Recent & Upcoming Events
2025 Award & Grant Winners Exhibition
The 2025 CENTER Award & Grant Winners Exhibition features projects covering today’s most critical issues including school shootings, immigration detention, environmental degradation, and more.
OPENING • Friday, October 31, 2025, 4:00 – 6:00 PM MT
WHERE • CENTER – 1570 Pacheco St., Unit B1, Santa Fe, NM 87505
HOW • Free & Open to the Public
Stay Tuned • 2026 Calls for Entry
Stay tuned as CENTER’s 2026 Calls for Entry for the awards, grants, and Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews become available. We look forward to sharing your work with the jurors!
Portfolio Walk
6:30 - 8:30 PM MT
For one night only, join us for an extraordinary opportunity to network with the invited Review Santa Fe lens-based professionals and take home the latest book releases and unique zines from the invited photographers and publishers in attendance.
Panel: From Personal Work to Galleries, Museums, & Editorial
Learn directly from an extraordinary group of panelists who can answer your questions about publishing, editorials, exhibitions, and more.
Portrait Session & Reception • with Tim Keane
Through the series Masculinity and the Hunger to be Known: A Celebration, 2024 Review Santa Fe Alum Tim Keane explores masculinity, desire, power, and the obstacles that stand in the way of self-actualization.
Join Keane at CENTER as he invites men into a shared experience of self-revelation to create portraits within a group conversation.
Artist Talk & Counter Mapping Workshop • with Shayla Blatchford
5:00 – 8:00 PM MT
Shayla Blatchford (Diné) will discuss the exhibition The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project: Church Rock Spill of 1979 on view at CENTER in August 2025, and host a Counter Mapping Workshop. By providing an immersive learning experience, Blatchford seeks to captivate a broader audience and instill a sense of shared responsibility.
Exhibition • The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project: Church Rock Spill of 1979
5:00 - 7:00 PM MT
CENTER is pleased to host local Diné artist Shayla Blatchford with an exhibition, The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project: Church Rock Spill of 1979, for her ongoing series this August. Join us on Friday, August 1, for the opening reception.
MADA Community Event
1:00 - 4:00 PM MT
Join CENTER and the MADA community on June 14, from 1-4 to learn about all the progress taking place as we work toward our goal of breaking ground in 2026. This will be a family-friendly event with activities for all ages.
Nuclear Legacy Panel Discussion
Join us for the free and public moderated panel discussion with the From the Field: Nuclear Legacy participating photographers and Curator Mary Anne Redding, from the Turchin Center for Visual Arts - 1:30-2:30 PM
Exhibition • Nuclear Legacy
Join us for CENTER’s first exhibition at the new gallery and education space in Santa Fe, NM, for the alumni exhibition From the Field: Nuclear Legacy, on Friday, May 30, from 5 - 7 PM MT.
Coffee & Culture Podcast with Mary Anne Redding & Meridel Rubenstein
Listen to the Coffee & Culture Podcast with Mary Anne Redding & Meridel Rubenstein on May 24, 2025, in conversation with Matthew Chase Daniel.
2025 Winner Announcement
CENTER is pleased to announce the 2025 award and grant recipients who will present their work at Review Santa Fe this November. We invite you to peruse the projects by clicking on the Winners Gallery below.
Exhibition • Webs of Significance
View CENTER’s 2024 Award and Grant winners’ selected projects in the Webs of Significance exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC.
Join us on Friday, May 2, at 5 PM ET for opening night reception.
Final Calls for Entry Deadline
Today is CENTER’s 2025 Award, Grant, and Review Santa Fe Calls for Entry Final Submission Deadline. Submit your work now to have it reviewed by this year’s esteemed jurors and selection committees.
Add-On: Individual Portfolio Review with Amber Terranova
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Mountain Time
Join Amber Terranova for the add-on portfolio review session hosted online through Zoom. Pre-register for the portfolio critique to have your materials reviewed.
Art of Editing • Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM Mountain Time
Join Amber Terranova for the workshop Art of Editing: Submissions, Portfolio Reviews & More hosted online through Zoom.
