Soho Photo Gallery is New York City’s longest operating member-run photography gallery. The gallery exhibits a wide range of fine-art photography including individual member shows, gallery-wide themed exhibits, national competitions and prestigious guest exhibitions.

Soho Photo offers its members the unique opportunity of being a part of a diverse community of fellow photographers and personal growth as a fine-art photographer. The gallery also offers workshops, lectures and other programming open to the public.

We invite photographers who would like to join the gallery to submit a portfolio for review. ​

SOHO PHOTO GALLERY was founded in 1971 by a group of New York Times photographers that believed there was a need in the photographic community for a cooperative gallery where serious photographers could exhibit their personal work and exchange ideas, learn and grow as artists.

The group rented a loft space at Prince St. and West Broadway. Soho Photo was in business and offered an alternative to uptown commercial galleries.

With membership growing and pressed for more space, the gallery moved to W. 13th St. in Greenwich Village after just one year. In 1979, Soho Photo relocated to 15 White St. in Tribeca, a former egg warehouse that provided greatly expanded exhibition space.

After 45 years in Tribeca, Soho Photo Gallery relocated to 539 W. 23rd St. in April 2025, just past the High Line, in the heart of the Chelsea Arts District. Our spacious new gallery will allow us to continue showcasing a wide range of fine-art photography in seven bays.

The gallery exhibits the work of our members, guest exhibitors, and artists whose work has been selected in our various competitions. The work of members and guests is as varied as the photographers themselves – everything from pictorial and documentary to abstract and conceptual. Large digital color prints may be seen hanging next to delicate 19th century type platinum or palladium prints; hand-colored works coexist with manipulated Polaroid images.

Soho Photo sponsors four annual programs including the National Competition, open to all photographic techniques. The popular International Krappy Kamera Competition is devoted to photographs taken with plastic lenses plus toy, homemade, and pinhole cameras. The Alternative Processes Competition requires images created by alternative techniques, which include cyanotype, palladium, and Polaroid transfers. The Portfolio Competition attracts a diverse group of artists from around the world; each of four winners has the opportunity to exhibit a body of work at the gallery.

The gallery offers prospective members the unique opportunity to join a collective of fine-art photographers. Soho Photo seeks artists with a passion for photography, a clear and meaningful photographic vision, an appreciation for the craft, and a willingness to get involved in the operation of the gallery.