IMAGES 2025

The Fairfield Museum’s annual IMAGES exhibition cycle is in its 16th year!

This juried photography exhibition celebrates the exceptional work of talented regional photographers. Open to professional, serious amateur, and student photographers from Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, photographs submitted will be of the following categories: Landscape, Portrait, Nature, and Architecture.

Artists may submit up to 10 images as either a Professional/Serious Amateur or Student photographer (active student under 24 years of age). Three jurors will choose photographs to be presented in conjunction with an exhibition of work by featured photographer Adger Cowans.

The Grand Prize in the Professional/Serious Amateur category and the Student Prize to be announced.

 

Find contest rules and submit to IMAGES 2025 through the GoGo Photo Contest here.

 

Detail image credits, top to bottom: Tropical Tapestry by Tina Sommers, The Pattern Within by Karen Kallins, Poise and Pins by Jean-Marc Bara, Oh Louise by Michele Hermsen, Summer at Aspetuck by Liam Crowe.

 

IMAGES 2025 Dates to Know:

Submissions Open on GoGo Photo Contest: April 18, 2025 (12:00 am EST)

Submissions Close on GoGo Photo Contest: May 29, 2025 (11:59 pm EST)

Notice to Selected Artists: June 24, 2025

Artwork Delivery: June 26 to July 23, 2025

Juried and Featured Photographer Exhibitions Open to the Public: August 8, 2025

Juried Exhibition Close: September 21, 2025

Artwork Pickup: October 3 – October 26, 2025

 

IMAGES 2025 Jurors:

Isabel Chenoweth

Isabel Chenoweth is an award-winning professional photographer in Connecticut with more than twenty-five years’ experience exhibiting both her professional work and fine art images. As University Photographer for Southern Connecticut State University, she focuses on portraits, editorial, and marketing photography. Her fine art work includes studies on wetlands and other fragile and threatened ecosystems. She was the featured photographer at the Fairfield Museum and History Center during IMAGES 2024, exhibiting photographs of Connecticut’s tidal zones and wetlands. She also has several long-term documentary and portrait projects, including a portrait series of 118 women judges in Connecticut, “Women in Black: Portraits of Female Judges of Connecticut,” now a permanent exhibit at the Quinnipiac University School of Law. A former lawyer, Chenoweth holds a B.A. from Vassar College and a J.D. from the College of William and Mary.

 

Brad Smith

Brad Smith is an award-winning photo editor with over 35 years of experience in visual storytelling. He’s worked in the sports industry as Director of Photography at Time Inc. Sports Publications, twice garnering Sports Illustrated the Henry Luce Award for Magazine Cover of the Year, and as Senior Sports Photo Editor at The New York Times, receiving First Place in Photo Editing for Picture of the Year (POY) on several occasions. He’s managed live edits for some of the most visually stimulating sports events in the world, coordinating and editing photography for numerous Olympics, Super Bowls, World Series, and Final Fours. He has also delivered historical presidential moments as the Associate Director of Photography for the White House during the Clinton administration, and covered events with unparalleled import, such as 9/11. Currently he’s the Vice President for Photography for the WWE, a massive entertainment company, overseeing the global photography division.

 

Michael Vahrenwald

Michael Vahrenwald is a photographer and co-founder of the publishing imprint ROMAN NVMERALS.  His works have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, El Croquis, A+U, DOMa, Arch+, Dwell, Wallpaper and Flash Art amongst others. He is an Associate Professor at the Hartford Art School Limited Residency MFA program in Photography.