2025 Medium Review

The Medium Review takes place virtually April 3-5, 2025.

We are hosting the 2025 review as a virtual event to allow greater access and to ease the economic limitations of attending an in-person review. Virtual reviews offer opportunities for behind the scenes studio access, sharing of video content, and a quiet, dedicated space with each reviewer unlike that found at in-person reviews. Participating review photographers are offered priority in our Photography Marketplace, happening in-person during the Medium Festival of Photography on March 22.

We offer scholarships for Black artists and artists living in Mexico. Apply before February 28, 2025!

The Medium Review offers an intimate experience to meet with professionals from across the field of photography, allowing artists to build connections that advance their career. The 2025 Festival includes two days of in-person events in San Diego and Tijuana on March 22-23.

We are staffed by photographers actively working in the field today—allies who work on behalf of the artists we serve, here to see your work succeed.

About the Medium Review

The Medium Review takes place virtually over three days, April 3-5, 2025. The review offers an opportunity for artists to meet with museum curators, gallery owners, and editors from across the spectrum of fine art photography. Review registration includes a minimum of 8 reviews.

Registration for the review also includes admission to in-person Festival events, including the annual Keynote Lecture. Registered review photographers can join our bus tour to Tijuana, MX on March 23 and receive invitations to VIP events by registering for the Big Pass.

Individual Meetings

Photographers receive a minimum of eight, 20 minute meetings with curators, gallerists, publishers, and editors based on your personal selections made in March 2025. Medium Photo proudly schedules the majority of each photographer’s top choices thanks to our placement process. We do not rely on digital programs to complete this portion of the review, or work with a lottery system at any point in the process.

Each meeting presents the opportunity to share your work, learn about curatorial interests and upcoming projects, and develop relationships that foster your career growth. We offer a virtual space to share tours of your studio before the review, presenting enriched awareness of your work and practice to benefit reviewers and peer photographers participating in the review.

2025 Reviewers

We invite reviewers from across the field of photography to meet with artists for one-on-one conversations about their work, and how their organization can offer support. Our criteria for inviting reviewers is simple: we select individuals who are actively engaged in the field of fine art photography, and who have a track record of supporting artists with opportunities for exhibitions, publications, and expanding public awareness of your work.

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Second Sight Award

Each year participating reviewers nominate three artists they met with, whose work and ability to speak about their work resonate. One artist is chosen through reviewer nominations to receive the Second Sight Award, which was given to Anh-Thuy Nguyen in 2023. The award recipient is invited to present the Second Sight lecture at our annual Festival, is invited to a hosted dinner with our Keynote Lecturer, and participates in a collectors event for Medium Photo supporters of Group f.16. Previous Second Sight Award recipients include Harlan Bozeman (2024), Anh-Thuy Nguyen (2023), Amanda Marchand (2022), Fatemeh Baigmoradi (2021), Mariel Miranda (2019), Robert Calafiore (2018), Justyna Badach (2017), Leonard Suryajaya (2016), Ellen Garvens (2015), Kurt Simonson (2014), and David Emitt Adams (2013).

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