Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association Photography National Juried Show 2025

The 2025 Blue Ridge Mountains Art Association Photography National Juried Show is open to all photographers, both amateur and professional, and all original photographic media, including film and digital images. Cash prizes totaling $3,000, including $750 for Best of Show, will be awarded. This national show will be on display in the Richard Low Evans Gallery of the Art Center, located at the historic courthouse in Blue Ridge, Georgia from Saturday, August 30 through Saturday, October 18, 2025.

The entry fee for each image is $10 with no limit to the number of entries per photographer. Entries must be designated as Nature, Fine Art or Digital Art. The Nature category includes wildlife, landscapes, waterscapes, plant materials and abstracts in nature with no elements of mankind and no subject composites. The Fine Art category includes cityscapes, landscapes with structures, portraits, and floral or plant life. The Digital Art category includes abstract subjects and images altered in post processing. All entries must be original photographs taken by the submitting photographer on or after April 1, 2022.

The judge for the 2025 show is Chris Hefferen, an award-winning producer/director and commercial photographer from Blue Ridge with extensive experience in film, television, and visual storytelling. Submitted images will be viewed by jurors who will select photographs for the show, with accepted entries judged on technical and artistic merits. On average, 200 applications are submitted annually with approximately 160 artists selected to participate.