Texas Photographic Society is pleased to announce The Big Picture, a themed juried exhibition exploring the power of photographic scale. We invite submissions of images that translate compellingly to large-format presentation. While subject matter is open, artists are encouraged to consider ideas of monumentality, intimacy through detail, excess, immersion, and presence. This exhibition is made possible by the sponsorship of our partners in Fort Worth Camera + the Print Refinery, and Red River Paper.

The Big Picture will be exhibited at the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, Texas. In response to the expansive scale of the museum’s main gallery, selected photographs will be printed at approximately 40 inches wide to create a visually immersive viewing experience. Due to the generous sponsorship of Fort Worth Camera + the Print Refinery, and Red River Paper, all accepted works will be professionally printed at large scale at no cost to the artist.

The Big Picture will open at the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, Texas, on August 7th, 2026 and will continue through November 1st, 2026. An opening reception with the juror will be on August 7th, 2026, 5-7PM.

This exhibition will be juried by Dornith Doherty, 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and internationally known photographer and educator. Entries due 7/1/26.

Please submit digital JPG files only, minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB maximum. Please remove watermarks from images. For each image, you will need to provide the image title and the process (medium) used to make the image.  

NOTE: If your work is selected for the show we will request a large resolution image and will print your image on wide format photographic paper.  We will reach out to you to obtain a full resolution, non compressed image to print.  Preferably in a raw or lossless format such as PSD or TIFF.  Images must be over 80 mb.  Texas Photographic Society reserves the right to disqualify any image that will not print at optimal quality.