Join us to celebrate photography in Philadelphia!

The 20/20 Photo Festival will be held this September 10th-13th, 2026

The 20/20 Photo Festival is a celebration of photography that brings together the Philadelphia photo community through city-wide exhibitions, educational programming, and a photo book fair. Originally organized in 2020 by representatives from Gravy Studio, The Halide Project, and Wanderlife Gallery, the festival has built a strong reputation from its inaugural year as a month-long virtual event to its current in-person manifestation. It brings together a wide range of perspectives from emerging and established photographers from Philadelphia and beyond, reflecting the diversity of contemporary photography, and foregrounds the goal of making art accessible and bringing it into the public sphere through free programming designed to inspire and educate. This includes exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations, artist talks, panel discussions, and a renowned photo book fair.‍

20/20 Photo Festival presents the 20/20 Photo Festival Call for Entry show centered around the theme Transforming Landscapes. The landscape of our country has changed greatly since its inception 250 years ago; not just the physical landscape but the technological, societal, political, scientific, and artistic landscapes as well. In many ways, the Founders would find the United States of America of today unrecognizable. Have all of the transformations our country has undergone been for the better? Who has benefitted from these changes, and who hasn’t? What sort of impact have they had upon the land- and city-scapes, the social fabric of the nation, and our psyches? Amidst social movements, climate change, political turmoil, and the proliferation of invasive technology in our lives, now more than ever we as photographers have an urgent sense of duty to document our changing landscapes in an attempt to better understand the how and the why of these transformations.