New York doesn’t pose — it lives.
Every block, every face, every moment tells a story.
UNFILTERED is about capturing the city’s beauty in its truest form: the laughter, the chaos, the quiet, the connection.
It’s not about perfection — it’s about presence.
The stories that make this city impossible to define, but unforgettable to feel.

Submit

• A series of 5–10 original photographs
• A short self-introduction
• A title for each photo
• A short story paragraph about the work

What winners receive

1st Place
• $5,000 Cash Prize
• Named Hotel Canvas Featured Artist 2026
• Solo Exhibition at Hotel Canvas Fifth Avenue Gallery

2nd Place
• $1,000 Cash Prize

3rd Place
• $500 Cash Prize

All participants may:
• Have a guest room in Hotel Canvas Fifth Avenue named after them
• Use that room as their personal Canvas to display work
• Keep 100% of sales revenue from their art

– Hotel Canvas Group

About Canvas Group

Breaking the traditional definitions of “guest” and “hotel”, with the core concept that “the hotel is the canvas and the guest is the creator”.
Canvas is transferred as a living art gallery where guests are encouraged to record and interpret their unique connection with this city through diverse emotional perception and forms of expression, whether it is photography, paintings or writings, so that people, emotions and endless artistic possibilities converge here at Canvas.

How to enter

Preference given to students currently enrolled in a College Photo Program