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THROUGH YOUR LENS

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Photography is a powerful tool for storytelling, connection, and preservation. "Through Your Lens" is a space dedicated to showcasing the perspectives of our readers; photographers who see the world with depth, passion, and purpose. Each issue, we invite you to submit a collection of images and a brief write-up based on a specific theme. Our goal is to create a dialogue through photography, encouraging both personal reflection and broader conversations about the landscapes, environments, and stories that shape us. Selected submissions will be featured in an upcoming issue of Gathered Light Magazine.

Call for Submissions – Issue Eight

Issue Eight: 2nd Annual Ocean Issue

Issue 8 explores the ocean as a connected system. Surface conditions, currents, and deep water movement link distant regions, transporting energy, material, and life across ocean basins. What enters the ocean does not remain in place—it moves, changes, and accumulates over time.

Through photography, essays, and field observations, this issue examines how these processes shape marine environments and how they connect to broader ecological systems.

If you’d like to be featured, we welcome two paths of participation:

1- • Through Your Lens submissions: Send 4–6 images along with a brief written description (one to two paragraphs) about your connection to the subject.

What drew you to photograph these images? What do they teach us about resilience, relationship, or responsibility?

2- • Q&A features If you feel your work would be better suited to a longer feature or interview, please email us first. We’re happy to discuss how your perspective might be included.

Submission requirements: Please include:

• High-resolution images (where possible)

• A short written text (Word document or PDF)

• A contact email with your submission

Selected submissions will be published in Issue Eight of Gathered Light Magazine.

Submission deadline: June 28, 2026