Visual Storytelling Lab Deadline
Register for CENTER’s Spring Visual Storytelling Lab designed for New Mexico-based military, veterans, reservists, and caregivers. Participants will learn from documentary photographer, storyteller, and visual artist Arin Yoon about creating image-based series, including editing, sequencing, and developing project statements.
Early Discount Deadline
CENTER’s 2025 Calls for Entry discounted entry fee rates end today, Saturday, February 15, at 11:59 PM MT! Pay now, and you have until the final deadline of March 15, 2025, to submit your work.
Maximize Your Support with CENTER
Over the past three decades, CENTER's support of projects has made real change in the lives of photographers.
With contributions from our donors, we've helped photographers around the world bring the invisible to light, amplifying stories of major social and environmental consequence.
Help us change lives! Donate now through December 11, and we will triple your donations.
2024 Works by Hand Award Recipient Announcement
CENTER is pleased to announce the 2024 Jay and Susie Excellence in Works by Hand Award recipient Nancy E. Rivera for the series No Present To Remember.
Project Presentations
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM MT
Join us for the 2024 Project Presentations in person as the Award and Grant recipients share an intimate view of their selected projects.
Portfolio Walk & Book Fair
6:00 - 8:00 PM MT
For one night only, join us for an extraordinary opportunity to network with the invited Review Santa Fe lens-based professionals and take home the latest book releases and unique zines from the invited photographers and publishers in attendance.
Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium
One of the oldest juried portfolio review events in the U.S., Review Santa Fe, enters its 23rd year in 2024!
The premier program serving local, national, and international constituents, the weekend-long conference includes portfolio reviews with esteemed industry professionals and invited photographers, a public exposition and book fair, scholar lectures, and more.
Artist Talk • Notes on Care with Rachel Cox
5 – 6 PM MT
Rachel Cox will discuss her exhibition Notes on Care on view at UNM Art Museum. The exhibition features photographs from Cox's series Portrait of a Woman, a highly personal body of work chronicling her experiences accessing fertility treatment to start a family.
Public Outreach & Engagement Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM MT
Join Mary Anne Redding for the Public Outreach & Engagement Project Labs: Workshop hosted online through Zoom.
Preparing for Portfolio Reviews Workshop
Join Amber Terranova for the Preparing for Portfolio Reviews Project Labs: Workshop hosted online through Zoom.
Fiscal Sponsorship 101 Seminar
Join Deborah Espinosa for the Fiscal Sponsorship 101 Seminar to learn more about how to obtain new funding through grants and tax-deductible donations, and hear how Espinosa has successfully secured tens of thousands of dollars in grant funds.
Featured Exhibition: Amidst Cries from the Rubble
Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine delves into the heart of Ukraine’s struggle, featuring large-scale photographs and evocative objects collected from the country's war-torn landscapes and communities.
In partnership with CENTER, MOIFA, and the Santa Fe Workshops, Lviv-based photographer Marta Sorko, featured in the MOIFA exhibition, hosted a masterclass discussing the commissioned series Wrapping Art–Art of Salvation, exploring the effects war had on her artistic process.
CENTER Receives Grant from NEH for Online Archive - Featured in PetaPixel
This Spring, we received the news that CENTER was selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for our digital archive. The project is called “Activating the Archive: 21st Century Photography.”
2024 Winner Announcements
CENTER is pleased to announce the 2024 award and grant recipients who will present their work at Review Santa Fe in November. We invite you to peruse the projects by clicking on the Winners Gallery below.
The Democratic Lens Scholar Lecture
Join us online for The Democratic Lens Scholar Lectures to hear from leading scholars as they discuss how the photograph influenced material culture and the evolving relationship between democracy and civic engagement.
• How We Teach the Truth: Vision & Justice with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Community Outreach & Engagement Seminar
Join Deborah Espinosa, Attorney and Visual Storyteller, for the Community Outreach & Engagement Project Lab Seminar and learn about developing community-based projects, working directly with the public, and tips for effective collaborative practices.