words.
- The portfolios must be submitted in low-resolution PDF files
- After the selection process, the five nominees will be asked to send the full-resolution files of their photos, with the following specifications: 300 dpi, longest side 25 cm. For this, the nominees will be contacted by SPMOP before March 31, 2025.